The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo – a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. Here, he meets Montgomery’s master, the sinister Dr. Moreau – a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world. It soon becomes clear he has been developing these experiments – with truly horrific results.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Medical experimentation
  • Body horror
  • Animal cruelty & torture
  • Animal death & dead bodies
  • Animal attack
  • Gun violence
  • Whipping
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Tokyo Ghoul:re, Vol. 5 by Sui Ishida

Tokyo Ghoul:re, Vol. 5 by Sui Ishida

The Qs Squad once again proves its worth by going undercover to collect vital Ghoul information, allowing the CCG finally move forward with a massive eradication campaign. But this strike pushes the Qs to their limits, bringing all their weaknesses to the forefront. And Haise is the hardest hit when his hidden past rushes forth to impact his future!

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cannibalism
  • Body horror
  • Torture
  • Gun violence
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Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire

Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire

October “Toby” Daye, a changeling who is half human and half fae, has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the Faerie world, retreating to a “normal” life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world has other ideas…

The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening’s dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant and ren… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault recounted
  • Depression
  • Blood depiction
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
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Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan 

Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan

When a powerful viceroy arrives with a fleet of mechanical dragons and stops an attack on Anlei’s village, the villagers see him as a godsend. They agree to give him their sacred, enchanted River Pearl in exchange for permanent protection—if he’ll marry one of the village girls to solidify the alliance. Anlei is appalled when the viceroy selects her as a bride, but with the fate of her people at stake, she sees no choice but to consent. Anlei’s noble plans are sent into a tailspin, however, when a young thief steals the River Pearl for himself.. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Attempted forced adult-minor marriage
  • Child neglect
  • Nightmares
  • Death of a father & mother recounted
  • Death of a wife recounted
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Gun & knife violence
  • Fire
  • War themes & military violence
  • Animal attack
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Truth, Lies, and Second Dates by MaryJanice Davidson

Truth, Lies, and Second Dates by MaryJanice Davidson

Captain Ava Capp has been flying from her past for a decade. She’d much rather leave it, and her home state, behind forever. But when she finds herself back in Minnesota, against her better judgment, everything goes sideways in a way she never expected it to.

M.E. Dr. Tom Baker has never forgotten Ava and the cold case she ran away from. When she shows up unexpectedly in town, in spite of himself, sparks fly. Which is terrible because he can’t stop his growing attraction… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Subtance addiction recovery
  • Suicidal ideation recounted
  • Death of a wife from cancer mentioned
  • Death of a sister & parents in a car accident
  • Murder of a friend recounted
  • Gun violence
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A Taste of Seduction by Mary Campisi

A Taste of Seduction by Mary Campisi

A young woman of noble blood, raised as a peasant girl… An orphaned stable boy, now grown and the surrogate son of a powerful earl—the same earl who just so happens to be the young woman’s father

Francie Jordan and Alexander Bishop have nothing in common—she runs barefoot and talks to animals. He won’t loosen his cravat unless the bedroom door is firmly closed. She believes in love, second chances, and happily ever after. He believes in keeping a safe distance… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted rape
  • Domestic violence recounted
  • Death during childbirth
  • Blood depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
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My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows 

My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton &  Jodi Meadows

Welcome ​to 1876 and a rootin’-tootin’ America bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou. JANE (a genuine hero-eene).

Calamity’s her name, and garou hunting’s her game—when she’s not starring in Wild Bill’s Traveling Show, that is. She reckons that if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Emotional & physical child abuse
  • Alcoholism
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping & captivity
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Archer’s Voice by Mia Sheridan

Archer’s Voice by Mia Sheridan

When Bree Prescott arrives in the sleepy, lakeside town of Pelion, Maine, she hopes against hope that this is the place where she will finally find the peace she so desperately seeks. On her first day there, her life collides with Archer Hale, an isolated man who holds a secret agony of his own. A man no one else sees.

Archer’s Voice is the story of a woman chained to the memory of one horrifying night and the man… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Domestic abuse
  • Attempted rape
  • Death of parents, off-page
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
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Congo by Michael Crichton

Congo by Michael Crichton

Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies — all motionless except for one moving image — a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.

In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 “signs,” the most ever learned by a primate… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Colonialism
  • Blood & gore depiction including eye trauma
  • Death of a friend
  • Gun violence
  • Explosion
  • Animal death
  • Animal experimentation discussed
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Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric—a masterpiece of suspense San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man’s guilt. For on San Pedro, memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo’s wife; memories of land desired, paid for and lost….. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Gun violence
  • Wrongful imprisonment
  • War themes
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