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• Make Your Day More Excellent Playlist!

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  Some feel good music to go with your feel good reads, curated by your library buddies.

• Princess Princess Ever After

  O'Neill, Kay (Cartoonist)

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  A sweet adventurous romance, with wonderful art! If you're looking for a fairy tale adventure starring princesses that reads like the best bedtime story EVER you should give this one a try! And if you enjoy it, more of the author's work is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Taproot

  a Story About a Gardener and a Ghost

  Young, Keezy,

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  This is the story of a ghost and a gardener. Hamal has a special talent for plants and also seeing ghosts. Blue is a ghost and his best friend. Blue is in love with Hamal, and is faced with a difficult choice when he learns the impact that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Out

  the No-longer-secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages

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  This is a short story collection that manages to mix stories from fantasy to pirates to historical Hollywood to witchy adventure to sci-fi AND delivers fantastic LGBTQ relationships. Perfect to pick up and flip through, with so much heart…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

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  All of the romance reviews you didn't know you needed!

• Let's Talk About Love

  Kann, Claire,

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  A meet cute romance starring a biromantic asexual character who works in a LIBRARY and also has the most amazing Cutie Code that she categorizes her world with. Warm and sweet and romantic!

• Boy Meets Boy

  Levithan, David

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  The story centers on Paul and his close friends. When Noah moves to town, Paul falls head over heels for him, and we spend the rest of the novel watching their romance unfold. The community that Levithan has created in this book is not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hyperbole and a Half

  Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

  Brosh, Allie

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  Weird and funny and extra relatable, Brosh's first book offers lots of laughs and feels.

• You Are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds by Jenny Lawson

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  A beautiful coloring book AND a great tool for mental health.

• The Infinite Wait and Other Stories by Julia Wertz

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  The Infinite Wait is an autobiographical comic about the author developing a mysterious illness that makes her tired and achey and ill all the time. Wertz chronicles her experiences trying to find treatment, learning she has systemic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Robot Hugs - Enjoy the cold, emotionless embrace of Robot Hugs.

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  Cute art and compassionate funny storytelling make this web comic feel like reading a warm hug.

• Tales of Mere Existence by Levni Yilmaz

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  Tales of Mere Existence is a series of webcomics and animations. It consists of slice of life observations and expression of frustrations about a world that is often unkind, doesn't take care of people and doesn't make sense. Lev also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• March. Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020,

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  Sometimes reading real history where people effect positive change against what felt like insurmountable obstacles is just what you need. John Lewis' graphic memoir is perfect for a shot of inspiration.

• Pod Save the People with DeRay Mckesson

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  Touching on culture, social justice, and politics this podcast gets you into what's happening now with an eye toward feeling something other than despair at the news cycle.

• Clementine von Radics - "For Teenage Girls" - YouTube

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  One of our favorite poems! You can find more of the poet's work at clementinevonradicspoet.com.

• Crafting the Resistance

  35 Projects for Craftivists, Protestors, and Women Who Persist

  Neel, Lara,

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  If you're in the mood to make things/do things/get crafty, this is a wonderful place to start.

• My Brother's Husband. Volume 1

  Tagame, Gengoroh, 1964-

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  Yaichi, his daughter Kana, live in suburban Tokyo and are in the process of recovering in many ways from the loss of their wife/mother. Big burly Canadian Mike Flannagan shows up saying he is husband to Yaichi’s late and estranged twin…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hunger Makes the Wolf

  Wells, Alex,

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  A fantastic story of found family that follows a biker witch gang on a planet that feels remarkably like a dystopian wild west. If you want a story where the bad guys are really bad and the good guys are scrappy, weird, and willing to go…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Steven Universe. Gem Glow

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  Funny and accepting with warm art and a big heart!

• Untitled Black Panther AU Fic by Tumblr User notbecauseofvictories

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  Fanfiction explores the heart of your favorite fandoms, and this story set in the Black Panther universe is a wonderful opportunity to read amazing writing and see a different story path.