Let's celebrate by reading a book featuring a Filipino character or by a Filipino author. YA LGBT Fiction FF Romance FF Romance MF Romance MF Romance MM Romance YA FF Romance YA MM Sports Rom YA MM Romance Filipino-American Authors: Alex Brown More Resources: Filipino Romance and Women's Fiction Books and Authors Philippine Philippine-American Fiction Filipiniana Graphic Novels / Komiks…

“ … it started off by finding a few floaters in the harbour, but that caused a huge amount of attention in the press. It’s only a theory that they’re linked, but we’ve found six men, almost skeletons, in the past seven months dumped in all sorts of places, all with the same ligature marks and signs of abuse on their backs.”

The city girl who just inherited an apple orchard, the farmhand who thought it should go to her & their fight to fix it up. BELLS: I didn’t even know I had an aunt who lived upstate. So when she leaves her apple orchard to me, I assume it’s a good way to get my law school loans paid off. As I set to sell the place, the last thing I anticipated was a stubborn farmhand who thought she knew everything about me.

“...if there’s one thing my thirteen years of life have taught me, it’s that having parents who love you doesn’t erase the somebody else who brought you into the world.” Despite being adopted into a loving family, thirteen-year-old Gloria feels as if her life is a bit too much like the crossword puzzles she and her dad enjoy solving together: too many empty spaces and not enough clues.

I did not realize how many states in the U.S. I visit ALL of the time.😆 I also spend ALOT of time in alternate universes...it explains so much about my personality. My whole goal this year is to travel in books and lucky for me the I Heart Sapphic Reading Challenge hits this goal perfectly. The challenge wants you to hit every state in the United States, plus some countries, outer space, and even under the sea.

How far would you be willing to go to reveal the truth? Finding a good work–life balance isn’t always easy when you’re sleeping with the boss. Charlie Watts is stressed as he studies for his private investigator’s licence, starts taking on his own cases and navigates his relationship with Declan Hunt. He thinks he can handle it, but every time their relationship seems to be going well, work gets in the way.

Here is more information about these books: The Haunted Librarian by Auralee Wallace A lonely librarian finds love, friends, and a few ghosts between the shelves in this cozy, paranormal tale from beloved bestselling author Auralee Wallace. It’s a dark and stormy night…and Amelia Bates is caught in the rain. Life hasn’t always been kind to her, and being a ghostseer certainly doesn’t make things any easier.

The Sapphic Book Bingo is a fun, year-long event for readers of sapphic fiction. It runs from January 1 to December 31, 2026. You can join any time you want. For more information, please check out Author Jae's website. Categories I've completed so far: R1, R5, R10, R12, R16, R2, R3, R5, R22 R3

What the Empire forges, the heart unmakes. The Crucible: the Empire’s brutal war academy, where the Aethyr-touched are forged into weapons and attachment is a crime. Aethyrim like Mora Dray don’t enroll. They’re delivered. Property of the Empire. Trained to kill. Culled when they break. Mora walks through the gates with quick knives, a closed mouth, and a secret that will hang her if anyone looks too closely.

A beautifully illustrated book that gently explores the complicated feelings Miya experiences when her teacher shares a story about a little girl who was taken away to a residential school. It happened because she was Indigenous, just like Miya! Miya worries it’ll happen to her. What can she do about these feelings? This beautifully illustrated book, based on the lived experience of the author, that gently explores the complicated feelings a young girl experiences as she learns about tragedy and injustice.

Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge Status Photo from Goodreads NetGalley Challenge Page. I have been participating in the NetGalley Challenge for the last three years. This is the year that I'm finally going to get caught up and hit that 80% goal mark!...hmmm, maybe. I'm going to try. How to Participate: The NetGalley Challenge is designed to not only get you to read your NetGalley books, but to also advertise your reviews for others to see because after all, that's what NetGalley is all about.

WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU ARE. STOP DIGGING. Freshman year, Ace Li kissed his best friend, Akash Patel. The next day, Akash moved away without a word―and Ace was so brokenhearted he stopped eating. It took years for Ace to recover, but he’s finally stable again. Ace drinks his protein shakes, swims every morning, and might even win the debate competition this year.

How far would you be willing to go to keep a secret? When writer Malcolm Tull is discovered dead at his writing desk, all signs point to suicide. But Malcolm' s editor isn' t so sure. There' s the matter of the man' s missing computer, a mislaid manuscript and the fact that he didn' t seem the type to take his own life.

I'm adding books to my ever increasing #tbrpile. Click on the book and it will take you to their Goodreads page. Sapphic Romance The Lives We Run From by Yoe Apolinario Sapphic Second Chance Romance Trial by Taste by C.W. Elliot Tangled at the Root: A Dark Sapphic Gothic Romance by Viano Oniomoh Sever Me Darling by Sierra Scandella sapphic jekyll and hyde retelling…

Dark academia takes a fresh twist in this YA novel, where a determined high school senior strikes a bargain with a demon to win a coveted scholarship—only to discover her rival has made the same deal. Merritt Maldonado has done everything right. But for every club she’s founded, tree she’s planted, and sport she’s played, her academic nemesis Linus Lexington has been right there.

An artist. A developer. And an art gallery which they both want—for very different reasons. When recent uni grad Matty Gowen-Smith, a talented painter and not so talented bartender, spills a tray of drinks on a hot-shot investor, Florian de Ligt, he’s left with no choice to make amends. Especially after Matty ruins Florian’s suit on a big night out for Florian’s birthday.

It actually runs all month long, but there is one week during the month where a lot of people focus on bisexuality. Here are some books that we have reviewed. The books below focus on bi4bi couples. I have included a link to all books featuring bisexual main characters.

A mysterious bioluminescent green goo is turning orphans into wood‑eating zombies. It’s up to Felix and Ninja to stop it before it turns them into zombies too. When mysterious bioluminescent green goo turns orphans into wood‑eating zombies, 13‑year‑old naturalist Felix can’t hide in his tree fort anymore—someone unleashed this plague deliberately, and they’re still out there. Forced to team up with Ninja, a shadow‑dwelling orphan who trusts no one, Felix must trade his field journal for action.

Magic, danger, and heart collide in this middle-grade adventure as Auri Braga risks everything to raise a fire-serpent in secret and save the Amazon from destruction. Perfect for fans of Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez and The Last Beekeeper! Auri Braga isn’t much of a fighter—not like her parents, who rode the legendary Boitatás, protecting the Amazon and its people.

A chance encounter with the mate she's been running away from changes everything for Lexi. Running into her mate should be a good thing, but for Lexi, it comes with unimaginable pressure. But when she sees Edur again after three years apart, she knows that there's no escaping the mate bond between them, even if she's scared to face what a relationship might mean for the two of them.

The time is now; the city is LA. The hunt for a magical killer has begun. Sah has gone through a lot in three years. I mean how often does a person find out their sister disappeared, meet a hot detective, get bitten by a werewolf, and discover they are part of a legacy of shape shifters? She thought her life would calm down and she could enjoy a summer vacation in LA.

This international bestseller is the true story of a devoted book lover who finds connection in the vast sea of Tokyo by recommending to strangers the book that will change their lives. The Bookshop Woman: My Year Transforming Lives--One Book at a Time “I'm the manager of a very unusual bookshop. I have over ten thousand books in my vast memory bank, and I'll recommend the perfect one for you.”

They're destined to fall in love... if they don't kill each other first. Violet “Vy” Finch is a vampire cursed, for the very blood she needs is poison to her. Suffering unquenchable hunger and shunned for being of mixed lineage, Vy searches desperately for her mother who disappeared over a decade ago—the one person who may be able to heal her.

You can’t choose your dad, but you can choose your daddy… A slow-burn, fake relationship, age-gap Christmas romance with a twist. When Lucas’s boyfriend Julian gives him an ultimatum – invite his estranged, homophobic father to his first Christmas with Julian’s family, or end their relationship – he has no idea what to do. That is until his absentee landlord, Sid stumbles into the flat at 2am, drunk, recently dumped and in need of somewhere to spend Christmas.

Looking for something a little different than blood spread across the page? It's cozy mystery day where all murders happen off the page! More reads: More books read by Mx. Phoebe Best Cozy Mystery Series Paranormal Cozy Mysteries Cozy Cat Mystery Books Halloween and Autumn Cozy Mysteries Books used in Promo: Last Dance Before Dawn by Katherine Schellman Out of the Loop by Katie Siegel…

Let's celebrate this heritage with books from Hispanic and Latine authors and more with main characters who are from these cultures. Children's Book: Fiction: Mystery: F/F Mystery Romance: FF PNR FF FF M/F NA Romance MM YA Fantasy MM YA PNR MM Mystery YA Fiction: Holiday Romance F/F FG Mystery FF Non-Fiction

🎂Happy Birthday to the following new releases!🎂 Here's more information on these new releases: Spikes, Dice and Other Variables by Harper Kinsley Life is over for Riley McMahon. Well, it isn’t really, but when you’re the star setter of the volleyball team and on the brink of academic ineligibility, the actual end of Everything™ feels closer than you think. Terrified of failing math and losing her spot on the team, she’s desperate to do anything to save her grades.

Levi Anderson has never felt more alone. Since saying goodbye to his husband, he has drifted between long shifts at the hospital and quiet, empty hours in his apartment, surrounded by boxes he can’t bring himself to unpack. He refuses to face the pain — or imagine a life without him. Shay Miller has never been more furious. In one devastating moment, he lost the man he loved, his job, and the home they shared.

A ballerina, an ogre, and a love that refuses to stay forgotten. Hilarina and the Ogre Hilary Davis knows how to disappear. After years of being mocked as "Hilarina Ballerina," he's perfected the act. He has a popular girlfriend he can't stand, friends he doesn't trust, and a strict rule never to dance where anyone can see. It's a brittle kind of safety, but it's all he has.

How far would you be willing to go to finish the job? Declan Hunt is having a bad week. His kidnapping case is showing little progress, his office assistant has left him on short notice, and his latest investigation has left him literally battered and bruised. But things change when he hires twenty-four year old Charlie Watts to help out at the office.

I'm adding books to my ever increasing #tbrpile. Click on the book and it will take you to their Goodreads page. Sapphic Historical Fiction A Tiger in Suburbia by Anna Woiwood Goodreads Genre Tags: Lesbian, LGBT, Romance, Historical, Bisexual, Queer, Fiction, Adult Sapphic Fiction The Details by Ia Genberg Goodreads Genre Tags: Fiction, Contemporary, Queer, Sweden Sapphic Romance Stay & Surrender by Azarie Reign…

The right power play converts when you least expect it. If there’s one thing missing in Kilian Howard’s life, it’s dignity. Talent, good looks, and social skills wouldn’t go amiss either, but more than anything, he longs to be taken seriously. With everyone on his team treating him like a child, including the second hockey coach in two years threatening to bench him for not being good enough, is it any wonder Kilian turns to a virtual stranger in the form of Damir Denisov to explore some very adult needs?

Based on a real-life partnership, the heartening story of the love and teamwork between a girl and her service dog will illuminate and inspire. Rescue thought he'd grow up to be a Seeing Eye dog -- it's the family business, after all. When he gets the news that he's better suited to being a service dog, he's worried that he's not up to the task.

He came for the job. He left owned. Alex Mercer was supposed to be untouchable: the golden heir to his family's powerful law firm in Los Angeles, two years of associate experience under his belt, dispatched to Las Vegas to bring the chaotic Global Combat League to heel. Instead, he met Jack Doyle. Compact. Battle-hardened. Close-cropped dark hair just beginning to gray.

Perfect for fans of The Shadows Between Us and Powerless, this high stakes romantasy follows a vengeful teen who cons her way into an elite society of tyrannical witches. But her warring feelings for two people—an enemy prince and her childhood friend—could ruin everything. Caya was once the ward of Coventry’s royal family…until they were killed by the three witch Houses that now rule the peninsula.

Cute, confused, self-conscious, and emotionally vulnerable. It’s almost too easy. Scientist Grace Ramsay takes one look at the young woman limping into the villa next door and decides Dawn is just what she a distraction. Tasked with evaluating Moon Island for a chemicals giant looking for a waste dump far from civilization, Grace feels increasingly uneasy about her job. She usually responds to stress by having good sex and it sure looks like Dawn Dawn could use a confidence booster, given the scars she’s so sensitive about.

Julian used to be a ghost and now he can’t stop seeing them. Ever since being sacrificed as part of a forbidden ritual, Julian has been able to see and communicate with the spirits of passed brujx. And that would be okay, if it allowed him to be part of his new boyfriend's community. But Julian’s also seeing other things: shadows in the corner of his eyes, glowing eyes in the dark, and “dark spots” on people – gaping, black gashes that are somehow wrong.

🎂Happy Birthday to the following new releases!🎂 Here's more information on these new releases: At the Border of Destiny by C. Quince Murad is an Imperial Messenger , and he has a secret... He’s a witch. On a visit to the foreign court of Mercia in Britain, he has a vision of the crown prince, Aaron, in serious trouble. In his desire to save Aaron’s life, Murad becomes entangled in Mercia’s political strife, border disputes, and rising Paganism.

Two terrifying truths await her: She must marry the Prince of Death. And she’s been ordered to kill him. Yildiz serves as the Southern princess’s bodyguard, but when the princess vanishes, she’s forced to take her place. Disguised as the royal bride, Yildiz enters the enemy palace, betrothed to the Northern prince. Dayyan is known by all as the ruthless Northern executioner.

In the new crime thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, Lt. Eve Dallas journeys into the darkness where murder is born… NYSPD homicide detective Eve Dallas never knows what to expect when she gets word of a body. It could be an elderly man who made the mistake of climbing a ladder in slippery footwear. And the next call could be a wealthy biotech executive beaten to death in his home office—but what was Larry Chu’s mistake?

From the National Book Award–winning author of Kareem Between comes a powerful novel in verse about two sisters trapped in a blizzard in a heart-wrenching story of sisterhood and survival. Two sisters. One storm. A fight for their lives. Rama is all fire—fierce, quick to anger, and trying to hold her family together while battling the monster of intrusive thoughts. Leena is all ice—quiet, numbed to the vibrancy of the world, as she silently blames herself for their mother’s death.

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.

Facts! "(T)here's a computer more powerful than any AI," Edgar said. "The human brain." Asher, Reis. (2025). Killing Motives. p. 60 Learn more about this book here. Credits:Book cover photos are from NetGalley, Authors, Publicists, and Goodreads.Hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies, this is where you share a favorite quote, line, or passage from your reading each week! (I learned about it from Budget Tales Book Blog.)

One anonymous night. One secret wedding. One woman she was never supposed to see again. Pippa Nelson is an up-and-coming event planner who excels at making other people’s happiest days look effortless. Trained as an English butler with a family history of royal service, she has made discretion her life’s work. So when she’s hired to plan a top-secret wedding between an A-list actor and the daughter of an American political dynasty, she knows exactly what she’s signing on for.

I started laughing immediately because this is totally Shay. “I got a black eye on my first day of ninth grade.” Preisendorfer, Jessie. (2026). More Anger Chronicles: Freshman Year. Synopsis Shay, sarcastic and queer, is settling in with her fifth foster family in four years. The Morgensterns—Rabbi Miriam, husband Ravid, nine-year-old twins Nathan and Eli, and a big black cat—welcoming and patient, slowly adjust to life with Shay.

A grumpy cryptid falls for his sunshine human. Cover designer: Claire at BookSmith Design I didn’t come to Wisconsin looking for a legend. I came to get out. Out of staged smiles. Out of corporate campaigns. Out of photographing happiness that felt manufactured. I was supposed to spend two months in the woods. No clients, no deadlines, just open sky, real silence, and nothing that needed editing.

Del has two rules. One: Stay away from royalty. Two: Don’t fall in love. The first is because Del is secretly Adeleine Ventris, runaway princess. After the death of her sister at the hand of her lover, Del has fled her family, home, and all the responsibilities that come with being the queendom’s new daughter-heir—but not before faking her death and magically constructing a new, mirrorwoven face.

Dragons and magic combine in this sapphic retelling of Cinderella. Deyanara is one of the last surviving dragons of House Iron, her lineage hanging by a thread after a tragic accident claimed her family. With her House on the brink of ruin, she's determined to work day and night to ensure its survival. When she's mistaken for a contender in the brutal Ascension Rites—a legendary tournament where dragons fight monsters for the chance at winning divine favour—Deyanara expects humiliation.

The Naturals are BACK! #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes delivers the highly anticipated new installment in her beloved Naturals series. Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI’s Naturals program at seventeen because she had an incredible ability to read people. Since then, Cassie, fellow profiler Dean, emotion‑reader Michael, lie‑detector Lia, and statistical genius Sloane have caught serial killers, outsmarted masterminds, and saved countless lives.

🎂Happy Birthday to the following new releases!🎂 Here's more information on these new releases: Mirrorwoven by Bori Cser Del has two rules. One: Stay away from royalty. Two: Don’t fall in love. The first is because Del is secretly Adeleine Ventris, runaway princess. After the death of her sister at the hand of her lover, Del has fled her family, home, and all the responsibilities that come with being the queendom’s new daughter-heir—but not before faking her death and magically constructing a new, mirrorwoven face.