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How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans: There’s a reason CJ Smith’s hometown of Satterville is known as Slasherville: it was the site of not one, but two Friday the 13th-style massacres. CJ’s dad survived the first attack; only CJ survived the second. And thanks to a mysterious writer's bestselling novels, the town will always be defined by this horrific past. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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To Be A Trans Man ed. by Ezra Woodger: "It's difficult to feel as if you fail at being a man when you know there isn't a singular 'right' way to be one." In this illuminating and radically honest book, Ezra Woodger interviews trans men and transmasculine people to interrogate what masculinity is and what it means to be a man. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons: At Oakley, Spencer seems to have it all: more accepting classmates, a decent shot at a starting position on the boy's soccer team, great new friends, and maybe even something more than friendship with one of his teammates. The problem is, no one at Oakley knows Spencer is trans—he's passing. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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They Called Us Enemy by George Takei: Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's -- and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen: The last thing Nick expected to receive was an invitation from his abusive father to return home to rural Nebraska. But neither Nick nor his brother Joshua, disowned for marrying an Asian woman, can ignore such summons. As Joshua reconciles with their father on his deathbed, Nick and Emilia are left to their own devices ... ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill: A poignant and enchanting novel about a magical bookstore that transports a trans man through time and brings him face-to-face with his teenage self, offering him the chance of a lifetime to examine his life and identity to find a new beginning. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Mazeltov by Eli Zuzousky: In a glorious debut, a boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of war, and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man. At once tender and lustful, a work of scathing satire and piercing insight, Mazeltov is a wholly original vision of a young man’s quest to know his own heart. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Model Home by Rivers Solomon: Two bodies lie in the garden of a sprawling property in a wealthy gated community of Dallas, Texas. The bodies belong to the parents of Ezri, Eve, and Emmanuel, who have long since abandoned the childhood home that haunted them throughout their lives, in a neighbourhood where they grew up as the only Black family ... ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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BenBee and the Teacher Griefer by K. A. Holt: BenBee and the Teacher Griefer stars Ben Bellows—who failed the Language Arts section of the Florida State test—and three classmates who get stuck in a summer school class. But these kids aren't dumb—they're divergent thinkers, as Ms. J tells them: they simply approach things in a different way than traditional school demands. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill: In high school, Hal, Athena, and Erin were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Blackwater by Michael McDowell: Michael McDowell’s masterpiece returns to thrill and terrify a new generation of readers, with all six volumes combined in a single ebook. Blackwater traces more than fifty years in the lives of the powerful Caskey family of Perdido, Alabama, under the influence of the mysterious and beautiful—but not quite human—Elinor Dammert. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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The Wild Swans by Peg Kerr: England, 1689: Banished from her father’s house, Lady Eliza Grey’s one wish is to find her long-lost brothers--only to discover them enslaved by magic. New York, 1981: Banished from his father’s house, Elias Latham’s one wish is to find acceptance--only to discover his new friends falling prey to a dreadful and mysterious plague. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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The Christmas Pic by Rena Sapon-White: Ava Garcia-Greene, a Fortune 5 CEO, has a swanky office in Silicon Beach, but beneath her icy exterior she yearns for something money can't buy. Jo Fisher, an out-and-proud lesbian, is barely keeping her late father’s photo truck afloat in her hometown, where her love life is more Silent Night than Joy to the World. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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The Rivals by Jane Pek: Claudia Lin has scored her dream job: co-running Veracity, a dating detective agency for chronically online New Yorkers who want to know if their prospective partners are telling the truth. Unfortunately, along the way, she's uncovered a far-reaching AI conspiracy--and the corporate matchmakers may be resorting to murder to protect their secrets ... ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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The Bright Lands by John Fram: Joel Whitley was shamed out of conservative Bentley and into New York City ten years ago, yet his younger brother’s disappearance soon brings him back to a place he thought he’d escaped for good. But no one is quite prepared to face the darkness that’s begun to haunt their nightmares: The Bright Lands. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Clap When You Land by ELizabeth Acevedo: Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In NYC, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother tells her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!