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  • The Shippers by Katherine Center

    “I think those of us who love love stories are junkies for that joyful, blissed-out feeling of anticipating the happily ever after that’s a guarantee of the genre.

    All genres have their guarantees, by the way: Sleuths will solve the mystery, thrillers will save the hero in the nick of time, superheroes will vanquish the villains at last. Part of what we like about the genres we like is the anticipation of those guarantees. We like to see the mystery solved, and the hero saved, and the villains vanquished. It feels good.”
    ― Katherine Center, The Shippers

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  • Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

    “Maybe people can be happy and sad. Maybe stories are messy and complicated. Maybe endings don’t always include solutions that tie everything together in a bow. But that doesn’t mean that they have to be tragedies.”
    ― Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

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  • The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes

    “I heard cats don’t just purr when they’re happy, but they also purr when they’re stressed as a way of self-soothing.”
    ― Sonora Reyes, The Luis Ortega Survival Club

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  • Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood

    “… you are all you need. You’re not the sidekick, or the lesser sister or the back-up or the girlfriend forever revolving around what other people want from you. You’re the leading lady.”
    ― Kirsty Greenwood, Romantic Hero

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  • Landing in Place: A Graphic Novel written by Sherine Hamdy and illustrated by Myra El Mir

    An Egyptian American girl struggles with her family, friends, college, and politics in Landing in Place: A Graphic Novel written by Sherine Hamdy and illustrated by Myra El Mir. If you’re looking for a graphic novel that reads like a well-written biography, try this book!

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