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SUMMARY:Bad Queer
DESCRIPTION:Bad Queer by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan\nFaber & Faber Children’s \nI feel invincible.\nLike I could run and run\nand never stop for breath.\n\nI feel a power in me\nI didn’t know I had.\n\nThe power to speak\,\nto say what I need.\n\nSurya knows exactly who they are. Coming out as non-binary to their queer parents and best friend? A total non-event. Catching feelings for Blessing – the boy in drama club whose smile makes their heart race? That’s trickier. \nAs their final year of school unfolds and the two of them grow closer\, Surya starts to question: Does Blessing really see them? Or just a version of them that doesn’t exist? They’d ask their best friend for advice\, but she’s busy falling in love too. . . \nWith gorgeous illustrations throughout\, Bad Queer draws us deeply into queer friendship\, family secrets\, and the necessary act of loving yourself. Perfect for fans of Alice Oseman\, Dean Atta\, and Sarah Crossan. \nThis is a love letter to queer futures – tender\, curious\, and fiercely alive.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/bad-queer/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,LGBTQIA,Romance
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SUMMARY:Goldenborn
DESCRIPTION:Goldenborn by Ama Ofosua Lieb\nScholastic \nAkoma Addo has one rule: don’t get too close to the supernatural. \nEver since a blazing orb of light left her father in a coma\, she’s buried herself in her secret job investigating magical crimes in San Francisco’s AfricaTown — just enough to keep her grief at bay. But when a body turns up in a pool of molten gold and ash\, Akoma’s pulled into something much bigger — and far more dangerous. At the center of it all is Anansi\, the trickster god of stories\, who makes her an impossible offer: help him catch a killer and awaken the ancestral magic buried deep in her blood… and in return\, he’ll give her a chance to bring her father back. To take the deal\, Akoma will have to lie to everyone she loves and embrace the very power she’s spent years trying to deny. And as her connection grows with Xander\, the new guy in town with secrets of his own\, Akoma must decide who she can trust — especially when she’s no longer sure she can even trust herself. Rooted in Ghanaian mythology and packed with mystery\, danger\, and slow-burning romance\, Goldenborn is a gripping fantasy about legacy\, lies\, and what it really means to rewrite your story.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/goldenborn/
CATEGORIES:Fantasy
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SUMMARY:The Heirs
DESCRIPTION:The Heirs by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé\nFeiwel & Friends \nFive prodigies\, one dead father\, a mansion full of suspects… \nOctavius the Maestro.\nFola the Brain.\nBilal the Olympian.\nPerdita the Artist.\nRomeo the Failure. \nThese are the five heirs of the illustrious billionaire Leontes Button. Adopted and viciously trained with their father’s infamous “Button Method” to prove his hypothesis for creating prodigies—child geniuses—the Button siblings have had no choice but to be brilliant according to their father’s impossibly high standards. \nUntil he is murdered at his annual Prodigy Ball. \nNow\, all who attended the ball are required to stay in the Button Manor while the police investigate. But the officers have their work cut out for them—each of the Button siblings has something to hide\, but The Heirs aren’t the only ones with secrets. After all\, Leontes Button was especially good at making enemies. . .
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/the-heirs/
CATEGORIES:Mystery
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTSTAMP:20260517T044200Z
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SUMMARY:Secret World of Briar Rose
DESCRIPTION:Secret World of Briar Rose by Cindy Pham\nKokila \nOne hundred years have passed since the last heir of Gyldan fell into eternal slumber and doomed the once-mighty kingdom to poverty and invasion. At least\, that’s what the fairy tales claim. \nCorin is a jaded thief who doesn’t believe in fables\, even when she searches Gyldan’s underground tunnels to find her younger sister\, Elly\, who ran away to find the sleeping princess in hopes of a better life. Corin’s conviction is challenged when she discovers the ruins of the ancient castle\, maintained by beings from the kingdom’s golden age\, who protect a hidden portal into Princess Amelia’s subconscious. Following Elly’s voice\, Corin jumps in the portal and seals the entry behind her. \nInside the lush world of Amelia’s dreams\, the sisters reunite for a new adventure as they meet Briar Rose\, Amelia’s whimsical alter ego\, and Malicine\, a sharp-tongued demon with a gift for magic. But as they explore ice castles\, sunflower mazes\, and star-filled oceans\, Corin suspects Briar Rose is hiding darker secrets behind her “perfect” paradise – and that there are some things her subconscious can’t bury forever.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/secret-world-of-briar-rose/
CATEGORIES:Fantasy,LGBTQIA
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTSTAMP:20260517T043712Z
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SUMMARY:Medicine Wheels
DESCRIPTION:Medicine Wheels by Byron Graves\nHeartdrum \nWhen Bryce’s mom walks out on her abusive boyfriend and back into jail for breaking her probation\, he’s left facing the summer of his junior year with no parents\, no phone\, and only the clothes on his back. \nWith nowhere to call home\, Bryce crashes at his grandparents’ house on Wolf Creek reservation. Wolf Creek is full of memories and old friends—including Robbie and Mikayla\, who hang out at the local skate park. \nSkateboarding reminds Bryce of his late dad: carefree\, riding like he could fly. If Bryce could learn to ride like that\, he’d take his crew to the top of the skateboarding championship at the end of the summer\, and finally prove he’s not a loser\, especially to the online-famous\, captivating Mikayla. Summer is looking up\, even as he’s falling on his face. \nBut when a fresh loss takes Bryce down\, he’ll need to learn to lean on his Ojibwe community to get back on the board. Only then can he discover his father’s real legacy—and the true meaning of unconditional love.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/medicine-wheels/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,Sports
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DTSTAMP:20260506T023139Z
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SUMMARY:Breakout
DESCRIPTION:Breakout by Dhonielle Clayton\, Tiffany B. Jackson\, Nic Stone\, Angie Thomas\, Ashley Woodfolk\, and Nicola Yoon\nQuill Tree \nFor Thurgood Marshall Academy’s best and brightest–five friends who’ve been thick as thieves since kindergarten–this spring break is all about forgetting: they want nothing more than to wash away last year’s tragedy\, and the human-shaped hole it left in their friend group. \nIt’s a hole the new kid\, Anthony Brooks\, seems to fit right into. So when he invites the Five to join him on a private island for a week at his dad’s luxury resort\, they agree with zero hesitation. No one’s counting on a freak tropical storm swooping in and killing the vibe. And speaking of killing\, they’re also ill-prepared for the mounting collection of dead bodies… including (another) one of their own. \nAs their dream trip unravels\, everything they tried to leave behind–secrets\, lies\, betrayals\, dead best friends–seems to be washing up on the shore of their lives for everyone to see. Will any of them make it out alive?
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/breakout/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,Romance,Thriller
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DTSTAMP:20260517T045227Z
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SUMMARY:The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue
DESCRIPTION:The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue by Zoulfa Katouh\nLittle\, Brown Books for Young Readers \nSeventeen-year-old Jihad Dabbagh has always seen life with a heightened sense for colors\, one of many magical blessings the women in her family possess. But Jihad’s gift changes depending on her mood. When depression sets in\, the world is a colorless oasis\, and in the wake of her mother’s sudden death\, the world has become a permanent shade of grey. Broken by tragedy\, Jihad’s family doesn’t believe her color loss. Her father sends her to the elite Braxton Academy to finish her senior year. There\, Jihad’s name and hijab put a target on her back. Her haven comes in the form of an old sketchbook carved from a tree in her hometown in Syria — a country she only knew through her mother’s stories. Jihad hasn’t picked up a brush in over a year\, but finds herself channeling the colors of her hurt\, pain\, and grief as she paints the story of her mother’s journey in Syria. When graffiti of that same mural starts magically popping up all over New York\, her art goes viral and the world takes notice\, the threat of legal consequences is imminent. To reclaim her voice\, Jihad will have to paint a new future for herself and Braxton\, guided by the resilience of her mother’s story.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/the-ocean-would-paint-me-blue/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary
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SUMMARY:Monarchs in the Wild
DESCRIPTION:Monarchs in the Wild by Israel Moya\nLee & Low Books \nIn the summer of 1994\, seventeen-year-old Cal ”California” Garcia can’t seem to escape the gossip and horrified looks of his fellow La Sombra residents. They judge him on nothing more than the long scar on his face\, his beat up ’68 Mustang\, and always being in the wrong place at the wrong time. \nCal constantly feels like he’s been set up to fail. His father left his family after the tragic accident that gave him his scar. His mother spends all her time at church\, enchanted by the words of a crooked pastor. And his new-old Mustang brings more trouble and chaos than it’s worth. Everything about being in La Sombra tells him he is and always will be a nothing. But as his senior year is coming to an end\, his life is turned drastically upside down. Out by the railroad tracks\, Cal finds Nora\, valedictorian Nora\, fallen off a bridge. The monarch butterflies stitched onto her jeans are seared into his memory forever. Having found her body\, Cal becomes a person of interest in Nora’s suspicious death. \nAs Cal tries to escape suspicion\, an opportunity for a way out of La Sombra emerges from nowhere\, and Cal is forced to choose his own fate. Will Cal finally decide who he is and where he wants to be? Or will he let circumstance choose for him and live his life as just another statistic in a farm-worker town?
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/monarchs-in-the-wild/
CATEGORIES:Historical
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260610
DTSTAMP:20260610T235249Z
CREATED:20251011T054629Z
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SUMMARY:When We Almost Came Undone
DESCRIPTION:When We Almost Came Undone by Georgia K. Boone\nFeiwel & Friends \nI just want to enjoy being alive. Can’t that be enough? \nTia doesn’t know how much more she can take. Things have been weird with her best friend Drew\, her older sister Mel is in a coma after a mental health crisis\, a global pandemic has stolen her senior year\, and racial tension is high across the country\, following the killing of another unarmed Black man by a police officer. \nSo when Tia’s oldest sister Alexis invites her to stay at her place\, Tia jumps at the chance to get out of the house and away from her daily life\, if only for a little while. But getting to know the cute girl she meets while walking her sister’s pandemic puppy is not enough to distract her from the weight of her world. Will Mel finally wake up? Is Alexis also on the edge of breaking? Will her friendship with Drew survive the summer? Is protest and quarantine all Tia can look forward to? \nWith so much unrest in the world and in her life\, Tia will have to figure out how to keep from losing hope or losing her mind.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/when-we-almost-came-undone/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260610
DTSTAMP:20260517T222045Z
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SUMMARY:Blue Beach
DESCRIPTION:Blue Beach by Karyn Parsons\nLittle\, Brown Books for Young Readers \nFifteen-year-old Blue Collins’s parents own the only Black beach in Santa Monica in 1929. She loves spending time there with her handsome friend Ben Clark. It’s a quiet spot where they can be alone and where Ben’s darker skin won’t be judged by onlookers—or Blue’s own family. \nDuring a sunset rendezvous after a summer parade\, the pair discovers the body of Dottie Whitehouse\, a white debutante. Blue Beach is already threatened by local white property owners. Now their whole community could be at risk. In their panic\, Blue and Ben move Dottie’s body into the waters of a nearby white beach. \nDottie’s body washes ashore\, and it isn’t long before all eyes are on Ben. Everyone saw how Dottie teased him and how they shared smiles. And their history goes deeper than Blue ever realized. But to save Ben from the outraged white townspeople\, she’ll need to do whatever she can to dig up the truth and prove his innocence. Ben isn’t the only one whose life depends on it.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/blue-beach/
CATEGORIES:Historical
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
DTSTAMP:20260517T222434Z
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SUMMARY:Together We See
DESCRIPTION:Together We See by Ari Tison\nFarrar\, Straus and Giroux (BYR) \nHow far would you go to protect your land? To protect your family? \nTold in multiple points of view\, Together We See follows Ulá Dominguez\, a Bribri-American teenager\, searching for the truth behind her land-activist father’s mysterious death on their Native territory in Costa Rica. Ulá and her brother\, Kabék\, uncover secrets and corruption as they face off against illegal loggers\, kidnappers\, settlers\, and the local government in the hunt for clues. Their only allies are a few family friends and relatives still living in Bribri\, as well as a young journalist\, who may be in danger himself. But as details of their father’s death emerge\, long-held trust is broken. And in this sinister web of deception\, no one is safe. \nInspired by real-world missing\, dead\, and attacked Indigenous activists\, award-winning author Ari Tison writes her first novel in prose and pushes the envelope yet again by pulling together a propulsive story full of grief\, environmental justice\, and the fight for retribution.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/together-we-see/
CATEGORIES:Mystery
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
DTSTAMP:20260517T222714Z
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SUMMARY:Tangled Roots & Wild Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Tangled Roots & Wild Dreams by Angela Velez\nHarperCollins \nEzzie Ramosis a champion secret keeper. Her brilliant-professor mami and nosy abuelita don’t know about her daily ritual (wandering the art museum)\, her college applications (hopelessly blank)\, or her summer plans (avoiding the dreaded f-word\, a.k.a. her future\, at all costs). \nEzzie’s biggest secret? She’s interning at Sprout\, the urban garden she’s stunned to discover her father founded weeks before his death. All she knows about Papi begins and ends with his dazzling scientific research legacy—but what if he dreamed of a different path too? \nWith seven weeks to uncover who Papi really was\, Ezzie must chase down every lead\, even if it means tangling with Sprout’s star volunteer\, Gabe McCalister\, who couldn’t be more off-limits—or distractingly cute. But as Ezzie begins to put down roots at Sprout\, she learns that secrets\, like seeds\, have a way of growing toward the light. . . .
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/tangled-roots-wild-dreams/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,Romance
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
DTSTAMP:20260517T223059Z
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SUMMARY:Libertad
DESCRIPTION:Libertad by Cassandra James\nQuill Tree \nAlongside her sister\, Ximena Reale now sails under the banner of the legendary pirate Gasparilla. But\, between the bounty on “Gasparilla’s” head and the Empire’s renewed efforts to stomp out piracy\, the sisters’ fellow pirates are suddenly wary of swearing allegiance to their cause. \nAfter a betrayal in the one place they were supposed to be safe\, Gasparilla’s crew hits the high seas again and Ximena is reunited with Cazador Dante de León. Her longtime rival has been tasked with capturing her\, and Ximena doesn’t know if she can trust the information he’s feeding her about the empire’s plans to take over the Northern Archipelago’s silver mines. “Gasparilla” heads north to rob the robbers\, but the Empire has a few nasty tricks up their sleeves—including putting a traitor in the pirates’ midst. \nWith the armada closing in\, Ximena finds herself scrambling to protect the people she loves. The price of freedom is higher than it’s ever been—but is Ximena willing to pay\, even if it costs her everything?
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/libertad/
CATEGORIES:Fantasy,Romance
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
DTSTAMP:20260517T223608Z
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SUMMARY:Asad's Secret: A Novel of Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Asad’s Secret: A Novel of Gaza by Najlaa Attaallah\, translated by Sawad Hussain\nLevine Querido \nAsad lives in Gaza\, in a tiny house\, on a narrow street pocked by half-destroyed buildings\, in a camp that looks shabby to him and feels claustrophobic. He walks virtually the same route every day to his summer job at a printing press\, passing the prison that holds his father\, for reasons that have not been fully explained to him. As the oldest son\, he feels the weight of responsibility for his seven brothers\, his sisters\, and his Ummi\, who wants him to study hard and excel in school\, as all mothers do. Moody and reserved Asad has few friends\, and fewer distractions. Thank goodness for Um Fawzi\, a feisty\, cigarette-smoking old woman\, who’s the only one who seems willing to tell it like it is\, sharply enough\, and with a biting sense of humor that snaps him out of his fog sometimes. There’s also Houriya\, a lovely and smart girl\, who brings him books to read and sometimes prompts him to think about a future that he can’t truly imagine. There seems to be no escaping. But Asad has a secret\, too\, a mysterious black bag that holds something important that he keeps hidden from everyone. \nThis rare novel by and about Palestinians showcases this boy whose life is never easy\, even as it’s filled with the longing\, the bruised hopes\, and the frustrations of any seventeen-year-old. \nTranslated by Sawad Hussain\, who was a Princeton translator in residence and has won numerous awards for her work.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/asads-secret-a-novel-of-gaza/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTSTAMP:20260517T223904Z
CREATED:20260506T023835Z
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SUMMARY:Doe
DESCRIPTION:Doe by Rebecca Barrow\nNancy Paulsen Books \nMaris Larsen is the captain of the West Eaton High cheer team. She’s Coach’s favorite and the team worships her. Being on the team makes her feel special—powerful. When she’s leading the girls on the mat\, Maris doesn’t have to think about her dead-end life in a dead-end town. She can forget about her depressed mother and absent father and the fact that her girlfriend doesn’t really love her. But when newcomer and Coach’s new golden girl\, Genevieve Ray\, joins the team\, the only thing going right in Maris’s life is suddenly in jeopardy. A bitter rivalry develops between the two\, but Maris is determined to take Genevieve down. The knife she needs to wield comes to Maris in her dreams. \nWhile sleepwalking\, Maris is visited by a monstrous\, decaying beast in the shape of an enormous deer. Doe is an ancient\, tired creature who has been wandering\, trapped in her current form for decades. She cannot die\, but she cannot go on living as she has. Only a girl related by blood to those who bound her in this form can free her\, but those girls she loved died years ago—murdered in a fire. \nBut Maris is somehow linked to Doe’s beloved girls—linked by blood—and so she has the power to free Doe\, to unleash her immense power. In Maris’s dreams\, she and Doe form a bond\, but Maris doesn’t know the creature from her dreams is real. Maris doesn’t understand the danger she’s in. She only knows Doe has promised her a way to win her battle with Genevieve. But for Maris to win\, someone has to die\, and the only real winner in the end will be Doe.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/doe/
CATEGORIES:Horror,Thriller
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTSTAMP:20260517T224053Z
CREATED:20260506T030514Z
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SUMMARY:The Vacation Shift
DESCRIPTION:The Vacation Shift by Lily Chu\nQuill Tree Books \nIvy Yu is cursed. Her parents separated six months ago\, and she’s fallen into a fog. To help\, her mother books an impulsive trip to Japan (cool) on a bus tour (very uncool). Ivy should be grateful\, but this summer is her last chance to get her situationship\, Connor\, to fall in love with her. \nWhen they arrive in Tokyo\, it’s even worse than she imagined. Ivy and her Mom are the youngest of a group of seniors. Make that two of the youngest: there’s brooding Matteo\, with his single dad\, Keith. \nThen Ivy discovers her mother and Keith are getting close\, and her crush back home is hooking up with someone else. Desperate for some semblance of control and a distraction from the heaviness she can’t seem to shake off\, she makes a deal with Matteo to keep their parents apart. Luckily\, he agrees—and their devious plans begin. \nDodging nosy old ladies on the bus ride through Japan\, their strange partnership begins to blossom into something unexpected and exciting—but can their romantic spark survive the journey?
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/the-vacation-shift/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTSTAMP:20260517T224335Z
CREATED:20260506T045809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260517T224335Z
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SUMMARY:Checking You Out
DESCRIPTION:Checking You Out by Jennifer Chen\nWednesday Books \nLizzie Wei is a huge book nerd\, and proud of it. And when she realizes there is a mysterious reader who has been checking out all of her favorite books from the library\, she can’t help but get a crush on someone she’s never even met. Her friends make it their mission to find Lizzie’s long lost book soulmate and convince her to leave notes for her crush. But what if the person Lizzie is looking for\, isn’t at all what she expects? \nDylan Lin loves reading\, secretly anyway. Ever since a bullying incident at his last school\, he’s hidden his love of fantasy novels\, instead leaning into his jock persona. Now he’s the tennis team captain\, runs every day\, and actively avoids reading. So\, when he decides to start volunteering at a kitten nursery\, and his super cute co-volunteer Lizzie asks if he likes reading\, he says no. He never expects the look of complete and utter disappointment on Lizzie’s face. \nLizzie is certain her secret crush isn’t Dylan. It can’t be! But when he accidentally makes an obscure reference to her favorite book during their volunteer shift\, she’s not so sure anymore. Can Lizzie forgive Dylan for lying? And can Dylan be brave enough to be himself? \nJennifer Chen’s Checking You Out is a contemporary romance about being true to yourself and celebrating what you love\, because you just might find the perfect person to share it with.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/checking-you-out/
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Romance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTSTAMP:20260517T224741Z
CREATED:20260506T045951Z
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SUMMARY:Good Luck\, Babe!
DESCRIPTION:Good Luck\, Babe! by Erin Baldwin\nViking Books for Young Readers \nReality TV enthusiasts Noelle and Yumi spent ten years attached at the hip—until the summer after junior year. One ill-fated night (and one awkward kiss) ended their friendship\, and after a year of no contact\, fate throws the girls back together when they’re offered a last-minute spot on their favorite show—an Amazing Race analog called The Adventureverse. \nIt’s a chance to put their superfan status to the test\, a dream come true. Except for a few snags: It’s an all-couples season\, filming starts in two days\, and Noelle hasn’t spoken to her “girlfriend” in a year. But Noelle already has plans to use the prize money on her ailing father’s medical expenses. She would do anything for him—including fake date her ex-bestie on national television. \nCan Noelle walk a tightrope between reality and TV while juggling a pretend relationship and true feelings? Or will she get sent home empty-handed and brokenhearted?
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/good-luck-babe/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,LGBTQIA,Romance
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SUMMARY:The Romance Rewind
DESCRIPTION:The Romance Rewind by Sarah Everett\nG.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers \nZadie expected her anniversary dinner with her boyfriend\, Jason\, to end with a dreamy promposal—not a breakup and a car crash! \nWhen she wakes up in the hospital\, she gets even worse news: Jason is in a coma. With nothing to do but wait by his side\, Zadie is left wondering where the relationship went wrong and if anyone else knows about the breakup. \nSuddenly\, Zadie is catapulted back to their first date\, trapped in a time loop she can’t escape. To make matters worse\, Jason’s cousin Marcus is along for the ride\, threatening to spill her secret. Can Zadie mend her relationship with Jason before he wakes up\, or will Marcus shatter her hopes for a happily-ever-after? \nFor fans of The Do-Over and Check & Mate\, get whisked away in this charming new rom-com abounding with betrayal\, twists\, andromance tropes.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/the-romance-rewind/
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Romance
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SUMMARY:Winners & Liars
DESCRIPTION:Winners & Liars by Aleema Omotoni\nHarperCollins \nDerin’s acceptance into Cambridge University is the end of an era—just not the one she expected.\nWhen she and her ultra-competitive Uni prep group\, the Kenfield Set\, were first invited to Professor Darnley’s summer ball\, they planned on celebrating the group’s success\, surrounded by the riches of his historical Kenfield estate—not kicking off the festivities with the professor’s will reading. \nBut when the Darnleys’ aristocratic children are disinherited\, the students are offered the opportunity of a lifetime: compete in a Victorian\, literary-inspired inheritance competition to be named the new heir—winner takes all! \nFor Derin\, it’s a chance to help her working-class family. But the remaining Darnleys won’t take losing their stately home and its multimillion-pound inheritance lying down. And added to the mix\, a mysterious note is slipped under Derin’s door alluding to a dark family secret lying in wait. \nNow Derin must balance the cutthroat games; scheming relatives; and a cute Kenfield intern amid her dawning realization that the history of this inheritance might be soaked in lies . . . and blood.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/winners-liars/
CATEGORIES:Mystery,Romance
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SUMMARY:These Kindred Hearts
DESCRIPTION:These Kindred Hearts edited by Shari B. Pennant\nSweet July Books \nSeventeen authors from varied backgrounds come together to showcase the diversity of romance and celebrate the wild hearts of teens in this timeless\, sweeping YA Romantasy anthology edited by Shari B. Pennant. \nThe daughter of a royal hell dimension deals with an unwanted betrothal to a boy she’s supposed to murder and questions the meaning of fate. An aspiring writer accidentally summons her own book character and struggles to send her new crush back to her fantasy world. An orphaned thief and a “Chosen One” must go on the run from a tyrannical empire. Two friends confess their feelings for each other in the middle of an earth-shattering apocalypse. A mix of cozy\, high-stakes\, and action-packed fantasy\, and everything in between fill these seventeen tales that explore the power and magic of love. \nThese Kindred Hearts includes stories by Alexene Farol Follmuth\, Angela Montoya\, Brent Lambert\, Chelsea Padilla\, Cheryl Isaacs\, Jamar J. Perry\, Jennifer Helen\, Jill Tew\, Kalynn Bayron\, Kwame Mbalia\, Maggie Tokuda-Hall\, Nia Davenport\, Nikki T. Grant\, Shari B. Pennant\, Sophie Li\, Vanessa Montalban\, and Zoraida Córdova.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/these-kindred-hearts/
CATEGORIES:Fantasy,Romance
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SUMMARY:Cursed Ever After
DESCRIPTION:Cursed Ever After by Andy C. Naranjo\nFarrar\, Straus and Giroux (BYR) \nLove is not for cursed girls. Risa is better off without it. \nRisa Porto is a Bad Thing who was born on a Bad Day and is cursed with Bad Luck. After years of taking the blame for every calamity\, mishap\, and minor inconvenience that befalls the townspeople of Barrow\, Risa longs to escape her village. And on her seventeenth birthday\, her wish is granted. \nSort of. \nRisa owes a (very annoying) witch a favor\, and it comes in the form of a quest: She must escort Prince Javi―the youngest\, handsomest\, and least significant of the kingdom’s princes―through the dark (and deadly) Bosque to his wedding. This measly errand quickly spirals into a struggle with greedy assassins\, a murderous cult\, a vicious tyrant\, and Risa’s own curse. \nMost unfortunate of all . . . \nRisa is not immune to Javi’s charms. The more time she spends with the prince\, the stronger―and more irritating―her urge to kiss him becomes.
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/cursed-ever-after/
CATEGORIES:Fantasy
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SUMMARY:You Jump First
DESCRIPTION:You Jump First by Myah Ariel\nSimon Pulse \nAndie has had a hard year. With her parents now divorced\, it’s just her and her mom at their lake house for the summer. But Andie is trying to forget about that and focus on reuniting with Patrick\, her long-time\, will-they-won’t-they crush. Did Andie and Patrick have a disastrous attempt at a first kiss last August? Well\, yes. That’s behind them\, though. This summer will be all sunshine and fireworks—literal and otherwise. \nTommy is supposed to have the perfect summer with his girlfriend\, Chloe\, who’s staying with his family at Big Bear Lake. He’ll finally feel like he fits in with the lake crew—something his brother\, Patrick\, always seems to do with ease. This summer will be all about working on his writing and being blissfully coupled up with the girl who has the most gorgeous eyes he’s ever seen. \nThen Patrick shows up to the lake with a girlfriendof his own in tow and Tommy gets spectacularly dumped via text. Suddenly\, Andie and Tommy are weighed down by heartbreak instead of buoyed up by romance. But who can better help you weather a broken heart than someone in the same boat?
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/you-jump-first/
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Comics/Graphic Novels,Romance
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SUMMARY:13 Little Love Stories: An anthology inspired by Taylor Swift songs
DESCRIPTION:13 Little Love Stories: An anthology inspired by Taylor Swift songs\nG.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers \nIf you could live inside one Taylor Swift song for a day\, which would you pick? In this shimmering anthology\, thirteen best-selling and acclaimed authors do just that\, reimagining some of Taylor’s most iconic songs as love stories. \nWhether you’re in an era of fairy lights and folktales or diss tracks and dance floors\, here’s a playlist that features all the hits: The soaring high note of first love. The minor key of heartbreak. And the steady rhythm of true friendship and self-discovery. \nStories by:\nElise Bryant\nJennifer Dugan\nJ. Elle\nJessica Goodman\nSloan Harlow\nCrystal Maldonado\nKrystal Marquis\nKatharine McGee\nJulie Murphy\nLynn Painter\nLaura Sebastian\nSara Shepard\nJesse Q. Sutanto
URL:http://richincolor.com/events/13-little-love-stories-an-anthology-inspired-by-taylor-swift-songs/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,Romance
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