The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom

The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom

Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in.

“Thank the Lord we found you,” a passenger says.

“I am the Lord,” the man whispers.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Classism
  • Suicide
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a child
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A Lady Who Looks Good When She’s Crying by Dan Ackerman

A Lady Who Looks Good When She’s Crying by Dan Ackerman

Angels shouldn’t pal around with demons, especially not ones they’ve been sent to assassinate. They shouldn’t work with them or cook them dinner, or strike a deal with the Devil for them either. Sunshine probably isn’t a very good angel.

The demon in question is Felix Specter. He’s forgiven Sunshine for stabbing him all those years ago. He’s got a lot on his plate: a curse, his mental health, and a questionable love life. Finding out Sunshine owes the Devil a few favours doesn’t help… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Panic attacks
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The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city’s zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen “guests” hid inside the Zabinskis’ villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants—otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Antisemitism & Nazism
  • World War Two (theme)
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When We Collided by Emery Lord 

When We Collided by Emery Lord 

We are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know…

Jonah never thought a girl like Vivi would come along. Vivi didn’t know Jonah would light up her world. Neither of them expected a summer like this…a summer that would rewrite their futures.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism & ableist language
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Depression
  • Panic attacks
  • Suicide discussed
  • Self harm mentioned
  • Weight loss discussed
  • Psychiatric hospitalisation
  • Death of a parent from a heart attack
  • Death of a relative from a car accident
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Open Road Summer by Emery Lord 

Open Road Summer by Emery Lord 

After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. . . and her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own.

Fortunately, Lilah’s 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect opportunity for a girls-only summer of break-up ballads and healing hearts. But when Matt Finch joins the tour as its opening act, his boy-next-door charm proves difficult for Reagan to resist, despite her vow to live a drama-free existence… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Domestic violence
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Clarity by Loretta Lost

Clarity by Loretta Lost

Fiercely independent Helen Winters was born completely blind, but she vowed never to let her disability keep her down. She did not expect a traumatic event to devastate her life and force her to drop out of college. Disillusioned by the cruelty of people, Helen retreated from society to live by herself as a reclusive writer in the woods–where no one could ever hurt her again.

When a brilliant young doctor shows up on her doorstep, promising her that his new research can give her the ability to see for the first time, Helen stubbornly refuses… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
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Deviate by Jay Kristoff

DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff

Lemon Fresh has seen better days. After the climactic battle in Babel, she finds herself separated from Ezekiel and Cricket in the wastelands. Lemon’s abilities to manipulate electricity mark her as a deviate, and deadly corporate operatives are hunting her to use as a weapon in the war between BioMaas Incorporated and Daedelus Technologies. Instead, Lemon finds herself falling in with a group of fellow deviates—a band of teenagers with astonishing abilities, led by an enigmatic figure known as the Major, who may hold the secrets to Lemon’s past… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Gun violence
  • Explosion
  • Fire
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Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff

Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff

The greatest games in Godsgrave’s history have ended with the most audacious murders in the history of the Itreyan Republic. Mia Corvere, gladiatii, escaped slave and infamous assassin, is on the run. Pursued by Blades of the Red Church and soldiers of the Luminatii legion, she may never escape the City of Bridges and Bones alive. Her mentor Mercurio is now in the clutches of her enemies. Her own family wishes her dead. And her nemesis, Consul Julius Scaeva, stands but a breath from total dominance over the Republic… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slavery & sex slavery
  • Sexual assault (groping)
  • Child sexual abuse mentioned
  • Suicide
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a friend
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Poisoning
  • Fire
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Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she’s far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she’s no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she’s told directly that Consul Scaeva is off-limits. But after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy, Mia’s suspicions about the Red Church’s true motives begin to grow.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Human trafficking
  • Attempted rape mentioned
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a sibling
  • Death of a child, off-page
  • Murder
  • Poisoning
  • Animal death
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Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.

Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape mentioned
  • Graphic blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Death of a child, Murder
  • Torture
  • Poisoning
  • Animal death
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