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Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough

Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough

Marcie’s affair with Jason Maddox catapulted her into the world of the elite. Old money, old ties, old secrets. Marcie may have married into this world — but she’ll never be part of it.

Then Jason’s boss brings back a new wife from his trip to London. Young, attractive, reckless — nobody can take their eyes off Keisha. Including Marcie’s husband.

Some people would kill for the life Marcie has—what will she do to keep it?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language
Fatmisia & body shaming
Misogyny
Classism
Slut shaming
Sex work shaming
Rape (on-page)
Domestic abuse
Child abuse
Cheating recounted
Drug addiction
Nightmares
Suicide
Alcohol consumption
Pregnancy
Murder

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson—a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any “normal” friends. But things don’t stay quiet for long…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Parental abandonment & child abuse
Nightmares
Blood & injury depiction including mentions of cannibalism
Explosion
Knife violence
Kidnapping
Drowning mentioned
War themes
Animal death
Bullying
Homelessness

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can’t seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse – Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy’s mom finds out, she knows it’s time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he’ll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism
Parental abandonment, child abuse & domestic violence
Infidelity mentioned
Nightmares & hallucinations discussed
Alcohol consumption mentioned
Injury depiction, emesis & mentions of terminal cancer
Death of a mother
Death of an uncle mentioned
Explosion
Knife violence
Car accident
Incarceration
War themes
Drowning mentioned
Hurricane, lightning & storms (on-page)
Earthquake
Animal cruelty
Bullying

Four by Veronica Roth

Four by Veronica Roth

Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation’s faction leader did the same. Tobias’s transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents gave him. Here, he will not let fear turn him into a cowering child.

Newly christened “Four,” he discovers during initiation that he will succeed in Dauntless. Initiation is only the beginning, though; Four must claim his place in the Dauntless hierarchy. His decisions will affect future initiates as well as uncover secrets that could threaten his own future—and the future of the entire faction system… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Child abuse
Suicide
Alcohol consumption

A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin

A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.

Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misogyny
Slavery
Rape
Sexual assault
Paedophilia
Incest
Child abuse
Suicide
Self harm mentioned
Pregnancy
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a child
Torture
Kidnapping
Animal death

A Feast For Crows by George RR Martin

A Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin

Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life.

The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow’s Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misogyny
Slavery
Rape
Sexual assault
Paedophilia
Incest
Child abuse
Suicide
Self harm
Pregnancy
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a child
Kidnapping
Animal death

A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism
Misogyny
Slavery
Rape
Sexual assault
Paedophilia
Incest
Child abuse
Suicide
Self harm
Pregnancy
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a child
Torture
Kidnapping
Animal death

A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war.

As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky – a comet the colour of blood and flame – five factions struggle for control of a divided land. Brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism
Racism
Misogyny
Slavery mentioned
Rape
Sexual assault
Paedophilia mentioned
Incest
Child abuse
Suicide
Self harm
Pregnancy
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries
Death of a child
Torture
Kidnapping
Animal death mentioned

A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.

From the fertile south, where heat breeds conspiracy, to the vast and savage eastern lands, all the way to the frozen north, kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men . . . all will play the Game of Thrones.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism
Racism
Misogyny
Queermisia
Slavery
Rape & dubious consent scenarios
Sexual assault
Paedophilia
Incest
Cheating
Domestic abuse
Child abuse
Suicide mentioned
Self harm
Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries, including amputation
Emesis
Death of a child
Torture
Kidnapping
Animal death

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—”Scout”—returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Physical domestic & child abuse
Recreational drug use (smoking)
Alcohol consumption
Murder
Car accident
Strangulation mentioned