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Anna M
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Libraries, LibraryReads, cats, RPGs, sff, romance * she/her * Abolish ICE, trans rights are human rights
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www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

scrolling down, it looks like it should be ok for Switch and that it would support up to four players on a system
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Speaking of reality show romances, @quicunquevult.bsky.social's *Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot* (releasing 12/9), is a delightful conclusion to the trilogy set in the world of Bake Expectations, a cozy cooking competition with a foul-mouthed producer who finally gets her happy ending! #romance #books
The cover of *Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot* by Alexis Hall, featuring an illustration of two white women standing back to back on top of a table with giant cupcakes around and behind them. The one on the left is wearing a red polka-dotted dress and writing in a notebook, while the one on the right is dressed in a suit jacket and holding a pile of binders. Two union jack flags are poking out of the top left and top right cupcakes.
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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4 f/f romances feat. dating show contestants who fall in love:
Can I Steal You for a Second? - @jodimca.bsky.social
Here For the Wrong Reasons - Annabel Paulsen & @lydiaetc.bsky.social
Never Ever Getting Back Together - @sgonzalesauthor.bsky.social
Hot Summer - Elle Everhart #books #queer #readadv
The cover of the book "Can I Steal You for a Second?" by Jodi McAlister. The background is a bright pink with a suggested outline of a spotlight at the top and a camera on the left. A brown-skinned woman stands at the top left and a white-skinned woman stands at the bottom right. The cover of the book "Here for the Wrong Reasons" by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang. The background is a bright pink and the illustration features two white women holding hands with a white man visible between them in the distance, with his back turned. There are shadowed suggestions of lights and cameras in the spaces around the characters. The cover of "Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Sophie Gonzales. The art is an illustration of a grand staircase and balconies in blue and pink, with the back of a white man holding a rose at the bottom of the staircase, and two white women above him on either side of the staircase at the first landing. The cover of the book "Hot Summer" by Elle Everhart. This illustrated cover features a pair of white women floating on a large inflatable cushion in a pool dotted with rose petals. A brown-skinned couple are chatting in the background in the pool. The title is presented as if it were pink neon against a cut-out heart that shows a summery sky and open water. A person holding a boom mic comes in from the top left.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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A pair of f/f royal boarding school romances!
Her Royal Highness by @ladyhawkins.bsky.social
Nobody in Particular by @sgonzalesauthor.bsky.social
#readersadvisory #romance #royals #boardingschool
a graphic featuring the covers of two books, with an "if you like, try" theme. The first book Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins, which features a blue background that blends into the shirt of an illustrated young white woman with sunglasses, which has the reflection of another face in the lenses. The other cover is for Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales, and features an illustration by Jennifer Prince of two young white women seen in profile in a near kiss, both in white shirts and plaid skirts. The one on the left has a tiara.
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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A trio of f/f ballerina romances:
The Music & The Mirror by @lolakeeley.bsky.social
First Position by Melissa Brayden
Reverence by @reallymckay.bsky.social
#ReadersAdvisory #Libraries #Books
The cover of "The Music & The Mirror" by Lola Keeley, featuring the bottom half of a ballerina on pointe in white against a dark background. The cover of "First Position" by Melissa Brayden, featuring a leg on pointe coming from the left side, with a white tutu extending over the author's name. The tone of the cover is gold. The cover of "Reverence" by Milena McKay, featuring an illustration of two white ballerinas, one in white lace and one in black, standing back to back against a backdrop of red curtains.
September 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Today in Library News, Ingram thinks people might want to subscribe to a "new" service when they haven't been able to provide the existing service with regularity.
A screenshot of an "Ingram Alert" which has the following text: "Experience the difference with IngramExpress. Next Week's New Releases Rushed to Your Library. Order Now. Libraries who don't yet have an IngramExpress account can sign up today and start saving, with discounts of up to 40% on books over $16.99 through January 31, 2025. Get Started Today."
September 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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In which @surlyspice.bsky.social attempts to complete a puzzle, and #PeanutButterBiscuitCat has other ideas
A picture of an orange cat lying on top of a colorful puzzle while a bemused white woman looks on A picture of an orange cat lying on top of a colorful puzzle while a bemused white woman looks on A picture of an orange cat lying on top of a colorful puzzle while a bemused white woman looks on
September 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Weeding the basketball books and came across this gem from 1999 #wnba #TSpoon
A book cover for “Teresa Weatherspoon‘s basketball for girls” with the subtitle “a pro superstar teaches you the game” by Teresa Weatherspoon. The cover art features a black women dribbling the basketball in a liberty uniform number 11 and two girls on the top left playing basketball.
August 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Inspired by the discussion of Science Fiction readers' advisory, I made a list of my top nine books/series I never want to be without. Do I own all of these on paper and/or audio? Yes. I'm not trusting The Cloud with these. #LibrarySky #ReadAdv #LibraryLife
A graphic titled "My Essential Science Fiction" with nine book jackets: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, All Systems Red by Martha Wells, This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar, Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, Scout's Progress by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, and Rosewater by Tade Thompson
August 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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No one complimented my shirt(s) at #alaac25 today, so I am posting them here for a wider audience @paolaspixels.bsky.social #RippedBodice
A photograph of a torso, wearing a patterned shirt with potions, treasure bags, mushrooms, scrolls, axes swords, and other things on it and pay ripped bought us a romance bookstore shirt
June 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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It’s here! The most fun book buzz of #alaac25, where other librarians will tell you about all the forthcoming books they’re thrilled about! Room 112AB, and we’ve got plenty of @libraryreads.bsky.social swag to give away! @ala-booklist.bsky.social @booklistsusan.bsky.social
A photograph of rows of conference room chairs with piles of swag on each, featuring the LibraryReads logo
June 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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*The Missing Pages* by Alyson Richman is definitely for your Massachusetts readers, your Titanic fans, and your Marie Benedict/Librarian of Burned Books enthusiasts.
@misterchris.bsky.social @hachettelibrary.bsky.social #alaac25 @libraryreads.bsky.social
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The cover of the book "The Missing Pages" by Alyson Richman, which features an illustration of a white woman in a white dress on the right hand side. At the bottom right, the woman's skirt morphs into turning pages. The left hand side of the cover is dark blue, with an art deco style outline around the title and author.
June 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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*Red City* by Marie Lu - this is her adult debut, set in an alternate version of LA with magic: "The Godfather meets the Magicians"
@macmillanlib.bsky.social #alaac25 @libraryreads.bsky.social
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The cover of the book "Red City" by Marie Lu. The book has the tagline "Power always has a price." The illustration features an illustration of a black and red gryphon with white eyes, shown in profile against a crimson background. The shadow of a city skyline takes up the bottom of the cover. The author's name is at the top and the title is in two lines in the bottom half, both in white.
June 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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*Julia Song is Undateable* by @susanleewrites.bsky.social features a Korean American cosmetics CEO who employs a dating coach to help her find The One after her family pressures her to marry #alaac25 @librarylovefest.bsky.social
www.harpercollins.com/products/jul... @libraryreads.bsky.social
The cover of "Julia Song is Undateable" by Susan Lee. The tagline is: "She loves the players, just not the game." The title is in large white all caps letters, with the "un" in yellow, and takes up the bulk of the space against a yellow to red gradient background. An Asian woman and man sit on the word "Undateable" with the woman, in heels, pushing the "un" toward the edge of the cover and the man lounging with one arm up on a knee.
June 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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*Heart the Lover* by Lily King has a cover that will fit in well on your "it was orange" display! "Things happen in this book - I can't tell you any of them."
@groveatlantic.bsky.social #alaac25 @libraryreads.bsky.social
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The cover of the book "Heart the Lover" by Lily King, which is a bright orange background with the suggestion of a female face: two hot pink eyes, with daisy petals on their lower halves, and a hot pink mouth. The title is in black in three lines and the author's name is in white at the bottom.
June 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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*Where the Wildflowers Grow* by Terah Shelton Harris is about a woman who finds a place to hide, and learns to thrive, when her prison transport bus crashes and she finds a flower farm in rural Alabama.
@sbkslibrary.bsky.social #alaac25 @libraryreads.bsky.social
www.sourcebooks.com/978146427256...
The cover of the book "Where the Wildflowers Grow" by Terah Shelton Harris, which features an illustration of a Black woman reclining in a field of brightly painted flowers. The author's name and the title of the book are in white across the painting.
June 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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*The Wilderness* by @angelaflournoy.bsky.social is "an era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship" @librarylovefest.bsky.social #alaac25 @libraryreads.bsky.social
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The book jacket of "The Wilderness" by Angela Flournoy. The title and author's name are in black on a plain light background at the top and bottom of the cover, respectively. Between them, taking up about two-thirds of the space on the cover, is an illustration of a room with bright colors and patterned furniture and floors.
June 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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And thanks as always to our friends at the Adult Library Marketing Association!
A promotional postcard for the "Your Morning is Booked" adult author panel, featuring book jackets and author photos for "The Wilderness" by Angela Flournoy, "Heart the Lover" by Lily King, "Julia Song is Undateable" by Susan Lee, "Red City" by Marie Lu, "The Missing Page" by Alyson Richman, and "Where the Wildflowers Grow" by Terah Shelton Harris. The time, date, and location of the panel are included.
June 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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*The Felons' Ball* by Polly Stewart: "this is a story of murder, moonshine, and complicity" @librarylovefest.bsky.social #alaac25 I appreciate the concept of having an annual themed birthday party.

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The cover of the book "The Felons' Ball" by Polly Stewart. The title and author's name are in a bright block yellow against a backdrop of dark blue curtains. A photograph of a white woman's arm extends from an opening in the curtains on the left. The arm, decorated with a pair of dangling handcuffs, is extended and holding a martini glass.
June 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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*What About the Bodies* by Ken Jaworowski #alaac25 @groveatlantic.bsky.social this talk is a lot more about how to take a punch than I expected
The book cover of "What About the Bodies" by Jen Jaworowski, which features the title in black block letters taking up the bottom two thirds of the space, illuminated by a background of red generated by the taillights of a blue car that is driving up the top of the image. The author's name, in a matching blue, runs across the bottom of the cover.
June 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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*F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics* by @cosbrarian.bsky.social "Fairy tales for the person who has been around the block a few times and has seen some shit." @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social #alaac25
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The cover of the book "F*cked Up Fairy Tales : Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics" by Liz Gotauco. The cover is an illustration of three women in gowns in a conversational pose, who have had cartoon eyes superimposed on them. The title and author's names are in bright yellow boxes at top and bottom, while the background is a mint green.
June 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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*House of Monstrous Women* is not in fact about the residence I share with @surlyspice.bsky.social #alaac25 @daphnefama.bsky.social @prhlibrary.bsky.social
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753638...
The cover of the book "House of Monstrous Women" by Daphne Fama. The title of the book is in bone yellow and takes up the majority of the cover, with red strings woven through ought, and purple foliage crowding in from the sides. A woman in a pink dress walks on a red walkway at the bottom, behind the author's name.
June 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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*You Weren't Meant to be Human* by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social is an adult debut in which a young autistic trans man helping aliens invade finds himself pregnant @ssedlib.bsky.social #alaac25 @libraryreads.bsky.social
www.simonandschuster.com/books/You-We...
The cover of the book "You Weren't Meant to be Human" by Andrew Joseph White. The background of the book is stark black, and the title takes up most of the space on the cover, in an off-white threaded through with worms. The author's name is at the top in a bright red color.
June 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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*The Dragon Wakes With Thunder* by K. X. Song is the (second in a series) Mulan reinterpretation that asks what happens after the war is over
@prhlibrary.bsky.social #alaac25 @libraryreads.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739812...
The cover of the book "The Dragon Wakes With Thunder" by K. X. Song. The book has the tagline "A legend will rise" and features an illustration of a watery dragon in shades of teal and sea green on the top half, with a female figure dressed in green and surrounded by waves, holding up a sword at the bottom. The title of the book is in white across the middle half, and the author's name is in black across the bottom.
June 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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*The Women of Wild Hill* by Kirsten Miller is "A witty, spectacular, and timely tale of modern-day witches waging war on the patriarchy" @librarylovefest.bsky.social #alaac25 www.harpercollins.com/products/the... @libraryreads.bsky.social
The cover of the book "The Women of Wild Hill" by Kirsten Miller, which features a bright orange and red tree within a blue and purple set of vines, flowers, birds, and mushrooms. The title is in bold white across the top two thirds of the cover, with the author's name in dark blue at the base of the tree.
June 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM