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421) Alice Sadie Celine
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"It's opening night, but far from glamorous. Alice is performing in a local Bay Area production of The Winter's Tale, the complete opposite of what she had envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. She doesn't have dreams of superstardom per se, but the basement theatre in a wildfire-choked town simply isn't ideal. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming. Pragmatic and serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have...
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Series
Language
English
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A reimagining of the story of Jane Austen's mysterious character depicts a rejected young heiress who fights a life-long addiction before discovering health and passion in the London home of her cousin, Colonel John Fitzwilliam.
Anne de Bourgh's doctor prescribed laudanum to quiet her when she was a fussy baby. Anne now takes the opium-heavy tincture every day, growing up with few companions except her cousins, including Fitzwilliam Darcy. Throughout...
Series
Doughnuts under a crescent moon volume 4
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
" A change of heart Asahi has never been big on romantic love—her top priority has always been family. But now that Hinako is in her life, her feelings about romance seem to be changing. Asahi still doesn’t know exactly what that means, but one thing is for sure: her feelings for Hinako are growing more intense by the day. Are Asahi and Hinako destined for more than friendship? Find out in the final volume of Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon!"--...
Series
Hello melancholic! volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Asano Minato is a tall but stooping first-year in high school. Though she's a killer trombone player, she does everything she can to fade into the background. Despite her best efforts, Minato catches the attention of her bubbly and charismatic senpai Hibiki, who wants Minato to join the mysterious band she's forming at school. And she won't take no for an answer! Will Minato be able to let go of the past and play in a school band again? Can polar...
425) Raising the Horseman
Author
Publisher
Disney · Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Kat Van Tassel wants nothing to do with Sleepy Hollow's ghostly history. But when her mother gives her the original Katrina van Tassel's diary on the two-hundredth anniversary of the Headless Horseman's haunting, a new legend begins to take shape, weaving together the past and the present in eerie ways. When a new girl in town opens Kat's eyes to the possibility that ghosts are real, it makes her question who she truly wants to be...and be with....
Series
Adachi and Shimamura (Manga) volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Shimamura's not really into the social scene at school. So when she cuts class and heads to her usual spot in the gym, the last thing she wants to see is another girl there making herself at home. Somehow, though, the awkward, silent moments they share keep bringing them closer... But when Adachi starts wanting something more, Shimamura finds the line between friends and girlfriends getting thinner and thinner..."-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Brooke and her friends have a plan. A plan so big it might change their entire lives. A plan that involves low-key copyright infringement, minor automobile theft, and a secret business that runs strictly on cash. What they don't plan are Brooke and Kelly's new romance, Melissa being caught in the middle, or Maggie suddenly feeling left out. These four friends will have their relationships tested, their morals questioned, and their deepest insecurities...
428) Pardalita
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love...just not in your lifetime? Audrey Cameron has lost her spark. But after getting dumped by her first love and waitlisted at her dream art school all in one week, she has no intention of putting her heart on the line again to get it back. So when local curmudgeon Mr. Montgomery walks into her family's Pittsburgh convenience store saying he can help her, Audrey doesn't know what she's expecting...but it's...
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Romancing the rival When corporate worker Rei Ohashi finds herself reborn as the protagonist of her favorite dating sim, it's the perfect opportunity to do what she's always wanted--seduce the villainess! In her previous life, Rei had no interest in the princes the game had to offer. She only had eyes for Claire Fraṅois, her nemesis. Now, armed with her extensive knowledge of the game, and her undying love for Claire, will Rei finally be able to...
431) Vamos a morir todos
Author
Publisher
Blackie Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Gilda teme a la muerte, lo normal. Solo que quizá la teme demasiado. Tanto que provoca accidentes, colapsa las urgencias hospitalarias, preocupa a sus seres queridos con presuntos infartos, tumores, enfermedades irreversibles. Sin embargo, tras perder su enésimo trabajo, lo más factible es que acabe muriendo de hambre. Cuando entra a trabajar de ayudante del párroco en la iglesia St. Rigobert tiene que esconder que es hipocondríaca, atea y lesbiana....
432) Pixels of you
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In a near future, augmentation and AI changed everything and nothing. Indira is a human girl who has been cybernetically augmented after a tragic accident. Though she struggles with pain and the strange nightmares haunting her, she lives a mostly normal life, interning and showing her work at a local gallery. Fawn is a human-presenting AI who has to grapple with both her family's expectations and how the world perceives AI. Though she works at the...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When college freshman Kat Fields receives a mysterious email urging her to visit a relatively unknown Texas town with a history of witchcraft, strange sightings, and "devil lights"--glowing red stars that appear above the town's hills every night--she ditches her plans for spring break and takes a solo road trip to Estrella Roja to investigate for her podcast, Paranormal Texas, catchphrase: "Y'all stay spooky!" Meanwhile, Marisol "Mari" Castillo,...
434) Rain
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On a seemingly normal August day in Boulder, Colorado... the skies are clear and Honeysuckle Speck couldn't be happier. She's finally moving in with her girlfriend Yolanda. But their world is literally torn apart when dark clouds roll in and release a downpour of nails--splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. Rain makes vivid this escalating apocalyptic event, as the deluge of nails spreads across the country...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like a ghost... also, when Esme drinks too much coffee she actually sees ghosts. Yara, the elegant heir to a coffee plantation, is always seen, but only has eyes for Esme. Their world is turned upside down when the strange ghost of an old-world nobleman begs Esme to take his letter from New York City to a haunted coffee farm in Brazil, to reunite him with his lost love of a century ago. Bringing sinister tidings...
Series
Doughnuts under a crescent moon volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Uno Hinako throws herself into makeup, fashion, and falling in love, hoping that will make her seem "normal" to the other people at her job. But no matter how hard she tries, she's a self-doubting mess inside, and her attempts at "normal" romance with men just keep failing. When she starts to think she might be alone forever, a new normal presents itself in the form of her relationship with Asahi Sato, a level-headed woman who works at her company....
Author
Series
Bright Falls volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she's happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn't want any of that-dating, love, romance. She'll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants to see her settled down, but she holds firmly to her no...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jillian Marsh is a survivor. She escaped her toxic upbringing at the hands of her religious zealot mother as a teenager, and after hitting rock bottom due to alcoholism in her twenties, she not only got sober, she built a successful marriage and medical career, even if she wasn't able to make amends for all the mistakes she made during her drinking days. But nearly a decade later, things are once again going downhill for Jillian. Her wife, Rochelle,...
Series
Whisper me a love song volume 7
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Newly confident in their feelings for each other, Himari and Yori are able to tackle their roles in their respective bands with fresh enthusiasm. Himari even convinces Yori to write a new song for SSGIRLS' school culture festival performance, and this time, it's going to be a group effort. This song will belong to the whole band, and they eagerly discover the ideas each of them has to contribute to its creation. Meanwhile, the members of Laureley...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"At her day job in a Christian bakery and with her conservative family, Amy plays the role of a straight, church-going young woman-exactly what's expected in mid-2010s Tulsa, Oklahoma, the "Buckle of the Bible Belt." But at night, she tends bar at the only place in town that truly feels like home: Ruby Red's, a lovably grungy queer bar with a group of regulars who have become her chosen family. Amy's spent a lifetime learning how to walk this fine...
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