Ausländer by  Paul Dowswell

Ausländer by Paul Dowswell

When Peter’s parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw. Then German soldiers take him away to be measured and assessed. They decide that Peter is racially valuable. He is Volksdeutscher: of German blood. With his blond hair, blue eyes, and acceptably proportioned head, he looks just like the boy on the Hitler-Jugend poster. Someone important will want to adopt Peter. They do. Professor Kaltenbach is very pleased to welcome such a fine Aryan specimen to his household. People will be envious. But Peter is not quite the specimen… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Antisemitism
  • Racism
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Car accident
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Mary, Will I Die by Shawn Sarles 

Mary, Will I Die? by Shawn Sarles 

It starts innocently enough. Four kids – three girls, one boy – are at one of their houses, playing games. One of them has read about “Bloody Mary” and the idea that if you look into a mirror and say her name thirteen times, she will show you the future. Some legends say she’ll show you your one true love or a skull to mark your death within five years. Others say that conjuring Bloody Mary will bring her into your world. Both sets of legends are true. The kids go through with the act, saying her name thirteen times. One girl looks in the mirror and sees her longtime… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood depiction
  • Death of a grandparent recounted
  • Car accident
  • Bullying
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Being Mary Bennet by JC Peterson

Being Mary Bennet by J.C. Peterson

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every bookworm secretly wishes to be Lizzie Bennet. It is a truth universally acknowledged that every bookworm secretly wishes to be Lizzie Bennet.

For seventeen-year-old Marnie Barnes, who’s convinced she is the long-suffering protagonist of her life, this revelation comes at the end of a series of self-induced disasters that force her to confront a devast…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Statutory rape
  • Grooming
  • Cheating
  • Miscarriage
  • Car accident, off-page
  • Bullying
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Truth, Lies, and Second Dates by MaryJanice Davidson

Truth, Lies, and Second Dates by MaryJanice Davidson

Captain Ava Capp has been flying from her past for a decade. She’d much rather leave it, and her home state, behind forever. But when she finds herself back in Minnesota, against her better judgment, everything goes sideways in a way she never expected it to.

M.E. Dr. Tom Baker has never forgotten Ava and the cold case she ran away from. When she shows up unexpectedly in town, in spite of himself, sparks fly. Which is terrible because he can’t stop his growing attraction… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Subtance addiction recovery
  • Suicidal ideation recounted
  • Death of a wife from cancer mentioned
  • Death of a sister & parents in a car accident
  • Murder of a friend recounted
  • Gun violence
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Bears Behaving Badly by MaryJanice Davidson

Bears Behaving Badly by MaryJanice Davidson

Werebear shifter Annette Garsea is a caseworker for the Interspecies Placement Agency. When a selectively mute and freakishly strong teen werewolf is put in her custody, Annette has to uncover the young girl’s secrets if she’s to have any hopes of helping her. And not even the growling of a scruffy private investigator can distract her from her mission

Bear shifter David Auberon appreciates Annette’s work with at-risk teen shifters, but he’s not sure if her latest charge is so much a vulnerable teen as a pre… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child abuse
  • Amputation & loss of a finger
  • Drug use mentioned
  • Physical injury
  • Death of a mother mentioned
  • Death of a parent from cancer recounted
  • Death of a parent in a car accident
  • Fire mentioned
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40-Love by Olivia Dade 

40-Love by Olivia Dade

When a rogue wave strips Tess Dunn of her bikini top, desperate, half-naked times call for desperate, please-cover-me-kids-are-coming-closer measures. Enter Lucas Karlsson, AKA that flirty Swede in the water nearby. When he prevents her bare buoys from being exposed to fellow vacationers, even an ocean can’t drown the sparks that fly.

Lucas, a former top-level tennis pro now giving lessons at the resort, fled there after the abrupt, painful end to his injury-plagued career. But he’s finally ready… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia & body-shaming
  • Cheating recounted
  • Arthritis (neck)
  • Chronic knee & back pain
  • Wrist & knee surgery mentioned
  • Car accident recounted
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The Cane by Maryrose Cuskelly

The Cane by Maryrose Cuskelly

Quala, a North Queensland sugar town, the 1970s.
Barbara McClymont walks the cane fields searching for Janet, her sixteen-year-old daughter, who has been missing for weeks. The police have no leads. The people of Quala are divided by dread and distrust. But the sugar crush is underway and the cane must be burned.

Meanwhile, children dream of a malevolent presence, a schoolteacher yearns to escape, and history… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Child sexual abuse mentioned
  • Death of a child
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping mentioned
  • Motorcycle accident
  • Fire
  • Animal death
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Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty 

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.

The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They’re killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Domestic violence
  • Eating disorder
  • COVID-19
  • Car accident
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November 9 by Colleen Hoover

November 9 by Colleen Hoover

Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist. Can Ben’s… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cheating
  • Burn scars
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother from suicide recounted
  • Death of a brother from a car accident
  • Housefire recounted
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Truth or Beard by Penny Reid 

Truth or Beard by Penny Reid

Identical twins Beau and Duane Winston might share the same devastatingly handsome face, but where Beau is outgoing and sociable, Duane is broody and reserved. This is why Jessica James, recent college graduate and perpetual level-headed good girl, has been in naïve and unhealthy infatuation with Beau Winston for most of her life. His friendly smiles make her tongue-tied and weak-kneed, and she’s never been able to move beyond … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut shaming
  • Abusive relationship mentioned
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Cancer mentioned
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Death of a spouse recounted
  • Car accident
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