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  Blood from Stone

  Lauren Taylor Bak

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  When enigmatic gallery owner Eury Thanasis invites her to tour a private collection, blind sculptor Cass Baird expects to gain an eccentric patron. Instead, she meets a woman who is larger than life: a figure from myth cursed to turn those she loves into stone. And she wants to commission a statue, carved without compromise. Cass should walk away. But Eury offers money, creative freedom, and something Cass hasn't felt in years: inspiration.
  As Cass works, the line between artist and subject, truth and seduction, begins to blur. Touch becomes obsession. Stories intertwine as two women are bound by loss, secrets, and the idea of being cursed. When Eury finally reveals what lies beneath her silken headwrap, Cass must decide whether she is Eury's savior, her destroyer, or simply her next masterpiece.

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  Lent

  Kate Cayley

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  Longlisted for the 2024 Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry
  
  Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
  
  In these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread.
  Lent from award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary—large and small—converges in the home, in small objects, conversations, and moments. The grotesque and the tedious, the baroque and the banal, intertwine in the first three sections. Meticulous depictions of spectacle run into the repetition of daily domestic life: trying to explain time to children, day trips to the planetarium, and the warnings of strangers; these are interspersed with depictions such as Mary Shelley recalling the monster, the inner life of a seventeenth century portrait sitter, and Ted Hughes's second wife telling her story to the dead Sylvia Plath. The title section explores religious faith; how belief is itself a repetition, a slow accumulation over time, just like love or forgiveness.
  Lent is an exquisite work of our era, asking us to contemplate what it means to live in a broken world—and why we still find it beautiful.

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  After Hours at Dooryard Books

  Cat Sebastian

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  1968 New York City 
  News about the war might be keeping Patrick up at night—news in general might be keeping Patrick up at night—but he's doing fine. He's sure of it. He gets to spend his days selling books in the gayest neighborhood on the East Coast and his nights merrily sleeping his way through the rare book community. But when he takes in a drifter who seems to be hiding something, and his best friend and her newborn move into the apartment upstairs, his life gets turned on its head. 
  A sleepy little bookstore should be the perfect place for Nathaniel to lie low, waiting for his past to catch up with him, but it turns out Dooryard Books is full of political radicals and anti–war agitators. If the FBI isn't actively surveilling this place, it will be. Nathaniel should go anywhere else. The last thing he expects is to like these subversives. There's a grieving folk musician and her baby—a demon of a child who will only sleep if Nathaniel, of all people, holds her. There's a pair of rabble–rousing teenagers who, upsettingly, seem to be right about everything. And then there's Patrick, who can't walk past anyone who needs his help—and who is perplexingly determined to help Nathaniel. 
  As the world balances on the precipice of something new and scary and maybe even hopeful, Patrick needs to decide what he's willing to risk for this chaotic new community he's accidentally created. And Nathaniel needs to figure out whether he has a place in this messy, flawed world—and whether he can believe he deserves it.

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  Of Goddesses and Cruises

  Pelaam Pelaam

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  Tyr has one major problem in his life. He's in love with his best friend, Ethan. Since it's the best friendship he's ever known, Tyr isn't keen to rock the boat.
  Then Ethan wins a fourteen-day Caribbean cruise for two. And to Tyr's delight, Ethan wants him to accompany him. It also coincides with their friends' wedding. Nothing could be more perfect. If only Tyr can pluck up the courage to confess his love. 
  They arrive in time for the festival of Erzuli, and Tyr leaves the goddess an offering. When Tyr sees Ethan with someone else, his heart is broken, until he receives a little divine inspiration. Will he have courage enough to claim his man?

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  Collusion

  Kim Davis

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  English professor Brian Daly is finally able to live openly with the love of his life, local weatherman Jay Tanner. Jay has ended his sham marriage and come out of the closet, and he and Brian now share a condo in the city.
  But there's trouble in paradise. Brian's best friend Olivia can't seem to get along with Jay. The two bicker whenever they're together. In addition to trying to broker peace between his friends, Brian is busy fending off Sean, an infatuated student who wants Brian to be his first lover. When Brian spurns his advances, he threatens to accuse the professor of sexual harassment if the two don't sleep together. 
  Just when things seem like they can't get any worse, Brian discovers Jay has been cheating on him with a woman. And not just any woman -- Olivia, who is now pregnant with Jay's child. 
  Brian's world crumbles as his relationship with Jay falls apart and his friendship with Olivia is destroyed. While he works to try and put his life back together, Brian is relentlessly pursued by Sean. But this time Brian doesn't turn him away, and the two begin a relationship that helps Brian get over some of the heartache he's suffered. 
  After a while, Brian also reunites with Olivia, and becomes a kind of surrogate father to her newborn daughter. The baby helps him hold onto Jay in some small way. Even though he and Jay are no longer a couple, Brian still longs for his former partner. 
  But when Jay reappears in Brian's life, Brian discovers he isn't quite ready to forgive and forget. While he still loves Jay, will he ever be able to trust the man again?

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  Perspective

  Monica McCallan

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  Campbell St. Clair never expected her first novel to catapult her to success. She should be excited that she'll be consulting on the movie adaptation, but she's struggling. Her ability to write her newest novel has been practically non-existent, she's all but given up on having a social life, and with the recent loss of her father, she's trying to understand what she wants for her future. 
   
   
   
  Sloane Murphy's career has been careening forward for the last decade, so it doesn't matter that she doesn't like being an actress. The movie is a great opportunity for her, and in spite of her ambivalence, the show must go on. She's done this enough times that she just needs to follow the script and hit her lines. But she wasn't expecting to see Campbell St. Clair, at least that's what she goes by now, on set, and her presence sends Sloane's already precarious life into a tailspin when their paths collide again. 
   
   
   
  Neither are the same people they were when they'd met in college, but do either of them know who they are now? In a world of playing pretend, it's hard to know what's real, even if it's right in front of them. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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