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Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute. -- Provided by publisher. A sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self. Perfect for...

3) The poppy war

Author

Kuang, R. F

Series

The Poppy War

Notes

Book one of The Poppy War series, Kuang has BookTok in the palm of her hand with the hold this book had on readers. While you're waiting to read Babel, check out this trilogy.

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"When Rin aced the Keju--the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to study at the academies--it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardians, who always thought they'd be able to marry Rin off to further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was now finally free of the servitude and despair that had made...

4) Neruda on the park: a novel

Author

Natera, Cleyvis

Notes

Why you should try it: High family drama and a close knit community meet rapid gentrification in this debut novel.

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"An exhilarating debut novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification, for readers of Such a Fun Age and Dominicana. The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of the city, for over twenty years. When the crash of a wrecking ball signals the demolition of an old neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, quietly devises...

5) Wahala: a novel

Author

May, Nikki

Notes

If you're a fan of messy women and and even messier friendships, this is the book for you.

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An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group-the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha. Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She's dating Kayode and wants him to be "the one" (perfect, like her dead father). Her friends think he's just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends. Boo has everything...

6) You made a fool of death with your beauty: a novel

Author

Emezi, Akwaeke

Series

Thorndike Press large print core

Notes

This is romantic fiction with a healthy dose of reality.

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"A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and "one of our greatest living writers" (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone...

7) Before the coffee gets cold: a novel

Author

Kawaguchi, Toshikazu

Series

Before the coffee gets cold volume 1

Notes

If you love stories about time travel and alternate realities, like The Midnight Library or Oona Out of Order, you will love this book.

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"If you could go back, who would you want to meet?In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed....

8) The town of Babylon: a novel

Author

Varela, Alejandro

Notes

They say you can never go home again, but what if going home is the only way to understand yourself?

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"When his father falls ill, Andrés, a professor of public health, returns to his suburban hometown to tend to his father's recovery. Reevaluating his rocky marriage in the wake of his husband's infidelity and with little else to do, he decides to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, where he runs into the long-lost characters of his youth. Jeremy, his first love, is now married with two children after having been incarcerated and recovering...