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This Is My Truth by Yasmin Rahman

This Is My Truth by Yasmin Rahman

High school junior Gigi Wong strives to be the best: the top student, the perfect friend, and the ideal daughter. But it’s tough when there’s always someone who is just a little bit better. With college applications looming, she can’t help but worry that she won’t make the cut. Thankfully, her best friend Kyle never fails to find the right words–and the perfect bowl of ramen–to cheer her up.Best friends Amani and Huda are getting nervous about their GCSEs – and their future beyond school, which they’re both wildly unprepared for. Shy, quiet Amani has an outwardly picture-perfect family – a father who is a successful TV presenter… Read more.

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Racism
Islamomisia
Domestic violence

Love, Decoded by Jennifer Yen

Love, Decoded by Jennifer Yen

High school junior Gigi Wong strives to be the best: the top student, the perfect friend, and the ideal daughter. But it’s tough when there’s always someone who is just a little bit better. With college applications looming, she can’t help but worry that she won’t make the cut. Thankfully, her best friend Kyle never fails to find the right words–and the perfect bowl of ramen–to cheer her up. After her teacher, Ms. Harris, announces she’ll be nominating students for an app writing contest, Gigi is determined to be picked… Read more.

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Racism

Suicide Watch by Kelley York

Suicide Watch by Kelley York

18-year-old Vincent Hazelwood has spent his entire life being shuffled from one foster home to the next. His grades sucked. Making friends? Out of the question thanks to his nervous breakdowns and unpredictable moods. Still, Vince thought when Maggie Atkins took him in, he might’ve finally found a place to get his life—and his issues—in order. But then Maggie keels over from a heart attack. Vince is homeless, alone, and the inheritance money isn’t going to last long. A year ago, Vince watched a girl leap to her death off a bridge, and now he’s starting to think she had the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Foster care system
Suicidal ideation (theme)
Suicide by jumping off a bridge recounted
Cancer mentioned
Heart attack
Homelessness

A Navy SEAL for Christmas by Zoe York

A Navy SEAL for Christmas by Zoe York

Navy SEAL Ben Simmons’ return from an overseas tour hasn’t gone exactly to plan. He surprises even himself by agreeing to be a model in a life-drawing art class because the alternative is a lonely, boring holiday break. For high school teacher Chelsea Doyle, who is spending Christmas alone for the first time in her life, the art class she’s signed up for should be a highlight. She isn’t prepared for the off-limits model to be drop-dead gorgeous or to discover the next day that he’s her brand-new next-door neighbour.

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Cheating recounted

Fall Back by Zoe York

Fall Back by Zoe York

When Navy SEAL Cade Duncan partners up with Mel Vincent for an endurance race, he doesn’t expect to tumble into a romantic fling in paradise—or to be so pissed with the beautiful woman when he finds out she’s been keeping secrets.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a mother from cancer mentioned

Love on a Summer Night by Zoe York

Love on a Summer Night by Zoe York

Zander Minelli has six months left in his Army career, and then he’s coming home to Pine Harbour for good. But first he needs to figure out what he’s going to do with the rest of his life–after he spends a good long while kicking back and enjoying his freedom. Widowed single mother Faith Davidson is ready to start dating again. But only someone solid, with a job and a pension and absolutely no tattoos. Definitely not someone who’s only in town for a week, whose extended life plans include riding his motorcycle across the country and sleeping until noon.

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Death of a husband

Fall Hard by Zoe York

Fall Hard by Zoe York

Jared Sutter has a simple rule when it comes to women: keep ’em happy and keep ’em at a distance. He’s got his reasons, and they all make sense until he falls for his neighbour and Cassie Bronson makes him want things he’s always kept off-limits.

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Infertility
Teen pregnancy

Love in a Small Town by Zoe York

Love in a Small Town by Zoe York

Rafe Minelli knows he won’t get a second chance with his ex-wife. The demands of his double career—as a police officer and military reservist—were a dealbreaker when they were together. And he’s thrilled for her when she lands a new job with a film company, but it comes with a deadline: when she finishes this project, she’s leaving town for good. Olivia has no reason to stay in Rafe’s tiny hometown, where the only job she could find was waiting tables in the local diner. But she couldn’t move on until she figured out what she wanted next in life. Now she’s been tasked with the… Read more.

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Divorce
Gun violence

Love on a Spring Morning by Zoe York

Love on a Spring Morning by Zoe York

Single father and widower Ryan Howard has zero interest in the movie being filmed in Pine Harbour or the high-maintenance stars staying in the cottages at the end of his lane. He’s just barely holding on to the raw remains of his life and the fantasy world being concocted around him is, as far as he’s concerned, a complete waste of time and energy. The one bright light in his life is an intern on the set, Holly Cresinski, and their quiet conversations at the end of the day on his back porch. Determined to solve the case, Danika’s only lead is Rayne, a vampire whose power… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Grief & loss depiction
Death of a wife

Black Tangled Heart by Samantha Young

Black Tangled Heart by Samantha Young

To my siblings, Jane was a friend. A pseudo-sister, the girl we grew up with. To me? She was everything. Our passion consumed us. When our world fell apart, I thought our love would be the thing that held us together. She was the love of my life. But she abandoned me when I needed her most. And I’ll never forgive her. For years I’ve been planning my revenge against the people who took everything from me. Jane won’t be an exception. I’m coming for her. She knows it. She says she wants to help me serve my version of justice on the people who hurt me. I’ll let her. She probably thinks it will save her from me. It won’t.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault
Child abandonment
Drug abuse
Wrongful conviction