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One of Library Journal's Best Romances of 2018
The one you love...
Robert Selby is determined to see his sister make an advantageous match. But he has two problems: the Selbys have no connections or money and Robert is really a housemaid named Charity Church. She's enjoyed every minute of her masquerade over the past six years, but she knows her pretense is nearing an end. Charity needs to see her beloved friend married
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Wind: To match one's body with one's heart. Sand: To take the bearer where they wish. Song: In praise of the goddess Bird. Bone: To move unheard in the night. The Surun' do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But Uiziya now seeks her aunt Benesret in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay. Among the Khana, women travel...
3) Endpapers
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In 2003 New York, a genderqueer book conservator who feels trapped by her gender presentation, ill-fitting relationship, and artistic block discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author"--
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Ouroboros volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Gem Echols hides their mental health challenges and mysterious dreams in the small town of Gracie, Georgia, but when a newcomer reveals a shocking claim of being reincarnated gods together, Gem's life takes a perilous turn as they embark on a deadly adventure, where their past and present collide.
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel's wrists, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful...
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RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The stars connect us. Lu and Fassen are from different worlds and separate solar systems. But there's something that keeps them in each other's orbit. Something they don't want to let go of. When the war of Fassen's world invades Lu's peaceful home, they find themselves at the forefront of a battle they hoped would never happen. They finally have a chance to be together ... but at what cost?- cover page 4.
7) The Honeys
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PUSH
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions--and expectations--of his politically-connected family. This includes attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where his...
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MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Stories about genderqueer characters in the American South"--
The nine stories in Morgan Thomas's shimmering debut collection witness Southern queer and genderqueer characters determined to find themselves reflected in the annals of history, whatever the cost. As Thomas's subjects trace deceit and violence through Southern tall tales and their own pasts, their journeys reveal the porous boundaries of body, land, and history, and the sometimes ruthless...
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Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The most powerful muscle is the heart Daria is a college student with a body-image complex as swole as he is skinny. His cool exterior is a shield to protect his soft heart, even though he has a lot of love to give and he d love to give it to his crush, Ruby, his gentle giant neighbor. After encouragement from a friend, he might finally get closer to Ruby by&working out with her?! Can Daria find the strength of heart to tell Ruby how he feels?"--...
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