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HADESTOWN meets LAKELORE in this queer “Orpheus and Eurydice” retelling in verse, following two Miami teens who travel to the underworld to retrieve their girlfriend’s soul.Critically acclaimed author R.M. Romero has crafted a masterpiece of magical realism and poignant love letter to queer and Latin American diaspora teens.Miami teens Andres, Renee, and Liora found something unexpected during their sophomore year of high school: each other. The three become a polyamorous triad, happy despite how no one at school seems to understand their relationship.But when an accident leaves Liora in a coma, hovering between life and death, Andres and Renee are shattered. Until Renee proposes a radical solution: she and Andres must go into the underworld to retrieve Liora’s spirit, so they can reunite it with her body before it’s too late.To find their lost love, Andres and Renee navigate a landscape of souls who bleed color,

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A spellbinding and lyrical modern fairy tale about a girl who journeys to an enchanted world to find the twin she’s never met, filled with lavish illustrations that bring the magic to life, perfect for fans of the Chronicles of Narnia. After her mother passes away and her father retreats into his grief, 11-year-old Anne Applebaum is afraid the only happy endings she’ll ever have are in The World to Come, a collection of fairy tales about the flying forest of Bei Ilai. In its pages, children outsmart demons, girls train as knights, and songs come to life. But even these stories can’t stop Anne from feeling alone. So when a raven tells her that she has a long-lost twin brother named Rainer, she sets out to find him. Anne soon learns that Bei Ilai is a real place—and she must step through the door into this magical realm to seek her brother. But the dangers in the flying forest are just as real as its beauty. To overcome the ch

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