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One of those hideous books where the mother dies
Par Sonya Sones. 2004
After her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Ruby leaves Boston and reluctantly moves to California where her father is a famous actor.…
Ruby has trouble adapting but gradually accepts the change while learning family secrets. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2004Vanilla
Par Billy Merrell. 2017
A bold, groundbreaking novel about coming out, coming into your own, and coming apart.Vanilla and Hunter have been dating since…
seventh grade. They came out together, navigated middle school together, and became that couple in high school that everyone always sees as a couple. There are complications and confusions, for sure. But most of all, they love each other.As high school goes, though, and as their relationship deepens, some cracks begin to show. Hunter thinks they should be having sex.Vanilla isn't so sure. Hunter doesn't mind hanging out with loud, obnoxious friends.Vanilla would rather avoid them. If they're becoming different people, can they be the same couple?Falling in love is hard.Staying in love is harder.Just Another Epic Love Poem
Par Parisa Akhbari. 2024
Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance."The heartache and longing of witnessing a beloved…
character pine hopelessly over her best friend has never brought me this much unadulterated joy." –National Book Award Finalist Sonora Reyes, author of The Lesbiana&’s Guide to Catholic SchoolOver the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortega and The Book—a dogeared moleskin she and Bea have been filling with the stanzas of an epic, never-ending poem since they were 13.For introverted Mitra, The Book is one of the few places she can open herself completely and where she gets to see all sides of brilliant and ebullient Bea. There, they can share everything—Mitra&’s complicated feelings about her absent mother, Bea&’s heartache over her most recent breakup—nothing too messy or complicated for The Book.Nothing except the one thing with the power to change their entire friendship: the fact that Mitra is helplessly in love with Bea.Told in lyrical, confessional prose and snippets of poetry Just Another Epic Love Poem takes readers on a journey that is equal parts joyful, heartbreaking, and funny as Mitra and Bea navigate the changing nature of I love you.Calypso
Par Oliver K. Langmead. 2024
"Ambitious and immersive...an elegantly told meditation on how we can&’t leave ourselves behind." -Esquire Magazine - The Best Sci-Fi Books…
of 2024A ground-breaking, mind-bending and wildly imaginative epic verse revolution in SF. A saga of colony ships, shattering moons and cataclysmic war in a new Eden. Truly unforgettable and richly lyrical eco-fiction, for fans of Kim Stanley Robinson, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Jeff VanderMeer.Rochelle wakes from cryostasis to take up her role as engineer on the colony ark, Calypso. But she finds the ship has transformed into a forest, populated by the original crew&’s descendants, who revere her like a saint. She travels the ship with the Calypso&’s creator, the enigmatic Sigmund, and Catherine, a bioengineered marvel who can commune with the plants, uncovering a new history of humanity forged while she slept. She discovers a legacy of war between botanists and engineers. A war fought for the right to build a new Earth – a technological paradise, or a new Eden in bloom, untouched by mankind&’s past.And Rochelle, the last to wake, holds the balance of power in her hands.Doctor Who: a 2010s story
Par Doctor Who, Nikita Gill. 2023
*Part of the six books for six decades collection*A poem of tragedy and beauty . . .The Weeping Angels are…
an ancient race of terrible power.With the ability to propel their victims backwards in time, their true form is a mystery - they turn to stone on sight. So they wander the universe, cursed never to see one another.But they see everything else: the whole course of time and space - even the journey of their deadliest enemy, the Doctor.In this extraordinary, epic poem, the Weeping Angels sing the story of the years they've battled the Doctor, and everything in between, as - like a Greek Chorus - they tell the world their tragic tale.