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A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy... -
Protector of the Realm by Gun Brooke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook One: Supreme ConstellationsWith the fate of entire civilizations at risk, the galactic battleground makes for unusual alliances and unexpected passions as two women from very different worlds join forces... -
The Romance Bet by Jae
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsReporter Abby James prides herself on never having read a romance novel. She thinks they’re formulaic, shallow, easy-to-write drivel—until romance author Tamara Brennan challenges her to write one... -
Car Pool by Karin Kallmaker
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsNinety minutes, twice a day. Five days a week. Car pool heaven turns into car pool hell when Anthea Rossignole realizes her lover is having an affair with the other woman sharing their daily commute. It seems that Anthea’s succesfanul career as a cost analyst at an oil refinery is the only thing she can really count on these days. Now she’s looking for someone to share the long drive... -
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Valencia by Michelle Tea
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsValencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District... -
The Verifiers by Jane Pek
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIntroducing a sharp-witted heroine for the 21st century: a new amateur sleuth exploring the landscape—both physical and virtual—of New York in a debut novel about love, technology, and murder.Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family’s model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy... -
Scatter by Molly J. Bragg
When Deputy US Marshal Danielle ‘Danny’ Martin was told she’d gotten a promotion, she expected to be leading her own fugitive retrieval team. Instead, she got transferred to Pontian Florida of all places, and assigned to a Superhero support detail for Focus, a seemingly immortal superhero who is also one of the most famous lesbian icons on the planet...Categorized as:
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Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsEisner Award-nominated writer KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and VALENTINE DE LANDRO (X-Factor) present the premiere volume of BITCH PLANET, their critically acclaimed and deliciously vicious sci-fi satire. Think Margaret Atwood meets Inglourious Basterds. Discussion guide included. Collects BITCH PLANET #1-5... -
If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude
We Are Okay meets They Both Die at the End in this YA debut about queer first love and mental health at the end of the world-and the importance of saving yourself, no matter what tomorrow may hold.Avery Byrne has secrets. She's queer; she's in love with her best friend, Cass; and she's suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression...Categorized as:
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Otherside Picnic: Volume 4 by Iori Miyazawa, 宮澤 伊織
Winter is coming. Having been attacked by a group that worshiped Satsuki Uruma, Sorawo and Toriko head to the cult's former base—the Farm in the Mountains. The other world is still chock full of all kinds of dangerous mysteries, but the allure of exploring the unknown is ever present... -
Otherside Picnic: Volume 3 by Iori Miyazawa
Autumn has arrived. Having narrowly avoided the curse of the Kotoribako, Sorawo and Toriko are back to exploring the other world. With boxed lunches in tow, the two take their agricultural vehicle for a leisurely drive across grassy terrain, deal with the problems caused by Sorawo's kouhai at university, and hang out at cognitive scientist Kozakura's house... -
Hurricane Watch by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this sequel to "Tropical Storm," Dar and Kerry are back and making their relationship permanent. But an ambitious new colleague threatens to divide them --- and out them. He wants Dar's head and her job, and he's willing to use Kerry to do it. Can their home life survive the office power play? Dar and Kerry are redefining themselves and their priorities to build a life and a family together... -
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about...Categorized as:
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Otherside Picnic Volume 5: Hasshaku-sama Revival by Iori Miyazawa
Having succeeded in their goal of spending a night on the Otherside, Sorawo and Toriko can now take their expeditions deeper. The two spend their days surrounded by the supernatural, going back and forth between their normal and abnormal daily lives.A chaotic love hotel girls' party in Shinjuku vanishes from Sorawo's memory. Toriko's university life and inner thoughts become clear... -
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Eye of the Storm by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEye of the Storm picks up the story of Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart a few months after the story Hurricane Watch ends. At first it looks like they are settling into their lives together but, as readers of this series have learned, life is never simple around Dar and Kerry... -
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
An adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six... -
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
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... -
Tropical Storm: The 2010 Author Edition by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom best-selling author Melissa Good comes a tale of heartache, longing, family strife, lust for love, and redemption. Tropical Storm took the lesbian reading world by storm when it was first written, and it hasn't stopped entrancing audiences.Dar Roberts, corporate raider for a multi-national tech company, is cold, practical, and merciless. She does her job with razor-sharp accuracy... -
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel. While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth... -
Rangers at Roadsend by Jane Fletcher
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSergeant Chip Coppelli escaped the manipulative plots of her powerful family by becoming a soldier. After 9 years in the elite Rangers, dealing with thugs and wild predators, she has learned to spot trouble coming, and that is exactly what she sees in the mystery surrounding her new recruit, Katryn Nagata. But even so, Chip was not expecting murder... -
Rebel's Quest by Gun Brooke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a world torn by war, two women discover a love that defies boundaries, challenges allegiances, and that just might mean the survival—or destruction—of all they hold dear. Roshan O’Landha, a Gantharian resistance fighter, works hard to maintain her cover as a wealthy businesswoman as war on occupied Gantharat seems imminent... -
Theirs to Crave by Rowan Merrick
Estrella's life wasn't exactly going to plan: divorced, childless, and halfway to forty. But she was getting by. She had her work, her brother, and several "friends" in her nightstand happy to help out if she got lonely.Then she woke up on an alien ship.Suddenly, "just getting by" took on a much greater meaning... -
Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Katherine Fabian, Iona Datt Sharma
The world you know is underneath the substance of another, with cracks in the firmament that let the light of its magic in… Layla and Nat have nothing in common but their boyfriend – enigmatic, brilliant Meraud – and their deep mutual dislike... -
The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis stunning YA debut is a timely and heartfelt speculative narrative about healing, faith, and freedom.Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's mother as a maid... -
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Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia, Anna-Marie McLemore
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere hasn’t been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Quintanilla in all its history. But that’s not the only reason Lita wants to enter the contest, or why her ex-best friend Chicky wants to help her...Categorized as:
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The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRyann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the wrong side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends. One day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann’s offer of friendship...Categorized as:
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The Future by Naomi Alderman
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.The Future—as the richest people on the planet have discovered—is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction while safeguarding their own survival with secret lavish bunkers...Categorized as:
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The Love Archives: Bonus Scenes & Excerpts for Palestine by Cynthia A. Rodriguez, H.D. Carlton
Get in, romance readers. We're taking a trip down nostalgia lane to save lives.Welcome to The Love Archives; a romance anthology of bonus scenes, excerpts, extended epilogues, and alternate POVs for your insatiable appetite. The best part? All proceeds go towards helping Palestinian families.So pick your sub-genre or simply enjoy over 120 short stories from some of your favorite romance authors... -
Inheritance by Malinda Lo
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe triangular spaceship hovered motionless in the sky above Reese Holloway’s house, as inscrutable as a black hole. It had seemed like a good idea when they were inside: to tell the truth about what happened to them at Area 51. It didn’t seem like such a good idea now... -
Some Faraway Place by Lauren Shippen
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSome Faraway Place , the third Bright Sessions novel from creator Lauren Shippen, features Rose, who has her humdrum life flipped upside down when she starts to travel into dreams.Rose Atkinson’s mother can see the future. Her father can move things he doesn't touch. Her brother Aaron can read minds. And Rose, well, she makes a mean spaghetti bolognese...
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