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Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly

Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly

It is the biggest treasure hunt in history. Nearly every nation on earth is involved. A headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. A magnificent golden capstone once sat atop the Great Pyramid at Giza. It was a source of immense power, capable of bestowing upon its holder absolute global rule for a thousand years But then, in 323 BC, the capstone was broken into seven pieces and hidden within the greatest structures of the age: monuments that would become known as the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World. Now, with the coming of a rare solar event, the time has come to locate the pieces and rebuild the cap… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death in childbirth
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a friend
  • Murder
  • Explosion
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Ice Station by Matthew Reilly

Ice Station by Matthew Reilly

At a remote ice station in Antarctica, a team of US scientists has made an amazing discovery. They have found something buried deep within a 100-million-year-old layer of ice. Something made of METAL. Led by the enigmatic Lieutenant Shane Schofield, a team of crack United States Marines is sent to the station to secure this discovery for their country. They are a tight unit, tough and fearless. They would follow their leader into hell. They just did…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Miscarriage mentioned
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Graphic eyeball trauma
  • Gun violence
  • Knife violence & stabbing
  • Explosion
  • Death from an animal attack
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The Four Legendary Kingdoms by Matthew Reilly

The Four Legendary Kingdoms by Matthew Reilly

The last thing Jack West Jr remembers is arriving for a meeting at a top-secret military base with his family in tow. Now he awakes to find himself in a hellish scenario. Jack has been selected to take part in the Games, a series of deadly challenges designed to fulfil an ancient ritual. If he chooses not to compete, both he and his daughter will be killed. With the fate of the Earth at stake, Jack will have to traverse diabolical mazes, fight ruthless assassins and face unimaginable horrors that will test him to the limit. In the process, he will discover the mysterious and powerful group of individuals behind it all: the four legendary kingdoms.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Gun violence
  • Explosion
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The Five Greatest Warriors by Matthew Reilly

The Five Greatest Warriors by Matthew Reilly

From the deserts of Israel to the tsunami-lashed coasts of Japan, from the steppes of Mongolia to the most mysterious island on Earth—this is what we have come to expect from Matthew Reilly: stupendous action, white-knuckle suspense, heroes to cheer for, and an adventure beyond imagination. Strap yourself in and hold on tight as he unleashes his biggest and fastest adventure yet, The 5 Greatest Warriors. When we last left Jack West Jr., he was plummeting into a fathomless abyss and his quest to save the world from impending Armageddon appeared doomed… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Antisemitism
  • Slut shaming
  • Rape
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Eyeball trauma
  • Gun violence
  • Explosion
  • Plane crash
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The Dragon Egg Princess by Ellen Oh

The Dragon Egg Princess by Ellen Oh

In a kingdom filled with magic, Jiho Park and his family are an anomaly—magic doesn’t affect them. Jiho comes from a long line of forest rangers who protect the Kidahara—an ancient and mysterious wood that is home to powerful supernatural creatures. But Jiho wants nothing to do with the dangerous forest. Five years ago, his father walked into the Kidahara and disappeared. Just like the young Princess Koko, the only daughter of the kingdom’s royal family. Jiho knows better than anyone else the horrors that live deep in the magical forest and how those who go in never… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Explosion
  • Gun violence
  • Animal attack
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The Candle Palace by Devney Perry

The Candle Palace by Devney Perry

Sometimes a single flame can ignite a love that lasts a lifetime. Milo Phillips knows the meaning of pain. Suffering through the most intense physical agony of his life, he’s confined to a hospital bed to bear it alone. More than once, he wishes he’d died in the explosion that melted and mangled his skin. Darkness consumes him, snuffing all the joy in his life and leaving an empty hole in its place. But one day, a flicker of light sneaks into his hospital room, driving away some of the hopelessness. For the first time in months… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Drug use mentioned
  • Burns
  • Explosion

A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare

A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare

Spindle Cove is the destination of choice for certain types of well-bred young ladies: the painfully shy, young wives disenchanted with matrimony, and young girls too enchanted with the wrong men; it is a haven for those who live there.Victor Bramwell, the new Earl of Rycliff, knows he doesn’t belong here. So far as he can tell, there’s nothing in this place but spinsters … and sheep. But he has no choice, he has orders togather a militia. It’s a simple mission, made complicated by the spirited, exquisite Susanna Finch–a woman who is determined to save her personal utopia from the invasion of Bram’s makeshift army.Susanna has no use for… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Medical procedures
  • Amputation
  • Explosion
  • War themes

Color Outside the Lines edited by Sangu Mandanna

Color Outside the Lines edited by Sangu Mandanna with contributions from Anna-Marie McLemore, Elsie Chapman, Karuna Riazi, Lydia Kang, L.L. McKinney, Lauren Giabaldi, Tara Sim, Caroline Tung Richmond, Kelly Zekas, Tarun Shanker, Samira Ahmed, Adam Silvera, Eric Smith, Lori M. Lee and Michelle Ruiz Keil

When people ask me what this anthology is about, I’m often tempted to give them the complicated answer: it’s about race, and about how being different from the person you love can matter but how it can also not matter, and it’s about Chinese pirate ghosts, black girl vigilantes, colonial India, a flower festival, a garden of poisons, and so, so much else. Honestly, though? I think the answer’s much simpler than that. Color outside the Lines is a collection of stories about young, fierce, brilliantly hopeful people in love.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism, racism & antisemitism
  • Dieting & disordered eating
  • Hospitalisation
  • Police brutality
  • Explosion
  • Bullying

Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston

Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston

Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09—one of the last remaining illegal Metals—has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana’s desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Burn scars
  • Medical experimentation
  • Death of a grandmother
  • Death of a mother, father & brother in a fire
  • Graphic murder & attempted murder
  • Torture
  • Explosion
  • Arson

The Last Paper Crane by Kerry Drewery

The Last Paper Crane by Kerry Drewery

1945, Hiroshima: Ichiro is a teenage boy relaxing at home with his friend Hiro. Moments later there is a blinding flash as the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped. With great bravery, the two boys find Hiro’s five-year-old sister Keiko in the devastated and blasted landscape. With Hiro succumbing to his wounds, Ichiro is now the only one who can take care of Keiko. But in the chaos, Ichiro loses her when he sets off to find help. Seventy years later, the loss of Keiko and his broken promise to his dying friend are… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Radiation poisoning
  • Death of a child
  • Death of a friend
  • Death of a parent
  • Death of a grandparent recounted
  • World War Two
  • Nuclear bombing