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Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles

Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles

When Marvin Johnson’s twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into a shooting, followed by a police raid.

The next day, Tyler has gone missing, and it’s up to Marvin to find him. But when Tyler is found dead, a video leaked online tells an even more chilling story: Tyler has been shot and killed by a police officer. Terrified as his mother unravels and mourning a brother who is now a hashtag, Marvin must learn what justice and freedom really mean.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Blood depiction
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a brother
Gun violence
Police brutality & violence
Incarceration of a parent

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism, racism, homophobia & biphobia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Anxiety & panic attacks
Depression
Alcohol consumption
Alcoholism mentioned
Emesis

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Ableism
Bimisia
Homomisia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Alcohol consumption
Alcoholism mentioned
Emesis

A Show for Two by Tashie Bhuiyan

A Show for Two by Tashie Bhuiyan

Mina’s ticket to winning the competition falls into her lap when indie film star—and known heartbreaker—Emmitt Ramos enrols in her high school under a secret identity to research his next role. When Mina sets out to persuade Emmitt to join her cause, he offers her a deal instead: he’ll be in her short film…if she acts as a tour guide to help him with a photography contest.

As Mina ventures across the five boroughs with Emmitt by her side, the city she grew up in starts to look different and more like home than it ever has before.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Emotional parental abuse
Depression
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a father mentioned

Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan

Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan

Karina Ahmed has a plan. Keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules—even if it means sacrificing her dreams. When her parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, Karina expects some peace and quiet. Instead, one simple lie unravels everything: Karina is my girlfriend.

Tutoring the school’s resident bad boy was already crossing a line. Pretending to date him? Out of the question…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Verbal & emotional parental abuse
Anxiety & anxiety attacks, on-page
Emesis mentioned

Orientation by Gregory Ashe

Orientation by Gregory Ashe

Shaw and North are best friends, private detectives, and in danger of losing their agency. A single bad case, followed by crippling lawsuits, has put them on the brink of closing shop. Until that is, a client walks into their Benton Park office.

Matty Fennmore is young, blond, and beautiful, and he’s in danger. When he asks for Shaw and North’s help foiling a blackmail scheme, the detectives are quick to accept… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Domestic abuse
Suicidal ideation
Blood depiction
Emesis
Murder
Blackmail
Torture

Assassin’s Orbit by John Appel

Assassin’s Orbit by John Appel

On the eve of the planet Ileri’s historic vote to join the Commonwealth, the assassination of a government minister threatens to shatter everything. Private investigator Noo Okereke and spy Meiko Ogawa join forces with police chief Toiwa to investigate – and discover clues that point disturbingly toward a threat humanity thought they had escaped.

A threat that could destroy Ileri and spark an interplanetary war… unless the disparate team can work together to solve the mystery.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction
Emesis
Murder
Gun violence
Plane crash

Backlash by Kathleen Glasgow

Backlash by Kathleen Glasgow

Lara just got told off on Facebook. She thought that Christian liked her, that he was finally going to ask her to his school’s homecoming dance. They’ve been talking online for weeks, so what’s with the sudden change? And where does he get off saying horrible things on her wall? Even worse–are they true?

It’s been a long time since Lara’s felt this bad, this depressed, this ugly. She’s worked really hard to become pretty and happy – and make new friends after what happened in middle school… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Eating disorder
Emesis

Dangerous Play by Emma Kress

Dangerous Play by Emma Kress

Zoe Alamandar has one goal: win the State Field Hockey Championships and earn a scholarship that will get her the hell out of Central New York. She and her co-captain Ava Cervantes have assembled a fierce team of dedicated girls who will work hard and play by the rules. But after Zoe is sexually assaulted at a party, she finds a new goal: make sure no girl feels unsafe again. Zoe and her teammates decide to stop playing by the rules and take justice into their own hands. Soon, their suburban town has a team of superheroes meting out punishments, but one night of vigilantism may cost Zoe her team, her scholarship, and her future.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Rape mentioned
Sexual assault
Sexual harassment
Emesis

Losing Streak by Kristine Wyllys

Losing Streak by Kristine Wyllys

Rosemary Young knows the Lane. It’s where she grew up, raising a brother barely younger than she was. It’s where she served drinks, wearing a gaudy uniform in a low-lit bar to support her mama. It’s where she fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Brandon Williams might’ve had a taste for gambling and been headed nowhere fast, but something about him made her almost forget every promise she ever made. These days when Rosie walks the Lane, it’s on the orders of the man who owns it. The man who owns her—Joshua King. A bet gone wrong ties her to him… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Slut-shaming
Sexual assault
Alcohol consumption
Smoking
Parent with myeloma (blood cancer)
Pregnancy from rape mentioned
Emesis
Murder
Physical assault
Arson
Poverty

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge and translated by Jeremy Tiang

In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness—save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks. Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets off to document each beast, and is slowly drawn deeper into a mystery that threatens her very sense of self.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide
Pregnancy
Emesis
Body horror
Cannibalism
Forced institutionalisation
Animal cruelty