The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place―and realizing that family is yours.

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A young American expatriate in 1950s Paris proposes to his girlfriend, but his attraction to a bartender leads to a tragic love triangle.

In ancient Greece, an exiled prince Patroclus forms a deep bond with the legendary warrior Achilles. Their love is tested during the Trojan War, where fate and glory await.

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Four college friends navigate life in New York, centered around Jude, a brilliant but traumatized lawyer whose childhood scars threaten to define his existence. Booker Prize shortlisted.

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A family keeps their five-year-old child Claude’s desire to be a girl secret, but secrets have a way of surfacing, leading to transformative changes for everyone involved.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Celie’s journey from abuse to empowerment through letters to God, guided by strong women in rural Georgia. Now a reimagined film.

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It’s the summer of ’96 and best friends (and secret girlfriends) Hannah and Sam are driving across the country from Long Beach, New York, to the fabled queer paradise of San Francisco, free from the harsh gazes of their neighbors and the stifling demands of Hannah’s devout Orthodox Jewish mother.

A tea monk encounters a robot seeking to understand humanity’s needs in a post-scarcity world where robots previously abandoned society.

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Former hockey camp roommates reconnect after four years apart, exploring their feelings and sexual tension during a summer coaching stint. Contains mature adult themes.

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America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.

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A young man grapples with addiction, displacement, and violence in his family history, seeking meaning through poetry and art.

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A group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries, but their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path.

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Twin siblings Noah and Jude, once inseparable, grow apart after a devastating event. Through alternating timelines, they struggle to reconcile their relationship and remake their fractured world. Winner of Michael L. Printz Award.

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A sweeping romance, Ordinary Love is the beautiful, wrenching, completely seductive story of two people trying to forge a path toward hope, bound by a love they discovered when they were too young to understand its power.