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Rebel by Sally Malcolm

Rebel by Sally Malcolm

Samuel Hutchinson has lived his whole life in Rosemont, Rhode Island. And as far as he’s concerned, his future is fixed: complete his legal training, marry a respectable woman, and settle down to raise a family. But Sam never counted on meeting Nathaniel Tanner.

Clever, urbane, and dazzling, Nate has been banished to Rosemont by a father determined to remove him from the rising political tension in Boston. The last thing Nate expects to find in the sleepy Rhode Island… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Death of a parent from typhoid recounted

King’s Man by Sally Malcolm

King’s Man by Sally Malcolm

Had there been no war, Sam Hutchinson and Nate Tanner would have lived their lives together as intimate friends, and secret lovers. But when the revolution convulsed America, it threw them down on opposite sides of history.

Five years later, Sam is a Loyalist refugee in London, penniless, bitter, and scrambling to survive amid the city’s shadowy underworld. It’s a far cry from his respectable life as a Rhode Island lawyer, and the last person he wants to witness his ruin is Nate Tanner— the man he… Read more.

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Anxiety
Alcohol consumption
Scars
Murder
Gun violence
Police violence & brutality
Imprisonment
Flogging recounted
Colonialism

The Door That Lead to Where by Sally Gardner

The Door That Lead to Where by Sally Gardner

AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his major exams, and at almost seventeen years old, he sees a future that’s far from rosy. So when he’s offered a junior clerk position at a London law firm, he hopes his life is about to change—and it does, but he could never have imagined how much.

While on the job, AJ finds an old key labelled with his birth date, and he’s determined to find the door it… Read more.

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Drug abuse
Death of a parent
Murder

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.

So begins an unexpected journey that takes…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Slavery
Suicide mentioned

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume

In the early morning hours, two men enter a hansom cab. When the first man exits the cab, the driver continues on to the second’s destination—only to discover upon arrival that the remaining passenger is dead, murdered in the backseat. Police detective Samuel Gorby believes the solution to the crime is as simple as identifying the passengers. But Kilsip, Gorby’s rival on the force, thinks the case is more complicated, and Defense Attorney Duncan Calton concurs. Upon further investigation, the mystery takes a series of strange and unsettling turns, leading the investigators into dark, secret places they never imagined they would go… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol abuse
Murder

Bad Company by Carol Carson

Bad Company by Carol Carson

Mistaken for a bank robber, Trixianna Lawless–a proper lady who bakes pies for the restaurant in Grand Fork, Kansas–must prove her innocence–and love–to the sheriff she mistakenly shot.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Gun violence

Bound by Sally Cabot Gunning

Bound by Sally Cabot Gunning

Alice Cole spent her first seven years living in two smoky, crowded rooms in London with her family. But a new home and a better life waited in the colonies, or so her father promised a bright dream that turned to ashes when her brothers and mother took ill and died during the arduous voyage. Arriving in New England unable to meet the added expenses incurred by their misfortunes at sea, her father bound Alice into servitude to pay his debts… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Graphic rape

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred Taylor

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor

Cassie Logan is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated by the racist society of America, and the often violent confrontations that brought about change.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Rape & attempted rape
Sexual harassment
Alcohol consumption
Murder
Gun violence
Lynchings
Police brutality
Physical assault
Immolation

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Carina Taylor

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Carina Taylor

Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary’s, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don’t do ‘time-travel’ – they ‘investigate major historical events in contemporary time’. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power – especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet.

Meet the disaster magnets of St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted rape
Miscarriage
Death of a friend
Fire

The Ashes of London by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Ashes of London by Taylor Jenkins Reid

London, 1666. As the Great Fire consumes everything in its path, the body of a man is found in the ruins of St Paul’s Cathedral – stabbed in the neck, thumbs tied behind his back.

The son of a traitor, James Marwood is forced to hunt the killer through the city’s devastated streets. There he encounters a determined young woman, who will stop at nothing to secure her freedom… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Eyeball trauma
Murder
Fire