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Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks
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New York Times bestseller Faith Erin Hicks is back with a young adult graphic novel romance about a hotheaded hockey player who asks for temper management lessons from the cool, calm boy in drama club.
It should have been a night of triumph for Alix’s hockey team. But when her mean-girl team captain Lindsay goes after Alix with her cruelest dig yet, Alix loses what…
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We need to bring back private rail cars as the cool, sexy, exclusive way to travel, so instead of dumping the carbon budget of a small nation in the global south on private jets, celebrities have to attach their luxury pull an cars to the back of an Amtrak. Then the celebrities will lobby for Amtrak lines to be better
Seriously when did this
Become sexier than this
Like isn't it nice to watch the scenery, to be able to open a window and have fresh air, to be able to stand up all the way, not have your ears pop?
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Her Good Side by Rebekah Weatherspoon
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**A New York Times Best Romance Book of the Year** A swoony, heart-melting YA romance from beloved author Rebekah Weatherspoon about two awkward teens who decide to practice dating in order to be good at the real thing. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han.
Sixteen-year-old Bethany Greene, though confident and self-assured, is what they call a late-bloomer.…
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#23 for 2023#African-American#Asian-American#biracial#Contemporary#M/F couple#Minimal steam#PoC Author#PoC MC#Romance#WoC Author#YA
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Satan Talks to His Therapist
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“If the LOLSOB emoji could write verse that both sings and stings, the result would be Satan Talks to His Therapist.” —Allison Joseph, author of Confessions of a Barefaced WomanIn Satan Talks to His Therapist, Melissa Balmain explores the lighter side of dark times. Playful yet poignant, her poems perfectly capture our human fallibility and comedic sense of importance.The…
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Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix
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An epic meditation on loving oneself in the face of heartbreak, from the acclaimed author of Build Yourself a Boat, longlisted for the National Book Award.
When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything—from her early childhood trauma and mental health to her relationship with mathematics—shows up in the tapestry of her…
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Fire & Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey
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Fire and Ice is the first book to examine the extraterrestrial volcanoes of our Solar System
The volcano – among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena. However, Earth isn’t the only planet to harbour volcanoes. In fact, the Solar System, and probably the entire Universe, is littered with them. Our own Moon, which is now a dormant…
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Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne
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A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for readers of Nikki Grimes and Jason Reynolds. “Mahogany L. Browne’s debut YA is an absolute masterpiece. It will leave you breathless.” -Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X
She looks me hard in my eyes& my knees lock into…
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Knockout by Sarah MacLean (Hell's Belles #3)
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New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the next Hell’s Belles novel about a chaotic bluestocking and the buttoned-up detective enlisted to keep her out of trouble (spoiler: She is the trouble).
With her headful of wild curls and wilder ideas and an unabashed love of experiments and explosives, society has labeled Lady Imogen Loveless peculiar…and doesn’t…
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It's been awhile...
Hello!
It’s been over a year since I last posted (can you tell?) and I would very much like to try and resurrect this blog. If at least a little bit. With the death of Twitter and the over-proliferation of Twitter-like replacements and the growth of long-form blogging again at places like Substack, maybe blogs are back?
Who knows. But I have a Notion, which I feel like might be more useful than…
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American Royalty by Tracey Livesay
Summary from Goodreads: In this dangerously sexy rom-com that evokes the real-life romance between Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle, a prince who wants to live out of the spotlight falls for a daring American rapper who turns his life, and the palace, upside down.
Sexy, driven rapper Danielle “Duchess” Nelson is on the verge of signing a deal that’ll make her one of the richest women in…
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#African-American#Contemporary#Heavy steam#M/F couple#Multiracial couple#PoC Author#PoC MC#Rock Star Romance#Romance#Trigger warning#WoC Author
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Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert (Dark Olympus #3)
Summary from Goodreads: She was the face that launched a thousand ships,The fierce beauty at the heart of Olympus,And she was never ours to claim.
In Olympus, you either have the power to rule… or you are ruled. Achilles Kallis may have been born with nothing, but as a child he vowed he would claw his way into the poisonous city’s inner circle. Now that a coveted role has opened to anyone with…
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#Contemporary#Explicit Steam#LGBT+ Author#LGBT+ MC#M/M/F throuple#Mythology#Retelling#Romance#swords cross guarantee#Trigger warning
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Wrapping up the #transrightsreadathon - I read 9 books for the readathon! Book 1: She is a Haunting by Trang Tranh Tran Book 2: A Psalm For the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Book 3: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo Book 4: For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes Book 5: Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker Book 6: American Hippo by Sarah Gailey Book 7, 8, and 9: a reread of the Twisted Wishes series - Syncopation, Counterpoint, and Reverb by Anna Zabo So that’s 9 books at 10$ a book to donate to @iowatransmutualaidfund - so I rounded up to an even 100$ because a) why not? and b) I did technically finish a 10th book, the Penguin Classics edition of Selections from the Carmina Burana, which I’ve been reading through slowly and finished it up midweek 😜 Many, MANY thanks to @sim_bookstagrams_badly for thinking this up and nominally hosting this mad, decentralized week of wonderful reading 💖💖💖💖 #books #bookstagram #reading https://www.instagram.com/p/CqTR-A0rVvQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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