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  To Khephyr

  Timbray Shafer

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  The paths off the Rens siblings begin to converge as strange events are afoot in NaeNae’s capital city. New and old faces emerge as Rami, Ming Zhu, Malika, Gen, Xin, and Hala work to make sense of the wild queendom and locate a cure for their parents. This second part of their adventures sees them tackling a slug-riding scientist, a treacherous kitchen, three notably-sized suitors, ferocious ferrets, deadly snakes, and a return home...

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  The Alien’s Charge

  Ella Maven

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  I don't play by the rules . . . until her. 
   
   
   
  Maisie: I'm tired of being scared, but fear is like a constant companion these days. Some big blue alien stole the last of my friends, and now I'm alone as a prisoner on a spaceship on my way back to the planet that stole everything from me. 
   
   
   
  I thought I'd seen the last of the blue aliens, until suddenly I'm staring into the eyes of one as he gets ready to fire a laser right into the cockpit where I sit. And at this point in my life, I'm thinking this might be the best way to go. 
   
   
   
  Maddic: I'm minding my own business when an enemy aircraft tries to shoot me out of the sky. Of course I'm going to retaliate, and as I line up my final shot, something from inside the enemies cockpit catches my eye—the face of a terrified human female. 
   
   
   
  Now I'm trying to save both of us from hurtling to the ground and going splat. I figure that's my most difficult task yet. I don't factor in learning that this human is my mate, and if I don't get her to trust me, we're never getting home. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Queen's Starfire Throne

  Hailey Turner

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  Every road must come to an end.  
     
  THE DEAD. Facing a war where revenants outnumber the living, Caris Rourke must confront a future written in the stars, one she wants no part of. In order to outmaneuver the enemy, Caris must learn to trust her instincts, no matter where they lead, whether into the heart of danger or into the arms of Nathaniel, a dead man walking she should not trust, much less love.  
     
  THE WAR. Eimarille Rourke wants nothing more than to be queen of all Maricol and will do anything to succeed, even the unthinkable. Determined to claim the starfire throne for herself, she must first eradicate all other claimants. Seeking to assassinate her sister and brother amidst a war of her own making will lead Eimarille down a road of ruin from which there is no turning back.  
     
  THE LIVING. In the wake of the attack on the Warden's Island, Soren returns to the people who made him into the warden he is today. But the past he thought he'd left behind as a child has given him a name he does not want. Far from the only man he's ever loved, carrying a vow that could change the course of the war, Soren must decide if destroying his life is worth saving a world.  
     
  THE STARS. In the throes of an escalating war, Vanya Sa'Liandel must put his country above all else, even his own happiness. As Houses seek to betray him and the fallout of his family's past mistakes claws ever closer, not having Soren by his side is an anguish he can't escape. In the end, the tide of war could turn with an alliance he cannot afford to grant. But years ago, Vanya gave his heart to a warden, and some kinds of love weren't meant to burn out but to rage like starfire.

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  Ripper’s Redemption

  Elizabeth Knox

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  I should have stayed far away. 
   
   
   
  Tara: I had no idea the Reapers Rejects MC had agreed to take me under their wing. 
   
   
   
  It turned out, the club promised my father they'd keep me safe in exchange for information, and my job offer was nothing more than them keeping their end of the deal. There I was, in a place I wasn't genuinely wanted. 
   
   
   
  I understood my father wanted to keep me safe, but I wanted to make him pay for giving me false pride. There was only one thing I wanted to do: drive my father batshit crazy. But I kept asking myself how I was going to do it. 
   
   
   
  Then it clicked, I needed to shack up with someone in the club and found the perfect volunteer. We agreed to have a fake relationship, and all was going according to plan, until Ripper saved me from imminent death. 
   
   
   
  That day something shifted, and I knew nothing would ever be the same. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Whitewashed Tombs

  Kwei Quartey

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  Vicious hate crimes are rocking the LGBTQ+ community in Accra, and prejudice and politics threaten to stymie PI Emma Djan’s efforts to find the killer. Author Kwei Quartey tackles a timely and deeply personal issue as a very-real anti-gay bill threatens to tear Ghana apart if ratified by the president. 
   
  Marcelo Tetteh, a twenty-seven-year-old LGBTQ activist, is butchered to death one night after being lured on Grindr to a deserted building site. With high instances of homophobia in Ghana, Marcelo’s wealthy father doesn’t trust the Ghana Police Service to find the killer, so he goes to the Sowah Private Investigators Agency for help, partly because he still feels guilty for disowning his son when he came out. 
   
  Emma is assigned the case, but quickly learns of a complication that prevents her from teaming up as usual with Jojo, her trusted colleague. Emma is the only one at work who knows Jojo is gay, and now he reveals something else: for some time, Jojo was dating Marcelo, the victim. 
   
  Working with Manu, whom she’s never gotten along with at work, Emma goes undercover in several organizations including International Congress of Families, a powerful organization seeking to criminalize homosexuality in African countries. As Emma infiltrates the ICF, she uncovers a web of deceit and hypocrisy and discovers that the mastermind behind the murders is someone much closer than she ever imagined. Emma must race against time to unmask the killer, protect the vulnerable LGBTQ community, and bring justice to the victims, all while navigating the dangerous waters of politics, power, and personal secrets.

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  Max

  Avi Duckor-Jones

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  I want to let her know that choosing something is the entire problem. How do you choose something without feeling the undeniable loss of everything you rejected? 
   
  Max is about to finish high school. On the surface it appears he has everything, but underneath he is floundering. Grappling with questions about his birth parents and his sexuality, he feels that there is a seed of badness deep within him that will inevitably be exposed. 
   
  After an incident at the end-of-year party sets Max's world to crumbling, he must finally figure out who he is and where he came from – and who he is allowed to love. 
   
  Max is a vivid and insightful coming-of-age novel about the ways we weave the threads of our adolescent identities into a cohesive adult self. 
   
  'A vivid, heartfelt and emotionally astute story about a young man's search for himself. I was with Max all the way.' Emily Perkins 
   
  'Tender, sharp and real. Max is a sensitive exploration of the passion and turmoil of youth.' Carrie Tiffany

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