Category: Fiction
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Appalachian Song by Michelle Shocklee: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she’s tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June…
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The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with…
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Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Longtime personal assistant Georgie Mulcahy has made a career out of putting others before herself. When an unexpected upheaval sends her away from her hectic job in L.A. and back to her hometown, Georgie must confront an uncomfortable truth: her own wants and needs have always been a disconcertingly…
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Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday: Content Warnings
Synopsis: The fake Canadian boyfriend. It’s a thing. The get out of jail free card for all kinds of sticky social situations. “I can’t go to prom; I’m going to be out of town visiting my boyfriend in Canada.” It’s all over pop culture. But Aurora Evans did it first.…
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Criss Cross by C. C Warren: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Holly is living on borrowed time, but when mysterious footsteps follow her home and a cryptic note shows up on her door, she realizes her time is running out. The man she’s hiding from has found her. Or has he? When people start dying and old, forgotten memories begin…
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Kling Klang Gloria by Jenni Sauer: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Before:Zariya’s life as a princess hasn’t been easy but everything she’s faced has always been characterized with one constant: Arian is there by her side. Her childhood best friend, her loyal guard, and as she gets older…maybe something more? Until that fateful day when he betrays her and she…
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My Rock and My Refuge by Rachel Kovaciny: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Beauty and the Beast… re-imagined. Marta knows she shouldn’t feel this way toward Mr. Wendell. She needs to keep her job as his servant, especially because her family back in Germany depends on the money she and her brother Jakob send home. Marta’s new feelings can’t be as important…
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One Bad Apple by Rachel Kovaciny: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs… reimagined. When a wagon train of Black pioneers rescues the seven orphaned Dalton cousins from the side of the trail, it seems like an answer to their prayers. As they roll west toward Kansas, fourteen-year-old Levi Dalton is dazzled by the beautiful Mrs.…
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Dancing and Doughnuts by Rachel Kovaciny: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Twelve Dancing Princesses… reimagined. Fifty dollars just for asking a few questions? Jedediah Jones figures it must be his lucky day. What dancing and doughnuts have to do with anything, he neither knows nor cares. He’s only interested in earning that money so he can finally eat something other…
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Cloaked by Rachel Kovaciny: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Little Red Riding Hood… re-imagined. Mary Rose feels uneasy around Mr. Linden from the moment she meets him on the stagecoach ride to her grandmother’s ranch in Wyoming Territory. But he works for her grandmother, so that means he’s trustworthy, doesn’t it? Everyone else seems to view him as…
