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Confessions by Kanae Minato

Confessions by Kanae Minato

After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a maniacal plot for revenge.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Parental neglect & abandonment
Transphobia mentioned & misgendering
Depression
HIV/AIDs (theme)*
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a father in a car accident mentioned
Death of a mother from illness mentioned
Murder of a daughter from drowning
Attempted murder of a child from electrocution
Murder of a teen girl from strangulation
Mass death of a family from poisoning discussed (mother, father & child)
Explosion, off-page
Animal death & cruelty mentioned

*Context: A teacher purposefully infects the two teenage boys who murdered her daughter with HIV/AIDs. The aftereffects of being infected are explored in depth. Mentions of HIV+ stigma and how the teacher’s ex-husband is dying of HIV/AIDs.

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed. Then Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Misogyny
Islamomisia
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent recounted
Death of a sibling
Suicide bombing
Beheading
Drive-by shooting
Terrorism

Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur

Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur

Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she’s put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she’s run from all her life. But it isn’t long before her childhood imaginary friend—an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow—comes to claim her at last. Years ago, Elsa’s now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed to repeat the narrative lives of their ancestors from Korean myth and legend. But beyond these ghosts, Elsa also faces a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Emotional & verbal child abuse
Hate crime
Death of a parent

The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

In 1893, there was no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters–James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna–join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Sexism
Homomisia & internalised homomisia
Threats of sexual assault
Sexual harassment
Child abandonment
Physical & psychological child abuse
Pregnancy & childbirth
Abortion mentioned
Forced hospitalisation
Death of a parent
Attempted execution
Kidnapping
Torture, off-page
Imprisonment
Loss of autonomy (mind control)
Animal death & abuse

Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl by Julie Kagawa

Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl by Julie Kagawa

Shinji Takahashi is just an ordinary kid. An ordinary homeschooled smart-alecky orphan kid being raised by his aunt Yui. But when a magical guardian decides to use him as a conduit to awaken its power, Shinji’s life takes a turn for the extraordinary. Captured by the menacing Hightower Corporation, which is bent on using the guardian’s magic for its own nefarious purposes, Shinji must team up with a brilliant young tech whiz named Lucy and her robot mouse, Tinker, to escape the Corporation’s evil clutches. Together Shinji and Lucy turn to the venerable Society of Explorers and Adventurers and its ragtag cast of spelunk… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Grief & loss depiction
Death of parents recounted
Kidnapping

Reel by Kennedy Ryan

Reel by Kennedy Ryan

For months I stood by, an understudy waiting in the wings, preparing for my time to shine. I never imagined he would watch in the audience that night. Canon Holt. Famous film director. Fascinating. Talented. Fine. Before I could catch my breath, everything changed. I went from backstage Broadway to centre stage Hollywood. From being unknown to my name, Neevah Saint, on everyone’s lips. Canon casts me in a star-studded Harlem Renaissance biopic, catapulting me into another stratosphere. But stars shine brightest in the dead of night. Forbidden attraction, scandal and… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Cheating recounted
Chronic illness
Death of a parent recounted

Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan

Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan

Dig a little and you’ll find photos of me in the bathtub with Ezra Stern. Get your mind out of the gutter. We were six months old. Pry and one of us might confess we saved our first kiss for each other. The most clumsy, wet, sloppy . . . spectacular thirty seconds of my adolescence. Get into our business and you’ll see two families, closer than blood, torn apart in an instant. Twenty years later, my “awkward duckling” best friend from childhood, the boy no one noticed, is a man no one can ignore. Finer. Fiercer. Smarter. Taken… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Cheating
Weight gain discussed
Infertility
Miscarriage
Death of a parent recounted

The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan

The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan

Raised to rule, bred to lead and weaned on a diet of ruthless ambition. In a world of haves and have nots, my family has it all, and I want nothing to do with it. My path takes me far from home and paints me as the black sheep. At odds with my father, I’m determined to build my own empire. I have rules, but Lennix Hunter is the exception to every one of them. From the moment we meet, something sparks between us. But my family stole from hers and my father is the man she hates most. I lied to have her, and would do anything to keep her. Though she tries to hate me, too, the inexorable pull between us will not be denied.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Rape & sexual assault mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Police brutality & violence
Hostage situation

Hook Shot by Kennedy Ryan

Hook Shot by Kennedy Ryan

Divorced. Single dad. Traded to a losing squad. Cheated on, betrayed, exposed. My perfect life blew up in my face and I’m still picking up the pieces. The last thing I need is her. A wildflower. A storm. A woman I can’t resist. Lotus DuPree is a kick to my gut and a wrench in my plans from the moment our eyes meet. I promised myself I wouldn’t trust a woman again, but I’ve never wanted anyone the way I want Lo. She’s not the plan I made, but she’s the risk I have to take. A warrior. A baller. The one they call Gladiator. Kenan Ross charged into my life smelling all good, looking even better and snatching my breath from the moment we… Read mor e.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape of a child, on-page
Death of a parent, on-page
Attempted suicide, on-page

This Way Out by Tufayel Ahmed

This Way Out by Tufayel Ahmed

Amar can’t wait to tell everyone his wonderful news: he’s found The One, and he’s getting married. But it turns out announcing his engagement on a group chat might not have been the best way to let his strict Muslim Bangladeshi family know that his happy-ever-after partner is a man—and a white man at that. Amar expected a reaction from his four siblings, but his bombshell sends shockwaves throughout the community and begins to fracture their family unit, already fragile from the death of their mother. Suddenly Amar is questioning everything he once… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Racism
Queermisia
Depression
Alcohol consumption
Grief & loss depiction
Death of parent recounted