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Dan in Green Gables
Dan in Green Gables
By Rey Terciero & Claudia Aguirre
Young Adult Graphic Novel
Dan in Green Gables is a colorful reimagining of Anne of Green Gables, the classic novel that has inspired beloved books, movies, and TV shows. Anne’s charming and eccentric spirit is channeled through Dan, a queer 14-year-old Dolly Parton diehard whose mom left him with his grandparents in rural Ten...
The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin
The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin
By Alison Goodman
Adult Fiction
This story picks up right where Alison Goodman’s fantastic 2023 novel The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies left off. So, it’s best if you’ve read that one first. Twin sisters Gus and Julia Colebrook are still busy trying to better the lives of women and children living on the outskirts of English Regency so...
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Resta
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By Curtis Chin
Adult Memoir
Curtis Chin grew up to a soundtrack of Motown in the 80s on Cass Avenue in Detroit, where his family owned a Cantonese restaurant. Chin’s memoir details his process of trying to understand, accept, and establish his own identity by race, class, and sexuality, which he found difficult, especiall...
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