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| | Pride Month has begun, and we have some sweet, enticing, and heartfelt reading recommendations to help you celebrate all month long! A charming French courtesan brings a brooding member of the nobility to her knees in Anna Cowan's sizzling Regency romance, The Duke; and a shopkeeper inherits a fortune he has no clue how to manage in KJ Charles's charming novel of manners, How to Fake It in Society. Meanwhile, The Lost Book of Lancelot by John Glynn cracks open the queer mysteries surrounding the most legendary Arthurian knight, and The Summer Boy by Philippe Besson looks back at an idyllic 1985 summer off the coast of France. And there's plenty more where those came from!
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 | | The Lost Book of Lancelot | | | John Glynn |
| | | John Glynn's debut is a refreshing, enchanting queering of the life of Lancelot, reinventing Camelot in a way that manages to feel both new and familiar.
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| | The Duke | | | Anna Cowan |
| | | A charming French courtesan brings a brooding female duke to her knees in this smoldering sapphic Regency romance set in an England where women can inherit and hold titles.
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| | Whistler | | | Ann Patchett |
| | | Ann Patchett is a master on the subject of family dysfunction, and her 10th novel, a stepdaughter-stepfather love story, is as wise as ever on secrets, traumatic memories, and storytelling.
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| | Stream | | | Aida Salazar |
| | | Perpetually online 13-year-olds Elio and Celi are sent to an off-the-grid rancho in Mexico in this effervescent middle-grade novel-in-verse about connecting to others, oneself, and the environment.
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| | | | | | Young Midwestern women in New York City resist societal expectations with an anti-marriage pact in this funny and resolute novel about finding oneself.
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| | | | Tessa Yang's first novel, The Jellyfish Problem, intriguingly spotlights a marine biologist on the cusp of great discoveries, both professional and deeply personal.
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| | | | Nayantara Roy's blazingly honest second novel maps the complicated emotional terrain of two half-sisters trying to rebuild their relationship after a betrayal.
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| | | | The Summer Boy is a moving work of autofiction that gently and intelligently recounts the summer 18-year-old Philippe spent on a French island, and the tragic episode that marred an idyllic holiday.
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| | | | Paul Rudnick's The Tuxedo Society is a hilarious spy novel about a gay aspiring actor recruited by an all-queer counterespionage group to recover stolen jewels the First Lady wants to repatriate.
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| | | | Graphic novelist Claus Daniel Herrman's English-language debut gently highlights a young teen's coming-of-age amid his father's stifling depression.
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| | | | Katherine Arden reinvents the life of Anne, Duchess of Brittany, in this epic, ethereal standalone historical fantasy.
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| | | | In KJ Charles's intriguing, charming romance, a newly rich shopkeeper learns to play the part of a wealthy man while falling in love with an aristocrat who's playing a role in more ways than one.
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| | | | Two tween stepsisters stay at their grandma's beach house for what may be their last summer together in this marvelous middle-grade graphic novel about sisterly love.
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| | | | Myths surrounding the birth of the United States go under the magnifying glass in this entertaining middle-grade title that challenges young readers to identify bias and discover truths.
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| | | | This gentle, charming picture book features a Black girl birding with her adoring dad to look for the bird she calls Blue.
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| | | | A famed adventurer who lied about her feats accepts a death-defying quest to fell a godlike beast in this highly entertaining YA cozy romantasy adventure.
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| | |  Mario Elías is a multidisciplinary artist of Cuban and Syrian descent whose debut novel, Beloved Disciples, captures the majesty of a first love, from the soaring heights of adoration down to the hollowed-out depths of bereavement. Today he shares with us the "freak of a book" that made him roll on the floor laughing as a kid, the writer who mentored his novel's first draft, and the many beautiful works that have wriggled their way into his heart. (continued)
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