Summer Reads

Oscar François de Jarjeyes, female commander of the royal guard, is at the center of events as Marie Antoinette’s involvement in the scandalous Affair of the Diamond Necklace and her passion for Count Fersen of Sweden cause chaos at the court of...

War is brewing. Oscar François de Jarjeyes has never conformed to the image of an ideal French noblewoman. While the people of Paris are being bankrupted by the nobles’ extravagant spending, Oscar demotes herself to the French Guard, and mingles with...

France spirals towards a civil war, as nobles continue to ignore the people of France. Noblewoman Oscar François de Jarjayes is forced to reconsider her life as a soldier and a woman, her loyalties and her love. Marie Antoinette and the royal family seek...

Oscar François de Jarjayes is the commander of the French Royal Guards, but even this fearless noblewoman may have met her match. Enter Loulou de la Laurencie, Oscar’s mischievous young niece. Loulou was sent to Oscar's house to improve her manners, but...

(Available after 3-20 days)An NPR Best Book of the YearA New York Times Editors’ Choice pickWall Street Journal’s Who Read What: Favorite Books of 2021Longlisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book PrizeObserver Food Monthly’s 50 Things We Love in...

(Available after 3-20 days)"A mature, honest, and erotic romance that will have readers admiring what these two smart and determined women accomplish.” —Library JournalIn this sexy, sophisticated romantic comedy, two women juggle romance and career...

(Available after 3-20 dyys)In this charming and full-color LGBT+ graphic novel first released as a webcomic, a fairy godfather and a beast man raise a human baby together.A human child abandoned in the woods is discovered by an unlikely pair: Razzmatazz,...

(Available after 3-20 days)Named one of Amazon's Best Romances of May!   The Reluctant Royals series returns with a good girl searching for the life that’s not too big, and not too small, and the bad boy prince who might be just right for her… Nya Jerami...

Jaclyn Love is a magnet for trouble - it seems to follow her wherever she goes.Unfortunately for Kadan Davenport, she also seems to be a magnet for him - even after a disastrous first impression that leaves him - literally - black and blue.Jaclyn is busy...

(Available after 3-20 days)Unwieldy Creatures, a biracial, queer, nonbinary retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein, follows the story of three beings who all navigate life from the margins: Plum, a queer biracial Chinese intern at one of...

Winner of the 2022 Middle East Book Award in Youth LiteratureIn the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This...

A Most Anticipated Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2023 for Polygon, Goodreads, and Nerd DailyInspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous...

In this modern take on Harriet the Spy, twelve-year-old Drew uses her true crime expertise to catch the cyberbully in her school—only to discover that family, friendship, and identity are the hardest mysteries to solve.   Drew Leclair knows what it takes...

In this queer YA retelling of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, stakes at Augustus Magnet School are cutthroat, scheming is creative, and loyalty is ever-changing.Overnight, Bronwyn St. James goes from junior class queen to daughter of an imprisoned felon,...

The definitive edition, featuring an all-new translation and deluxe hardcover design that reestablish Kazuo Umezz’s The Drifting Classroom as a timeless horror classic.In the aftermath of a massive earthquake, a Japanese elementary school is transported...

"An absolutely heartwarming and vibrant story of belonging, family, and the meaning of home. This book is a treasure." – Julie Murphy, New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin’In this bilingual, inventive, and heartfelt debut, graphic novel talent...

VALIS is the first novel in a mesmerizing, science-fiction philosophical trilogy by Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award–winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—the basis for the film Blade Runner.“Dick is one of...

(Available after 3-20 days)A perfect Heinlein near-future adventure from the First Golden Age of the legendary SF master and multiple New York Times best-seller with a new introduction and afterword by popular military SF writer Tom Kratman.. After the U...

The stories that inspired the original dramatic series. Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip...

(Available after 3-20 days)  Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every use of this ability, though, Martin finds his little...