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"Negative Space follows a week in the life of an English teacher at a New York private school. At home, her two children, increasingly restless, ask constant questions about mortality and find hidden wisdom in the cartoons they watch on television. Her husband tends to his plants and offers occasional counsel between Zoom calls to Hong Kong and Australia. And at school, as she navigates the currents between wealthy, increasingly disconnected students...
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Wesley Friends School is Washington, DC's most prestigious prep school, so of course Aki Hiyashi-Brown is proud to teach at it and send her daughter Meg there. Why wouldn't she be proud? Parents kill to have their kid enrolled at Wesley. Not only is Wesley the premier academic destination for the children of the capital elite, but it's all about "Diversity, Achievement, Collegiality," as all of their very glossy brochures will tell you. Aki should...
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Emoriland Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"1962 -- Twelve years removed from the summer when she first gave her heart away, Dr. Elizabeth (Ellie) Spencer, Professor of Astronomy at Indiana University, receives a mysterious package that has her asking that very question. Inside the unmarked box is a novel written by Ellie's first love, Jack Bennett. It tells the story of a young man and woman who meet at the water's edge and fall madly in love, only to have their romance cut short by forces...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"After too many dates, thirtysomething Mimi Perkins is still single, unmoored, and longing for love. So when Ren Yardley-a handsome, divorced fellow drama teacher and single father-falls in love with her and proposes, she's sure this is at last the good news her psychic predicted. Soon after proposing, Ren receives the devastating news that his ex-wife has been in a debilitating car accident, prompting him to temporarily move back into his former...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Chino Flores, a queer Latino in his late thirties, was a beloved middle school biology teacher with an adoring wife and a child on the way until a devastating loss dramatically changed his life and he relies on his coterie of new and old friends and lovers in this anthem to queer and platonic love"--
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"It's the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel's dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia's presence sparks fury among her neighbors and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades later, in 2019, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for, ironically, defying speech codes around trans identity. Back...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When DI Adam Fawley is assigned a sexual assault case filed by an Oxford student against a tenured professor, he expects the facts to match up with the far too many previous reports he's investigated time and again. But neither he nor anyone on his teamimagined the victim would turn out to be a male rugby player accusing one of the university's most respected female professors. As the detectives try to unravel the truth behind the he said/she said...
9) Fake flame
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Harlequin, Afterglow Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"To an observer, hauling a baby grand piano onto a college quad to publicly serenade an ex might seem like a romantic gesture. To literature professor Eva Campbell, it's the latest manipulative move by a cheating jerk who won't take a hint. Plus, she never liked that song anyway. Setting the piano on fire might be an overreaction, but Eva's at the end of her rope, at least until hot young firefighter Sean Hannigan talks her down. And that's not all...
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Montena, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"¿Cómo un profesor de física y un idol famoso lograron enamorarse? Gracias a una rata mascota. Namoo es un afamado idol que, ante los ojos de cualquiera, tiene la vida perfecta: una carrera en ascenso, fanáticas que lo idolatran y un departamento en el barrio más exclusivo de Seúl. Sin embargo, de un día a otro, su carrera queda destruida tras golpear a un desconocido en una tienda de conveniencia. Y todo por culpa de una rata escondida en...
11) Cinnamon girl
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"From the author of the acclaimed The Last Songbird, Lyft driver-turned-sleuth Adam Zantz returns in a neo-noir dive into the dark side of LA's rock scene.... Adam Zantz is still driving for Lyft, struggling to make ends meet, when his beloved former piano teacher makes a deathbed request: He wants Zantz to prove his son's innocence in a decades-earlier murder case. There doesn't seem to be much hope of solving such a cold case-until Zantz stumbles...