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Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Random House Publishing Group - Random House | The Dial Press Publish date: May 27 2025 Number of pages: 320 pages Author’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicoladinan/?hl=en Support local! Preorder the book on BookShop! After a rough tumble and maybe-serious head injury, a disillusioned trans poet falls for a charming corporate lawyer in a love …
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Genre: Romance Published by: Berkley Books Publish date: April 08, 2025 Number of pages: 416 pages Author’s website: https://www.jasmineguillory.com/flirting-lessons Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! The exciting new contemporary romance—and her first to feature a queer romance—by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine GuilloryAvery Jensen is almost thirty, fresh off a breakup, and she’s tired of always being …
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https://www.joellewellington.com/ Genre: LGBTQIAP+ | Mystery & Thrillers | Teens & YA Published by: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Publish date: July 30, 2024 Number of pages: 336 pages Author’s website: https://www.joellewellington.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adult thriller …
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/152689/grady-hendrix/ Genre: Horror, Thriller Published by: Berkley Publish date: January 14, 2025 Number of pages: 496 pages Author’s website: http://www.gradyhendrix.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where …
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Rating: 3/5 Genre: Memoir A natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion -- and falling in love -- by the publisher of Pipette Magazine. It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the French windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of …
What is a Final Girl? The term "final girl" was coined by Carol J. Clover in her article "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film" (1987) and expanded upon in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. A final girl in cinema is a woman or girl who …
Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller, YA Published by: Sourcebooks Fire Publish date: September 3, 2024 Number of pages: 368 pages Author’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ravenaguron/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! I'll make it clear from the start: I did not kill Hugh Henry Van Boren. I didn't even help...Well, not intentionally. All Jess Choudhary wants is to …
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Harlem Renaissance Mystery #3 Photo by FizCo Photography Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction Published by: Penguin Publishing Group (physical), Berkley Publishing Group | Berkley (e-book) Publish date: July 30, 2024 Number of pages: 336 pages Author’s website: https://www.nekesaafia.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Louise Lloyd’s time away in Paris is everything she was hoping it would be …
Genre: Thriller Published by: Berkley Publish date: August 20th, 2024 Number of pages: 336 pages Author’s website: https://jesseqsutantoauthor.com/ Author's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jesseqsutanto/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! When cracks start forming in an influencer's curated life, she finds out that jealousy is just as viral as a video in this riveting suspense novel by bestselling author …
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https://www.katherinewoodauthor.com/ Genre: Psychological Thriller, Published by: Bantam, Random House Publishing Publish date: July 9, 2024 Number of pages: 368 pages Author’s website: https://www.katherinewoodauthor.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Everyone has a story. But not everyone’s story is true. When a young woman vanishes from her remote Greek island estate, her best friend races to find …
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