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SUMMARY:Hear Ye Mortals
DESCRIPTION:Hear Ye Mortals by Yamile Saied Méndez\nLevine Querido \nIn 1976 Rosario\, Argentina\, brothers Daniel and Adrián Aguirre share a passion for music and a bond as best friends. However\, under the authoritarian military government\, artists and musicians are considered enemies of the state\, even if they’re just teenagers playing at home. When one of their songs unexpectedly gains popularity on the radio\, Daniel and Adrián\, along with their band Río Babel—comprised of children of immigrants from Spain\, Palestine\, and Germany face a daunting choice. \nThey must decide whether to pursue their dream of becoming musicians or to remain silent to protect their families. Ready to challenge the military regime\, their resolve is tested when one of their own goes missing. \nThis novel delves into the power of music in the fight for a better tomorrow\, making it a compelling read for those who appreciate stories of courage\, family\, and the enduring spirit of resistance against a totalitarian regime.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/hear-ye-mortals/
CATEGORIES:Historical
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTSTAMP:20260504T061410Z
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SUMMARY:Shards of Silence
DESCRIPTION:Shards of Silence by Brian Lee Young\nHarperCollins \nIn his first YA novel\, award-winning author Brian Lee Young (Diné) bridges the generational divide between a Navajo teen at an elite prep school and his great-grandmother’s experience at a federal boarding school for Indigenous students. The book is an eye-opening call for community healing and a profound coming-of-age story.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/shards-of-silence/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,Historical
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SUMMARY:Young World
DESCRIPTION:Young World by Somani Chaining\nRandom House Books for Young Readers \nAmerica is on the brink of collapse\, and the youth have lost all faith in their leaders. As a pivotal election approaches\, Benton Young\, a high school senior trying to impress a girl\, impulsively uploads a video\, daring everyone to interfere with the vote and write him in for President. The video explodes online\, igniting election chaos and a national revolt\, until the Supreme Court intervenes to put Benton in the White House. Galvanized by Benton’s rise\, more global youth take to the streets\, and more governments fall\, until eight of the world’s most powerful nations are led by teenagers. \nWhen these young leaders convene at their first summit in Sweden\, they face the monumental task of setting a new course for history. But the first night\, their unity is shattered when a leader is murdered in cold blood . . . and Benton is the only suspect. Hunted by enemies young and old\, he must untangle a deadly web of secrets\, betrayal\, and power plays—while the future of the world hangs in the balance. \nWith globe-spanning action\, stunning twists\, and an electric new brand of storytelling\, Young World is a heart-stopping thriller that asks: What happens when the future really does belong to the young?
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/young-world/
CATEGORIES:Mystery,Thriller
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTSTAMP:20260504T060021Z
CREATED:20260504T044840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260504T060021Z
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SUMMARY:The Beckett Effect
DESCRIPTION:The Beckett Effect by Nashae Jones\nSimon Pulse \nThere’s no one Wren hates more than Beckett Lane. \nGirls love Beckett because of his famous dad\, and Beckett revels in the unearned attention. It seems like everyone except Wren is susceptible to the Beckett Effect—the phenomenon that makes people\, most of all teen girls\, fall for him despite his glaring red flags. Unfortunately for Wren\, her sister\, Kennedy\, is vulnerable to Beckett’s charms\, and she has a huge\, misguided crush on him. \nWhen Beckett humiliates Kennedy at a party in front of the entire school\, Wren swears to bring him down once and for all. And what better way to expose him than by using her passion for filmmaking to create a documentary showing just how terrible he really is? \nBut as Wren cozies up to Beckett to get (hopefully damning) inside information\, she starts to wonder if the line between love and hate is as clear as she thought…
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/the-beckett-effect/
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Contemporary,Romance
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTSTAMP:20260504T055319Z
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SUMMARY:Like We Were in Paris
DESCRIPTION:Like We Were in Paris by Stephan Lee\nScholastic Press \nBen Lim is so excited for his French Club’s trip to the most romantic city in the world: Paris. Ben’s even made a to-do list of all the things he wants to accomplish\, like see the Mona Lisa IRL and read a book in a sophisticated cafe. Also\, Ben’s parents honeymooned in Paris\, and being there will help Ben connect more to the memory of his late dad. \nBut things go wrong the first night when Ben misses curfew and finds himself locked out of the youth hostel…until morning. \nAlso locked out? Tyler Travers\, the most popular and handsome boy in school. Who\, oh yeah\, happens to be Ben’s former friend and current nemesis. \nBen cannot deal with Tyler’s entitled-jock attitude. But now that they’re thrown together\, the two of them end up roaming around Paris and stumbling upon some cool sights—like the glittering Eiffel Tower\, a drag show in the Marais\, and even a chance to “borrow” a moped. \nAs their misadventures take them all across the city\, Ben fights his growing attraction to Tyler\, which was NEVER part of the plan. The two of them couldn’t be more different. Besides\, Tyler doesn’t even remember that they were once friends. Right?
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/like-we-were-in-paris/
CATEGORIES:LGBTQIA,Romance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTSTAMP:20260504T055009Z
CREATED:20260504T052912Z
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SUMMARY:That Which Feeds Us
DESCRIPTION:That Which Feeds Us by Keala Kendall\nRandom House Books for Young Readers \nFor the world’s wealthiest\, Kōpaʻa Island Resort is more than a destination. It’s the ultimate escape. With no cell service or Wi-Fi\, the Hawaiian island is a coveted wellness retreat renowned for its persimmon orchard and promises of rejuvenation. \nBut their dream vacation is Lehua’s nightmare. When her twin sister\, Ohia\, goes missing\, Lehua follows her trail to Kōpaʻa to find her. Instead\, Lehua is cut off from civilization—and help—after the island’s boat leaves without her\, stranding her with the resort’s lavish guests and enigmatic staff. \nAs Lehua investigates Ohia’s disappearance\, she discovers her missing sister isn’t the island’s only mystery. Kōpaʻa’s rich exterior and sweet persimmons hide its dark plantation past. And Lehua can’t ignore the dreams haunting her each night—nor the warning telling her to leave the island at once. To uncover what happened to Ohia\, Lehua will have to unearth the island’s bloody history and face the horrors that lurk within its sugarcane fields—or risk being consumed by them. \nSharply observed and gorgeously written\, That Which Feeds Us explores the true cost of paradise as Lehua must fight to reclaim the land\, the stories\, and the very souls of her people.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/that-which-feeds-us/
CATEGORIES:LGBTQIA,Mystery,Thriller
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260513
DTSTAMP:20260504T050006Z
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SUMMARY:Stars\, Stripes\, and Summer Nights
DESCRIPTION:Stars\, Stripes\, and Summer Nights Celeste Dador\nDelacourte Romance \nWhat if the person who turns your world upside down is exactly who you’re meant to find? \nAll First Daughter Abby Alzona wanted was one normal night. But one impulsive pizza order later\, she’s front-page news—and officially exiled to a Wi-Fi-free country inn for the summer\, along with her little sister Elle. \nThe inn belongs to Gabriel Calabrese’s family: he’s sarcastic\, camera-obsessed\, and definitely not dazzled by presidential perks (also\, kind of the reason for the whole pizza fiasco). But Abby’s determined to make the most of her time away from the White House—with a summer bucket list full of things real teens get to do. Pool parties. Picnics. Maybe even a first kiss. \nAs she and Elle dive into small-town life\, Abby starts to see what makes Gabriel tick. And maybe\, just maybe\, she’s falling for him. . . .
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/stars-stripes-and-summer-nights/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,Romance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260513
DTSTAMP:20260504T050208Z
CREATED:20260504T050208Z
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SUMMARY:In Between Days
DESCRIPTION:In Between Days by Camryn Garrett\nDisney Hyperion \nWhen her mother refuses entry to a stranger named Richard at her father’s funeral\, 17-year-old Mira Howard doesn’t understand why. But snooping through her father’s things reveals that Richard was her father’s boyfriend—a boyfriend she never knew about. In fact\, Mira never even knew for sure that her dad was gay. Hoping to feel more connected to her late father\, Mira reaches out to Richard without telling her mom\, who is still angry from the divorce. As Mira and Richard become closer\, Mira gains more and more insight into the side of her father that she never got to see. \nGrieving that she never got to connect with her dad about their shared queerness\, Mira asks that Richard teach her “how to be queer” while she navigates a new crush on her co-worker\, which brings her out of her diary and into the real world. \nBut as Mira grows more confident in herself\, she finds it hard to keep her relationship with Richard a secret\, questioning why her family never talked about her father’s sexuality in the first place. Soon Mira has to decide if she wants to keep the peace or honor her father’s memory by being her truest self. \nAn epistolary novel told through diary entries\, text messages\, and book reviews\, IN BETWEEN DAYS is a story about queerness\, grief\, and families—both ones we are born into and ones we create.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/in-between-days/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,LGBTQIA
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTSTAMP:20260517T034016Z
CREATED:20260504T051131Z
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SUMMARY:The Lustrous Dark
DESCRIPTION:The Lustrous Dark by Loretta Chefchaouni\nPeachtree Teen \nOrphaned as a baby\, Shay has spent her life training as the midwife’s apprentice. Her role grants her stability\, yet Shay has always yearned for more. Namely\, motherly affection and answers regarding her mysterious birth—neither of which the midwife deems practical to provide. \nAfter Shay discovers her birth mother\, Hind\, is still alive and addicted to a magical drug called Snow\, she determines to get the woman clean. But when Hind betrays Shay to get her hands on more Snow\, Shay’s abandoned within a deadly forest and forced to rely on a band of monstrous ghouls for safety. \nShay’s realm has long stood on the brink of war between the men who control magic and the revolutionaries who want to eliminate it. But in the forest\, Shay hears the pleading call of ancient spirits who claim that not only has magic been stolen\, but Shay has the power to return it. With the help of a spitfire revolutionary and the boy who’s winning over her heart\, Shay discovers the horrific truth of who produces Snow and will have to decide for herself whether to heed the spirits’ charge or fade into obscurity. \nThis emotionally raw and gorgeously rendered fairy tale combines the lush worldbuilding of This Woven Kingdom with the mother trauma of Snow White and a dash of Tim Burton. Steeped in mysticism and mythology\, The Lustrous Dark confronts injustices against women with a righteous scream that’ll inspire readers to rally against the patriarchy and oppressive regimes worldwide.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/the-lustrous-dark/
CATEGORIES:Fantasy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTSTAMP:20260517T033643Z
CREATED:20260504T050934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260517T033643Z
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SUMMARY:Shapes of Love
DESCRIPTION:Shapes of Love by L.V. Peñalba\nWednesday Books \nWhen nineteen-year-old Sasha’s first album throws her into stardom\, her fans become obsessed with discovering who inspired her love songs. Except\, Sasha is aroace-spec (aromantic\, asexual)\, and she’s not interested in romance (unless it comes in the shape of a slowburn enemies-to-lovers book or a star-crossed-lovers manga). Her music is all about her favorite love stories\, not her own. \nAfter running into Kai\, her estranged best friend who she hasn’t seen in two years\, pictures of them together leak\, and everyone assumes he’s Sasha’s muse\, the “boyfriend” who broke her heart. Pressured by her label and fearing fan backlash\, Sasha agrees to a PR relationship with Kai for six months – but her sense of self is put to the ultimate test. Where does she fit in a society that equates happiness with romantic love? One where even her closest friends prioritize their partners over her? \nUnder the guise of their faux romance\, Sasha and Kai get a chance to rebuild their platonic bond and heal the wounds of their past. But when actor Asher Grish enters the scene\, threatening to shake the foundation of Sasha’s PR relationship\, she finds herself at a crossroads. Either she loses herself\, or her career.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/shapes-of-love/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,LGBTQIA
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTSTAMP:20260517T034943Z
CREATED:20260504T051334Z
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SUMMARY:Rani Deshpande Takes the Wheel
DESCRIPTION:Rani Deshpande Takes the Wheel by Arushi Avachat\nWednesday Books \nNineteen-year-old Rani Deshpande is on a mission to reinvent herself the summer before transferring to her new university. After a challenging freshman year\, Rani can’t help but feel like she’s playing catch up. To that end\, she’s crafted a packed summer to get back on track: a dream internship\, adventures with her hometown best friend\, and regular driving lessons so that she can finally lose her passenger princess reputation – even if it means learning from her aggravating family friend (and childhood crush)\, Kush Khanna. \nKush and Rani grew up together\, but they couldn’t be less alike. Within their close-knit Desi community – a Jane Austen style cast of ridiculous\, meddlesome families – Kush is the beloved model son; Rani is more the black sheep. Kush is pre-med; Rani plans to teach elementary school. Kush is cool and collected\, bordering on reticent; Rani couldn’t keep her mouth shut if her life depended on it. So when their mothers first force the pair to drive together\, the arrangement feels like a recipe for disaster. As the lessons progress\, however\, Rani discovers there’s more to the boy she’s known her whole life than meets the eye. \nIn Arushi Avachat’s Rani Deshpande Takes the Wheel\, Rani must learn to course-correct\, no matter how bumpy or windy the road – and even if it includes a detour right into love.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/rani-deshpande-takes-the-wheel/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,Romance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTSTAMP:20260519T212510Z
CREATED:20260504T051559Z
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SUMMARY:An Expanse of Blue
DESCRIPTION:An Expanse of Blue by Kauakanilehua Māhoe Adams\nHeartdrum \nAouli Elizabeth Smith is adrift: unheard at home and an unbeliever at church\, fighting her sister and losing her best friend. Overflowing with feeling\, she pours her secrets and herself into her song journal when the world threatens to sweep her away. The one place she feels tied down to earth is at her Aunty Ehu’s house. Those joyous Saturdays with her extended Native Hawaiian community living in Western Washington are precious to her. Under the maple trees\, the fragments of her life fit together\, if only for an afternoon. \nThen\, an unspeakable truth about her father shatters this one perfect corner of her life. \nAs Aouli’s world constricts around what others wish she could be\, language fails her. But when a new boy\, Nalu\, turns up with eyes that seem to pierce right into her soul\, maybe it’s love that can give her the words to set herself free.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/an-expanse-of-blue/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,Poetry
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTSTAMP:20260504T052056Z
CREATED:20260504T051948Z
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SUMMARY:Behind Five Willows
DESCRIPTION:Behind Five Willows by June Our\nFeiwel & Friends \nAs the dutiful second-eldest daughter of a poor family\, society would have Haewon believe that her only hope of a decent life is to marry well. But during a time of rampant government censorship and book banning\, she instead works as an illegal book transcriber to make a little extra money. It’s dangerous work\, but she loves it—especially when she gets to transcribe the work of her favorite author\, known as Black Lotus. \nWhen her older sister becomes smitten with a wealthy young gentleman\, Haewon is roped into chaperoning them during their courtship. Which wouldn’t be so terrible… if it weren’t for the young man’s uptight and annoying best friend who also accompanies them. \nAs the only son of a noble\, Seojun has a lot expected of him. Wealth. Status. Respectability. Certainly not frivolous and often illicit activities such as reading fiction. But Seojun loves to do something even more scandalous: writing. He’s kept his work secret from his father and friends\, but with each passing day\, the pressure of being his father’s son and the dispiriting actions of the government make Seojun question the purpose of it all. The only thing keeping him going are the encouraging letters he receives from his transcriber\, known only as Magpie. \nWhen his best friend falls hard for a girl of lower social status\, Seojun finds himself forced to act as chaperone to the infatuated couple—along with the girl’s younger sister\, who is as irritating as she is judgmental. But as Haewon and Seojun spend more time together\, they begin to suspect they may have judged each other too quickly…
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/behind-five-willows/
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Historical,Romance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTSTAMP:20260517T040040Z
CREATED:20260504T052248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260517T040040Z
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SUMMARY:Queerleaders
DESCRIPTION:Queerleaders by Olivia A. Cole\, Ashley Woodfolk\nSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers  \nOak Haven High doesn’t have cheerleaders—it has queerleaders. \nIt’s a fun coincidence that every new varsity cheerleader since Davie Cathee took the squad by storm three years ago is—or soon comes out as—queer. \nBut when a rumor sparks that this season\, newly minted captain Davie has been specifically recruiting queer members only\, Davie is accused of “discrimination” against straight students. She’s given an ultimatum: recruit a straight athlete for the team or the funding for their competitive cheer season will take a major tumble. \nEnter Kendall Hayes\, the edgy\, mysterious new girl. When Davie sees that Kendall has a boyfriend\, she quickly convinces her to join the squad. Problem solved. \nUntil she finds out that Kendall’s actually bisexual…and newly single. \nNow Kendall and Davie are faced with having to keep those details under wraps until nationals\, which only gets more complicated when they start falling hard and fast for each other. Can Kendall go back in the closet long enough to save the squad? Or will Davie find the courage to love her new crush out loud\, even if it might mean the end of the queerleaders?
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/queerleaders/
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Contemporary,LGBTQIA,Romance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTSTAMP:20260517T040605Z
CREATED:20260504T054333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260517T040605Z
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SUMMARY:Rebel Heiress (The Diamonds)
DESCRIPTION:Rebel Heiress (The Diamonds) by Amalie Howard\nJoy Revolution \nLady Rosalin Chen isn’t as vapid as she pretends to be. She’s actually a computing genius and smarter than most of her peers in the ton. Not even her friends know that she’s been sabotaging her own chances to find a match in the marriage mart. \nShe’s in want of a proper education\, not a husband. So while her cousin is gallivanting around Europe\, she decides to take his place at Cambridge University. How hard could it be to act like a gentleman\, after all? \nThe only boy who could possibly see through her disguise is her tutor—sharp-eyed math prodigy Tarik St. Clair. The more time they spend together\, the harder it becomes to hide who she really is. Even if Lady Rosalin decided to come clean\, can love ever be part of the equation once the truth is factored in?
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/rebel-heiress-the-diamonds/
CATEGORIES:Historical,Romance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTSTAMP:20260517T040857Z
CREATED:20260506T040457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260517T040857Z
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SUMMARY:Landing in Place
DESCRIPTION:Landing in Place by Sherine Hamdy\, Myra El Mir\nKokila \nAnisa is following in her sister Reem’s footsteps: She’s a freshman at her sister’s alma mater\, she’s on the same premed track\, and she’s inherited Reem’s old hotpot\, mini-fridge\, and textbooks. Even though Anisa would prefer to study art\, her parents discount that as a valid career choice. The path laid out before her starts to crumble as Anisa feels she doesn’t belong—either in her organic chemistry class or among the other Muslim students on campus. \nWhen Anisa fails her first semester\, she begs her parents to let her take time off to visit Cairo and stay with her beloved grandfather. Finally free to have her own experiences\, Anisa begins a journey of self-discovery and\, as she bumps up against familial\, societal\, and religious expectations\, she starts to develop her own artistic voice. When Anisa returns to the United States\, many of these expectations shift\, but she learns to draw on the love of friends and family—including those she’s often at odds with—in order to stay true to herself.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/landing-in-place/
CATEGORIES:Comics/Graphic Novels,Contemporary
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
DTSTAMP:20260505T035331Z
CREATED:20260504T052515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260505T035331Z
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SUMMARY:In the Country I Love
DESCRIPTION:In the Country I Love by Alaa Al-Barkawi\nPeachtree Teen \nAs a seventeen-year-old single dad and a soon-to-be high school drop-out\, Yassir Al-Azzawi’s lapsed Shia faith is just another thing convincing his parents he’s a failure. One more mistake\, and they’ll send him back to their homeland\, a war-torn Iraq. \nKhaled Al-Hakim is perfect on paper: devout in his faith\, a straight-A student\, and captain of the debate team. But beneath the surface\, Khaled is no saint either\, and his worst sin yet is ignoring his parents’ command to stay away from Yassir. \nWhen their secret friendship is exposed\, the consequences set off a series of events that cause family secrets from both sides to come to light\, and neither Yassir nor Khaled are prepared to learn the stains that taint their family names. \nTold through multiple POVs across time\, this authentic exploration of the Shia Muslim experience in the U.S. seamlessly combines classic YA themes of identity\, coming-of-age\, and relationships with timely social themes of racism\, Islamophobia\, and justice. This compelling\, contemporary debut is perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir’s All My Rage and Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/in-the-country-i-love/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
DTSTAMP:20260517T041246Z
CREATED:20260504T053120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260517T041246Z
UID:19940-1779753600-1779839999@richincolor.com
SUMMARY:Jin Young\, In Between
DESCRIPTION:Jin Young\, In Between by Ellen Oh\nCrown Books for Young Readers \nJin’s whole world been turned upside down. Since meeting Mina inside her webcomic\, Jin has discovered unbelievable things about his life: \n1. He’s been living in a parallel universe.\n2. His birth mother didn’t abandon him.\n3. He’ll never be able to see Mina again. \nBut then the impossible happens—Jin teleports to Mina’s world. But with every visit\, cataclysmic weather threatens Jin’s world. And a mysterious lab seems way too interested in testing Jin’s new teleporting ability. Is Jin ready to risk it all for the girl he loves?
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/jin-young-in-between/
CATEGORIES:Romance,Science Fiction
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
DTSTAMP:20260517T041713Z
CREATED:20260504T053257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260517T041713Z
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SUMMARY:Lake Life
DESCRIPTION:Lake Life by Tanya Bateau\nQuill Tree \nThis is definitely not how Maya wanted to spend the summer—depressed at her once-beloved cabin in Spruce Lake\, and unable to avoid seeing her lifelong best friend\, Rashida\, after confessing her woefully unrequited love to her last year. Maya can’t decide if she wants to escape\, or convince Rashida they’re still meant to be. \nGabe is sent to Spruce Lake by her mom in hopes she stays out of trouble. Gabe is NOT excited to be here. She does NOT like nature. She does NOT want to spend her summer in a tiny town with outdoorsy environmentalist types. \nGabe is pretty sure she’ll be spending this entire summer bored and alone…until she meets Maya. Together\, they hatch a fake-dating scheme to make Rashida jealous and convince Gabe’s mom that Gabe has turned a wholesome new leaf. \nBut as the plan plays out\, and Gabe and Maya contend with protests\, a relentlessly concerned community\, and romantic twists\, they start to realize that their assumptions about friendship and love might have led them completely astray. Can they find their way through this mess without hurting each other in the process?
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/lake-life/
CATEGORIES:LGBTQIA,Romance
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
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SUMMARY:We Could Be Anyone
DESCRIPTION:We Could Be Anyone by Anna-Marie McLemore\nFeiwel & Friends \nLola and I grew up hearing that we could become anything\, but our parents hadn’t meant it the way gringo parents did. They meant it as a warning. \nLola and Lisandro are actors during Hollywood’s Golden Age\, but you won’t see them on any silver screen. Instead\, these siblings use their talents to scam the rich and famous out of their ill-begotten cash. They have their act down to a science: Lola plays the tragic ghost who haunts the mansions of the wealthy\, and Lisandro plays the brave spiritualist who will help her soul find peace. For a small fee\, of course. \nThe siblings have their sights set on their next target: The Coterie\, the opulent estate of newspaper tycoon Bixby Fairfax and his famous mistress Blythe Bell. A score this big will allow them to move… well\, anywhere but here. But this job requires them to do something they’ve never done before: switch roles. And as strange things keep happening at The Coterie… things that even Lola and Lisandro can’t explain. \nAs they are drawn deeper into The Coterie’s gleaming façade and tensions rise between brother and sister\, one question looms over them. Will they be able to pull off their act? Or will this be their last performance?
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/we-could-be-anyone/
CATEGORIES:Historical,LGBTQIA,Mystery,Romance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
DTSTAMP:20260517T042506Z
CREATED:20260504T053943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260517T042506Z
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SUMMARY:To the Stars and Back Volume Two
DESCRIPTION:To the Stars and Back Volume Two by Peglo\nLittle\, Brown Ink \nBo Seon and Kang Dae have been neighbors for months and best friends for nearly as long. Their bond has only deepened\, but Bo Seon can no longer ignore the butterflies in his stomach. He likes Kang Dae\, as more than a friend\, but fears confessing could ruin what they already share. \nOn one starry night\, the truth finally comes out\, and everything changes. Their feelings align\, and they begin a new chapter together as a couple. Yet love\, they discover\, is more than a confession … It requires trust. Bo Seon carries secrets from his past that he has never spoken aloud\, retreating further into himself with each passing day. Kang Dae\, determined and patient\, vows to earn his trust before it is too late. \nTender\, heartfelt\, and honest\, this is a story about first love\, the courage it takes to be completely vulnerable\, and the healing that comes when two people choose each other completely.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/to-the-stars-and-back-volume-two/
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Romance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
DTSTAMP:20260517T042843Z
CREATED:20260504T054202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260517T042843Z
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SUMMARY:How to Love You When You're Gone
DESCRIPTION:How to Love You When You’re Gone by Gabriela Gonzales\nLittle\, Brown Books for Young Readers \nHigh school senior Mayte has never been kissed\, but it hardly matters. Her abuelita has cancer\, her half sister with special needs has moved in\, and college is off the table—family comes first. She keeps her problems to herself; why burden everyone she loves with more? \nMeanwhile\, fellow senior Auggie is set on attending an elite creative writing program. But as the self-proclaimed most boring person alive\, he can’t exactly write the next great American novel when he’s struggling to write a short story for college applications. \nAfter an awful blind date (“disaster” doesn’t even begin to describe it)\, Mayte and Auggie never want to see each other again. When forced together by their merging social circles\, the pair must at least pretend to get along…but soon they develop actual feelings. Then tragedy strikes Mayte’s family. Auggie feels compelled to write her story to help her process and heal—but are his intentions truly selfless? The best story he’s ever written could impact the best friendships he’s ever had.
URL:https://richincolor.com/events/how-to-love-you-when-youre-gone/
CATEGORIES:Contemporary,Romance
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