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1) The adult
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Natalie, a college freshman from a remote small town, is drawn into an all-consuming affair with an older woman"--
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
VIZ Originals edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mieri is an awkward, nerdy college student with no dating experience, and her previous crushes on fellow butch women have all ended in disaster. That all changes when she meets Ash and has her feelings returned for the first time. But when first love turns to first heartbreak, Mieri will do everything possible to win Ash back."--
Author
Series
Out in Hollywood volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Max Van Doren has a wish list, and a great career and a girlfriend are at the top. But despite being pretty good at her job as an assistant to one of Hollywood's fastest rising talent agents, she has no idea how to move up the ladder. And when it comes to her love life, she's stuck in perpetual lust for an adorably perfect bartender named Sadie. Her goals are clear--and Max has everything but the self-confidence to go for them...Tired of the sponcon...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Ask him about his wives.
Caroline Daniels must marry, and marry well. But in her remote corner of England eligible suitors are few and far between, and none hold a candle to her closest friend, Diana Fitzroy. When Sir Edward Masterson arrives, he seems the answer to Caroline's financial worries, though she instinctively dislikes the reticent, older merchant. Soon Sir Edward has set his sights on acquiring both Caroline and the decaying Harkworth...
Author
Publisher
The Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Obsessive friendships lead to tragedy in this early-twentieth-century novel about a charismatic femme fatale, an impressionable student, and a naive teacher.
Clare Hartill is a brilliant, commanding teacher at a private all-girls boarding school: the undisputed queen of her own small kingdom. But, her tightly controlled world is disrupted when she meets Alywnne Durand, a nineteen-year-old with no formal training. Alywnne's innocence and openness...
7) London Lark
Author
Publisher
JMS Books LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Apprentice tinkerer Harriet Hodgkins is skilled in the construction and maintenance of intricate clockwork contrivances. She's also rather good at masquerading as a man ... for of course, no self-respecting craftsman would hire a woman.Repairing a salvaged automaton becomes a labour of love for Hodgkins, and the object of her affections, Miss Pandora Piper, comes to hold her rescuer in equal esteem. But Hodgkins has yet to confess her true gender,...
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in 2014, this tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning collection includes three new stories.A young mother intrudes in the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters...
Author
Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1856 Philadelphia, runaway slave Genie Oliver uses her dress shop as a front for her work with the Underground Railroad; and reluctant heiress Abby Read runs a rooming house not just because she hates the life of the idle rich society woman, but because she has no intention of ever marrying a man. When the daughter of Abby's free black servant is grabbed by rogue slave catchers, an unlikely group of people come together, first out of necessity,...
10) Dark Matters
Author
Publisher
Spinifex Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In a dawn raid, Ekaterina (Kate) is arrested. She is imprisoned, beaten, kept awake and tortured. She has no idea what has happened to her partner, Mercedes. The uncertainty plagues her. It is as if she has no history. Trying to retain her sense of self in a swirling psychic state, she invents stories. And she remembers stories of her mother, her grandmothers and aunts, the rich mythic traditions of Greece. She rearranges them and writes poems in...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Beth Vogelsang's Uncle Jerry is tortured and murdered Beth's estranged friend Regan is the first cop on the scene. Regan hopes for reconciliation, but they've led different lives. Beth has been abused, beaten, raped, and has experienced a devastating death in the family. She's also fallen in love with her lesbian therapist. Will she reunite with her genderqueer friend? Or, will their individual secrets keep them apart. Meanwhile, there's a serial...
Author
Publisher
Jms Books Llc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Britt Belladonna, a workaholic employed at a cruise company, is sent on a rival company’s cruise to dig up dirt on the competition. It seems like an easy enough assignment: go on the cruise, figure out why this company is drawing in more customers than the cruise line she works for, and create an amazing report that will earn her a promotion.
While on the cruise, however, she learns it’s for singles and everyone on board is looking for...
While on the cruise, however, she learns it’s for singles and everyone on board is looking for...
13) Bed Death
Author
Publisher
Jms Books Llc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Julia and Pepper used to be lovers -- but sometimes these things don't work out.
When Julia is arrested for trespassing and other illicit charges for being in a graveyard at night, she can think of no other person to call other than Pepper, her ex-lover and lawyer extraordinaire. Never mind that it's now been six years since they last spoke and they left things rather badly. Julia needs all the real life -- and not supernatural -- help she...
When Julia is arrested for trespassing and other illicit charges for being in a graveyard at night, she can think of no other person to call other than Pepper, her ex-lover and lawyer extraordinaire. Never mind that it's now been six years since they last spoke and they left things rather badly. Julia needs all the real life -- and not supernatural -- help she...
Author
Publisher
Jms Books Llc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Follow the story of Angelita, a young woman with no family, who is brought to Miss Isabella’s finishing school in hopes she can avoid being sent to the workhouse. Miss Isabella’s house is full, so an agreement is made to take in Angelita as a kitten.
Can a lower class girl as a mute kitten ever hope to fit in with the young women from prominent families who board at Miss Isabella’s manor? Only one other girl in Miss Isabela’s house...
Can a lower class girl as a mute kitten ever hope to fit in with the young women from prominent families who board at Miss Isabella’s manor? Only one other girl in Miss Isabela’s house...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Elit Lgtbi 18
Cuando amar se convierte en una aventura demasiado peligrosa.
Sofía trabaja como cajera en un gran supermercado. Su mayor ilusión es ver entrar en el establecimiento, dos veces por semana, a la mujer de la que está enamorada. A pesar de no saber nada de ella, Sofía fantasea cada día con su amor platónico. Cuando encuentra la oportunidad de entablar una relación más cercana, descubrirá al fin el misterio que la rodea. Un misterio...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Greeley's storytelling is intricate, masterly, and delightfully imaginative. Highly recommended."-Library Journal (starred review)
In this gorgeously written and spellbinding historical novel based on Pride and Prejudice, the author of The Clergyman's Wife combines the knowing eye of Jane Austen with the eroticism and Gothic intrigue of Sarah Waters to reimagine the life of the mysterious Anne de Bourgh.
As a fussy baby, Anne de Bourgh was prescribed...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Pennywhistle, Tennessee, for her beloved daddy's funeral, PJ Spoon, abandoning her PhD program at Vanderbilt, impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at the Chickie Shak, where she meets and falls for Boof, a talented singer-songwriter searching for her birth mother.
19) The Dawn of Nia
Author
Publisher
Resolute Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In this fiery f/f romance, Nia Ellis has the chance to fall in love, if she can overcome the devastating loss of her mentor, Pat, and step outside of her guarded emotions. At Pat’s funeral, Kayla blindsides Nia with a deep-seated secret, sparking feelings of betrayal. Weeks after the funeral, Nia is still figuring out how to handle the unexplained secret. She can’t turn to Pat’s family or her closest friends, Tasha and Jacoby, for comfort....
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early-Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel
Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin...
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