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  • Hesam by Ami Wright

    Hesam by Ami Wright

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Dark shame, undone by the scent of her heat.No tail, no pride, no honor. Finally Hesam is about to prove to himself and everyone else that he deserves a place of prestige in the royal guard.But the dark, hungry part of him wants something more.Beautiful vivacious singer Rosa is too tempting to resist.He longs to taste her.Mark her.Stake his claim...
  • The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

    The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton tells a tale of galaxy-spanning friendship, improbable love, and found family. So, here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn’t mean to steal this spaceship...
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  • Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot

    Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 13 ratings
    Lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space!Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, a gunslinging, thieving, rebel with a cause, doesn’t give a damn about them and she hasn’t looked back since abandoning her faction three years ago. That is, until her former faction sends her a message: return what she stole from them, or they’ll kill her twin sister...
  • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 113 ratings
    The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants...
  • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

    An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 62 ratings
    The Carls just appeared.Roaming through New York City at three AM, twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship—like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor—April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life...
  • Fixit by Erik Schubach

    Fixit by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fixit, she's out of this world... This short novella follows Fixit, a worker on the surface of Tau Ceti Prime. She is an ace mechanic who keeps the automated harvesting machines in good running order. She has never missed a quota in her efforts help to feed all the people “topside” in the giant floating cities in the sky...
  • Competence by Gail Carriger

    Competence by Gail Carriger

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Imprudence. Accidentally abandoned! All alone in Singapore, proper Miss Primrose Tunstell must steal helium to save her airship, the Spotted Custard , in a scheme involving a lovesick werecat and a fake fish tail...
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