"Former painter and unreformed rake Kit Griffith is forging a new life in Cornwall, choosing freedom over an identity that didn't fit. He knew that leaving his Sisterhood of women artists might mean forfeiting artistic community forever. He didn't realize he would lose his ability to paint altogether. Luckily, he has other talents. Why not devote himself to selling bicycles and trysting with the holidaymakers? Enter Muriel Pendrake, the feisty New-York-bound...

"This recently discovered treasure is a stunning portrait of sex, family, religion, culture of origin, and the betrayals of the body. Tender and blistering, erotic and spiritual - Cuadros dives into these complexities which we grapple with today, showing us how to survive these times, and beyond"--

"Award-winning author Joseph Andras resurrects Ho Chi Minh's formative years in Paris. Searching for traces of the past in the streets of today, Andras hears echoes of other angry histories, from terror attacks to tent encampments to the protests of the Gilets jaunes. This intensely lyrical, genre-bending book is a meditation on what could be called the grandeur of the poor, the free, the outcast, and the rebellious"--

The theme is, in a word, yes. In twenty-two short stories, desire and generous consent are explored from queer, trans, Black, brown, and disabled perspectives--a chorus of voices historically excluded from romance narratives. A nonbinary sexworker with psychic gifts allows an older woman to connect with her long-lost love. A divorcée downloads a dating app and finds herself bathed in perfect moonlight. Two Modern Orthodox Jewish women cross a magical...

A Man Called Ove meets "Ru Paul's Drag Race" in this vibrant, joyful, universally relatable story about kindness, self-acceptance, and blooming at any age from the acclaimed author of the LibraryReads and Indie Next Pick, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle. If Ted Ainsworth were to compare himself to one of the ice cream flavors made by his family's company, famous throughout his sleepy Lancashire hometown, it might be vanilla-sweet, inoffensive,...

"Gray has only been in love once, but things fell apart when she and her ex realized they didn't want the same things out of life. With her twenty-ninth birthday approaching, Gray feels her biological clock ticking and is determined to meet someone, settle down, and build the loving, accepting family she's always wanted-and didn't grow up with. But having just moved to New Orleans for a new job working for a demanding boss, and with her last first...

A woman who uses her email "drafts" folder to pen unsent sarcastic replies to her boss, difficult truths to her friends and love declarations to an engaged man must face all her repressed feelings when they all get sent.

"Charlotte Thorne does not want to go back to Hein University. Her life post college is hardly what she dreamed--her career in media is stalled, her passion for drawing has fallen by the wayside, and she wishes she was better at keeping in touch with her college friends, including her best friend and former roommate, Jackie. Willingly spend a full weekend with her incredibly successful classmates? Hard pass. But when her toxic, controlling boss, tech...

In Seventeen, Friendship and Swimming, Colombe Schneck orchestrates a coming-of-age in three movements. Beautiful, masterfully controlled, yet filled with pathos, they invite the reader into a decades-long evolution of sexuality, bodily autonomy, friendship, and loss. Schneck's prose maintains an unwavering intimacy, whether conjuring a teenage abortion in the midst of a liberal Parisian upbringing, the nuance of a long friendship, or a midlife romance....

"One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigrée named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious background and even more mysterious filmmaker husband. Within days the couple hire Viva as their assistant, then enlist her as an accomplice in an improbable scheme involving a long-lost...