Topical/Own Voices
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Renovated to Death
$15.95 Add to cartIt’s Hart to Hart via HGTV in award-winning author and playwright Frank Anthony Polito’s fabulous new cozy mystery series featuring a gay couple who solve crimes while renovating houses in suburban De… [more below]
- Series: A Domestic Partners in Crime Mystery
- Author: Polito, Frank Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1496735587
- Language: English
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The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme
$14.95 Add to cartA fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that is funny, literary, philosophical, witty, sometimes bitchy and sometimes heartbreaking.
Aashvi, Kate,- Author: Fitzpatrick, Cat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1644212331
- Language: English
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The Pepsi Cola Addict
$21.95 Read moreThe legendary lost novel in which fourteen-year-old Preston Wildey-King must choose between his all-consuming passion for Pepsi Cola and his love for schoolmate Peggy.
“He walked into the turbulent su- Author: Gibbons, June-Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1913689719
- Language: English
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Homeland Elegies
$16.99 Add to cartThis “profound and provocative” work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish followsan immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging–in post-Trump America,
- Author: Akhtar, Ayad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0316496413
- Language: English
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The Blood Trials
$0.00 Read moreBlending fantasy and science fiction, N. E. Davenport’s fast-paced, action-packed debut kicks off a duology of loyalty and rebellion, in which a young Black woman must survive deadly trials in a racis
- Series: Blood Gift Duology #1
- Author: Davenport, N. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0063058480
- Language: English
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A Woman Is No Man: A Read with Jenna Pick
$27.99 Read moreA Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Fiction and Best Debut – BookBrowse’s Best Book of the Year – A Marie Claire Best Women’s Fiction of the Year – A Real Simple Best Book of the Year – A PopS
- Author: Rum, Etaf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 62699768
- Language: English
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Love on the Ninth Floor
$16.95 Add to cartTrending on TikTok takes on an entirely new meaning when the ‘for you’ becomes a viral love story in the making. Aries Skye makes a sizzling debut in this flirty feel-good romance, perfect for fans of… [more below]
- Author: Skye, Aries
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 195795003X
- Language: English
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Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery
$19.00 Add to cartNominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel!
In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crim- Series: Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries #1
- Author: March, Nev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1250813824
- Language: English
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Every Black Girl Dances
$17.95 Add to cartA searing exploration of femininity and womanhood, Every Black Girl Dances hits the truth-telling mark. Fans of Jayne Allen’s Black Girls Must Die Exhausted and Candice Carty-Williams’ Queenie will re… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Candice y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1957950080
- Language: English
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The Dating Playbook
$17.99 Add to cartWhen a personal trainer agrees to fake date her client, all rules are out the window in this “fun, heartfelt, and totally relatable” romantic comedy named one of the best of the year by USA Today, NPR… [more below]
- Series: Boyfriend Project #2
- Author: Rochon, Farrah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1538716674
- Language: English
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Measuring Up
$22.99 Add to cartA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection – Fall 2020 Kids Indie Next List – Featured in Today Show’s AAPI Heritage Month list – Amazon Best Books November Selection – Cybils Awards Finalist – An
- Author: Lamotte, Lily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0062973878
- Language: English
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The Comeback: A Figure Skating Novel
$8.99 Add to cartA heartfelt, #OwnVoices debut about a young girl trying to be a champ, in figure skating and in life. Introduction by champion figure skater Mirai Nagasu.
Twelve-year-old Maxine Chen is just trying to- Author: Shen, E. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250820529
- Language: English
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Vulgarian Rhapsody
$16.00 Read moreA whirlwind tour of San Francisco’s fabled queer bohemia in the waning days of the 20th century, as the city’s budget bon vivants work to save their eccentric lifestyles in the face of tech gentrifica
- Author: Orloff, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1953103383
- Language: English
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Lost City Radio
$16.99 Add to cart“Daniel Alarcon writes about subterfuge, lies, and the arbitrary recreation of history with a masterful clarity. By accepting the premise that war is senseless, he goes on to make sense of the lives t
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Alarcon, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0060594810
- Language: English
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The Grass Dancer
$19.00 Add to cartInspired by the lore of her Sioux heritage, this “captivating”(New York Times Book Review) critically-acclaimed novel from Mona Susan Power weaves the stories of the old and the young, of broken famil… [more below]
- Author: Power, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0425159531
- Language: English
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Carnival Lights
$24.95 Add to cartMinnesota Book Awards 2022 — Finalist in Novel & Short Story
Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards (NEMBA) 2022 — Winner in Fiction
“Fluid in time and place, Carnival Lights flows between one past and a
- Author: Stark, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1615995773
- Language: English
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Sparks Like Stars
$17.99 Add to cart“Suspenseful…emotionally compelling. I found myself eagerly following in a way I hadn’t remembered for a long time, impatient for the next twist and turn of the story.”—NPR
An Afghan American woman
- Author: Hashimi, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0063008297
- Language: English
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Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
$26.99 Add to cart“It’s a good thing that this is only the first book of a trilogy, because after getting to know Tabitha, you won’t want to leave her at the end. . . . Written intimately as if you’re peering into the
- Author: Allen, Jayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0063142996
- Language: English
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Recipe for Persuasion
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors comes another, clever, deeply layered, and heartwarming romantic comedy that follows in the Jane Austen tradition–this time, with a twist on Per
- Series: The Rajes #2
- Author: Dev, Sonali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0062839071
- Language: English
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Wade in the Water
$27.99 Read more“An impressive debut. Emotionally honest with lyricism and charm to spare, Nyani Nkrumah’s Wade in the Water depicts in riveting detail a racially charged Mississippi town, the secrets it holds, and t
- Author: Nkrumah, Nyani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063226618
- Language: English
