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English
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A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country's most distinctive voices. Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes-- and she refuses to apologize for loving them back.
Author
Series
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the time she was born, Sigrid has only ever been ordinary. Being paired at birth with a plain horse instead of the powerful winged mare of a valkyrie meant there would be no warrior path for her. No riding the skies, no glory among the nine worlds. Just the simple, unremarkable life of a stable hand.
Author
Series
Jane Lawless mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Mischief and matchmaking volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A...queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
A young Nigerian girl, displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community until the pair is discovered and must learn the cost of living a lie amidst taboos and prejudices.
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Language
English
Description
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service."--
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Locus and British Fantasy Award nominee Cassandra Khaw's first novel, a crew of diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission. But the universe's highly-evolved AI has its own opposing agenda... and will do whatever it takes to keep humans from ever controlling them again.
11) Harrow the ninth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath -- but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her."--Publisher....
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Newly orphaned seventeen-year old Marin accepts a nanny position for an acclaimed horror writer and her mother's childhood friend, but she soon realizes all is not well at Lovelace House and must unravel its secrets before they consume her.
14) What if we were
Author
Series
What if we were volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
82 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Nathalie and Marie have been playing a game for years where they imagine what life would be like as different people or objects, but their lives change when a new player joins their game.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Planning the best summer ever, Andrea Williams realizes that there's just one thing that could ruin it: her best friend Hailee finding out her true feelings, so Andrea will fall out of love with her--or so she thinks.
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
17) As you look
Author
Series
Publisher
Bella Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Former LAPD cop turned private investigator Yolanda Ávila blames herself for her mother's death. If she'd only followed her cop instincts instead of the juju-her random prophetic dreams-the perpetrator would have been off the streets and her mother would still be alive. The only salve against her guilt is Yolanda's vow to reject that juju crap, and to solve cases using only good solid detective work.
But when her godson is kidnapped and his parents...
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Language
English
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"Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her...
20) Spear
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court. And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides...
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