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Celeste Ng, Nicole A. Lamy

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Almarie Guerra, Jensen Olaya, Eric Yang, Avi Roque, Soneela Nankani, James Fouhey, Lynnette R. Freeman, Lee Osorio

“Short stories can act like little tuning forks, helping us to clarify our own values,” writes guest editor Celeste Ng. “In a time when our values are being tested daily, it’s hard to think of anything more important.” The Best American Short Stories 2025 resonates precisely at this pitch: twenty pieces that upend expectations and test the foundation of our beliefs. From a bereaved medical actress obsessed with a student in her rotation to a mysterious sickness that ignites a leth...

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Anna Sewell

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Avi Roque

Black Beauty is born with a fine coat, a white foot, and a silver star on his forehead. As a foal he spends the days with his mother in an idyllic paradise until a vicious groom injures him, and his beloved owners have no choice but to sell him.As he passes from owner to owner he faces cruelty and hardship, as well as compassion and kindness. Through it all – all his struggles to survive – Black Beauty refuses to let his spirit be broken. Will he ever find the happiness and peace h...

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Kiri Komori

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Cassandra Morris, Graham Halstead, Avi Roque

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Reincarnated as the Last of My Kind

What it means to be the last of my kind: My nature as Spherit Folk is becoming more difficult to hide.I'm faced with a shocking truth: Only one race can produce a Holy Woman who can save the world, and I'm the last remaining descendant of that race! With the human war raging on and traffic to my family's inn cut off during these tremulous times, I must set off to the Mythical Continent to discover my destiny!

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Aiden Thomas

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Avi Roque

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Cemetery Boys

**This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as "groundbreaking**."Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determi...

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Aiden Thomas

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Avi Roque, Vico Ortiz

New York Times-bestselling author Aiden Thomas returns to the beloved world of Cemetery Boys, this time following Julian—chaos magnet extraordinaire. With restless spirits vanishing and a dark demon from their past emerging, he and Yadriel might be the only ones reckless enough to stop a threat that could tear their world apart.Julian used to be a ghost and now he can’t stop seeing them.Ever since Julian was sacrificed as part of ...

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Aiden Thomas

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Avi Roque

**"There are moments of true tenderness, hope, and grief in this haunting, magical tale, and the narrator makes it all convincing. Teenage listeners will be drawn into this enchanting story." -- Booklist, starred reviewWhen children start to go missing in the local woods, a teen girl must face her fears and a past she can't remember to rescue them in this atmospheric YA novel, Lost in the Never Woods from the author of Cemetery Boys.**It’s been five ye...

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Harrison Browne, Rachel Browne

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Avi Roque

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Queer Ideas/Queer Action

**“Get your head out of your phone and stop doomscrolling. Read Let Us Play instead.”—Jay Onrait, sports anchor“A crucial playbook that athletes and nonathletes alike can use to help make sports an inclusive place for all.”—Meghan Duggan, 3-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist, USA Women’s Hockey“Will shed light on the unique challenges trans athletes face.”—Chris Mosier, transgender athlete and activistA crucial subversion of the misconceptions around t...

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Gisela Chipe, Dani Martineck, Robin Miles, Donnabella Mortel, Soneela Nankani, Lee Osorio, Tanis Parenteau, Annie Q, Avi Roque, Debi Tinsley, Nicky Endres

An anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of Greek myth, featuring stories by:Marika Bailey • Alyssa Cole • Zoraida Córdova • Maya Deane • Sarah Gailey • Zeyn Joukhadar • Mia P. Manansala • Juliana Spink Mills • Susan Purr • Taylor Rae • Jude Reali • Suleikha Snyder • Valerie Valdes • S. Zainab Williams • Wen Wen YangZeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the othe...

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Emery Lee

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Avi Roque, Kurt Kanazawa

From the author of Meet Cute Diary comes a delectable rom-com that’s brimming with zest and a sprinkle of sweetness. A must-read for fans of Casey McQuiston and Julian Winters.Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses—an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery—and Gabi’s lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count.Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dream...

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Sonido Reyes

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Avi Roque

The Hunger Games meets The Sunbearer Trials in bestselling and award-winning author Sonido Reyes’s YA dystopia about a boy who survives by hiding his truth until his boyfriend is sentenced to El Torneo — a brutal, fight-to-the-death game — where he must risk everything to save him.Centuries after the conquistadors claimed the Afueras for their own, Temo spends his life obeying the Holy Order’s decree, undergoing their sacraments to tame his suppos...

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Ludwig Volbeda

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Avi Roque

Translated by

Lucy Scott

Winner of the Rainbow Book of the Year“I know of no other book that so tenderly, convincingly, and completely authentically captures the quest of a young, queer character. Beautiful!”—Benny LindelaufJip has an assignment from school for spring break: draw a self-portrait. That should be easy for someone who can draw so well. Yet Jip's thoughts keep wandering. To the new boy in class, to beetles and fireflies, to twilight dreaming, to the party next Friday,...

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H.E. Edgmon

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Avi Roque

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The Ouroboros

The stunning conclusion to the Ouroboros series, a contemporary fantasy duology in which a teen, Gem, finds out they’re a reincarnated god from another world.That day at the First Church of Gracie changed everything for Gem Echols, and not just because Marian and Poppy betrayed them. Forced to use the Ouroboros knife on Zephyr, who had kidnapped their parents, Gem now has the power of the God of Air.While for any other god things might work out okay, the Ma...