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Black Bird of the Gallows by Meg Kassel

Black Bird of the Gallows by Meg Kassel

Angie Dovage can tell there’s more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can’t imagine his presence signals a tragedy that will devastate her small town. When something supernatural tries to attack her, Angie is thrown into a battle between good and evil she never saw coming. Right in the center of it is Reece—and he’s not human. What’s more, she knows something most don’t. That the secrets her town holds could kill them all. But that’s only half as dangerous as falling in love with a harbinger of death.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Bullying

Girl Out of Water by Laura Silverman

Girl Out of Water by Laura Silverman

Anise Sawyer plans to spend every minute of summer with her friends: surfing, chowing down on fish tacos drizzled with wasabi balsamic vinegar, and throwing bonfires that blaze until dawn. But when a serious car wreck leaves her aunt, a single mother of three, with two broken legs, it forces Anise to say goodbye for the first time to Santa Cruz, the waves, her friends, and even a kindling romance, and fly with her dad to Nebraska for the entire summer. Living in Nebraska isn’t easy. Anise spends her days caring for her three younger cousins in the childhood home of her runaway mom, a wild figure who’s been flickering…Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Absent parent
Alcohol consumption
Physical injuries
Car accident

Restore Me by JL Seegars

Restore Me by J.L. Seegars

Dominic Alexander is my late husband’s best friend and the last man on Earth that I should want. He’s arrogant, dismissive, and up until recently has only ever used those dark eyes of his to look right through me. For the last ten years, he’s taken a sick pleasure in making me feel paper thin, like my entire existence is of no consequence to him at all. But now, things are different. After one drunken night, and a surprisingly sexy act of heroism, he’s started to be…nice. Treating me like something other than the physical embodiment of his annoyance, which would be nice if it didn’t make me feel all the things I swore to never feel for …Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Miscarriage
Grief & loss depiction

This is How We Fly by Anna Meriano

This is How We Fly by Anna Meriano

17-year-old vegan feminist Ellen Lopez-Rourke has one muggy Houston summer left before college. She plans to spend every last moment with her two best friends before they go off to the opposite ends of Texas for school. But when Ellen is grounded for the entire summer by her (sometimes) evil stepmother, all her plans are thrown out the window. Determined to do something with her time, Ellen (with the help of BFF Melissa) convinces her parents to let her join the local muggle Quidditch team. An all-gender, full-contact game, Quidditch isn’t quite what Ellen expects. There’s no flying, no magic, just a bunch of scrap… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Toxic parent-child relationship
Physical injury
Death of a parent

Wicked by Sara Shepard

Wicked by Sara Shepard

In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four very pretty girls just can’t help but be bad. Hanna will do anything to be Rosewood’s queen bee. Spencer’s digging up her family’s secrets. Emily can’t stop thinking about her new boyfriend. And Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom’s taste in men. The girls think they’re in the clear now that Ali’s killer is finally behind bars. But someone new is mimicking “A’s” blackmailing ways with wicked and mysterious messages. And it’s only a matter of time before they let some secrets slip.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Classism & homophobia
Fatphobia & body shaming
Sexism, slut-shaming & victim-blaming
Adult-minor relationship
Eating disorder including bingeing and purging and disordered weight & body thoughts
Alcohol consumption
Cancer mentioned
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a grandmother
Death of a friend recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Stalking & blackmail
Bullying

Biker Faith by Ellie Hunter

Biker Faith by Ellie R. Hunter

Jason ‘Sparky’ Carter is the new Vice President of the Lost Souls MC. All he wants is to enjoy life his own way with no dramas. Just as his club is settling down and putting the betrayal by their former president behind them Bonnie Hamilton stumbles into the club and into his life. The war she declared wasn’t over with the Ghost Riders becomes a personal war of his own. When he first saw Bonnie he wanted to have her, but all that dissolved when he discovered she was the enemy’s daughter. Now he has been given the task of watching over her, with the two of them being so close can he figure out if she is a threat to him and… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse recounted
Cheating

Little Eve by Catriona Ward

Little Eve by Catriona Ward

On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about the end of the world and its imminent rebirth. The Adder is coming and one of their number will inherit its powers. They all want the honor, but young Eve is willing to do anything for the distinction. A reckoning beyond Eve’s imagination begins when Chief Inspector Black arrives to investigate a brutal murder and their sacred ceremony goes terribly wrong. And soon all the secrets of Altnaharra will be uncovered.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Paedophilia
Child abuse & neglect
Self-harm
Miscarriage
Death of a child & infant
Murder
Animal death

When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai

When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai

When Fox is a Thousand is a lyrical, magical novel, rich with poetry and folklore and elements of the fairytale. Larissa Lai interweaves three narrative voices and their attendant cultures: an elusive fox growing toward wisdom and her 1000 birthday, the ninth-century Taoist poet/nun Yu Hsuan-Chi (a real person executed in China for murder), and the oddly named Artemis, a young Asian-American woman living in contemporary Vancouver.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Rape
Incest
Parental abuse
Abusive relationships

The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi

The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi

Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost — one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long-lost artifact rumoured to grant its possessor the power of God. Their hunt lures them far from Paris, and into the icy heart of Russia where crystalline ice animals stalk forgotten mansions, broken goddesses carry deadly secrets, and a string of unsolved murders makes the crew question whether an ancient myth is a myth after all. As hidden… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Period-typical ableism, classism, misogyny, racism and antisemitism
Colonialism discussed
Sex work shaming
Attempted rape by coercion
Child abuse recounted
Self harm for magic
Suicide mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Stillbirth & infertility mentioned
Blood & injury depiction
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a brother recounted
Death of a friend recounted
Murder
Poisoning
Psychological torture
Explosion
Vivisepulture (being buried alive) mentioned
Kidnapping
Animal death mentioned

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Threadneedle by Cari Thomas

Threadneedle by Cari Thomas

Ever since Anna can remember, her aunt has warned her of the dangers of magic. She has taught her to fear how it twists and knots and turns into something dark and deadly. It was, after all, magic that killed her parents and left her in her aunt’s care. It’s why she has been protected from the magical world and, in one year’s time, what little magic she has will be bound. She will join her aunt alongside the other Binders who believe magic is a sin not to be used, but denied. Only one more year and she will be free of the curse of magic, her aunt’s teachings and the disappointment of the little she is capable of. Nothing – and no one – could change her mind before then. Could it?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Body shaming
Slut-shaming
Child abuse
Suicide mentioned
Murder
Bullying