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Renegades by Marissa Meyer

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies – humans with extraordinary abilities – who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone… except the villains they once overthrew. Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice – and in Nova. But Nova’s allegiance is to a villain who has the power to end them both

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism
Physical injury (burns)
Death of a mother from a fall
Murder of a mother, father and baby sister by gun violence recounted
Gun violence including fatal shootings, stun guns and tranquilizer guns with poisoned ammunition
Fire, poisonous gas and explosions
Animal death & cruelty
Poverty
Bullying
War themes recounted & battle scenes (on-page)

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Vern – seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised – flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.

But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future – outside the woods.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Misogyny
Ableism
Homomisia
Transmisia
Fatmisia & body shaming
Adult-minor relationship
Hallucinations
Suicide
Self harm
Alcohol consumption
Nonconsensual drugging
Forced sterilization
Teen pregnancy
Graphic childbirth
Blood & gore depiction
Burns
Death of a child & infant
Torture
Gun violence
Fire
Drowning
Poisoning
Cult
Graphic animal death

Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart

Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart

Ava Lee has lost everything there is to lose: Her parents. Her best friend. Her home. Even her face. She doesn’t need a mirror to know what she looks like–she can see her reflection in the eyes of everyone around her.

A year after the fire that destroyed her world, her aunt and uncle have decided she should go back to high school. Be “normal” again. Whatever that is. Ava knows better. There is no normal for someone like her. And forget making friends–no one wants to be seen with the Burned Girl, now or ever… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Attempted suicide
Burns
Medical procedures
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent recounted
Car accident mentioned
Fire
Bullying

The Conductors by Nicole Glover

The Conductors by Nicole Glover

As a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Hetty Rhodes helped usher dozens of people north with her wits and magic. Now that the Civil War is over, Hetty and her husband Benjy have settled in Philadelphia, solving murders and mysteries that the white authorities won’t touch. When they find one of their friends slain in an alley, Hetty and Benjy bury the body and set off to find answers. But the secrets and intricate lies of the elites of Black Philadelphia only serve to dredge up more questions. To solve this mystery, they will have to face ugly truths all around them, including the ones about each other.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slavery & human trafficking
Racism & colourism
Domestic abuse & violence
Infertility, miscarriage & mentions of pregnancy
Physical injury, including burns & scars
Blood and gore depiction
Death of a mother & father, friend, husband, sister & son
Disappearance of a sister
Torture
Knife violence
Fire
Kidnapping
Incarceration & captivity mentioned
Hanging/lynching (implied)

Toffee by Sarah Crossan

Toffee by Sarah Crossan

Also known as Being Toffee.

One is trying to forget. The other is trying to remember.

After running away from an abusive home, Allison finds herself taking shelter in a shed behind an abandoned house. But the house isn’t empty after all; an elderly woman named Marla, who suffers from dementia, lives there. And rather than turn her away, Marla welcomes her – she mistakes Allison for an old friend from her past named Toffee.

Allison is used to hiding who she really is, and trying to be what other people want her to be, so she decides to play along. But as their bond grows, and Allison discovers how much Marla needs a real companion, Allison begins to waver. They both deserve a home, a safe place, and a family – but at what cost?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexism
Slut shaming
Sexual harassment
Physical, verbal & emotional child abuse (theme)
Domestic violence and physical & emotional abuse
Elder abuse
Cheating mentioned
Depersonalisation
Suicidal ideation
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use (smoking)
Death from childbirth & traumatic childbirth mentioned
Dementia (theme)
Minor blood depiction & physical injuries, including burns
Emesis
Hospital
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother & wife recounted
Homelessness
Animal death
Death of a pet dog mentioned
Animal attack mentioned

The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan

The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan

They have always scared him in the past — the Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old Will, always small for his age, has been chosen as a Ranger’s apprentice. What he doesn’t yet realize is that the Rangers are the protectors of the kingdom. Highly trained in the skills of battle and surveillance, they fight the battles before the battles reach the people. And as Will is about to learn, there is a large battle brewing. The exiled Morgarath, Lord of the Mountains of Rain and Night, is gathering his forces for an attack on the kingdom. This time, he will not be denied….

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Verbal abuse
Burns, whipping and physical injuries
Death of a parent
Conscription
Knife violence, murder and attempted murder
Fire
Hunting
Bullying
War and military themes

Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh

Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh

Odessa is one of Karthia’s master necromancers, catering to the kingdom’s ruling Dead. Whenever a noble dies, it’s Odessa’s job to raise them by retrieving their souls from a dreamy and dangerous shadow world called the Deadlands. But there is a cost to being raised–the Dead must remain shrouded, or risk transforming into zombie-like monsters known as Shades. If even a hint of flesh is exposed, the grotesque transformation will begin.

A dramatic uptick in Shade attacks raises suspicions and fears among Odessa’s necromancer community. Soon a crushing loss of one of their own reveals a disturbing conspiracy: someone is intentionally creating Shades by tearing shrouds from the Dead–and training them to attack. Odessa is faced with a terrifying question: What if her necromancer’s magic is the weapon that brings Karthia to its knees?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableist language
Classism
Attempted kiss without consent
Substance addiction
Hallucinations and delusions
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption
Pill addiction, drug abuse, and nonconsensual detox
Graphic blood and gore, and dead bodies
Physical injuries and burns
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a boyfriend (on-page)
Death of a mentor,
Death of a father
Death of a girlfriend
Murder & attempted murder
Strangulation & hanging (mentioned)
Fire

The Secret Sky by Atia Abawi

The Secret Sky by Atia Abawi

Fatima is a Hazara girl. She was raised to be obedient, to be dutiful, and to honour the traditions of her family, her village, and her religion. Samiullah is a Pashtun boy. He was raised to be a landowner, to increase his family’s power, and to defend the traditions of his tribe, his village, and his religion.

They were not meant to fall in love.

But they do.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism, slut-shaming and terrorism
Forced and arranged marriages
Child abuse and physical abuse
Physical injuries and graphic burns
Murder
Poverty themes

Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

American-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home, and being paired off with an older Muslim boy her mom deems “suitable.” And then there is the world of her dreams: going to film school and living in New York City—and maybe (just maybe) pursuing a boy she’s known from afar since grade school, a boy who’s finally falling into her orbit at school. There’s also the real world, beyond Maya’s control. In the aftermath of a horrific crime perpetrated hundreds of miles… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & Islamophobia
Hate crime (physical assault)
Disownment
Suicide bombing mentioned
Hospitalisation for physical injuries due to physical assault
Bullying

A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa

A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa

On the eve of Angolan independence an agoraphobic woman named Ludo bricks herself into her apartment for 30 years, living off vegetables and the pigeons she lures in with diamonds, burning her furniture and books to stay alive and writing her story on the apartment’s walls. Almost as if we’re eavesdropping, the history of Angola unfolds through the stories of those she sees from her window. As the country goes through various political upheavals from colony to socialist republic to civil war to peace and capitalism, the world outside seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of someone on a balcony, or a man fleeing his pursuers.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slavery
Agoraphobia
Burns
Rape & pregnancy from rape
Murder & mass murder
Torture mentioned
War themes