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Full Flight by Ashley Schumacher

Full Flight by Ashley Schumacher

Everyone else in the tiny town of Enfield, Texas calls fall football season, but for the forty-three members of the Fighting Enfield Marching Band, it’s contest season. And for new saxophonist Anna James, it’s her first chance to prove herself as the great musician she’s trying hard to be. When she’s assigned a duet with mellophone player Weston Ryan, the boy her small-minded town thinks of as nothing but trouble, she’s equal parts thrilled and intimidated. But as he helps her with the duet, and she sees the smile he seems to save just for her, she can’t help but feel like she’s helping him with… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental divorce
Grief & loss depiction
Bullying

Pretty Little Savage by Lucy Smoke

Pretty Little Savage by Lucy Smoke

Rule No. 1: Don’t piss off the Sick Boys. They’re cruel. Reckless. Impossibly fucked up. The Sick Boys feed on the order they create. They rule Eastpoint University just as their families have for decades. But their power doesn’t stop there. The three of them are heirs to some of the largest fortunes in the world, and behind that kind of wealth lies an underworld of corruption. On the surface, they’re perfect princes and he is their King. But underneath it all, they’re filled with blood, lies, and secrets. With all of their connections, they… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape

A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel

A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Hannah knows there’s been a mistake. She didn’t need to be institutionalized. What happened to her roommate at her summer program was an accident. As soon as the doctors and judge figure out that she isn’t a danger to herself or others, she can go home to start her senior year. In the meantime, she is going to use her persuasive skills to get the staff on her side. Then Lucy arrives. Lucy has her own baggage. And she may be the only person who can get Hannah to confront the dangerous games and secrets that landed her in confinement in the first place.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Psychosis
Eating disorder
Suicide mentioned
Serious physical injury

The Magnificent Sons by Justin Myers

The Magnificent Sons by Justin Myers

Jake D’Arcy has spent most of his twenty-nine years trying to get his life just right. He’s nearly there: great girlfriend, great friends, stable job. A distant relationship with his boisterous family – which is exactly the way he wants it. So why does everything feel so wrong? When his popular, irritatingly confident teenage brother Trick comes out as gay to a rapturous response, Jake realises he has questions about his own repressed bisexuality, and that he can’t wait any longer to find his answers. As Trick begins to struggle with navigating the murky waters of adult relationships… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Bimisia
Internalised homomisia

Merciless Hunter by Faith Summers and Khardine Gray

Merciless Hunter by Faith Summers and Khardine Gray

She should have run away from me when she had the chance… I was on a mission of retribution and vengeance: find my son then make my enemies pay for kidnapping him and killing my wife. Then I met her. Olivia made a big mistake when she tried to trick me.
I’m the leader of a blood-thirsty brotherhood. In the Bratva the rules are simple: An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. Enemies will always be enemies. Try to fool me, and you pay with your life. Except this beautiful angel managed to enchant me. So I make her my prisoner. A captive at the mercy of my desire. One taste and I don’t want to let her go. One taste… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape recounted
Murder of a wife recounted
Kidnapping & captivity

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

29-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet, Xiao-Wen Chou, and never read about “Chinese-y” things again. But after four years of painstaking research, she has nothing but anxiety and stomach pain to show for her efforts. When she accidentally stumbles upon a strange and curious note in the Chou archives, she convinces herself it’s her ticket out of academic hell. ut Ingrid’s in much deeper than she thinks. Her clumsy exploits to unravel the note’s message lead to an explosive discovery, one that upends her…Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Racism
Eugenics
Drug abuse, including the use of hallucinogenic drugs
Physical assault

Love and Olives by Jenna Evans Welch

Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch

Liv Varanakis doesn’t like to think about her father much, which makes sense—he fled to Greece when she was only eight, leaving her with just a few painful memories of their shared love for the lost city of Atlantis. So when teenage Liv suddenly receives a postcard from her father, who explains that National Geographic is supporting a documentary about his theories on Atlantis—and asks if she will fly out to Greece and help—Liv is less than thrilled. When she arrives in gorgeous Santorini, things are just as awkward as she’d imagined. There are so,… https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52765415-love-olivesRead more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Bipolar Disorder
Panic attack
Smoking

Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

Everyone likes Humaira “Hani” Khan—she’s easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can’t be bi if she’s only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she’s in a relationship…with a girl her friends absolutely hate—Ishita “Ishu” Dey. Ishu is the complete opposite of Hani. She’s an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will set her on the right track for college. But Ishita agrees to help Hani, if Hani will help her become more popular so that she… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Islamophobia
Bimisia
Lesbomisia
Coming out themes
Disownment
Toxic friendship (theme)
Alcohol consumption discussed
Bullying
False allegations of cheating in a school test

To Catch a Dream by Audrey Carlan

To Catch a Dream by Audrey Carlan

When their mother passed away, Evie Ross and her sister were each given a stack of letters, one to be opened every year on their birthday; letters their free-spirited mother hoped would inspire and guide them through adulthood. But although Evie has made a successful career, her desire for the stability and security she never had from her parents has meant she’s never experienced the best life has to offer. But the discovery of more letters hidden in a safe-deposit box points to secrets her mother held close, and possibly a new way for Evie to think about her family, her heart and her dreams.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Cheating
Death of a mother from cancer
Bullying

Bio-Mechanical by EM Lindsey

Bio-Mechanical by E.M. Lindsey

Having grown up the son of a Southern Baptist preacher, James Gossett was expected to be one thing, and one thing only—a God-fearing, straight, Christian man. It didn’t help that from a young age, James knew he was different. He hid the truth about who he was from himself, and from his family, until a freak accident during a routine simulation right after basic training cost him both legs, and nearly his life. Knowing what he almost lost, James decided to come out—and with that, lost the rest of the blood kin he had left ali…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Religious homomisia
Sexual assault
Familial estrangement
Parental abandonment
Child abuse & neglect recounted
Anxiety & panic attacks
Alcohol consumption
Teen pregnancy from rape mentioned
Amputation & loss of limb
Parent with Multiple Sclerosis
Death of a mother from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease