The Forever Man by Eoin Colfer

The Forever Man by Eoin Colfer

Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, the Great Savano. He owes much of his success to Chevie, a seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future in a time pod and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick. But it is difficult for Riley to enjoy his new life, for he has always believed in his heart of hearts that Garrick will someday, somehow, return.

Chevie has assured Riley that Garrick was sucked into a temporal wormhole, never to emerge. The full nature of the wormhole has never been understood, however, and just as a human body will reject an unsuitable transplant, the wormhole eventually spits Garrick out. By the time Garrick makes it back to Victorian London, he has been planning his revenge on Riley for centuries. But even the best-laid plans can go awry, as the three discover when they are tossed once more into the wormhole and spill out in a Puritan village.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Persecution for witchcraft discussed
  • Death from a heart attack
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries
  • Needles
  • Death of a father mentioned
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Knife violence
  • Motorcycle accident recounted
  • Death from animal attack (bear) mentioned
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The Hangman’s Revolution by Eoin Colfer

The Hangman’s Revolution by Eoin Colfer

F.B.I. agent Chevie Savano is trapped in a nightmare future. Unless she can return to 19th-century London and change the course of history, millions will die.

Luckily she has Riley the boy magician and a Victorian gangster with lovely hair to help her battle two crazed villains, who have brought the military technology of the future back in time – with potentially disastrous consequences.

The stakes are higher than the hangman’s noose and only Chevie can save the day. Assuming she can avoid being killed by a couple of psycho warrior-nuns first . . . 

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries
  • Death of a father mentioned
  • Death of a friend mentioned
  • Murder
  • Explosions & bombings
  • Gun violence
  • Hanging mentioned
  • Torture mentioned
  • Drowning
  • Death from animal attack (rat) mentioned
  • Animal death mentioned
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The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer

The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer

​The reluctant assassin is Riley, a Victorian boy who is suddenly plucked from his own time and whisked into the twenty-first century, accused of murder and on the run.

Riley has been pulled into the FBI’s covert W.A.R.P. operation (Witness Anonymous Relocation Program). He and young FBI Agent Chevie Savano are forced to flee terrifying assassin-for-hire Albert Garrick, who pursues Riley through time and will not stop until he has hunted him down. Barely staying one step ahead, Riley and Chevie must stay alive and stop Garrick returning to his own time with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Suicide mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Dismemberment
  • Nonconsensual body modifications (tattoo)
  • Death from cholera mentioned
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Murder (theme)
  • Knife violence & stabbing
  • Gun violence
  • Poisoning
  • Kidnapping
  • Motorcycle accident recounted
  • Death from animal attack (bear) mentioned
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Carrie by Stephen King

Carrie by Stephen King

Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed… But one night at her senior prom, Carrie was scorned and humiliated just one time too many, and in a fit of uncontrollable fury she turned her clandestine game into a weapon of horror and destruction.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Antisemitism
  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Rape & attempted rape
  • Child abuse
  • Domestic abuse mentioned
  • Self harm
  • Blood depiction
  • Fire
  • Animal cruelty
  • Bullying
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?

As the cops close in, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Blood depiction
  • Rape mentioned
  • Domestic violence mentioned
  • Cheating
  • Murder
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Poisoning mentioned
  • Disappearance of a spouse
  • Animal death
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Just One Day by Gayle Forman

Just One Day by Gayle Forman

When sheltered American good girl Allyson “LuLu” Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there’s an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel, and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of those confines.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Islamophobia
  • Blood depiction
  • Alcohol consumption
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Blood and Honey by Shelby Mahurin

Blood & Honey by Shelby Mahurin

After narrowly escaping death at the hands of the Dames Blanches, Lou, Reid, Coco, and Ansel are on the run from coven, kingdom, and church—fugitives with nowhere to hide.

To elude the scores of witches and throngs of chasseurs at their heels, Lou and Reid need allies. Strong ones. But protection comes at a price, and the group is forced to embark on separate quests to build their forces. As Lou and Reid try to close the widening rift between them, the dastardly Morgane baits them in a lethal game of cat and mouse that threatens to destroy something worth more than any coven.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Nonconsensual drugging
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a child
  • Death of a sibling
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal attack
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Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin

Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned.

Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle: thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. His path was never meant to cross with Lou’s, but a wicked stunt forces them into an impossible union—holy matrimony.

The war between witches and Church is an ancient one, and Lou’s most dangerous enemies bring a fate worse than fire. Unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, a choice must be made.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Misogyny
  • Rape mentioned
  • Forced marriage
  • Child abandonment mentioned
  • Domestic violence
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Self-harm
  • Nonconsensual drugging
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries
  • Medical experimentation
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture
  • Fire & immolation
  • Kidnapping
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The Witch King by HE Edgmon

The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croft…don’t. Wyatt’s betrothal to his best friend, fae prince Emyr North, was supposed to change that. But when Wyatt lost control of his magic one devastating night, he fled to the human world.

Now a coldly distant Emyr has hunted him down. Despite transgender Wyatt’s newfound identity and troubling past, Emyr has no intention of dissolving their engagement. In fact, he claims they must marry now or risk losing the throne. Jaded, Wyatt strikes a deal with the enemy, hoping to escape Asalin forever. But as he gets to know Emyr, Wyatt realizes the boy he once loved may still exist. And as the witches face worsening conditions, he must decide once and for all what’s more important—his people or his freedom.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Transmisia
  • Deadnaming & misgendering
  • Verbal & physical parental abuse
  • PTSD
  • Panic attack
  • Dissociation
  • Drug use
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Emesis
  • Explosion
  • Immolation
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White Bird by RJ Palacio

White Bird by R.J. Palacio

In R. J. Palacio’s collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian’s grandmother, Grandmère. This is Grandmère’s story as a young Jewish girl hidden away by a family in Nazi-occupied France during World War II told in graphic novel form.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Antisemitism
  • Blood & gore depiction, including dead bodies
  • Death of a parent in a concentration camp
  • Gun violence
  • The Holocaust & World War Two (theme)
  • Animal attack
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