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Samantha couldn't be more of an outsider in MFA program. She is repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of girls who call each other "Bunny." Everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself drawn to them --ditching her only friend, Ava. As Samantha plunges deeper into the Bunnies' world, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore's romance hotline, that's a bit of a problem. Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life--or lack thereof--she begins to question if she's as happy as she believed. Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending...even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots.

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general, also known as her tough-as-talons mother, has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda, because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

Maia Kobabe's, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery.

Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family's once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories and may soon find it impossible to leave this enigmatic house behind.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. As his memories fuzzily return, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery--and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone. Or does he?

Ember Lee Cardinal has not always been a liar - no one wanted Native American Ember, but white Ember has just landed her dream accounting job. Despite the no-dating policy at work, she starts to see Danuwoa Colson, the IT guy and fellow Native, secretly, but when they're caught, a colleague blackmails Ember, threatening to expose their relationship. She must make the hard decision to either stay silent or finally tell the truth, which could cost her everything.

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. When the world is against you, what can one person do?

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That's how war works, right?

On a bitter-cold day, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, Sadie Green. He calls her name, she turns, and a game begins: a collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster. Overnight, the world is theirs. Sam & Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Cut from the U.S. women's hockey team, Natalie Carpenter is offered a guest hosting gig on Wake Up, USA's winter games coverage. Her co-host: Darcy LaCroix, her ex-girlfriend, former teammate. Since leaving Team Canada, Darcy has worked to make a name in broadcasting. The on air chemistry between the two of them is trending and they agree to lean into it...for ratings, obviously. Between working and traveling together, it's getting hard to separate what's real and what's for the camera.

Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.