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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Atria books hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Competing to seduce a mysterious young woman who has appeared near their favorite South Beach bar, playboys Will, Jeff, and Tom find their endeavor turning nightmarish when the young woman reveals that she is looking for someone to kill her husband.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv, the orc barbarian, cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open the first coffee shop the city has ever seen. However, her dreams of a fresh start filling mugs instead of swinging swords are hardly a sure bet. Old frenemies and Thune's shady underbelly...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Released from prison after serving eighteen years for manslaughter, Jodi McCarty finds her efforts to track down a friend and move on with the woman she loves challenged by the insular values of their rural West Virginia community.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed in a tornado, and in the aftermath of the storm, she begins to develop feelings for another girl at school.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The touching story of a queer Black recovering opioid addict recently out of prison, who fights to stay clean and regain custody of her two children while her old life beckons"--
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 p.
Language
English
Description
A lighthearted holiday romance inspired by Pride and Prejudice depicts the experiences of a free-spirited social media astrologer who agrees to a fake relationship with a no-nonsense actuary to appease their respective families.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
564 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
470 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.
12) Some Girls Do
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An openly gay track star falls for a closeted, bisexual teen beauty queen with a penchant for fixing up old cars"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
After seventeen-year-olds Chole and Shara, Chole's rival for valedictorian, kiss, Shara vanishes leaving Chole and two boys, who are also enamored with Shara, to follow the trail of clues she left behind, but during the search, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to Shara and her small Alabama town than she thought.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious fervor leads him to sue Zoe for custody.
15) #MurderFunding
Author
Series
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Becca auditions for a new, non-lethal reality show featuring Painiacs, hoping to prove that her deceased mother was not Alcatraz 2.0 executioner, Molly Mauler.
16) Little & Lion
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Trade Paperback Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons.
17) Gearbreakers
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In an age of 100-foot-tall mechanical deities run by a tyrannical regime, two teenaged girls on opposite sides of a war discover they are figting for a common purpose--and falling for each other.
18) Pixels of you
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
170 pages.
Language
English
Description
In a near future New York City of cyber augmentation and artificial intelligence, Indira and Fawn, two competitive interns in an art gallery, work together on a photography project, turning a rivalry into a friendship and perhaps something more.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A lonely thirtysomething disrupts the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter on a beautiful Greek island, distorting the lines between lover and beloved and child and adult, in a queer version of Lolita by an award-winning Swedish writer.
20) The grief keeper
Author
Publisher
putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.