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Cupcake by Cookie O’Gorman

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking this will be just one more story of the ignored, “big-boned ” girl, who sheds her glasses and a few extra pounds and finally attracts the notice of the most popular guy in school. Except it isn’t. Because I’m not unpopular. Not all that ignored. And I love the way I look―just as I am. Then someone puts my name in for Homecoming Court. The bigger surprise? People actually vote for me! Now, I’m a “princess”―whether I like it or not―but the guy I’m paired with isn’t exactly Prince Charming. Rhys Castle is the strong, silent type who always wears a frown―he’s certainly never smiled at me… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Fatphobia & body shaming
Disordered eating
Bullying

Me by Elton John

Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by John Elton

Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three, he was on his first tour of America, facing an astonished audience in his tight silver hotpants, bare legs, and a T-shirt with ROCK AND ROLL emblazoned across it in sequins. Elton John had arrived and the music world would never be the same again. His life has been full of drama, from the early rejection of his work with songwriting partner Bernie Taupin to spinning out of control as a chart-topping superstar; from half-heartedly trying to drown him… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Cheating
Domestic violence
Attempted suicide
Disordered eating
Alcoholism
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Substance addiction
Drug use & abuse
AIDS/HIV epidemic
Prostate cancer

Match-Made Christmas by Daria White

Match-Made Christmas by Daria White

From the outside, Adrienne has everything any woman could want. However, she knows what real happiness is, and it isn’t having a good job and a condominium. Traveling home to her small Texas town for a friend’s wedding, Adrienne is hit from all sides with the happiness she hasn’t found for herself—her long-married parents, her joyful sister and brother-in-law and their two children, and her childhood friends. They all think she has it all, all except one. Trace has been a nemesis since grade school. Always ready with a quip and happy to squabble over even the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Disordered eating
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent in a plane crash
Death of an uncle from cancer
Blizzard

Fighting Conviction by Greer Rivers

Fighting Conviction by Greer Rivers

BlackStone Securities Agent Devil Ray Vos needs control, and around his best friend’s younger sister, Ellie Stone? He knows he can’t keep it. The BlackStone team saved her a year ago, and Devil hasn’t been able to get his angel off his mind since. She’s in college and still healing, so he’s kept his distance. That resolve vanishes when her brother asks Devil to train her in self-defense. His head tells him to stay away, but no one can protect her better than he can. Ellie survived the worst trauma of her life a year ago. Her best friend didn’t, and Ellie has fought survivor’s guilt and PTSD ever since. Only Devil seems to understand her. He sees her as a survivor and his best friend’s kid sister… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sex trafficking
Drug use
Disordered eating
PTSD & trauma
Panic attacks
Suicide
Cancer
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Gun violence
Kidnapping

Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell

When Tennal – a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster – is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone whose coercive powers are strong enough to control him. Enter Lieutenant Surit, the child of a disgraced general. Out of a desperate need to restore a pension to his other parent, Lieutenant Surit agrees to be bound to Tennal and keep him conscripted in the army, a task that seems impossible even for someone with Surit’s ability to control n unconsenting Tennal. So they They fake a sync bond… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Disordered eating thoughts & habits
Alcohol consumption & drug use
Loss of autonomy (mind control)
Conscription & military service (theme)

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The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

After the tragic death of his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house – a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn’t understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry, and full of pain. When his mother develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street, and at school, driving him, at last, to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia & body-shaming
Sexual assault of a minor
Disordered eating
Hoarding Disorder
Self-harm
Terminal cancer
Death of a father
Bullying

Kissing Galileo by Penny Reid

Kissing Galileo by Penny Reid

Her professor just saw her mostly naked. Awkwardness is guaranteed to ensue. What do you do when your freakishly smart and wickedly sarcastic Research Methods professor sees you mostly naked? You befriend him, of course.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Disordered eating
Weight loss
Surgery

Somebody Told Me by Mia Siegert

Somebody Told Me by Mia Siegert

After an assault, bigender seventeen-year-old Aleks/Alexis is looking for a fresh start―so they voluntarily move in with their uncle, a Catholic priest. In their new bedroom, Aleks/Alexis discovers they can overhear parishioners in the church confessional. Moved by the struggles of these “sinners,” Aleks/Alexis decides to anonymously help them, finding solace in their secret identity: a guardian angel instead of a victim. But then Aleks/Alexis overhears a confession of another priest admitting to sexually abusing a parishioner. As they try to uncover the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Ableism
Disfigurmisia
Slut shaming
Homomsia & homomisic slurs
Transmisia & internalised transmisia
Misgendering
Paedophilia & child sexual abuse
Sexual assault
Domestic abuse mentioned
Disordered eating & body image
Body dysmorphia
Cancer mentioned
Physical injury
Hospital
Murder
Fire
Stalking and invasion of privacy
Bullying

Block Shot by Kennedy Ryan

Block Shot by Kennedy Ryan

If I had a dollar for every time Banner Morales made my heart skip a beat. The heart everyone assumes is frozen over. Her anger is arousing. Every glare from those fire-spitting eyes, every time she grits her teeth, gets me . . . well, you know. If I had a dollar for every time she’s put me in my place, I’d be an even richer man. I’m a successful sports agent because I assume “no” means you’ll think about it. I’m sure what you meant to say is “Coming right up.” They say even rich men don’t always get what they want, but those men don’t know how to play the game. The trick is to keep them guessing. Take Banner. She assumes she’s winning, but… Read mor e.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Cheating
Weight gain & loss discussed (theme)
Disordered eating
Attempted suicide mentioned

The Ivies by Alexa Donne

The Ivies by Alexa Donne

Everyone knows the Ivies: the most coveted universities in the United States. Far more important are the Ivies. The Ivies at Claflin Academy, that is. Five girls with the same mission: to get into the Ivy League by any means necessary. I would know. I’m one of them. We disrupt class ranks, club leaderships, and academic competitions…among other things. We improve our own odds by decreasing the fortunes of others. Because hyper-elite competitive college admissions is serious business. And in some cases, it’s deadly.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Outing, threatened
Rape
Cheating
Disordered eating
Drugging mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Blackmail
Bullying