Jonny Garza Villa

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Nevada

A Novel

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets The Sun is Also a Star in this YA contemporary love story from Jonny Garza Villa, Ander and Santi Were Here, about a nonbinary Mexican American teen falling for the shy new waiter at their family's taqueria.

Finding home. Falling in love. Fighting to belong.

The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Lopez has ever known. The smell of pan dulce. The mixture of Spanish and English filling the streets. And, especially their job at their family's taquería. It's the place that has inspired Ander as a muralist, and, as they get ready to leave for art school, it's all of these things that give them hesitancy. That give them the thought, are they ready to leave it all behind?

To keep Ander from becoming complacent during their gap year, their family "fires" them so they can transition from restaurant life to focusing on their murals and prepare for college. That is, until they meet Santiago Garcia, the hot new waiter. Falling for each other becomes as natural as breathing. Through Santi's eyes, Ander starts to understand who they are and want to be as an artist, and Ander becomes Santi's first steps toward making Santos Vista and the United States feel like home.

Until ICE agents come for Santi, and Ander realizes how fragile that sense of home is. How love can only hold on so long when the whole world is against them. And when, eventually, the world starts to win.

Ander and Santi Were Here

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Shushushu Sakurai

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

 * A young Prince of the Ababida Kingdom is being pressured to marry, but thePrince detests the idea and decides to run away. Lost and stranded in thedesert, he's rescued by Haruto, a Japanese tourist in search of the treasure,"The Rose of the Desert." It's love at first sight -- the Prince instantlyfalls head over heels in love and asks Haruto to marry him!

The Desert Prince (Yaoi)

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Fumi Fumi Tsuyuhisa

Which will you find in this devastated world -- love or despair? Nineteen-year-old Hikaru Asahina lost everything the day the world ended. Everything, that is, except his childhood friend Ai Kosaka, who has always taken care of him. Now the two of them, along with other survivors, struggle to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic world filled with man-eating zombies. And when Ai confesses to feeling something more for Hikaru, it changes everything. After all, the more precious someone is to you, the harder it is to lose them. In a world like theirs, is something like love even possible? NOTE: This book contains graphic violence and graphic sexual content, including sexual assault. It is only intended for audiences aged 18 and up.

UNDEAD: Finding Love in the Zombie Apocalypse, Volume 2

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Which will you find in this devastated world -- love or despair? In a dystopian world, the people killed by an unknown virus rise from the dead and attack humans. Hikaru, a high schooler, is attacked by his zombified mother and runs away with his childhood friend Ai, whom he loves like an older brother. While Hikaru struggles with his grief, Ai has been watching over Hikaru, as he's done since they were kids. Can love be born in a ruined land? Don't take your eyes off this apocalyptic BL!

UNDEAD: Finding Love in the Zombie Apocalypse, Volume 1

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Yuu Toyota

It's complicated: A thirty-year-old virgin gets more than he bargained for when his newfound magical power reveals he's the object of his male coworker's affections!

Adachi, a thirty-year-old virgin, discovers he has the magical power to read the minds of people he touches. Unfortunately, the ability just makes him miserable since he doesn't know how to use it well! And to make matters worse, when he accidentally reads the mind of his very competent, handsome colleague, Adachi discovers the guy has a raging crush on none other than Adachi himself! Things are about to get VERY awkward!

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! 01

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Dancehall

Dento Hayane

Small peeling of back cover on bottom right back corner, otherwise new/mint. 

Matoi Souta is an overworked office worker tired of his life. Then, on his way home from a long day of work one day, he decides to watch a traditional Japanese play. But something strange happens. He could have sworn he saw one of the actors has cat ears. It turns out that the man is actually a bakeneko -- a shapeshifting cat from Japanese folklore. And then, the cat speaks: "From now on, you will be my mate."

The Cat Proposed

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Kotobuki

Every day is leg day in this ultra-cute high school comedy! The students at Hanamaru Academy are putting the boot (and booty!) to gender norm uniforms. Instead of wearing drab blazers, these beauty-builders are obsessed with the length of their skirts and the size of their chests as they try to navigate high school. This high-energy comedy takes being cute and being cut to a whole new level!

THIGH HIGH: Reiwa Hanamaru Academy Vol. 1

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Hinako Takanaga

The chaste priest Mauro finds a boy in his church named Raoul. On his head are curled horns, and a long black tail... c-could this be a demon!? And on top of that, Raoul's hot hands and gaze make Mauro's body ache -- a body that was supposed to be devoted to God!

The Devil's Secret (Yaoi)

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Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

Philip Boehm

André Aciman

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

"A jewel of a rediscovery . . . . A riveting, noirish, intensely filmic portrait of an ambivalent fugitive, cornered but not captured, safest when in motion, at greatest risk when forced to rest."
--The Wall Street Journal

Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another . . . until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany, as he searches first for information, then for help, and finally for escape. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor, The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control.

Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Long considered lost, the original manuscript was only recently discovered in the German archives and has now been published throughout the world and universally hailed as a masterpiece.

The Passenger

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Nathan Hill

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Nix, a witty and poignant new novel about modern marriage, our tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together. When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the 90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago’s thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars, and something called Love Potion Number Nine. For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize one another, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to painful childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other. Moving from the gritty 90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home renovation hysteria, Wellness mines the absurdities of modern technology and modern love to reveal profound, startling truths about intimacy and connection. In the follow-up to Hill’s electric debut, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart.

Wellness

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Kou Yoneda

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A highly anticipated new short story collection from one of the most popular creators of yaoi manga.

A collection of masterful, sensual stories by popular yaoi creator Kou Yoneda! In the title story, Masato Karashima is a "transporter," a man paid to smuggle anything from guns to drugs to people. When he's hired by yakuza gang member Masaki Hozumi, he finds himself attracted to the older man, and what starts out as a business transaction quickly spirals into a cat-and-mouse game of lust and deception. In "Emotion Spectrum," a high-school student tries to be a good wingman for a classmate, with an unexpected result, while "Reply" is told from the alternating perspectives of an emotionally reserved salesman and the shy mechanic who's in love with him.

NightS

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Scarlet Beriko

When the panty hose go on, all bets are off between these best guy friends!

Practical Keisuke's incredibly handsome best friend Masayuki has always rubbed him just a little bit the wrong way. Maybe it's because Masayuki is rich, carefree, and so stunningly handsome that he can, and does, have any girl he wants? But one day, when Keisuke accidentally wears his older sister's panty hose to gym class, it's suddenly his hot friend who's doing the rubbing...on Keisuke's panty hose-clad legs! Has he unwittingly unleashed a secret fetish that will change their relationship forever?

Keisuke's incredibly handsome best friend Masayuki has always rubbed him just a little bit the wrong way. Maybe it's because Masayuki is rich, carefree, and so stunningly handsome that he can, and does, have any girl he wants? But one day, when Keisuke accidentally wears his older sister's panty hose to gym class, it's suddenly his hot friend who's doing the rubbing...on Keisuke's panty hose-clad legs! Has he unwittingly unleashed a secret fetish that will change their relationship forever?

Jackass!

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Kichi Kichi Uekawa

Sakura, an office worker at the top of his game working for a major company, has a complex over being an Omega. He hates that Alphas are always oppressing Omegas and has resolved to be Mate-free for life. One day, however, he loses his memory in a freak accident, and finds out that somehow he and his colleague -- an Alpha named Narushige, whom he's always thought of as a rival -- have become mated! At first, Sakura is adamantly against the arrangement, but by and by, Narushige's steadfast compassion, trust, and affection as his partner leave Sakura finding himself attracted to him... NOTE: This book contains mature themes and explicit sexual content, including dubious consent. It is not intended for anyone under 18 years of age.

A Complicated Omega's Second Love

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Aya Sakyo

An omega with a complicated past falls for an alpha who doesn't believe in fate.

A virgin omega living in secret is outed when his first heat hits at work! Just when he thinks things can't get much worse, he bumps right into his secret crush who just so happens to be a smokin' hot alpha!

Hana--an omega frequently mistaken for an alpha--works at a local cafe, and at 26 years old, he's somehow never gone into heat and still retains his virginity. When his first heat finally hits, it's in front of arrogant alpha Renjaku, a regular at the cafe whom he's been secretly crushing on. Will a sought-after alpha such as Renjaku take his coffee and go, or will he take something much sweeter instead?

Scattering His Virgin Bloom, Vol. 1

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Alexandra Benedict

All aboard, but beware! Passengers who sleep on this train may never wake up. In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the sleeper train from London to the Highlands derails, along with the festive plans of its travelers. With the train buried in snow in the middle of nowhere, the passengers have only each other, and not all of them will reach their holiday celebrations. As a killer tries to pick passengers off one by one, former Met Detective Roz Parker can't resist one last investigation, but murder in a locked room is a formidable puzzle for even the most seasoned investigator. As accusations begin to fly, the group of travelers fractures and unexpected alliances form. Can Roz find the culprit before anyone else is lost?

Murder on the Christmas Express

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Franco Lucentini

Gregory Dowling

New copy but does have sticker residue on top left cover. 

The setting is Venice. The month November. Glittering worldliness and dubious shabbiness overlap, and passion and suspicion intertwine in a three-day Venetian adventure, bookended by a train's arrival and a ship's departure. She is an elegant Roman princess who scouts for one of the large English auction houses. He is a fascinating, mysterious man of indeterminate age, the leader of a tour group. He seems to know every language and all secrets. But who is he really? Around them are the canals and lagoons of Venice, a city which becomes a character in the novel in its own right. Poised delicately on the line between tragedy and comedy, Fruttero and Lucentini compose in this novel "a sort of Wagnerian motif held aloft by Mozart's hands." Written with elegance and wit, this is an atypical, sophisticated, elaborate novel of love and the criminal shenanigans of the Italian art world. But, at the story's core lies the deeply intriguing mystery of the guide's true identity.

The Lover of No Fixed Abode

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"Curl up by the fire (and lock all the doors) for this Christmas cracker of a book." --C.S. Green, author of Sleep Tight

Twelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night?

Agatha Christie meets Clue in this delightful, tense manor house murder mystery.

The annual Christmas Game is afoot at Endgame House, the Armitages' grand family home. This year's prize is to die for--deeds to the house itself--but Lily Armitage has no intention of returning. She hasn't been back to Endgame since her mother died, twenty-one years ago, and she has no intention of claiming the house that haunts her dreams.

Until, that is, she receives a letter from her aunt promising that the game's riddles will give her the keys not only to Endgame, but to its darkest secrets, including the identity of her mother's murderer.

Now, Lily must compete with her estranged cousins for the twelve days of Christmas. The snow is thick, the phone lines are down, and no one is getting in or out. Lily will have to keep her wits about her, because not everyone is playing fair, and there's no telling how many will die before the winner is declared.

Including additional scavenger hunts for the reader, this clever murder mystery is the perfect gift for fans of classic mysteries, festive Christmas books, and armchair detective work.

The Christmas Murder Game

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Memeco Arii

A yaoi romance between a good boy who didn't know he was waiting for a hero, and a bad boy who comes to his rescue! Now a hit anime on Amazon Prime! "I don't like caramel sauce. I prefer something bitter..." Masahiro Setagawa doesn't believe in heroes, but wishes he could: He's found himself in a gang of small-time street bullies who use him to run errands. But when high school teacher (and scourge of the streets) Kousuke Ohshiba comes to his rescue, he finds he may need to start believing after all...and as their relationship deepens, he realizes a hero might be just what he was looking for this whole time.

Hitorijime My Hero 1

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Go back to where it all began! At long last, the one-volume story that birthed the global BL anime and manga phenomenon Hitorijime My Hero arrives in English in print!

"EITHER YOU LET ME MAKE LOVE TO YOU, OR WE END OUR FRIENDSHIP AGAIN. WHAT'S IT GONNA BE?"
 
Before Masahiro and Kousuke's whirlwind romance in Hitorijime My Hero, there was Hitorijime Boyfriend--and now, the origin of one of manga's biggest franchises is finally revealed! Back in sixth grade, Kensuke had a falling out with his best friend Hasekura that still hurts three years later. Then, one day, Hasekura's suddenly back in Kensuke's life like nothing happened. What, exactly, is going on? And what will Kensuke do when Hasekura wants to take things to a whole other level...?

Hitorijime Boyfriend (Hitorijime My Hero)

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Li-Young Lee

Poems

Celebrated poet Li-Young Lee returns with a breathtaking new volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love. The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, as well as the horrors the poet grew up with as a child of refugees. Lee draws from disparate sources, including the Old Testament, the Dao De Jing, and the music of the Wu Tang Clan. While the ostensive subjects of these layered, impassioned poems are wide-ranging, their driving engine is a burning need to understand our collective human mission.

The Undressing

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Ashley Mardell

(Gender Identity Book for Teens, Teen and Young Adult LGBT Issues)

About 3.5% of the 2015 U.S. population identifies as being part of the LGBT community. This is NOT a celebrity book, but no doubt the notoriety of Caitlyn Jenner has propelled the issue to the forefront of media. A book of great insightfulness and self-evaluation and direction on how to deal with the issues confronting those who want to embrace their true self without fear of alienation of friends and families or not sharing who they are for fear of reprisal. Ashley lived this, and came out stronger than she ever thought imaginable, so while it has elements of memoir, it is very much a self-help title.

The ABC's of LGBT+

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Patrick Ness

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Chaos Walking: Book Two

Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.

The Ask and the Answer (with Bonus Short Story)

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Patricia Highsmith

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

1941-1995

Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Beloved by fans who were unaware of the real psychological turmoil behind her prose, the famously secretive Highsmith refused to authorize a biography, instead sequestering herself in her Switzerland home in her final years. Posthumously, her devoted editor Anna von Planta discovered her diaries and notebooks in 1995, tucked in a closet--with tantalizing instructions to be read.

For years thereafter, von Planta meticulously culled from over eight thousand pages to help reveal the inscrutable figure behind the legendary pen. Beginning with her junior year at Barnard in 1941, Highsmith ritualistically kept a diary and notebook--the former to catalog her day, the latter to brainstorm stories and hone her craft. This volume weaves diary and notebook simultaneously, exhibiting precisely how Highsmith's personal affairs seeped into her fiction--and the sheer darkness of her own imagination.

Charming yet teetering on the egotistical, young "Pat" lays bare her dizzying social life in 1940s Greenwich Village, barhopping with Judy Holliday and Jane Bowles, among others. Alongside Flannery O'Conner and Chester Himes, she attended--at the recommendation of Truman Capote--the Yaddo artist colony in 1948, where she drafted Strangers on a Train. Published in 1950 and soon adapted by Alfred Hitchcock, this debut novel brought recognition and brief financial security, but left a heartsick Highsmith agonizing: "What is the life I choose?"

Providing extraordinary insights into gender and sexuality in mid-twentieth-century America, Highsmith's diaries convey her euphoria writing The Price of Salt (1951). Yet her sophomore novel would have to be published under a pseudonym, so as not to tarnish her reputation. Indeed, no one could anticipate commercial reception for a novel depicting love between two women in the McCarthy era. Seeking relief from America, Highsmith catalogs her peripatetic years in Europe, subsisting on cigarettes and growing more bigoted and satirical with age. After a stay in Positano with a new lover, she reflects in her notebooks on being an expat, and gleefully conjures the unforgettable The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955); it would be this sociopathic antihero who would finally solidify her true fame.

At once lovable, detestable, and mesmerizing, Highsmith put her turbulent life to paper for five decades, acutely aware there must be "a few usable things in literature." A memoir as significant in our own century as Sylvia Plath's journals and Simone de Beauvoir's writings were to another time, Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks is an historic work that chronicles a woman's rise against the conventional tide to unparalleled literary prominence.

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Jonny Garza Villa

Ander and Santi Were Here

Shushushu Sakurai

The Desert Prince (Yaoi)

Fumi Fumi Tsuyuhisa

UNDEAD: Finding Love in the Zombie Apocalypse, Volume 2

Fumi Tsuyuhisa

UNDEAD: Finding Love in the Zombie Apocalypse, Volume 1

Yuu Toyota

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! 01

Tom Stobierski

Dancehall

Dento Hayane

The Cat Proposed

Kotobuki

THIGH HIGH: Reiwa Hanamaru Academy Vol. 1

Hinako Takanaga

The Devil's Secret (Yaoi)

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz; Philip Boehm; André Aciman

The Passenger

Nathan Hill

Wellness

Kou Yoneda

NightS

Scarlet Beriko

Jackass!

Kichi Uekawa

A Complicated Omega's Second Love

Aya Sakyo

Scattering His Virgin Bloom, Vol. 1

Alexandra Benedict

Murder on the Christmas Express

Franco Lucentini; Gregory Dowling

The Lover of No Fixed Abode

Alexandra Benedict

The Christmas Murder Game

Memeco Arii

Hitorijime My Hero 1

Memeco Arii

Hitorijime Boyfriend (Hitorijime My Hero)

Li-Young Lee

The Undressing

Ashley Mardell

The ABC's of LGBT+

Patrick Ness

The Ask and the Answer (with Bonus Short Story)

Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks

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