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Rock and Riot by Chelsey Furedi
With all the fashion and quirks of the 50's comes the vintage queer love story that you've never heard before. Rock and Riot follows the tales of teenage delinquents learning about gender and sexual orientations while still maintaining their fabulous hair... -
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Rock and Riot Volume 2 by Chelsey Furedi
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![Rock and Riot Volume 3 by Chelsey Furedi]()
Rock and Riot Volume 3 by Chelsey Furedi
These tough-kids gussy up for the big dance in style! In this third and final instalment of the online hit comic series "Rock and Riot". The three gangs may finally get the guts to pull the biggest middle finger to society, together. If anything can be learned from their rascality, the easiest way is never the fun way... -
![The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen]()
The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe Bell in the Fog, a dazzling historical mystery by Lev AC Rosen, asks—once you have finally found a family, how far would you go to prove yourself to them?San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander “Andy” Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective—but his business hasn’t exactly taken off... -
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Goodbye, My Rose Garden, Vol. 3 by Dr. Pepperco
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Last GoodbyeAlice has finally revealed her secret to Hanako: she is Victor Franks! Yet secrets that must be kept still abound, and family, status, and love bind Alice like thorns... -
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Goodbye, My Rose Garden, Vol. 2 by Dr. Pepperco
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Love That Dare Not Speak Its NameLady Alice shares the story of her love for her former governess Eliza, as well as its tragic end. In the wake of that story, Hanako finds herself harboring two secrets—including the fact that the feelings in her heart are growing all the more intense... -
![그녀의 심청 (Her Tale of Shim Chong) #6 by 비완, Seri]()
그녀의 심청 (Her Tale of Shim Chong) #6 by 비완, Seri
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsEp 56 - 66Based on a Korean folktale, two very different women find themselves making the same wish - to leave this world behind. One is Shim Chong, a young beggar living off the kindness of others to support herself and her blind father. The other is the bride-to-be of old Chancellor Jang, sold off to him for the sake of her family... -
![The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth]()
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsWhen Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother... -
![Occasions of Sin by Elena Graf]()
Occasions of Sin by Elena Graf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor seven centuries, the convent of Obberoth has been hiding the nuns' secrets-scandalous manuscripts locked in a vault, a ruined medical career, forbidden passions, perhaps even a murder. In the spring of 1931, Margarethe von Stahle, an aristocratic physician, arrives at the convent to interview a candidate for head nurse. Dr. von Stahle has a reputation for perfectionism and a quick temper... -
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Chain Reactions by Lynn Ames
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSome of Diana Lindstrom’s fondest memories involve childhood experiments conducted under the watchful supervision of her Great-Aunt Nora, a celebrated physicist long ago shunned by the family for mysterious reasons. Now in her adult years and a sought-after scientist herself, Diana learns that Nora is dying. She hires private-duty nurse Brooke Sheldon to care for Nora... -
![Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris]()
Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris
They say to never meet your idols. But they never said anything about upending your life for a quest designed by one. Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who’s as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper...Categorized as:
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![Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor]()
Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women’s alternating voices.On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool... -
![Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall]()
Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBerlin, 1938It is the summer before World War II begins, but Charlotte Kraus doesn’t know it yet. All she knows is the zing of electricity she feels every time her best friend, Angelika Haas, grabs her hand... -
![Daring Duplicity by Edale Lane]()
Daring Duplicity by Edale Lane
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSolving mysteries is her business. Finding love is her dream. Will combining the two get her killed?Victorian Era England. Stetson revels in being unconventional. So when society shies away from her independent nature, the bold woman creates an imaginary boss and opens her own detective agency... -
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![Fingersmith by Sarah Waters]()
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home... -
![Heavy Vinyl, Vol. 1: Riot on the Radio by Carly Usdin, Carly Usdin]()
Heavy Vinyl, Vol. 1: Riot on the Radio by Carly Usdin, Carly Usdin
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsWhen Chris joins the staff at her local record store, she’s surprised to find out that her co-workers share a secret: they’re all members of a secret fight club that take on the patriarchy and fight crime!Starry-eyed Chris has just started the dream job every outcast kid in town wants: working at Vinyl Mayhem... -
![Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls]()
Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsShortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award , Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book PrizeThrough rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote... -
![Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair by June Gervais]()
Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair by June Gervais
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAn uplifting, feminist coming-of-age love story about a young woman who dreams of becoming a tattoo artist, and living life on her own termsIntrovert Gina Mulley is determined to become a tattoo artist, and to find somewhere she belongs in her conventional Long Island town... -
![Heavy Vinyl, Vol. 2: Y2K-O! by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva]()
Heavy Vinyl, Vol. 2: Y2K-O! by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAn all-new original graphic novel follow up to the award-nominated Heavy Vinyl: Riot on The Radio that reunites everyone’s favorite girl vigilantes to save the day by stopping Big Music from killing digital music in 1999!SAVE THE INTERNET, SAVE THE WORLD (OF MUSIC)!It’s 1999 and Chris is living her dream: working at Vinyl Destination by day and fighting for (musical) justice by night (okay,... -
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Carol by Claire Morgan, Cassandra Campbell
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 56 ratingsArguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, The Price of Salt is story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce... -
![In The Blood Of The Greeks by Mary D. Brooks]()
In The Blood Of The Greeks by Mary D. Brooks
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHistorical Lesbian Romance in War Ravaged Greece Secrets. Passion. Destiny. In the Blood of the Greeks is set against the backdrop of World War II. The novel begins in a most troublesome period of human history, where subjugated by the might of Nazi Germany, two women meet under extraordinary circumstances... -
![Rana Joon and the One and Only Now by Shideh Etaat]()
Rana Joon and the One and Only Now by Shideh Etaat
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis lyrical coming-of-age novel for fans of Darius the Great Is Not Okay and On the Come Up, set in southern California in 1996, follows a teen who wants to honor her deceased friend’s legacy by entering a rap contest.Perfect Iranian girls are straight A students, always polite, and grow up to marry respectable Iranian boys... -
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Heavy Vinyl #3 by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNow that Chris knows about Vinyl Mayhem’s dark, amazing secret, it’s time to get her in fighting shape to save Roary from certain musical... -
![Vera Kelly: Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht]()
Vera Kelly: Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsEveryone’s favorite sleuth—Vera Kelly—is back and put to the test as she searches for her missing girlfriend.It’s spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in Los Angeles... -
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![Cobalt by Nathan Aldyne]()
Cobalt by Nathan Aldyne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe two sometimes-detectives from VERMILION have teamed up again for a summer of fun in Provincetown. While Valentine browses for Mr. Right, Clarisse nabs a hunky cop all her own. But suddenly suspicion burns hotter than the sun as a string of murders mars the merriment. And somehwere in the endless secrets, jealousies, and lies behind the beautiful faces around them is a motive for murder... -
![Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O! by Carly Usdin]()
Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O! by Carly Usdin
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn all-new original graphic novel follow up to the award-nominated Heavy Vinyl: Riot on The Radio that reunites everyone’s favorite girl vigilantes to save the day by stopping Big Music from killing digital music in 1999!SAVE THE INTERNET, SAVE THE WORLD (OF MUSIC)!It’s 1999 and Chris is living her dream: working at Vinyl Destination by day and fighting for (musical) justice by night (okay,... -
![The Song of Us by Kate Fussner]()
The Song of Us by Kate Fussner
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThis stunning debut and wholly original queer middle grade novel-in-verse retelling of "Orpheus and Eurydice" adds a new chorus to the songs of great love, perfect for fans of Other Words for Home and Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World.Love at first sight isn't a myth. For seventh graders Olivia and Eden, it's fate... -
![One True Way by Shannon Hitchcock]()
One True Way by Shannon Hitchcock
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA heartening story of two girls who discover their friendship is something more. But how, among their backward town, will Sam and Allie face what they know is true about themselves? Welcome to Daniel Boone Middle School in the 1970s, where teachers and coaches must hide who they are, and girls who like girls are forced to question their own choices... -
![The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend : A Nancy Clue Mystery by Mabel Maney]()
The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend : A Nancy Clue Mystery by Mabel Maney
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA collector's edition of the best-selling all-girl action adventure... -
![Mazie by Melanie Crowder]()
Mazie by Melanie Crowder
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 17 ratings*"Deserves a standing ovation." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)*" This is a terrific and realistic piece of historical fiction that is perfect for theater lovers and historical fiction fans." -- SLC (starred review)*"The peppy first-person narrative keeps the story zipping along, and adroitly placed period details make the setting come alive in this bighearted, exuberant novel...Categorized as:
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![Ode to My First Car by Robin Gow]()
Ode to My First Car by Robin Gow
By the critically praised author of A Million Quiet Revolutions , this YA contemporary sapphic romance told in verse is about a bisexual teen girl who falls in and out of love over the course of one fateful summer...Categorized as:
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Ruby by Rosa Guy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRuby Cathy feels left without friends, without comfort and without love. Then she meets Daphne Duprey, who is "cool, calm, cultured, sophisticated and refined" - everything that Ruby is not. Together, Ruby and Daphne build a relationship that gives each young woman a new understanding of strength, friendship and love...Categorized as:
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![The Boy in the Red Dress by Kristin Lambert]()
The Boy in the Red Dress by Kristin Lambert
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsA Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts. New Year's Eve, 1929. Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town... -
![Moon at Nine by Deborah Ellis]()
Moon at Nine by Deborah Ellis
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFifteen-year-old Farrin has many secrets. Although she goes to a school for gifted girls in Tehran, as the daughter of an aristocratic mother and wealthy father, Farrin must keep a low profile. It is 1988; ever since the Shah was overthrown, the deeply conservative and religious government controls every facet of life in Iran... -
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![A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo]()
A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAward-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage. And almost sixty years after the end of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Lo's new novel also offers a glimpse into Lily and Kath's lives since 1955... -
![Pulp by Robin Talley]()
Pulp by Robin Talley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It’s not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet... -
![The War Outside by Monica Hesse]()
The War Outside by Monica Hesse
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal.It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado--until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan... -
![Claudine by Riyoko Ikeda]()
Claudine by Riyoko Ikeda
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsClaudine (Japanese: クローディーヌ...! Hepburn: Kurōdīnu...!) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda. It was serialized in two issues of Shueisha's Weekly Margaret magazine in January 1978 and later published in a single tankōbon volume under the Margaret Comics imprint on May 20, 1978... -
![Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond]()
Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA reimagining of Little Women set in the spring of 1942, when the United States is suddenly embroiled in the second World War, this story, told from each March sister's point of view, is one of grief, love, and self-discovery.In the spring of 1942, the United States is reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor... -
![Dear Sylvia, Love Jane: Detective Molly Malone by Erin Hall]()
Dear Sylvia, Love Jane: Detective Molly Malone by Erin Hall
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1943, San Francisco. In a city overrun by corruption, sticking to the shadows is the safest option, especially for patrons of gay bars like Whiskers, Duke’s, and the Hot Spot. But when city officials have a personal score to settle, even the shadows are dangerous. Join Detective Molly Malone on her first queer noir adventure as she faces deadly stakes that threaten her friends and family... -
![Love and Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura]()
Love and Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn’t what she had in mind.That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous, glamorous, and…heartbroken? And when she enlists Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Nozomi is a willing volunteer... -
![Olivia by Dorothy Strachey, Dorothy Bussy]()
Olivia by Dorothy Strachey, Dorothy Bussy
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 27 ratings“Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edition. Dorothy Strachey’s classic Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle... -
![Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin]()
Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the summer of 1926, sixteen-year-old Garnet Richardson is sent to a lake resort to escape the polio epidemic in the city. She dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology and visiting the famous new amusement park--a summer of fun before she returns for her final year of high school, after which she’s expected to marry a nice boy and settle into middle-class homemaking... -
![We Were Promised Spotlights by Lindsay Sproul]()
We Were Promised Spotlights by Lindsay Sproul
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Miseducation of Cameron Post meets Everything Leads to You in this queer young adult novel. Taylor Garland's good looks have earned her the admiration of everyone in her small town. She's homecoming queen, the life of every party, and she's on every boy's most-wanted list... -
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![Belladonna by Anbara Salam]()
Belladonna by Anbara Salam
Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA hypnotizing coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Italy that stares into the heart of longing and at the friendships that have the power to save and destroy us."I was utterly captivated, from first page to last." --Anton DiSclafani, New York Times bestselling author of The After PartyIsabella is beautiful, inscrutable, and popular... -
![Goddess by Kelly Gardiner]()
Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsVersailles, 1686: Julie d'Aubigny, a striking young girl taught to fence and fight in the court of the Sun King, is taken as mistress by the King's Master of Horse. Tempestuous, swashbuckling and volatile, within two years she has run away with her fencing master, fallen in love with a nun and is hiding from the authorities, sentenced to be burnt at the stake... -
![Wildthorn by Jane Eagland]()
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove longs to break free from her respectable life as a Victorian doctor's daughter. But her dreams become a nightmare when Louisa is sent to Wildthorn Hall: labeled a lunatic, deprived of her liberty and even her real name. As she unravels the betrayals that led to her incarceration, she realizes there are many kinds of prison... -
![Belladonna: Our Italian Year by Anbara Salam]()
Belladonna: Our Italian Year by Anbara Salam
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA hypnotizing coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Italy that stares into the heart of longing and at the friendships that have the power to save and destroy us.I was utterly captivated, from first page to last. --Anton DiSclafani, New York Times bestselling author of The After PartyIsabella is beautiful, inscrutable, and popular... -
![Honey Girl by Lisa Freeman]()
Honey Girl by Lisa Freeman
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow to survive California's hottest surf spot: Never go anywhere without a bathing suit. Never cut your hair. Never let them see you panic.The year is 1972. Fifteen-year-old Haunani “Nani” Grace Nuuhiwa is transplanted from her home in Hawaii to Santa Monica, California after her father’s fatal heart attack... -
![The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson]()
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe subject of this book is a young woman: an awkward, insecure, restless and 'knowing' child who learns that self-realisation depends on rebellion and escape, but that the latter will first demand at least the semblance of conformity...
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