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The author's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.
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"Crashing with a friend and her husband is more intimate- and dangerous-than anyone could imagine in this provocative new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here. When the pandemic first hits, thirty-one-year- old Kelly tries to make the best of quarantine-but it soon becomes clear there are some lemons you just can't make into lemonade. She loses her job and her boyfriend in one fell swoop,...
3) Godkiller
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Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world—but after a great war, the new king outlawed them and now pays “godkillers” to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows. As a child, Kissen saw her family murdered by a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing them and enjoys it. But all this changes when Kissen is tasked with helping a young noble girl with...
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[2020]
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Once upon a time I made a deal with the devil. It turns out I like playing in the dark. Over the years, I've become someone I'm proud of, someone dangerous. I'll never be as dangerous as Malone, though. She's one of the most feared leaders in Carver City, and her reputation is more than earned. Years ago, we had a single night together and she's ignored me ever since. Imagine my surprise to discover she's scheduled me for the final two weeks of my...
5) Blue magic
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2012
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The sequel to Indigo Springs, "A psychologically astute, highly original debut-complex, eerie, and utterly believable." -Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
This powerful sequel to the A.M. Dellamonica's Sunburst Award—winning contemporary fantasy Indigo Springs starts in the small town in Oregon where Astrid Lethewood discovered an underground river of blue liquid-Vitagua-that is pure magic. Everything it touches is changed. The secret is out-and the...
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2008
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"In a society supposedly grown more open and accepting in the wake of Stonewall, women's liberation, and AIDS activism, what can it mean that bisexuality continues to be marginalized by both gay and straight cultures and dismissed as either a phase or, worse, a cop-out? With intimacy and humor, the acclaimed author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner discusses her own experience as a bisexual and the struggle she has undergone to reconcile the privilege...
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[2023]
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The gym is Lizzie's life. It's her passion, her job, and the only place that's ever felt like home. Unfortunately, her bosses consider her a glorified check-in girl at best, and the gym punching bag at worst. When their son, Lizzie's best friend, James, begs her to be his plus one at his perfect sister Cara's wedding, things go wrong immediately, and culminate in Lizzie giving a drunken pep talk to a hot stranger in the women's bathroom, except that...
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Queer principles of Kit Webb volume 2
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[2022]
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"Cat Sebastian returns to Georgian London with a stunning tale of a reluctant criminal and the thief who cannot help but love her. Marian Hayes, the Duchess of Clare, just shot her husband. Of course, the evil, murderous man deserved what was coming to him, but now she must flee to the countryside. Unfortunately, the only person she can ask for help is the charismatic criminal who is blackmailing her--and who she may have left tied up a few hours...
9) The cottage
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c2007
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"Jill and Carriéђإboth married with teenage childreńђإmeet one day during Jill’s lunch break at a local park. Soon a friendship is forged. A friendship that deepens with each visit. Jill’s husband still lives and breathes the coach’s life, a life that leaves him little time to spare for Jill. Left on her own more and more, Jill finds herself searching for the indefinable something that has been missing all her life. Married to a successful...
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Reign of the fallen volume 1
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2018.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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"Odessa is one of Karthia's master necromancers, catering to the kingdom's ruling Dead. Whenever a noble dies, it's Odessa's job to raise them by retrieving their souls from a dreamy and dangerous shadow world called the Deadlands. But there is a cost to being raised: the Dead must remain shrouded. If even a hint of flesh is exposed, the grotesque transformation begins, turning the Dead into terrifying, blood thirsty Shades. A dramatic uptick in Shade...
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Bright Falls volume 1
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2022.
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"A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love-with all its complications-by debut author Ashley Herring Blake. Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls-nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it's...
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[2023]
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When physics graduate Annie Fisk, a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, identifies an engineer's miscalculations, she is propelled into a new position where she's torn between her ambitions, her heart and a mysterious discovery that upends everything she knows to be scientifically true.
18) Goddess
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2014.
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"Versailles, 1686. Julie d'Aubigny, a striking young girl taught to fence and fight in the court of the Sun King, is taken as mistress by the King's Master of Horse. Tempestuous, swashbuckling, and volatile, within two years she has run away with her fencing master, fallen in love with a nun, and is hiding from the authorities, sentenced to be burnt at the stake. Within another year, she has become a beloved star at the famed Paris Opera. Her lovers...
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[1996]
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Representing a fascinating spectrum of feelings and opinions about lesbianism, the friendships women share - or fear - and the rich diversity of personal choices women make today, this collection of brash and thoughtful essays, stories, and interviews offers Dorothy Allison on what it means to be a lesbian, Carla Trujillo on the impact of "sexual betrayal" by an ex-lover, Elizabeth Wurtzel on the creative freedom experienced only by lesbians, Susie...
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[2019]
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"A raw, unflinching, and inspirational memoir by a former United States Marine Captain describing her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to wide-eyed recruit to radical activist dedicated to effecting historic policy reform in the military. After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons her grad school career at Harvard University to join the Marines. It's the fiercest, most violent, most...