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BIPOC Love Stories: Teen Romance
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Felix ever after
by Kacen Callender
Worrying that his combination of such marginalizing qualities as being black, queer and trans are too impossible to allow happiness, Felix turns vengeful in the face of transphobic hate messages before finding himself in a quasi-love triangle.
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Zyla and Kai
by Kristina Forest
Told in alternating perspectives, this epic star-crossed love story follows Zyla, a cynic about love, and Kai, a hopeless romantic, as they run away together while on a school trip, leaving their friends and family confused. Simultaneous eBook.
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Café con lychee
by Emery Lee
"Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses-an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery-and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at leaving Vermont means first ensuring his parents' livelihood is secure. So when a new fusion café threatens both shops, Theo and Gabi realize an unfortunate truth-they can only achieve their goals by working together to cook up an underground bakery operation and win back their customers. But can they put aside their differences long enough to save their parents'shops or will the new feelings between them boil over?"
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Love & other natural disasters
by Misa Sugiura
When the gorgeous and glamorous Willow enlists her to pose as her new girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Nozomi Nagai plans to show Willow that shes better than a stand-in and turn their fauxmance into something real. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Kings of B'more
by R. Eric Thomas
When his best friend announces he is moving, Harrison gives him a send-off a la Ferris Buellers Day Off, and as they do things they've been scared to do, they learn the scariest thing is saying goodbye to someone you love. Simultaneous eBook.
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Beauty and the besharam
by Lillie Vale
"High-achieving Kavya Joshi has always been told she's a little too ambitious, a little too mouthy, and overall just a little too much. In one word: besharam. So, when her nemesis, Ian Jun, witnesses Kavya's very public breakup with her loser boyfriend on the last day of junior year, she decides to lay low...Exhausted by Kavya and Ian's years-long feud, their friends hatch a plan to end their rivalry by convincing them to participate in a series of challenges...But as the competition heats up, so too does the romantic tension"
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Loveboat reunion
by Abigail Hing Wen
In this companion novel to the New York Times best-seller Loveboat, Taipei, Sophie and Xavier find themselves on a wild, nonstop Loveboat reunion, where they hatch a plan to control their own futures. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Odd one out
by Nic Stone
High school juniors and best friends Courtney and Jupe, and new sophomore Rae, explore their sexuality and their budding attractions for one another
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Once upon a quinceañera
by Monica Gomez-Hira
Accepting a humiliating unpaid internship working as a party princess in a ball gown, romance-minded Carmen embarks on a summer that is shaped by blistering Miami heat, an unexpected attraction and a spoiled cousins quinceaęra. A first novel. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Love radio
by Ebony LaDelle
A 17-year-old self-professed teen love doctor with his own segment on Detroits popular hip-hop show, Prince Jones has only three dates to prove to Dani, an ambitious writer who hates all thing romance, that hes worth falling for. 500,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Hunting by stars
by Cherie Dimaline
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just how much, and whom, he is willing to sacrifice to survive and be reunited with Rose and the others
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