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Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2024
Literary Fiction!
NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"If you're looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read." —Bustle

From the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & the Six—an entrancing and "wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet" (PopSugar)...

2) Martyr!

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Akbar, Kaveh

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English

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Darien's Favorite YA 2024

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final...

3) Somewhere beyond the sea

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Klune, TJ

Pub. Date

2024.

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English

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In the sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, Arthur Parnassus, headmaster of a strange orphanage, and the other inhabitants of Marsyas Island must fight to save the dangerous and magical children of the orphanage or risk the entire island falling apart.

4) Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

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Cole, Alyssa

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English

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Best Books of 2023
Celebrate Pride 2024

Alyssa Cole returns with a fun, sexy romance novella in the Reluctant Royals series!

While her boss the prince was busy wooing his betrothed, Likotsi had her own love affair after swiping right on a dating app. But her romance had ended in heartbreak, and now, back in NYC again, she's determined to rediscover her joy—so of course she runs into the woman who broke her heart.

When Likotsi and Fabiola meet again

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5) In the lives of puppets

Author

Klune, TJ

Pub. Date

2023.

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English

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"In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots-fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio-a past spent hunting humans. When...

6) The Danish girl: a novel

Author

Ebershoff, David

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English

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Brain Candy Reads
Buzzworthy Books: May
Celebrate Pride 2024
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A novel set in Copenhagen, Paris, and Dresden in the 1920s, introduces a man who discovers he is a woman, and the woman who will do anything for him, in a tale of love and marriage in the midst of fundamental crisis.

7) The guncle abroad: a novel

Author

Rowley, Steven

Pub. Date

2024.

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English

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"With his brother getting remarried in Italy, Patrick takes his niece and nephew back under his wing, and as they travel through Europe, he tries his best to help them understand love, while dealing with a groom with cold feet, his over-flirtatious sister and other disasters"--

8) Rubyfruit Jungle: A Novel

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Brown, Rita Mae

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English

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“The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . If you don’t yet know Molly Bolt—or Rita Mae Brown, who created her—I urge you to read and thank them both.”—Gloria Steinem

Winner of the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award | Winner of the Lee Lynch Classic Book Award

A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country’s most distinctive...

9) All the Water I've Seen Is Running: A Novel

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Rodriques, Elias

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English

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Former high school classmates reckon with the death of a friend in this stunning debut novel.

Along the Intracoastal waterways of North Florida, Daniel and Aubrey navigated adolescence with the electric intensity that radiates from young people defined by otherness: Aubrey, a self-identified "Southern cracker" and Daniel, the mixed-race son of Jamaican immigrants. When the news of Aubrey's death reaches Daniel in New York,

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10) Mistakes Were Made: A Novel

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Wilsner, Meryl

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English

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eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

"This blazing-hot forbidden romance manages to sensibly, and compassionately, capture the complexities of starting adult life after college and finding love and your identity in middle age. Cassie and Erin's romance is by turns delightfully raunchy and deeply emotional. This reader hopes Wilsner keeps these scorchers coming." - The Washington Post

"[Wilsner writes] erotic yearning in a class all their own." - Entertainment Weekly

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11) Heartstopper: Volume 4

Author

Oseman, Alice

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English

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Heartstopper

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Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. A sweet and charming coming-of-age story that explores friendship, love, and coming out. This edition features beautiful two-color artwork. Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind. Beautifully paced. I loved this book. -- Rainbow Rowell, author of Carry On Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows,...

12) You Better Be Lightning

Author

Gibson, Andrea

Pub. Date

2021

Language

English

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eBook, Kindle

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2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Gold Medal Winner 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal Winner 2022 Over the Rainbow Short List 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist 2021 Bookshop's Indie Press Highlights You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world,

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13) No Road Home: A Novel

Author

Fram, John

Pub. Date

2024

Language

English

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eBook, Kindle

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In this "whip-smart, horror-tinged whodunnit in the style of early Stephen King" (Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author), a young father must clear his name and protect his queer son when his wealthy new wife's televangelist grandfather is found murdered.
For years, single father Toby Tucker has done his best to keep his sensitive young son, Luca, safe from the bigotry of the world. But when Toby marries Alyssa Wright—the...

14) We Could Be So Good

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Sebastian, Cat

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English

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2023

A New York Times Books Review Best Romances of 2023 pick • Apple Books' Best Books of the Month • Amazon Best Books of the Month Editor's Pick, Romance • An NPR "Books We Love" • Library Journal Romance Pick of the Month • LibraryReads Hall of Fame: June 2023 • Publishers Weekly Best Romances of 2023

Casey McQuiston meets

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15) Highland Whirl

Author

Larner, Anna

Pub. Date

2021

Language

English

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eBook, Kindle

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2023 Fall Book Preview: Top Picks in Fiction & Mystery
Black History Month
Black History Month 2024
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When city girl about town Roxanne Barns reluctantly accepts a holiday invite to her best friend Eve's birthday party in the Scottish Highlands, the last thing she expects is to fall for the very person she's been dreading seeing again—the feisty Highlander, Alice Campbell.

The moment Alice learns that Roxanne is visiting her home hamlet of Newland, she couldn't be more suspicious or defensive. A warm welcome is certainly not the plan, let

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16) Family meal

Author

Washington, Bryan

Pub. Date

2023.

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English

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Books in the News: January
Celebrate Pride 2024
These Covers Blue Us Away

"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...

17) You only call when you're in trouble: a novel

Author

McCauley, Stephen

Pub. Date

2024.

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English

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"After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. Tom does what he always does--answers the call. And therein lies either the beauty or dysfunction, (or perhaps both) of the sometimes too tight ties that bind families together"--

18) The house in the Cerulean Sea

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Klune, TJ

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English

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Book, eAudiobook

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"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...

19) Kiss her once for me: a novel

Author

Cochrun, Alison

Pub. Date

2022.

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English

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eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

"One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and the loss of her job soon after, she finds herself adrift, alone, and desperate for money. Finding work at a local coffee shop, she's just getting through the days-until Andrew, the shop's landlord, proposes...

20) The Heartstopper yearbook

Author

Oseman, Alice

Pub. Date

2022

Language

English

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