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Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens

Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have returned to Deepdean for a new school term, but nothing is the same. There’s a new Head Girl, Elizabeth Hurst, and a team of Prefects – and these bullying Big Girls are certainly not good eggs. Then, after the fireworks display on Bonfire Night, Elizabeth is found – murdered. Many girls at Deepdean had reason to hate Elizabeth, but who might have committed such foul play? Could the murder be linked to the secrets and scandals, scribbled on scraps of paper, that are suddenly appearing around the school? And with their own friendship falling to pieces, how will Daisy and Hazel solve this mystery?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Queermisia & lesbomisia, on-page
Ableism discussed
Racism
Nazism & antisemitism discussed
Classism
Chronic heart disease discussed
Dead body
Psychiatric hospitalisation for eating disorder mentioned
Murder of a teenage girl from blunt-force trauma to the head, off-page
Kidnapping & captivity
Disappearance of a child and sister
Bullying & rumor-spreading

The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

Welcome to New York, 2118. A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something…and everyone has something to lose. LEDA COLE’s flawless exterior belies a secret addiction—to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched. ERIS DODD-RADSON’s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart. RYLIN MYERS’s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world—and a romance—she never imagined…but will this new life cost Rylin her old… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Kill Your Sapphics trope
Classism
Incest (adopted siblings)
Cheating
Substance addiction recovery
Recreational drug use & abuse
Alcohol consumption
Death from a fall (theme)
Bullying

The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

In the opulent world of Orléans, the people are born grey and damned, and only a Belle’s powers can make them beautiful. Camellia Beauregard wants to be the favourite Belle – the one chosen by the queen to tend to the royal family. But once Camellia and her Belle sisters arrive at court, it becomes clear that being the favourite is not everything she always dreamed it would be. Behind the gilded palace walls live dark secrets and Camellia soon learns that her powers may be far greater – and far darker – than she ever imagined. When the queen asks Camellia to break the rules… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Classism
Fatmisia & body shaming
Misgendering
Sexual assault
Self-harm
Drugging
Medical experimentation
Emesis
Coma
Death of a friend
Death of a mother
Murder & attempted murder
Poisoning
Imprisonment
Animal death
Animal cruelty
Bullying

Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best-loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate through the Tribute of Light, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Classism
Depression
Animal cruelty

How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta

How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta

Sisters Cheta and Zam couldn’t be more different. Cheta, sharp-tongued and stubborn, never shies away from conflict—either at school or at home, where her mother fires abuse at her. Timid Zam escapes most of her mother’s anger, skating under the radar and avoiding her sister whenever possible. In a turn of good fortune, Zam is invited to live with her aunt’s family in the lap of luxury. Jealous, Cheta also leaves home, but finds a harder existence that will drive her to terrible decisions. When the sisters are reunited, Zam alone will recognize just how far Cheta has fallen—and Cheta’s fate will rest in Zam’s hands.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Classism
Colourism
Physical & verbal child abuse
Panic attacks, on-page
Drug abuse mentioned
Death of a grandparent
Gun violence
Kidnapping

Longshadow by Olivia Atwater

Longshadow by Olivia Atwater

The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends to discover why. Abigail’s father, the Lord Sorcier of England, believes that a dark lord of faerie is involved – but while Abigail is willing to match her magic against Lord Longshadow, neither her father nor high society believes that she is capable of doing so. Thankfully, Abigail is not the only one investigating the terrible events in London. Mercy, a street rat and self-taught magician insists on joining Abigail to unravel the mystery… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Classism
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Kidnapping

The Awkward Truth by Lee Winter

The Awkward Truth by Lee Winter

Ambitious ice queen and corporate lawyer Felicity Simmons has spent her life focused on one thing: scuttling up the career ladder. She’s achingly close to taking charge of a media empire for her boss when she’s sent to investigate a South Bronx charity that helps homeless people’s pets. Has the charity made off with her boss’s generous donation? And who on earth is that gorgeous soft-butch veterinarian who looks as if she could toss a Shetland pony over one shoulder? Not that Felicity has any interest in some opinionated Amazon or her adorable fleabag of a dog… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia
Racism
Classism
Disownment
Alcohol consumption
Death of a parent recounted
Homelessness
Murder of a pet recounted

Waistcoats and Weaponry by Gail Carriger

Waistcoats & Weaponry by Gail Carriger

Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style—with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming Lord Felix Mersey stowaway on a train to return their classmate Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. No one suspected what—or who—they would find aboard that suspiciously empty train. Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to throw all of London into chaos and she must decide where her loyalties lie, once and for all.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Misogyny
Racism
Classism
Blood & injury depiction
Gun violence
Kidnapping

Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Sophronia’s first year at school has certainly been rousing. First, her finishing school is training her to be a spy (won’t Mumsy be surprised!). Secondly, she gets mixed up in an intrigue over a stolen device and has a cheese pie thrown at her. Now, as Sophronia sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping on the teachers’ quarters and making clandestine climbs to the ship’s boiler room, she learns that there may be more to a school trip to London than at… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Misogyny
Racism
Classism
Blood depiction & blood-drinking
Murder mentioned
Gun violence
Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping

Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger

Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners, and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrols Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realises the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Gera… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Misogyny
Racism
Classism
Attempted murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Gun violence
Explosions
Poisoning mentioned
Fire
Carriage jacking