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"In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor--but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead. And in present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they've met before. Across these seemingly unrelated...

Publisher Annotation: My name is Oscar. I am fifteen years old, and I have a secret: I like Pablo Bernabé, the popular guy in class, the athlete, the all-around good guy, the handsome one, the... You get the idea, right? Yes, we have class together, but I don't think he even knows my name. I've been thinking for a while to go up and say hi to him. And if I do? What's the worst that could happen? Pablo was the most handsome guys in the class, by far....

"A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love"-- Provided by publisher.

"Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are monsters. She has done everything possible to suppress her own magic, to disastrous consequences. Desperate to be free of it, Liska flees her small village and delves into the dangerous, demon-inhabited spirit-wood to steal a mythical fern flower. If she plucks it, she can use its one wish to banish her powers. Everyone who has sought the fern flower has fallen prey to unknown horrors,...

For the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortage and The Book - a dog-eared notebook in which she and Bea have been exchanging poems since they were thirteen. The rule of The Book are simple: No lies, no secrets, and no punctuation. This is a never-ending poem, as epic and everlasting as their friendship. Nothing is too messy of too complex for The Book - not Mitra's convoluted feelings about her absent mother,...

A collection of love poems by Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda, presented in Spanish with English translations on facing pages.

Sparks fly when two childhood friends are reunited through a generous inheritance that bestows far more on their broken hearts than they bargained for.

As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase down their rodeo dreams.

Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in Jasmine Skye's high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut, Daughter of the Bone Forest. Rosy is a bone familiar, gifted with the power to shift into animals marked with exposed bone. She spends most of her days in the magical Bone Forest, caring for her feral grandmother and hiding her powers to avoid conscription by the Witch King's...

Eva Carlton, the sole heir to the queen of her kingdom and Bryan Miller, a mechanic, are destined to be together. It is a well-known prophecy in Eva's kingdom that each heir would meet their soul mate and share a bond that transcends human logic and normal relationships. Eva travels to the human realm in the hopes of finding her soulmate. Unsure where to start or how to find him, she picks a random town and finds herself in Willow Cove. Bryan lives...