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If you asked seventeen-year-old Cass Williams to describe herself, she’d happily tell you she’s fat, queer, and obsessed with the Tide Wars books. What she won’t tell you—or anyone in her life—is that she’s part of an online Tide Wars roleplay community. Sure, it’s nerdy as hell, but when she’s behind the screen writing scenes as Captain Aresha, she doesn’t have to think about her mother who…

Love from Mecca to Medina

Title: Love From Mecca to Medina Author: S.K. Ali Publisher: Salaam Reads Publication Date: October 18th, 2022 Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance Book Info Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart. Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the hijrah, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina and worried about where his next paycheck will come from. Zayneb is in Chicago,…

Love from Mecca to Medina

Title: Love From Mecca to Medina Author: S.K. Ali Publisher: Salaam Reads Publication Date: October 18th, 2022 Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance Book Info Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart. Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the hijrah, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina and worried about where his next paycheck will come from. Zayneb is in Chicago,…

Well, that was Unexpected

Well, That Was Unexpected by Jesse Q. Sutanto Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance Publishing Date: September 27, 2022 Book Info An outrageous, laugh-out-loud YA rom-com about a girl who’s whisked from LA to her mother’s native Indonesia to get back to her roots and finds herself fake-dating the son of one of the wealthiest families there, from the author of Dial A for Aunties. After…

Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman Genre: Young Adult Graphic Novel Publishing Date: September 20, 2022 Book Info Once upon a time . . . happily ever after turned out differently than expected. In this new, feminist, queer fairy-tale collection, you’ll find the princesses, mermaids, knights, barmaids, children, and wise old women who have been forced to sit on the…

As long as the lemon trees grow

As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh Genre: Young Adult Historical Fiction Publishing Date: September 13, 2022 Book Info Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager’s life. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who…

Bad at Love by Gabriela Martins Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance Publishing Date: August 2, 2022 Book Info Ever since Daniel moved to L.A. from Brazil to join the band Mischief & Mayhem, he’s become the tabloids’ bad boy. Paparazzi follow him and girls swoon over him . . . except for Sasha, who hates bad boys. When a chance encounter brings them together, Sasha sees an opportunity to…

Alliana, Girl of Dragons

Alliana, Girl of Dragons by Julie AbeGenre: Middle Grade FantasyPublishing Date: August 2, 2022 Book Info Once upon a time, Alliana believed in dreams and fairy tales as sweet as spun-sugar clouds. Alliana wished on shooting stars, sure that someday she and her grandmother would be able to travel to the capital city to see the queen. Then her grandmother passed away—and those dreams disappeared…