How the Light Gets In by Katy Upperman

How the Light Gets In by Katy Upperman

Since her sister’s tragic death, seventeen-year-old Callie Ryan has basically given up. Her grades have plummeted, she’s quit her swim team, and she barely recognizes the people her parents have become.

When she returns to her aunt’s run-down coastal Victorian one year after Chloe’s death, Callie resigns herself to a summer of guilt and home renovations. She doesn’t expect to be charmed by the tiny coastal town or by Tucker Morgan, a local boy brimming with sunshine.

But even as her days begin to brighten, Callie’s nights are crowded with chilling dreams, unanswered questions, and eerie phenomenon that have her convinced she’s being haunted. Will Callie be able to figure out what her sister is trying to communicate before it’s too late?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Grief & loss depiction (theme)
  • Death of a sister
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Cut and Run by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux

Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux

A series of murders in New York City has stymied the police and FBI alike, and they suspect the culprit is a single killer sending an indecipherable message. But when the two federal agents assigned to the investigation are taken out, the FBI takes a more personal interest in the case.

Special Agent Ty Grady is pulled out of undercover work after his case blows up in his face. He’s cocky, abrasive, and indisputably the best at what he does. But when he’s paired with Special Agent Zane Garrett, it’s hate at first sight. Garrett is the perfect image of an agent: serious, sober, and focused, which makes their partnership a classic cliche. They both know immediately that their partnership will pose more of an obstacle than the lack of evidence left by the murderer.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Substance addiction
  • Murder
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Heavy Vinyl, Vol. 1 by Carly Usdin

Heavy Vinyl, Vol. 1: Riot on the Radio by Carly Usdin

Starry-eyed Chris has just started the dream job every outcast kid in town wants: working at Vinyl Mayhem. It’s as rad as she imagined; her boss is BOSS, her co-workers spend their time arguing over music, pushing against the patriarchy, and endlessly trying to form a band. When Rosie Riot, the staff’s favorite singer, mysteriously vanishes the night before her band’s show, Chris discovers her co-workers are doing more than just sorting vinyl . . . Her local indie record store is also a front for a teen girl vigilante fight club! 

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Sexism
  • Hostage situation
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The Avant-Guards, Vol. 2 by Carly Usdin

The Avant-Guards, Vol. 2 by Carly Usdin

The Avant-Guards have been on a roll, but when they hit the end of their winning-streak, will these new friendships survive? As The Avant-Guards struggle to move forward, they’ll soon learn just what it means to truly be a team – on the court and, most importantly, off the court.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Anxiety
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The Avant-Guards, Vol. 3: Down to the Wire by Carly Usdin

The Avant-Guards, Vol. 3: Down to the Wire by Carly Usdin

Everything’s happening – Liv & Charlie figuring out what it means to be Liv & Charlie, the final game of the season is here, creating the perfect fundraiser and everyone’s parents showed up to cheer them on during the most stressful time the team could imagine. It’s Just A Lot For Everyone To Deal With.

Luckily the entire existence of the league doesn’t depend on this one game or the Avant-Guards winning, right? Oh wait… 

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Anxiety
  • Panic attack (on-page)
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The Avant-Guards, Vol. 1 by Carly Usdin

The Avant-Guards, Vol. 1 by Carly Usdin

As a transfer student to the Georgia O’Keeffe College for Arts and Subtle Dramatics, former sports star Charlie is struggling to find her classes, her dorm, and her place amongst a student body full of artists who seem to know exactly where they’re going. When the school’s barely-a-basketball-team unexpectedly attempts to recruit her, Charlie’s adamant that she’s left that life behind…until she’s won over by the charming team captain, Liv, and the ragtag crew she’s managed to assemble. And while Charlie may have left cut-throat competition in in the dust, sinking these hoops may be exactly what she needs to see the person she truly wants to be.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Anxiety
  • Panic attack (on-page)
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Small Town Hearts by Lillie Vale

Small Town Hearts by Lilie Vale

Fresh out of high school, Babe Vogel should be thrilled to have the whole summer at her fingertips. She loves living in her lighthouse home in the sleepy Maine beach town of Oar’s Rest and being a barista at the Busy Bean, but she’s totally freaking out about how her life will change when her two best friends go to college in the fall. And when a reckless kiss causes all three of them to break up, she may lose them a lot sooner. On top of that, her ex-girlfriend is back in town, bringing with her a slew of memories, both good and bad.

And then there’s Levi Keller, the cute artist who’s spending all his free time at the coffee shop where she works. Levi’s from out of town, and even though Babe knows better than to fall for a tourist who will leave when summer ends, she can’t stop herself from wanting to know him. Can Babe keep her distance, or will she break the one rule she’s always had – to never fall for a summer boy?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Fatshaming
  • Dubious consent scenario*
  • Recreational drug use (off-page)
  • Alcohol consumption (on-page)
  • Bullying

*Note: Two characters under the influence of alcohol consent to have sex with each other.

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The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente

The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente

Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality But on this Beastliest Day, the day Anne and Branwell walk their sisters to the train station, something incredible happens: the train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town.

This is their Glass Town, exactly like they envisioned it…almost. They certainly never gave Napoleon a fire-breathing porcelain rooster instead of a horse. And their soldiers can die; wars are fought over the potion that raises the dead, a potion Anne would very much like to bring back to England. But when Anne and Branwell are kidnapped, Charlotte and Emily must find a way to save their siblings. Can two English girls stand against Napoleon’s armies, especially now that he has a new weapon from the real world? And if he escapes Glass Town, will England ever be safe again?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Dismemberment
  • Death of a mother
  • Death of a sister
  • War themes
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The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente

The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente

When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Red Wind, he becomes a changeling – a human boy — in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland when seen through trollish eyes. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature and his changeling fate. But when he turns twelve, he stumbles upon a way back home, to a Fairyland much changed from the one he remembers. Hawthorn finds himself at the center of a changeling revolution–until he comes face to face with a beautiful young Scientiste with very big, very red assistant.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Knife violence & stabbing
  • Imprisonment
  • Bullying
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The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente

The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente

This final book in the series finds September accidentally crowned the Queen of Fairyland. But there are others who believe they have a fair and good claim on the throne, so there is a Royal Race–whoever wins will seize the crown.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Memory loss
  • Fire
  • Animal attack
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