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"Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep,...

"This summer, Elsie is finally going to confess her feelings to her longtime--and long-distance--crush. They may be separated by an ocean, but Elsie feels fluttery every time Ada's name pops up on her phone. Ada gets her like no one else. That is, until Joan, Elsie's childhood best friend, literally walks back ito her life. Joan, who disappeared into radio silence after moving away to Hong Kong years ago, and never replied to any of Elsie's letters...

"[A] sharp, charming and passionate debut." —New York Times Book Review

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"The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died, and rests among the archivists and storytellers of the storied abbey. But not everyone is prepared to leave them to their rest. Because Cleric Thien was once the patriarch of Coh clan of Northern Bell Pass--and now their granddaughters have arrived on the backs of royal...

In the wake of her girlfriend's tragic murder, Ren Daniels struggles with the loss, and her art gallery business is in disarray without her partner. Determined to push forward, she reluctantly opens herself to hire someone, a step she can no longer avoid. Avery Gray, a photography graduate student, is seeking an internship at Ren's art gallery. Despite their age gap and the professional boundaries that bind them, their attraction blooms like a breathtaking...

It's Christmastime and Elaine has a fantastic surprise for her longterm girlfriend, Jenna. She's going to propose they get a puppy, which Jenna has wanted to do for a long time now. But when Elaine finds out that Jenna has been cheating on her and is pregnant, she ends things immediately and decides to get a puppy for herself instead. Despite being heartbroken, she likes the idea rescuing an animal in need this holiday season. Even if it feels like...

Liz is going through a nightmare of a break-up. To escape the current stress in her life, she decides to go stay at her friend's cabin for a few days. But when she arrives at the cabin she finds that someone is already staying there, her friend forgot the cabin was already booked. She plans to leave to let the other woman, Emily, enjoy her vacation but when a snowstorm hits she's unable to get back on the road. Instead, she has to stay with a complete...

I didn't think I'd ever return to this town. We weren't together long, but I loved my wife deeply. Brooke meant the world to me and in her dying days, I married her. It's been a year since I lost her and I haven't been quite the same. It feels like my life has been put on hold and I'm not sure how to get it back on track. But apparently, Brooke believed she knew how to help me through my grief. On the anniversary of her death, a stranger shows up...

Gina hasn't always made the best choices, there are people in her past that she's deeply hurt. One of those people being Jess, her best friend who she'd completely lost contact with. Though she never stopped thinking of her, she could never bring herself to reach out after the shame of what she'd done to her. Gina didn't even want to come back to her hometown in fear of running into Jess, but she had to take care of her mother who is ill with cancer. But...

In this sequel/prequel to The Incredible Transformations of Alice Hollywood, nearly twenty years have passed since a fiery crash changed Em Martín's life. Now living in Los Angeles, and known professionally as Mackenna, a recent life-altering tragedy has her in an emotional tailspin. Memories and regrets previously buried and ignored have been churned up.In a desperate effort to stop her downward spiral into melancholy, Mackenna turns to her writing...