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  Foreign Fruit - A Personal...

  Katie Goh

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  Growing up mixed race and queer in the north of Ireland, Katie Goh felt herself at odds with the culture and politics around her. In her teenage years she embarked on a journey to Longyan in the south of China with her father, to better understand her roots. But she did not find the easy, digestible answers she hoped for, and returned with only more questions about what it means to live authentically and to make sense of her identity. As she aged, she repeatedly sought ways of navigating this tension, and when her grandmother fell ill – in Malaysia – she ventured again to the land of her ancestors, now in her mid-twenties, to seek this authenticity out anew. But like an orange, cultivated through the vagaries of processes like genetic selection and grafting, she found that simple answers – simple fruit, singular, extractable – were impossible. 
  FOREIGN FRUIT is the author’s endeavor to flesh out these contradictions, to unpeel the layers of personhood; a reflection on identity through the cipher of the metaphorised orange, and as a journey from east-to-west and west-to-east

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  Earth 7 - A Novel

  Deb Olin Unferth

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  An end-of-the-world love story, an epic full of pathos and humor, asking what can be saved of our planetWell, that’s about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth, reduced to not much more than a piece of burnt coal. But, as Deb Olin Unferth shows in her latest electrifying novel, life and love persist, even in the most unexpected, inhospitable places.Two women meet on a beach of artificial sand. One was raised in a pod in the ocean and the other may or may not be a robot. Their love―or any love―seems so unlikely. Earth is severely depopulated. Some people have given up, gone off to Mars. Others pursue eternal life as digital code. And yet others, like Dylan and Melanie, are holdouts―and some of those holdouts are constructing a vast molecular collection in hopes that a future person may be alive to make a new Earth. Foolhardy? Misguided? Quixotic? Probably. But what can a human (or a robot) do?By the end of Unferth’s wild, poetic, revelatory, and slyly philosophical novel, the reader has traveled to the very edges of the cosmos as a “soul globule” and between grains of sand as a microscopic tardigrade. A slim book tackling big questions (is all matter conscious? will we tech ourselves into salvation, or out of existence?), Earth 7 is a poignant inquiry into death, mourning, and indefatigable life, the most exhilarating work to date by one of our most original and beloved writers.

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  Quench the Fire

  J.M. Snyder

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  InTo Love a GodGreek god Hephaestus finds his world -- and his mind and body -- set aflame by a minor water god named Aean.
  
  
  In this follow-up story, Aean interrupts his celestial lover in the one place where Hephaestus is most powerful: his forge. Though busy with work, Hephaestus doesn't mind the interruption, and when Aean suggests a reversal of their usual roles -- this time with him on the receiving end of Hephaestus's attentions -- the smith hurries to comply.
  
  
  To learn more about how seasoned lovers Hephaestus and Aean meet, be sure to check out the prequel!

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  The Home You Make

  J.D. Walker

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  Home. That's a place Samoset "Sam" Dawn has been trying to find since he was a child in foster care. A misfit, he endured the taunts and scorn of his fellow classmates until he fled as soon as he aged out of the system. He traveled the country, trying to find a sense of belonging. Decades later, after failed relationships and unsatisfying jobs, he's right back where he started.
  Oakley Hudson is one of Sam's coworkers at his new job. He's full of energy, perpetually cheerful and the total opposite of Sam's taciturn nature. This doesn't stop Oakley from trying to get Sam to lighten up a bit and take another chance at belonging. Now Sam wonders if home is where the heart is.
  Can Sam allow himself to open up long enough to let someone in, after all this time?

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  Off the Clock

  Annabeth Albert

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  Starting over after retiring as an Army Ranger shouldn’t be this hard... 
  For twenty years, I traveled the world as a special operations warrior. Newly retired at forty-two, I’m back in my hometown of Mount Hope, pursuing a second career as a small-town firefighter. My meddling sisters and best friends all have opinions about my life, but the only person who seems to truly understand me is Caleb, the younger firefighter tasked with my training. 
  After a lifetime of denying my attraction to other men, Caleb reminds me of everything I’ve missed out on. I’ve never even kissed a guy. 
  Until now. 
  Until Caleb. 
  Until I push our growing friendship to the next level. While sneaking around like a pair of teens, trying not to get caught by our coworkers, friends, and family, our sexy connection leads us to some...interesting places. 
  And it turns out that I like taking risks. I’ve never wanted a relationship, and neither of us should be fooling around with a coworker, but we keep courting danger. 
  The more time I spend with Caleb off and on the clock, the more I like him and the less certain I am about everything else in my life. The one thing I know for sure is that I can’t afford to lose this intense bond we share. Can we find our way from super secret to super real before the clock runs down on this fling? 
  OFF THE CLOCK features two coworkers with an age gap finding out that opposites really do attract and that first impressions aren’t always accurate. All the big emotions, small-town feels, and hot romance readers expect from this acclaimed author. While certain subplot threads continue throughout the series, each guaranteed happily ever after stands alone!

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  Naughty Thoughts: An Erotic...

  T.E. Robbens

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  Ellis and Lynn are trying to move forward with dating and hopefully a relationship, but will a party full of ex's stall out a hot Georgia night. Ellis is determined to spend an evening alone with Lynn and she will do whatever it takes to get Lynn all to herself and make her naughty thoughts a reality.

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