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Across A Field of Starlight
Blue Delliquanti
Lu and Fassen are from different worlds and separate solar systems, so when the war of Fassen’s world invades Lu’s peaceful home, they find themselves at the forefront of a battle they hoped would never happen.
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Cosmoknights
Book One
Hannah Templer
Pan’s best friend and first love Tara is a princess, meant to be the prize in an interplanetary jousting ring of mecha fighters. Tara enlists Pan to help her escape this fate, and Pan lives a lonely life until she meets a ring of off-world gladiators dedicated disrupting the patriarchal games.
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Galaxy
The Prettiest Star
Jadzia Axelrod
Taylor Barzelay has the perfect life. Good looks, good grades, a starting position on the basketball team, a loving family, even an adorable corgi. But every day is torture. Taylor is actually the Galaxy Crowned, an alien princess from the planet Cyandii, and one of the few survivors of an intergalactic war.
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The Girl From the Sea
Molly Knox Ostertag
Fifteen-year-old Morgan can’t wait to escape the island where she lives until she is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie and suddenly life on the island doesn’t seem so stifling anymore. But as the girls become friends and then start to fall in love, the secrets they’re each trying to hide will find their way to the surface.
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I Am Not Starfire
Mariko Tamaki
Seventeen-year-old Mandy, who dyes her hair black and hates almost everyone, is not like her mother, the tall, sparkly alien superhero Starfire, so when someone from Starfire’s past arrives, Mandy must make a choice about who she is and if she should risk everything to save her mom.
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Mooncakes
Suzanne Walker
Nova Huang knows much more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmother’s bookshop, where she helps loan out spell books and investigate supernatural occurrences in their New England town.
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On A Sunbeam
Tillie Walden
A ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together. Two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love–only to learn the pain of loss.
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Other Ever Afters
New Queer Fairy Tales
Melanie Gillman
In this new feminist, queer fairy tale collection, the princesses, mermaids, barmaids, children, and wise old women who have been forced to sit on the sidelines in classic stories take center stage to fulfill their own dreams and find the love, power, and happiness they deserve.
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Squad
Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Becca moves to an upscale Silicon Valley suburb and is surprised when she develops a bond with girls who belong to the popular clique-and even more surprised when she learns their secrets.
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The Witch Boy
Molly Knox Ostertag
In thirteen-year-old Aster’s family, all the girls are raised to be witches while boys grow up to be shapeshifters, and anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn’t shifted–and he’s fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be.
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Wynd
Book One, The Flight of the Prince
James Tynion IV & Michael Dialynas
Wynd is forced to leave his home behind to embark on a dangerous quest that will put him at the heart of a royal conspiracy beyond imagination. On the run with the boy of his dreams, his best friend Oakley, and a literal prince, Wynd will have to embrace the magic within himself if he wants to save them from the shocking dangers that await!