All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater 

All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place, you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future: Beatriz, the girl without feelings, who wants only to be free to examine her thoughts; Daniel, the Saint of Bicho Raro, who performs miracles for everyone but himself; and Joaquin… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Recreational drug use
  • Eye trauma & loss of vision
  • Electrocution (lightning strike)
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Goodbye, My Rose Garden, Vol. 1 by Dr Pepperco

Goodbye, My Rose Garden, Vol. 1 by Dr. Pepperco

Early in the twentieth century, Hanako journeys to England to follow her dream of becoming a novelist. When things don’t work out quite as she planned, she finds employment as a personal maid to noblewoman Alice Douglas, who makes a most unusual request: she begs Hanako to kill her! As Hanako tries to figure out why her mistress would make such a shocking plea, their relationship grows into something far deeper.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Queermisia
  • Depression
  • Suicidal ideation
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Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero by Saadia Faruqi

Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero by Saadia Faruqi

Yusuf Azeem has spent all his life in the small town of Frey, Texas—and nearly that long waiting for the chance to participate in the regional robotics competition, which he just knows he can win. Only, this year is going to be more difficult than he thought. Because this year is the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, an anniversary that has everyone in his Muslim community on edge. With “Never Forget” banners everywhere and a hostile group of townspeople protesting the new mosque, Yusuf realizes that the country’s anger from two decades ago hasn’t gone away. Can he hold onto his joy—and his friendships—in the face of heartache and prejudice?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • 9/11 (theme)
  • Animal death (cat)
  • Bullying
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A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi

A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi

Set in Karachi, the middle grade contemporary novel follows American-born Mimi as she searches for her absent father, and Pakistani-born Sakina, who balances her dreams against her family’s needs, over the course of a summer.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Familial estrangement
  • Parent with diabetes
  • Hospitalisation
  • Poverty
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Malice of Crows by Lila Bowen

Malice of Crows by Lila Bowen

The Ranger known as Rhett has shut down a terrible enterprise running on the blood of magical folk but failed to catch the dark alchemist behind it. And now the Shadow refuses to let him rest. Rhett must make the ultimate transformation if he has any hope of stopping the alchemist or fulfilling his destiny; he must become the leader of a new Rangers outpost. To save his friends, and the lives of countless others, he’ll first have to lead them on a mission more dangerous than anything they’ve ever faced.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide
  • Surgery
  • Emesis
  • Poisoning
  • Gun violence
  • Animal abuse
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When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumours say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees, and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumoured to be witches. Now they want the roses that grow from Miel’s skin, convinced that their scent can make… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Transmisia
  • Misgendering
  • Child abuse
  • Attempted suicide by drowning
  • Blood depiction & body horror
  • Death of a parent
  • Torture
  • Blackmail
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Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore

Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore

Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumoured to be half-air, half-water. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who’ve been there. Bastián grew up both above the lake and in the otherworldly space beneath it. Lore’s only seen the world under the lake once, but that one encounter changed their life and their fate. Then the lines between air and water begin to blur. The world under the lake drifts above the surface. If Bastián and Lore don’t want it bringing their secrets to the surface.. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Transmisia
  • Ableism
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Bad Company by KA Mitchell

Bad Company by K.A. Mitchell

I need a boyfriend. Hearing those words from his very straight, very ex-best friend doesn’t put Nate in a helpful mood. Not only did Kellan Brooks’s father destroy Nate’s family in his quest for power, but Kellan broke Nate’s heart back in high school. Nate thought he could trust his best friend with the revelation that he might be gay, only to find out he was horribly wrong and become the laughingstock of the whole school. Kellan must be truly desperate if he’s turning to Nate now. Kellan’s through letting his… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Outing
  • Rape recounted
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A Song of Secrets by Jayci Lee 

A Song of Secrets by Jayci Lee

World-renowned cellist Angie Han is desperate to save her trio’s chamber music society. So when she discovers that her ex Joshua Shin is the anonymous composer setting the classical music world on fire, she asks for his help. The sexy musician agrees to an uneasy truce to protect his secret success. But when their passion reignites, Angie’s own secrets may be exposed. Will Joshua ever trust her again? And will what’s keeping them apart ever lead them to happily-ever-after?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death of a parent from cancer
  • Blackmail
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