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Lucky Caller by Emma Mills

Lucky Caller by Emma Mills

When Nina decides to take a radio broadcasting class her senior year, she expects it to be a walk in the park. Instead, it’s a complete disaster. The members of Nina’s haphazardly formed radio team have approximately nothing in common. And to maximize the awkwardness her group includes Jamie, a childhood friend she’d hoped to basically avoid for the rest of her life. The show is a mess, internet rumors threaten to bring the wrath of two fandoms down on their heads, and to top it all off Nina’s family is on the brink of some major upheaval. Everything feels like it’s spiraling out of control―but maybe control is overrated?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Coerced kiss*
Recreational drug use mentioned
Stroke (sc)
Hospitalization of a grandparent & guardian mentioned

*Context : The protagonist’s best friend plays a ‘kiss cam’ game where she tells her friends a person they have to try and kiss. Nina recounts purposefully coercing a kiss out of Jamie, her love interest, while her friends ‘spy’ from an adjourning room.

Famous in a Small Town by Emma Mills

Famous in a Small Town by Emma Mills

For Sophie, small-town life has never felt small. With her four best friends—loving, infuriating, and all she could ever ask for—she can weather any storm. But when Sophie’s beloved Acadia High School marching band is selected to march in the upcoming Rose Parade, it’s her job to get them all the way to LA. Her plan? To persuade country singer Megan Pleasant, their Midwestern town’s only claim to fame, to come back to Acadia to headline a fundraising festival. The only problem is that Megan has very publicly sworn never to return.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide mentioned
Death of a sibling recounted
Car accident mentioned

This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills

This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills

Sloane isn’t expecting to fall in with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida—especially not a group of friends so intense, so in love, so all-consuming. Yet that’s exactly what happens. Sloane becomes closest to Vera, a social-media star who lights up any room, and Gabe, Vera’s twin brother and the most serious person Sloane’s ever met. When a beloved painting by the twins’ late mother goes missing, Sloane takes on the responsibility of tracking it down, a journey that takes her across state lines—and ever deeper into the twins’ lives.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Anxiety & panic attacks
Depression
Alcohol consumption
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Bullying

First and Then by Emma Mills

First & Then by Emma Mills

Devon Tennyson wouldn’t change a thing. She’s happy watching Friday night games from the bleachers, silently crushing on best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon’s cousin Foster, an unrepentant social outlier with a surprising talent for football, and the obnoxiously superior and maddeningly attractive star running back, Ezra, right where she doesn’t want them: first into her P.E. class and then into every other aspect of her life.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Death of relatives in a car accident
Near drowning incident

Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills

Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills

When Claudia accidentally eavesdrops on the epic breakup of Paige and Iris, the it-couple at her school, she finds herself in hot water with prickly, difficult Iris. Thrown together against their will in the class production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, along with the goofiest, cutest boy Claudia has ever known, Iris and Claudia are in for an eye-opening senior year.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Panic attacks
Prematute labour & childbirth
Seizures mentioned

To Bleed a Crystal Bloom by Sarah Parker

To Bleed a Crystal Bloom by Sarah A. Parker

Nineteen years ago, I was plucked from the heart of a bloody massacre that spared nobody else. Small. Fragile. An enigma. Now ward to a powerful High Master who knows too much and says too little, I lead a simple life, never straying from the confines of an imaginary line I’ve drawn around the castle grounds. Stay within. Never leave. Out there, the monsters lurk. Inside, I’m safe … though at a cost far greater than the blood I drip into a goblet daily. Toxic, unreciprocated love for a man who’s utterly unavailable. My saviour. My protector. My almost executioner… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Arranged marriage
Abusive relationship
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Agoraphobia
Panic attacks
Nightmares & night terrors
Self-harm
Drug use
Blood and gore depiction
Scars
Dead bodies & body parts
Death of a sibling

The Glass Collector by Anna Perera

The Glass Collector by Anna Perera

In Cairo, fifteen-year old Aaron makes a living out of gathering garbage – as a member of the despised Zabbaleen, this is his fate. But every day he dreams of Rachel, who looks after the ponies who pull the carts piled high with garbage to and from the slum they call home. He dreams that they will make a life together, far away from the smells, cruelty and squalor. Aaron’s skills at sorting glass is the only thing that keeps him alive. His mother is dead, and his stepfather and stepbrother subject him to endless bullying and abuse. Just as it seems he can sink no further, Aaron makes a choice that will change his life.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child marriage
Child abuse
Blood depiction
Death of a mother recounted
Animal death

Irreplaceable by Jenna Hartley

Irreplaceable by Jenna Hartley

One impulsive, passionate week changed my life. And I can’t stop thinking about it…or him. The hot Italian with full lips and inked skin. The passionate man who made me feel incredible until I realized it was all a sham. Because he lied. About his name. About everything.. Now, I’m not only pregnant with his child but thrust into the spotlight. Because my vacation fling, my baby daddy, is an international soccer superstar. He wants a second chance, but I’m concerned that he’s as much of a player off the field as he is on it.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Unplanned pregnancy
Fertility issues discussed

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

When Elton Irving turned Holly Liddell into a vampire in 1987, he promised her eternal love. But thirty-four years later, Elton has left her, her hair will be crimped for the rest of immortality, and the only job she can get as a forever sixteen-year-old is the midnight shift at Taco Bell. Holly’s afterlife takes an interesting turn when she meets Rose McKay and Ida Ripley. Having also been turned and discarded by Elton—Rose in 1954, and Ida, his ex-fiancée, in 1921—they want to help her, and ask for her help in return… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Emotional abuse & gaslighting
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Death of a sibling
Death of a parent
Murder

Say Yes to the Duke by Eloisa James

Say Yes to the Duke by Eloisa James

Miss Viola Astley is so painfully shy that she’s horrified by the mere idea of dancing with a stranger; her upcoming London debut feels like a nightmare. So she’s overjoyed to meet handsome, quiet vicar with no interest in polite society — but just when she catches his attention, her reputation is compromised by a duke. Devin Lucas Augustus Elstan, Duke of Wynter, will stop at nothing to marry Viola, including marrying a woman whom he believes to be in love with another man. Devin knows he’s no saint, but he’s used to conquest, and he’s determined to win Viola’s heart.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Emotional & verbal abuse
Emesis