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Making Friends with Alice Dyson by Poppy Nwosu

Making Friends with Alice Dyson by Poppy Nwosu

Alice Dyson knows exactly how she’ll be spending her final year of high school–with her head down, quietly concentrating on her textbooks and homework. She is focused on the future, and nothing and no one is going to get in her way. That is, until a bizarre encounter with Teddy Taualai, the school’s most notorious trouble-maker, goes viral, derailing her plans and pushing her into the spotlight. Suddenly Alice’s under-the-radar life is one enormous, messy complication. And the worst part? Teddy Taualai is everywhere she turns..

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Death of a parent recounted
Bullying

Road Tripping with Pearl Nash by Poppy Nwosu

Road Tripping with Pearl Nash by Poppy Nwosu

The summer is finally here, and Pearl Nash is on a mission to save her slowly disintegrating friendship with a whirlwind end-of-year road trip that is definitely absolutely most positively going to solve all her problems. Except, instead of her best friend Daisy’s feet on her dash, suddenly Pearl ends up stuck in the middle of the desert beside Obi Okocha, a boy with a mega-watt smile and an endlessly irritating attitude. Tasked with delivering him to the most epic end-of-year party ever, located in a beach shack in literal middle-of-nowhere woop woop, Pearl Nash is certain… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Toxic friendship
Alcohol consumption
Disappearance of a grandparent

Trouble is my Business by Lisa Walker

Trouble is my Business by Lisa Walker

Olivia Grace, recently retired teen PI, has her priorities sorted. Pass first-year law, look after her little sister, and persuade her parents to come back from a Nepali monastery to resume … well, parenting. But after Olivia’s friend Abbey goes missing in Byron Bay, she can’t sit back and study Torts. It’s time to go undercover as hippie-chick Nansea, in hippie-chic Byron Bay: hub of influencers and international tourism, and home of yoga, surfing and wellness culture, against a breathtaking backdrop, a short drive from Olivia’s Gold Coast home… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Disappearance of a friend

The Hell You Say by Josh Lanyon

The Hell You Say by Josh Lanyon

In the third in the popular Adrien English series, the “ill-starred and bookish” mystery writer has to contend with a Satanic cult, a handsome university professor and his on-again/off-again relationship with the eternally conflicted LAPD Detective Jake Riordan. And, oh, yes, murder…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Racism
Stalking
Satanic cults

Ash by Malinda Lo

Ash by Malinda Lo

In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King’s Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Indentured servitude of a child
Physical child abuse
Alcohol consumption
Blood depiction
Death from fever
Seizures
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother & wife, off-page
Death of a father
Knife violence
Graphic animal death & dead bodies
Hunting

The Secret of Nightingale Wood Lucy Strange

The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange

1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees — or thinks she sees — in the shadows of their new home, Hope House. All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden. One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale Wood. What she finds there will change her whole world…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Prescription drug abuse
Medical experimentation mentioned
Forced institutionalisation
Death of a brother in a fire

All About Us by Tom Ellen

All About Us by Tom Ellen

Ben’s always loved the month of December, but this year, with his relationship with Daphne on the rocks, it’s missing its usual magic. And then his old friend Alice gets back in touch. Ben’s always thought of Alice as the one that got away, and he can’t help but wonder: what if he’d done things differently all those years ago? He never imagines he might get to find out… but when a stranger sells Ben a mysterious watch one freezing winter’s night, he’s astonished to wake up the next morning on 5th December 2005: the day he first kissed Daphne, leaving Alice behind…… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Abandonment
Infidelity
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent

Praise by Sara Cate

Praise by Sara Cate

Broken down and wounded by my emotionally neglectful ex, I wanted someone to tell me I was good enough. Then, I stumbled into a new job with a boss who brings me to my knees—literally. He has me do things a real secretary would never do. Emerson Grant tells me I’m more than just good enough.
I’m worthy of his praise. There are a million reasons why I should stay away. The owner of the Salacious Players’ Club is not just my new boss, he’s twice my age. And my ex-boyfriend’s father….. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Transmisia
Cheating recounted
Alcohol consumption
Blackmail

Broken by Jenny Lawson

Broken (In the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson

As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it. From the business ideas that she wants to pitch to Shark Tank to the reason why Jenny can never go back to the post office, Broken leaves nothing…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Anxiety & panic attacks
Depression
Suicidal ideation

He’s a Brute by Chloe Liese

He’s a Brute by Chloe Liese

Every good scientist knows the second law of thermodynamics: the universe’s disorder, entropy, is always increasing. Professionally and personally speaking, Nairne’s familiar with the principle. After a streak of costly fame, now she’s set on saving the world, microscope in hand, and there’s no time for romance. Problem is, when a rude, despicably sexy Adonis shows up to run their board meeting, chemistry and its ensuing chaos become more than a formula—now they’re a burning hot reality… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Cancer