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The HIGHLY ANTICIPATED adult debut novel from #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Renée Ahdieh "Pulse-racing...Fans of The White Lotus and Crazy Rich Asians shouldn't miss this." --People "I can't remember the...

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER A LibraryReads Pick Rivalry and romance spark when two bookstore managers who are opposites in every way find themselves competing for the same promotion. Despite managing bookstores on the same Boston street, Josie Klein and...

A steamy sapphic romance with a fantastical twist about two bitter tennis rivals who realize they are reluctant soulmates--perfect for fans of Expiration Dates and Here We Go Again. Juliette Ricci dreams of only one thing: being the best women's tennis player in the...

"The first major American novel to be published this year." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Gorgeous . . . Almost impossibly heartbreaking." --Sam Worley, New York Magazine A Must-Read: The New York Times, New York<...

Instant New York Times Bestseller! "Bill Clinton reveals key White House details in murderous new political thriller... It's a twisty thriller with plenty of inside jobs, political sabotage and many, many deaths." -USA Today ...

Big Little Lies meets Tiger King in this fun and propulsive debut novel about three suburban women who, over the course of one summer, each use the growing hysteria around a big cat sighting to achieve their own agendas--some more sinister than others. Former...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Propulsive and powerful. . . A gripping roller coaster ride of escalating danger." --New York Times Book Review"Pick up the novel everyone will be talking about." --The Atlantic...

From the acclaimed author of the young adult graphic novel Flamer comes a heartwarming story following four gay Asians navigating love, identity, and friendship--a celebration of queer chosen family.​ When AJ moves to Seattle in the early aughts, he's ready to reinvent himself...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "You're going to get papercuts, you're going to turn the pages so fast." --Brad Thor, Today "If Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney, and Margo Jefferson somehow collaborated, this might have been the delightful result." --Boris Kachka...

A LIBRARY READS PICK From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood and The Women Could Fly, a dazzling novel about two brilliant sisters and what happens to their undeniable bond when a mysterious and possibly perilous new world beckons. On an ordinary summer...

"The prose is textured, viscous almost, an ooze of sweet honey shot through with golden light . . . A Language of Limbs is a novel of (impeccable) vibes and mood, a gay hymnal written from inside the guts of the two protagonists." --Yves Rees, Australian Book Review

A princess with a mostly useless magical talent takes on horrible monsters, a dozen identical masked heroes, and a talking lion in a quest to save a kingdom--and herself--in this affectionate, feminist fairy tale satire. "Exactly the sort of queer fairy tale for grown-ups that...

A gripping 1920s-set whodunnit, this debut features a queer sleuth who must solve a murder in a mansion on London's Hampstead Heath without revealing his sexuality, lest he be arrested as a criminal. The Selby Bigge mysteries series debut, it will leave readers eager for the next...

A wry and tender novel from the author of Fault Lines about three very different sisters reunited in adulthood for one short summer, for readers of Hello Beautiful and Blue Sisters. "Kakigori Summer is a novel about belonging... I loved retreating into its cocoon of sibling...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten magic--of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories they contain back to life--holds the power to transform a young woman's relationship with her grandmother, and to mend long-lost connections across time...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite? Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an...

"Chaotic, sexy, and binge-worthy as hell, Be Gay, Do Crime is an EVENT."--Ruth Madievsky, author of All Night Pharmacy A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel...

When an aspiring archaeologist teams up with her childhood enemy for a treasure hunt, they find it impossible to bury their growing feelings, in a charming queer historical romance from the author of A Shore Thing.   Elfreda Marsden has finally made a major discovery-...

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: USA TODAY, Goodreads, and Today.com "This quietly heart-scorching novel took me one day to read, and I'll be thinking about it forever." --Barbara Kingsolver ...

The Burial Plot is a spellbinding historical Gothic thriller about murder and manipulation, set in Victorian London. From Elizabeth Macneal, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory. London, 1839. Where the cemeteries are full and there is money to be...

Following on the heels of her acclaimed graphic novel debut, Coming to Canada, singular artist and storyteller Starkie Mak returns with an intimate story about family secrets. Her grandfather, fighting in WW2 for imperialist Japan, is captured and taken as a POW in the USA. Unable to return...

"We want to wrap this book up with a bow and leave it under everyone's tree this year. Lindsay Maple delivers a confection of holiday charm, small town quirk, tenderly sketched characters, and scorching heat." --Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, USA TODAY bestselling authors of A Merry...

A grumpy burnt out physician and a sunshine psychologist must fake an engagement to save his whitewater canoeing/ relationship therapy startup in Maggie North's sparkling second novel about starting over. Burned-out former ER doc Stellar J Byrd can solve any crisis except her...

From the acclaimed author of Yes, Daddy; It's Not the End of the World is a terrifying climate thriller, a vicious takedown of the uber-wealthy, and a queer family saga that isn't afraid to punch back. It's 2044 and life is bleak for many Americans, but not for...

*AN INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program, about the extraordinary...

ALL first edition copies will be signed by the author! Signed copies available while supplies last. "Unmissable... Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab" --Jodi Picoult #1 New York Times bestseller * #1 USA Today bestseller * #1...

Cleat Cute meets Friday Night Lights in this funny, spicy, emotional new sapphic romance from Jodie Slaughter. Jade Dunn has spent years trying to climb her way to the top of the southern high school football food chain. Now, the only thing standing between her...

An instant USA Today bestseller * As seen on CBS Mornings, The Today Show, and New York Times Style comes a sexy, laugh-out-loud romcom that is the most fun you'll have this summer "You'll fall in love with Sunny -- a modern-day Bridget Jones without the toxic self...

"A dazzlingly clever murder mystery, told backwards, asking the question: why would this loving wife murder her husband?"--Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Famous Last Words and Wrong Place Wrong Time From the New York Times ...

Following the award-winning bestseller They Called Us Enemy, George Takei's new full-color graphic memoir reveals his most personal story of all--told in full for the first time anywhere! George Takei has shown the world many faces: actor, author, outspoken activist,...

After suffering her first big heartbreak two years earlier, Penelope Lin has built a quiet life with no romantic entanglements. She spends her days cataloging a museum's vast collection of Qing Dynasty bound-foot shoes and in the comfortable company of close friends. One day, she happens to meet...