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Moonrising

by Aerin Toskas

An aloof agricultural scientist balances their personal principles with the requirements of their career, life, and love in Claire Barner’s engaging novel "Moonrising". In the late twenty-first century, famine and drought threaten... Read More

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History Lessons

by Isabella Zhou

A Black woman in academia mobilizes her research skills to investigate a murder in Zoe B. Wallbrook’s spirited novel "History Lessons". A junior professor at illustrious Harrison University, Daphne studies the history of Black families... Read More

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Shadow of the Yew Tree

by Willem Marx

Two people with complicated relationships to magic find each other and fall in love in the rich fantasy novel "Shadow of the Yew Tree". In Kate Gateley’s immersive fantasy novel "Shadow of the Yew Tree", two people outrun their dark... Read More

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The Scald Crow

by Michelle Anne Schingler

In Hanna Park’s erotic fantasy novel "The Scald Crow", a disgraced woman flees to Ireland, where she discovers her connection to faeries and falls in love. After being fired from her broadcasting job, virginal Calla, an adopted... Read More

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All This Can Be True

by Allison Janicki

In Jen Michalski’s queer romance novel "All This Can Be True", two women find each other and themselves after grief. Just before Lacie asks her husband for a divorce, he has a stroke and winds up comatose. While torn between supporting... Read More

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All That Shimmers

by Vivian Turnbull

In Kady Ambrose’s fantasy novel All that Shimmers, an orphaned nursemaid yearns for love against the backdrop of World War I and the influenza epidemic. Vanessa knows she is fortunate to work as a nursemaid for vacationing families at... Read More

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The Lavender Blade

by Rachel Telljohn

"The Lavender Blade" is a powerful fantasy novel about pursuing love despite all obstacles. E. L. Deards’s appealing fantasy novel "The Lavender Blade" is about exorcising demons and queer identity. Colton is an exorcist and charlatan... Read More

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