Queer YA

Queer YA Titles to Excite!

These fresh new stories are full of daring adventures and intriguing mysteries, all sure to steal your heart!

Join us to discover:

• The Forbidden Book by SACHA LAMB. One night, 17-year-old Sorel leaps from a window and runs away from her wedding — and her life. To keep from discovery, she takes on the male identity of Isser Jacobs — but it soon becomes clear that there is a real Isser Jacobs, and people want him dead. She soon finds herself in the dark underworld of her small city, and in order to make it out, Sorel must discover who Isser Jacobs really is — and who she wants to be.
  
  
• Everything Glittered by ROBIN TALLEY. It’s 1927 and seventeen-year-old Gertrude and her best friends Clara and Milly are determined to get a taste of the roaring 20s nightlife. When they return to their seminary after sneaking out to a speakeasy, they discover that their controversial young headmistress has been murdered, and Gertrude and her friends set out to clear her name. With so many other secrets coming to light, can Gertrude conceal the attraction she feels for her best friends?
  
  
• The Brightness Between Us by ELIOT SCHREFER. After crashing on a distant exoplanet years ago, Ambrose and Kodiak are now the devoted parents of two teenage children. Life is hard, but their family is close, until they learn that their biggest threat might come from within. More than thirty thousand years in the past, Ambrose wakes on Earth to find that his mission to save his sister was a ruse, and when he discovers that another spacefarer is suffering his same fate, he will have to decide whether to risk crossing a world at war to reach him. 
  
  
• Wrong Answers Only by TOBIAS MADDEN. Marco should be at university, studying biomedicine. Instead, he’s sent to live on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean with his estranged uncle, all because of a “panic attack." This trip is supposed to give him answers, but when he just ends up with more questions, his best friend proposes a new plan: for someone who has always done the right thing, it’s time to get a few things wrong.

Friday, October 18th at 6PM ET at Our 17th St Store!

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