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Title: On a Sunbeam
Author: Tillie Walden
Page length: 533
Synopsis: Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, painstakingly putting the past together. As new member Mia gets to know her team, the story flashes back to her pivotal year in boarding school, where she fell in love with a mysterious new student. Soon, though, Mia reveals her true purpose for joining their ship—to track down her long-lost love.
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air #2) - Holly Black
The Electric Heir (Feverwake #2) - Victoria Lee
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante #1) - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys #1) - Aidan Thomas
The King's Men (All for the Game #3) - Nora Sakavic
Amelia Westlake Was Never Here - Erin Gough
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Solitaire (Osemanverse #6) - Alice Oseman
Spinning - Tillie Walden
Wer die Liebe entfesselt (Kaleidra #3) - Kira Licht
She Drives Me Crazy - Kelly Quindlen
Youngblood - Sasha Laurens
She Gets the Girl - Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick
we fell in love in october - Inka Lindberg
Sorcery of Thorns - Margaret Rogerson
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family - Garrard Conley
Title: The Miseductation of Cameron Post
Author: Emily M. Danforth
Page length: 485
Synopsis: When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone (as her grandmother might say), and Cam becomes an expert at both. Then Coley Taylor moves to town. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship--one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to "fix" her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self--even if she's not exactly sure who that is.
Title: Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire #1)
Author: Natasha Ngan
Page length: 385 pages
Synopsis: Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for...and the most demeaning. This year, there's a ninth. And instead of paper, she's made of fire. In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it's Lei they're after -- the girl with the golden eyes whose rumored beauty has piqued the king's interest. Over weeks of training in the opulent but oppressive palace, Lei and eight other girls learns the skills and charm that befit a king's consort. There, she does the unthinkable -- she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens her world's entire way of life. Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide how far she's willing to go for justice and revenge.
Title: Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster
Author: Andrea Mosqueda
Page length: 352 pages
Synopsis: Growing up in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, Maggie Gonzalez has always been a little messy, but she’s okay with that. After all, she has a great family, a goofy group of friends, a rocky romantic history, and dreams of being a music photographer. Tasked with picking an escort for her little sister’s quinceañera, Maggie has to face the truth: that her feelings about her friends—and her future—aren’t as simple as she’d once believed. As Maggie’s search for the perfect escort continues, she’s forced to confront new (and old) feelings for three of her friends: Amanda, her best friend and first-ever crush; Matthew, her ex-boyfriend twice-over who refuses to stop flirting with her, and Dani, the new girl who has romantic baggage of her own. On top of this romantic disaster, she can’t stop thinking about the uncertainty of her own plans for the future and what that means for the people she loves. As the weeks wind down and the boundaries between friendship and love become hazy, Maggie finds herself more and more confused with each photo. When her tried-and-true medium causes more chaos than calm, Maggie needs to figure out how to avoid certain disaster—or be brave enough to dive right into it.