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A New York Times-Bestseller!A Kids' Indie Next Pick!A B&N Best YA Book of the Year! New York Times-bestselling author Aiden Thomas returns to the beloved world of The Sunbearer Trials in Celestial Monsters, a heart-stopping duology finale, in which three young semidioses travel through...

A young college professor becomes the source of gossip among a group of eccentric townspeople in this entertaining comedy of manners, a new reissue for Union Square & Co.'s Herald Classics line. Originally published in 1919, Bertram Cope's Year is a clever character study...

WHEN THE WORLD BURNS, ASH WILL RISE.The explosive sequel to instant New York Times bestselling YA debut Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender. Ever since he rose up against his father and saved New Anglia from destruction, Ash has been struggling to adapt to his...

What is the difference between men and women? Jennifer Finney Boylan, bestselling author of She's Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult, examines the divisions--as well as the common ground--between the genders, and reflects on her own experiences, both difficult and...

A searing novel of love and betrayal as a young boy comes of age in the heart of England, from an exquisite new voice. In the shadow of an ancient abbey nestled between rivers, Daniel is growing up. He is highly intelligent but little...

From critically acclaimed author Nicole Galland comes a vibrant and thought-provoking historical tale of love, political intrigue, and gender-swapping set in the theatre world of Elizabethan London.Alexander "Sander" Cooke is the most celebrated "boy player" in the Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare's theatre company. Indeed,...

Ancient Greece was rich with stories of queer love and genderfluid identity--but what can these ancient stories tell us about our contemporary world?Tales as old as antiquity--whether the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the genderfluid Tiresias, or the infamous Heracles--are still capturing our...

It's the early 1980s, and a household of lesbian feminists establish a women-only commune in an ancient Californian redwood forest. It seems a perfect place to practice the ritual magic that helps them function harmoniously as a group - even if they aren't all...

Counter Cult follows Jury, a young man obsessed with founding a new religion without rules, restrictions, or a God. He offers his followers a belief system without barriers that can be shaped in their image. But as this fluid spirituality attracts a devoted (and...

Everyone has skeletons in the closet, but few have those that claw at the lid.After the sudden death of her parents, Cassandra DeVale stumbles into a web of secrets that drags her far beyond London's polished drawing rooms and into the shadows of a...

A summer job at a lake-town resort brings together two women with an unlikely connection in this new contemporary romance by USA Today bestselling author Ashley Herring Blake. April Evans' life is in shambles. She's had to close her tattoo shop in Clover Lake...

Oswin embarks on a dangerous journey to unravel the truth behind the enduring Freeze in this second book in the action-packed Ice Apprentices middle grade series that's perfect for fans of Skandar and Wilderlore. Oswin starts a second year in Tundra at the school...

Daniela Da Costa is working to become the greatest women's basketball player. But seven years into her professional career, she's more known for her tragic love life than her skills on the court. When she's traded to the Jersey Jaguars, and reunited with an...

An outrageous spectacle of love between two untamed poets, a 27-year old man and a teenage boy, written by one of America's original punks and finest writers. Based on Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine's notorious affair, but set in the epochal downtown poetry scene...

"One of the sharpest and most emotionally vulnerable novels on the complicated dynamic of dating cisgender straight men as a trans woman."--Autostraddle (7 New Trans Novels to Read this Summer) "Dinan writes like some kind of demigod. Her fictions make thinkable new realities for...

A bold new dystopian thriller about an experimental mental health retreat center for young adults where everything is not what it seems--and one boy who will risk everything to escape. Seb has been selected for a new experimental mental health center called HappyHead, designed...

The experiment continues in the dark and disturbingly thrilling conclusion to the HappyHead duology where Seb will find the secret to escaping is more heart-wrenching than he ever imagined. Seb was sure surviving the experimental health center of HappyHead would be enough to send...

What would you do if your entire family was trapped in a house with a killer? A tropical storm turns into a hurricane overnight with no time to evacuate. Scotty and the boys stay in the carriage house on his grandparents' estate in the...

Talent can be discovered in the most unexpected of places! With a little inspiration and a magical cape, Drew learns to embrace his creativity with confidence and pride. The school talent show is just around the corner, and every kid has signed up to...

An Iron Age goddess must grapple with becoming human in this delightful historical fantasy of myth and magic from the author of the instant hit Greenteeth. ★ "Yet another excellent story rooted in the folklore of the British isles, this one charged with queer...

An all-new, stand-alone sci-fi caper from the author of Hammajang Luck: a bored hacker is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician...only to find herself up against a code she might not be able to crack.After the heist of a lifetime,...

From Rachel Lacey, author of Learning Curves, comes a tender, hopeful romance about how fate is what you're given but love is what you choose, and how small sparks can change everything.Two years after an accident in Manhattan almost claimed her life, Marin is...

Marion Barbara Carstairs--"Joe" to her friends--began a life of adventure soon after her birth in 1900, when a camel accident gave her the spark of inspiration to change her name to Tuffy. Joe was an adrenaline junkie who drove an ambulance in the First...

A poignant novel in verse in which, after a life-changing accident, one girl finds her way back to her life's passion. From the Newbery Honor-winning author of Iveliz Explains It All. A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR All these months of staring at...

Perfect for fans of dark, slow-burn romance, a story where every secret matters and every scar tells a tale... "What makes him so special?" "He reminds me of someone I once knew..." As the founder of Freedom Fighters, famed music composer, William Mayes, is...

Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and Amazon!A Finalist for the Octavia E. Butler Award!"Few capture the grubbiness of intimacy -- and the starchy scent of home -- as well as Fellman does in his depiction of his...

A funny and heartfelt LGBTQIA+ middle grade novel set against the backdrop of family drama and a library funding campaign in a small town. Alex Eager lives in Faillin, OR with her grandmother, a retired librarian. Life should be great for Alex, since she...

In this queer horror novel debut, a priest falls in love with the antichrist and even God can't stop the horror it will bring.Dante, a protestant young man, and Jude, a sadistic pastor of a small Texas church, harbor a terrible secret from the...

Junot Diaz's critically acclaimed collection Drown meets Janet Mock's Emmy-winning series Pose, "in this remarkable debut...capturing the heartbreak of queer youth, a woman's rebellion against the confines of motherhood, and, above all, the pain and power of friendship" (Adam Haslett, bestselling author of Imagine...

Perfect for fans of Skandar and Wilderlore, this "chilling page-turner" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) follows a magical apprentice in a land of ice and snow who must uncover why strange monsters are attacking his fellow apprentices...or else suffer the tragic consequences. Tundra is the...

What do we risk by living our most authentic lives? More importantly, what do we gain? In the Middle of a Better World is a queer guide to love and identity, a collection both formally inventive and infused with a bright, shimmering imagination. Part...

A "striking lesbian manifesto and a deft parody" by the acclaimed author of Nightwood. (-Library Journal)Nearly 100 years after its original 1928 publication sent shockwaves through the literary scene, Ladies Almanack reigns as a brilliant modernist composition and one of the most audacious lesbian...

Former San Diego detective Rick "Chase" Chasen has found a welcome change of pace on walking tours in the British countryside. But England's green and pleasant land can hide all kinds of surprises--including murder... Chase has two compelling reasons for returning to England--a group...

What's worse than regretting a one-night stand? Being snowed in with her.Since losing her wife six years ago, Colby has perfected the hermit lifestyle: secluded Minnesota cabin, golden retriever, weekly cupcake run. Zero complications. Until a chaotic, pink-haired vet tech arrives for a house...

An evocative debut novel reflecting the determination and resilience of a gay diaspora as it faced extinction.Beginning with a chance encounter in 1985, an unnamed narrator embarks on a physical and spiritual sojourn over four decades. From a one-night stand in Paris with the...

It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe--but it's definitely not the last dance In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban...

My God's Been Silent is a poetry collection that lives at the intersection of faith and fury, grief and grace. Written in the aftermath of loss and disillusionment, these poems are elegies and incantations-each one a plea, a protest, a prayer left unanswered. This...

From Stonewall Honoree Cory McCarthy, joyful, affectionate, read-in-one-sitting novel about letting go of the things we can't change and holding on to the passion of our instincts. On the far side of a swift and unknowable apocalypse, a few sapiens are surviving off the...

She spent two years in a time loop. Now she's ready to solve a murder. And maybe grab a bagel. The Seven Year Slip meets Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers in this wholly original time loop mystery. For the past two years, Amie...

In this Indian modern classic, roofs are a special place; they are meant for wild things, for romance and for play. They are realms of freedom--freedom from the male gaze, sexual freedom, and freedom from society. Chachcho and Lalna use their roofs to build...

With vibes of Penny Dreadful, The Knick, and ANATOMY: A Love Story, this deliciously macabre gothic debut braids historical fiction, dark academia, horror, and even true crime into a harrowing tale of murder, greed, queer desire and the grisly origins of modern medicine, as...

A breathtaking novel of courtly intrigue, sapphic yearning, and the wives of Henry VIII as you've never seen them before. ★ "Combines the romantasy of Sarah J. Maas, the cutthroat political corruption of Game of Thrones, and the feminist/sapphic history and mythology revisionism of...

One hotel room. One bed. Zero chance of keeping it professional.HarryWhen I agreed to chaperone the boys' hockey team, I thought my biggest challenge would be pretending to understand the rules-not being stuck sharing a hotel room with Darius Hall. The P.E. teacher. The...

Giving all the "Little Women" the stories they deserve at last, this imaginative historical novel and companion to the much-loved classic draws Meg, Beth, and Amy March from behind the shadow of Jo - Louisa May Alcott's alter-ego and the "author" of Little Women...

Poems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment. The simple yet fraught experience of embodiment lies at the thrumming heart of Kelsey L. Smoot's SOULMATE AS A VERB. Bodies make love possible, they enable tender connection and transmit electric joy, all while...

These are poems of queer ecology--poetry that "exults in the grit and texture of the natural world, in the unassuming and overlooked wonders beneath our feet and beyond our doors--in lichen and snow, in martens and mushrooms." In reckoning with a mother's aging, a...

"A bulletproof case that sexual diversity exists in the natural world...The Sexual Evolution is a thoughtfully and delightfully written book full of illuminating and entertaining information that will be new to most readers. At a time when ignorance and misinformation about sex, gender, reproduction,...

"An intimate, impressionistic Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man mode, interwoven with Mitchell myths and parallels."-- New York Times Book Review"An astonishing exploration of what it means to lead an artist's life--how to last, dig deep, change, to embrace one's voice while...

A soul-searching LGBTQ memoir about one woman's attempt to plan her way to happily ever after--only to realize that healing, self-discovery, and love happen in their own time. Days after Corey's breakup, a photo of her ex wrapped in the arms of another woman...

In ancient Scandinavia, a land beset by monstrous creatures and legends, Beowulf is warrior of extreme renown. Born in battle and shaped by steel, she has spent years proving that strength is not solely a man's domain.When the halls of Heorot threaten to buckle...