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1) Nearlywed
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"An engaged couple's compatibility is put to the test during their ill-fated early honeymoon in this smart, dazzling, and provocative summer comedy perfect for fans of People We Meet on Vacation. 5 Signs You and Your Fiancé Might Be Secretly Incompatible...and #3 Will Shock You! Ray Bruno and Kip Hayes are horrible on paper. Ray is a chaotic millennial ex-clickbait-writer who's been oversharing his every thought online since he was a teenager, and...
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Adult Fiction Staff Favorites: 2024
Adult Summer reading 2025: Mesmerizing Audiobooks
Brain Candy Reads
Guess This Display Theme
Adult Summer reading 2025: Mesmerizing Audiobooks
Brain Candy Reads
Guess This Display Theme
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Summer in London stops for no-one. Not the half-naked boozers, stoners, and cruisers, the hen parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried fags. It's June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city's parks, beer gardens and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive. Everyone but Maggie. She's 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she's wondering if having...
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"In the small town of Wonderland, Wyoming, the truth is whatever the Coldwater family says it is. When their prodigal daughter, Jessica, was murdered forty years ago, their truth was that Holly Prine killed her–regardless of Holly’s innocence.But the Coldwaters aren’t the only reason private investigator Quinn Cuthridge hasn’t set foot in the town in nearly a decade. After her aunt sent her away when she was a teen, Quinn...
4) Woodworking
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Buzzworthy Books: March 2025
Celebrate Pride
Celebrate Pride at Darien Library: 2025
Coming of Age Stories
Celebrate Pride
Celebrate Pride at Darien Library: 2025
Coming of Age Stories
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"Erica Skyberg is thirty-five years old, recently divorced, and trans. Not that she's told anyone yet. Mitchell, South Dakota, isn't exactly bursting with other trans women. Instead, she keeps to herself, teaching by day and directing community theater by night. That is, until Abigail Hawkes enters her orbit. Abigail is seventeen, Mitchell High's resident political dissident and Only Trans Girl. It's a role she plays faultlessly, albeit a little reluctantly....
5) Carmilla
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First published in 1872, Carmilla is a classic gothic novella and one of the earliest examples of vampire fiction.
Fast-paced and gripping, the story follows the protagonist Laura, who lives in a secluded castle in the woods with her father. One day, a carriage accident brings a young woman named Carmilla into their lives, and she is taken in as a guest. As time goes on, Laura becomes increasingly drawn to Carmilla, despite her strange behavior and...
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Chabon's sensational debut novel: the coming-of-age story of Art Bechstein, a recent graduate whose life is forever changed by one sultry summer Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn't want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. Bechstein spends the summer after his graduation from a Pittsburgh university searching for his future and finding his own sort of trouble...
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"Ghosts aren't the only thing that can haunt a house. Trynne Delaney's debut novel explores the insidious legacies of violence and oppression--and how Black, queer love and resistance can disrupt them. With her dad's incarceration, escalating fights with her mom, and an overbearing step dad she's not sure she can trust, Asha is desperate for the fresh start promised by a move to the country. Her great aunt Aggie's crumbling, pest-ridden house isn't...
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"Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all. Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers. Kit, who never returned to America, graduated...
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An alumnus of an elite boys academy works under his intimidating former teacher in this sexy gay romance by the author of the Criminal Intentions series.
Summer Hemlock never meant to come back to Omen, Massachusetts . . .
But with his mother in need of help, Summer has no choice but to return to his hometown, take up a teaching residency at the elite Albin Academy-and work directly under the man who made his teenage years miserable.
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10) Starstruck
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Hollywood is full of dirty secrets, but Carter refuses to be Levi's.Retired action star Levi Pritchard has made a quiet life for himself in the sleepy logging town of Bluewater Bay, Washington. But then Hollywood comes to film the wildly popular television series Wolf's Landing, and Bluewater Bay isn't so sleepy anymore. His retirement doesn't stick, either, because he's offered a part on the show-exactly the kind of complex role he'd always wanted,...
14) O anseio
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Neste minilivro, você encontrará a história de um rapaz solitário que encontra um disco de vinil misterioso e descobre que o espírito de um antigo cantor estava preso dentro dele.
17) Santuário
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A jovem Vitória se depara com uma herança sobrenatural, ao mesmo tempo em que sua família sofre uma ruptura irreversível. Sozinha, ela encontra acolhimento em um lugar inesperado.
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O que você faria se toda noite fosse levada para a "terra do nunca"? Bom, não exatamente a terra do nunca, mas uma versão dela para adultos. Bárbara não tem uma explicação para os sonhos, mas depois de um tempo acordando com grama pelo quarto e os pés sujos de terra, ela começa a buscar entender o que é aquele lugar. Ela só não imaginava que descobrir sobre a terra do nunca implica em se autodescobrir.
19) Maresia
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O triângulo das bermudas nunca foi bem visto pelos navegadores que um dia tiveram o infortúnio de cair em suas garras. Cercado de histórias, lendas e estigmas, ele de fato não é a rota mais procurada em alto mar e nem mesmo os bravos piratas ousam se aventurar em seu território. Mesmo sabendo disso, a capitã Luna Farrell, na esperança de se ver livre de mais um ataque da marinha inglesa, resolve tomar a decisão arriscada de navegar sobre...
20) Garrafas
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Sofia, uma mulher trans, após encontrar-se sozinha ao se mudar para uma cidade do interior de Goiás, decide procurar por garrafas abandonadas no bosque perto de casa. Não esperava, porém, que esse bosque fosse mágico.
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