LGBTQIA+ Rainbow Reads
January 2023
Afterlove
by Tanya Byrne

"When Ashana Persaud meets Poppy Morgan on a school trip, she's sure it's too good to be true. Ash has never had much luck with girls, but Poppy proves different. Coffee dates turn to museum trips until, soon, the two girls can see a future together--onethat's seemingly snatched from them when a hit-and-run takes Ash's life on New Year's Eve. As the last person to die before midnight, Ash is bestowed the title of reaper, tasked with finding lost souls and helping them cross over. Only those close to death can perceive a reaper, so when Ash runs into Poppy one lonely night--and Poppy recognizes her--they can't be sure if it's the second chance they've so desperately wished for, or a tragedy lying in wait"
Just Ash
by Sol Santana

"Ash has never thought much about being intersex. But when he gets his period and his parents pressure him to 'try being a girl,' he must fight for who he really is"
The fae keeper
by H. E. Edgmon

When Emyr and Wyatt uncover the hidden truth about the witches real place in fae society, the revelation could be more than they can handle, while Wyatt must finally decide on the future he wants before he loses Emyr forever. Simultaneous eBook.
The girls are never gone
by Sarah Glenn Marsh

Seventeen-year-old Dare plans to spend her summer debunking a haunting at an historic estate with a dark past, but she finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against a malignant ghost
Act cool
by Tobly McSmith

Promising his parents he wont transition while attending the prestigious School of Performing Arts in New York, aspiring transgender actor August Greene must play the part his parents want while acting cool in front of his new friends. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
Fight + flight
by Jules Machias

"Two girls find friendship-and more-when they bond over a traumatic event that took place in their middle school"
Graphic Novels
Juliet takes a breath
by Gabby Rivera

"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"
Across a field of starlight
by Blue Delliquanti

Lu and Fassen are from different worlds and separate solar systems, so when the war of Fassen's world invades Lu's peaceful home, they find themselves at the forefront of a battle they hoped would never happen.
Space trash. Volume 1
by Jenn Woodall

In a future where mankind has abandoned Earth and moved on to space colonization, three teenagers at a lunar high school for underprivileged youth try to keep their boredom and resentment at bay by fighting rival gangs, sleeping their way through class, and trying to avoid punishment from the student council
I cannot reach you. 1
by Mika

"Childhood best friends. Two halves of a whole. The cool, smart one who's good at almost everything, and his average, dorky friend who struggles to do anything right--Yamato and Kakeru. Always by the other's side, but not together in the way they truly want to be. No matter how hard they try, their hearts cannot reach each other"