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When It Falls Apart by Catherine Bybee

When It Falls Apart by Catherine Bybee

Brooke Turner has always had a complicated relationship with her father. But when his health takes a turn for the worse, she drops everything to care for him. He’s her dad, after all, and he needs her. What Brooke doesn’t anticipate is the unravelling of her long-term relationship and a cross-country move to San Diego’s Little Italy. Luca D’Angelo is the oldest of three children and a single father to a young daughter. When his mother rents the top floor of their house to Brooke, he’s angry. Who is this beautiful stranger with… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abandonment & neglect
Miscarriage

Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac

Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac

Malian was visiting her grandparents on the reservation when the COVID-19 pandemic started. Now she’s staying there, away from her parents and her school in Boston. Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but on the reservation, everyone protects each other, from Malian caring for her grandparents to the local dog, Malsum, guarding their house. They always survive together.. Malian hears stories from her grandparents about how it has always been this way in their community: Stories about their ancestors, who survived epidemics of European diseases; about her grandfather, who survived a terrible government board… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

COVID-19 pandemic

Signs of Attraction by Laura Brown

Signs of Attraction by Laura Brown

Do you know what hearing loss sounds like? I do. All my life I’ve tried to be like you. I’ve failed. So I keep it hidden. But on the day my world crashed down around me, Reed was there. He showed me just how loud and vibrant silence can be, even when I struggled to understand. He’s unlike anyone I’ve ever known. His soulful eyes and strong hands pulled me in before I knew what was happening. And as I saw those hands sign, felt them sparking on me, I knew: imperfect could be perfect. Reed makes me feel things I’ve never felt. It’s exciting…and terrifying. Because he… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment & abuse
Drug abuse
Death of a parent from suicide
Attempted suicide

The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Tiffany Brooks

The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Tiffany Brooks

High school senior Riley Ozment is desperate to change her reality after making a fool of herself on social media. She needs to do something drastic to repair her social standing—like trying out for a Survivor-style reality TV show. Suddenly, Riley’s dropped onto a deserted tropical island with nineteen other teens competing for a million dollars and a rumored treasure lost on the island. But that treasure has a history: a local curse says that seven people need to die before the treasure can be found. And six hunters have already lost their lives in the search. Who will be the seventh?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Adult-minor relationship
Drug use mentioned
Graphic physical injury
Emesis

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting—until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting…Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia & body-shaming
Body dysmorphia
Eating disorder & disordered food thoughts
Emesis

A Match Made in Hatred by Morgan Bridges

A Match Made in Hatred by Morgan Bridges

I hated her before I even knew her name. My bride. The daughter of my enemy. She’s nothing more than a part of my revenge. I’m the one who holds her life in my hands, as well as her body. And soon, her very will. Yet, she refuses to break. This woman disarms me, not with weapons but words and not with a fist, but with a simple kiss. A match made in hate can have no other ending except war.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Forced arranged marriage
Kidnaping

Into the Real by Z Brewer

Into the Real by Z Brewer

The first Brume is a waking nightmare, overrun by literal monsters and cutthroat survivors. For Quinn, who is openly genderqueer, the only silver lining is their friendship with Lia—and the hope that there might still be a safe place somewhere else in the world. The second Brume is a prison with no bars. Forced to “sort out” their sexuality with other teens at Camp Redemption, Quinn must also figure out why presenting as female has never felt quite right… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Deadnaming
Misgendering
Conversion therapy
Physical child abuse
Blood & gore depiction
Gun violence

Till Next Time by Cora Brent

Till Next Time by Cora Brent

I met Colt Malene when I was fourteen years old.
And it seems I’ve never recovered. He became the headstrong star quarterback in a town that idolized high school football titles. Meanwhile, I was the coach’s dutiful perfectionist daughter, never daring to step out of line. We should have stayed far away from each other but we didn’t. And the volatile fallout was unbearable. More than a decade has passed and now my father is dying. He wants to make amends. He wants to be forgiven for the role he played in Colt’s ruinous downfall and my painful heartbreak… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a parent

Blush by Jamie Brenner

Blush by Jamie Brenner

For decades, the lush vineyards and majestic manor house of the Hollander Estates winery made it the North Fork of Long Island’s premier destination for lavish parties and romantic day trips. Now the Hollander family fortunes have suffered, and as matriarch Vivian Hollander prepares for the arrival of her daughter and granddaughter for their annual summer reunion, she fears it might be their last. Worse, selling the family legacy to strangers might expose the dark secret she’s harboured for thirty-five years… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual harassment

Must Love Cowboys by Carly Bloom

Beau Montgomery is living his best life . . . until he’s left in charge of Rancho Cañada Verde. With his dyslexia, he’d choose a saddle over spreadsheets any day. His best hope is to ask the town librarian for tutoring. Only he’s had a crush on the book-loving beauty since his junior high days—and despite being a smooth talker, he can’t help getting tongue-tied every time they meet. Alice Martin doesn’t regret putting her career above personal relationships… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism & internalised ableism
Alcohol consumption
Protagonist in remission for throat cancer
Flood recounted