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Bears Behaving Badly by MaryJanice Davidson

Bears Behaving Badly by MaryJanice Davidson

Werebear shifter Annette Garsea is a caseworker for the Interspecies Placement Agency. When a selectively mute and freakishly strong teen werewolf is put in her custody, Annette has to uncover the young girl’s secrets if she’s to have any hopes of helping her. And not even the growling of a scruffy private investigator can distract her from her mission

Bear shifter David Auberon appreciates Annette’s work with at-risk teen shifters, but he’s not sure if her latest charge is so much a vulnerable teen as a pre… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Amputation & loss of a finger
Drug use mentioned
Physical injury
Death of a mother mentioned
Death of a parent from cancer recounted
Death of a parent in a car accident
Fire mentioned

Permanent Record by Mary HK Choi

Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi

After a year of college, Pablo is working at his local twenty-four-hour deli, selling overpriced snacks to brownstone yuppies. He’s dodging calls from the student loan office and he has no idea what his next move is.

Leanna Smart’s life so far has been nothing but success. Age eight: Disney Mouseketeer; Age fifteen: first #1 single on the US pop chart; Age seventeen, *tenth* #1 single; and now, at Age nineteen…life is a queasy blur of private planes, weird hotel rooms, and strangers ask… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Anxiety
Depression
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Cancer mentioned
Financial difficulties

Private Lessons by Cynthia Salaysay

Private Lessons by Cynthia Salaysay

After seventeen-year-old Claire Alalay’s father’s death, only music has helped her channel her grief. Claire likes herself best when she plays his old piano, a welcome escape from the sadness — and her traditional Filipino mother’s prayer groups. In the hopes of earning a college scholarship, Claire auditions for Paul Avon, a prominent piano teacher, who agrees to take Claire as a pupil. Soon Claire loses herself in Paul’s world and his way of digging into a composition’s emotional core. She pra… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Statutory rape, on-page
Paedophilia & grooming
Teacher-student relationship
Emotional & verbal abuse
Depression
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption
Smoking
Death of a parent from cancer

The How and the Why by Cynthia Hand

The How and the Why by Cynthia Hand

Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for. They’ve given Cass a life she wouldn’t trade for the world. She has everything she needs—except maybe the one thing she wants. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can’t answer, no matter how much they love her.

But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Depression
Alcoholism
Attempted suicide
Drug abuse
Heart disease
Hospitalisation

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation.

For Mary Morstan has received several large pearls – one a year for the last six years – and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she would seek justice she is to meet her unknown benefactor, bringing with her two companions… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Colonialism
Racism
Drug use

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

It’s been only months since Eragon first uttered “brisingr”, an ancient language term for fire. Since then, he’s not only learned to create magic with words — he’s been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empires warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Smoking
Self-harm
Graphic blood & physical injuries
Decapitation
Whipping
War themes & battle scenes

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.

Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Smoking
Physical injuries
Death of a child
Death of parents recounted
Torture
Decapitation
Whipping
Kidnapping
Animal hunting

Gifts by Brynne Asher

Gifts by Brynne Asher

No one would say Keelie Lockhart isn’t determined. Taking on the role of both mom and dad to her two young kids, she’s managing life the best she can. Saddled with a century-old dilapidated farmhouse she can’t afford, a bevy of goats, two dogs, and a geriatric donkey, the last thing she has time for is a man—even if that man is a knight whose shining armour comes in the form of worn-in jeans and work boots. Controlled, methodical, and focused—Asa Hollingsworth takes charge of everything in life… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Divorce recounted
Drug abuse & overdose, off-page
Death of a husband recounted

Later by Stephen King

Later by Stephen King

The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Incest
Rape
Drug use
Torture

Revival by Stephen King

Revival by Stephen King

In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs Jacobs; the women and girls – including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister – feel the same about Reverend Jacobs. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Drug abuse
Murder
Gun violence