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All Our Hidden Gifts

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All Our Hidden Gifts (The Gifts) By Caroline O'Donoghue, Stefanie Caponi (Illustrator) Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9781536225266
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Published: Walker Books US - May 3rd, 2022

This one has it all—magic, a non-binary love story, and an unconventional mystery. When Maeve accidentally wishes her best friend out of existence using a pack of magic Tarot cards, she must team up with her friend's sibling to find her. But that's not the only mystery. Why are these cards magic in the first place? And why can Maeve suddenly see into people's minds? This is the coziest, weirdest mystery I have ever read, and I wish I could climb inside it with a blanket and a cup of tea.

Meghan, Writer in Residence for Young Readers


The Midnight Bargain

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The Midnight Bargain By C. L. Polk Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781645660293
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Published: Erewhon Books - December 7th, 2021

Bridgerton…but make it fantasy! Beatrice's family is on the brink of financial ruin, and the only way  to bring them back is to find a wealthy husband during this year's Bargaining Season. And while someone will surely agree to marry her, Beatrice isn't sure the payday is worth the price—her freedom to practice sorcery. Does she choose herself and her love of the magic within her? Or does she choose her family and their financial well-being? And what happens when she accidentally falls in love and gets a demon involved? For lovers of atmosphere, this one's got it in spades.
 

Meghan, Writer in Residence for Young Readers


The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies By Deesha Philyaw Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781949199734
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Published: West Virginia University Press - September 1st, 2020

Respectable, upstanding people on the surface; a tangle of complicated desires and messy choices underneath. From the biting “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” to the epistolary “Dear Sister” – a letter from four sisters to a possible fifth after their father’s death – Deesha Philyaw has a knack for creating characters who feel like sisters and cousins, and zeroing in on their intimate truths in just a few pages.

Pia, Writer in Residence for Adults


Tin Man

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Tin Man: A Novel By Sarah Winman Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780735218765
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - April 9th, 2019

Tin Man is a sparse and sort of lonely book, but it is filled to the brim with those quiet moments that over a lifetime add up to something quite big. Your heart will ache, but in a good way.

Kendall


The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 By Christopher Paul Curtis Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9780440414124
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Published: Yearling - September 8th, 1997

When 10-year old Kenny Watson road trips with his siblings from Flint, Michigan to Birmingham, Alabama, they leave their city lives behind and adapt to life with Grandma, outhouses and swimming holes. This book is laugh-out-loud funny up until the end, when the children must reckon with the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of 1963. Perfect family read.

Pia, Writer in Residence for Adults


Brown Girl In the Ring

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Brown Girl in the Ring By Nalo Hopkinson Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780446674331
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - July 1st, 1998

Who was the first Black woman to be named a "Grand Master" of sci-fi by the Sceince Fiction Writers of America? Nope, not Octavia Butler, but the lesseer-known Hopkinson who kicked off her literary career with this tale of Afro-Caribbean magic, women's herbal wisdom, the strains of motherhood, and the cycle of trauma, set in a post-apocalyptic Toronto. Slow-stewing but meaty.

Rachael


You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty

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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel By Akwaeke Emezi Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982188702
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Published: Atria Books - May 24th, 2022

Imagine you're young, hot, & widowed and you get to travel all expense-paid to a beautiful island with a fine-ass man...only to fall hard for his even more fine-ass dad. Sexy. unhinged mess elevated with Emezi's fire and spark of wit.

Manasa


Mistakes Were Made

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Mistakes Were Made: A Novel By Meryl Wilsner Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250841001
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - October 11th, 2022

Known on social media as "The Milf Book"- this spicy and enthralling novel was my gateway into the romance genre. The perfect V day read!

Hannah


Heaven Official's Blessing (Vol. 1)

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Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 1 By Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, ZeldaCW (Illustrator), tai3_3 (Cover design or artwork by) Cover Image
By Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, ZeldaCW (Illustrator), tai3_3 (Cover design or artwork by)
$19.99
ISBN: 9781648279171
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Published: Seven Seas - December 14th, 2021

Gay ghostbusters, but in a Chinese fantasy genre called xianxia. Martial artists develop magic & immortality to become cultivators, who battle demonic spirits. Xie Lian, an immortal hot mess, keeps getting thrown out of heaven, because the bureacracy there is wild. He's back on earth again, this time to investigate a string of disappearances with the help of a mysterious (and handsome) young man. Action-packed, funny as hell, and very gay. (Hint: if this is your first xianxia novel, read the appendix first!)

Murphy


The Hookup Plan

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The Hookup Plan (The Boyfriend Project #3) By Farrah Rochon Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9781538716687
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Published: Forever - August 2nd, 2022

Grey's Anatomy meets the Brown Sisters in this rivals-with-benefits to lovers romance. Filled with chemistry, humor, and wit, The Hookup Plan is a must read for all Romance fans.

Katherine


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