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When Forever Ended by Cara Dee

When Forever Ended by Cara Dee

At ten years old, Kelly and I were two rambunctious boys who carved our initials into a tree in the forest and promised to be best friends forever. At forty-three, it’d been twenty-four years since I’d last seen him—after I’d foolishly kissed him—and depression was threatening to suffocate me.

Not even my wife and two children could lift the fog. I was riddled with guilt and self-hatred, and I knew I was slowly but surely fading away.

Then one day, Kelly was back in town.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Internalised homomisia
Cheating
Depression

Soft Thorns by Bridgett Devoue

soft thorns by bridgett devoue

the poetry living within these pages tells stories of love, heartbreak, freedom, oppression, sexual assault, sexism, hope and humanity. our darkest times are where we grow the most, so in this book, i share mine, and together, we learn how to heal.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape
Sexual assault
Eating disorder (anorexia)

To Make Monsters Out of Girls by Amanda Lovelace

To Make Monsters Out of Girls by Amanda Lovelace

“What happens when the man of your dreams turns out to be a nightmare with sharp teeth and claws?”

In this first installment, to make monsters out of girls, lovelace explores the memory of being in an abusive relationship. She poses the eternal question: Can you heal once you’ve been marked by a monster, or will the sun always sting?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Cheating
Abusive relationship (theme)
Eating disorder
Self harm

The Mermaid’s Voice Returns in This One by Amanda Lovelace

The Mermaid’s Voice Returns in This One by Amanda Lovelace

The mermaid is known for her siren song, luring bedroom-eyed sailors to their demise. However, beneath these misguided myths are tales of escapism and healing, which Lovelace weaves throughout this empowering collection of poetry, taking you on a journey from the sea to the stars. They tried to silence her once and for all, but the mermaid’s voice returns in this one.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexual assault
Child abuse
Intimate partner abuse
Eating disorder
Suicide
Self harm
Gun violence
Fire

The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace

The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace

A poetry collection divided into four different parts: the The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now—indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience and embolden women to take control of their own stories. Enemies try to judge, oppress, and marginalize her, but the witch doesn’t burn in this one.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Transmisia
Sexual assault
Child abuse
Intimate partner abuse
Eating disorders

The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace

The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace

“Ah, life- the thing that happens to us while we’re off somewhere else blowing on dandelions & wishing ourselves into the pages of our favorite fairy tales.”

A poetry collection divided into four different parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, & you. the princess, the damsel, & the queen piece together the life of the author in three stages, while you serves as a note to the reader & all of humankind. Explores life & all of its love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, & inspirations.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Sexual assault
Child abuse
Intimate partner abuse
Alcoholism
Eating disorders
Suicide
Self harm
Cancer
Fire
Bullying

If My Body Could Speak by Blythe Baird

If My Body Could Speak by Blythe Baird

If My Body Could Speak is about fighting for the space one takes up in a world that would rather they take up none at all. Blythe Baird deftly and uniquely charts a course through various modes of womanhood and women’s bodies. Through love, loss, and the struggles of disordered eating, If My Body Could Speak uses sharp narratives and visceral imagery to get to the heart of a many-layered existence, speaking to many generations at once.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misogyny
Rape
Eating disorder

Escape Velocity by Jess Anastasi

Escape Velocity by Jess Anastasi

At first, Dr. Sacha Dalton is simply curious about the prisoner of war admitted to her med-lab…until she sees who it is. For Commander Kai Yang–the commander of the battleship Valiant Knox–has long been thought dead. Killed in action. But after almost a year and half, he’s returned home. Returned to her.

Kai is recovering from his ordeal and under the watchful care of Sacha, his childhood friend and the widow of his best friend. Only now, their friendship has grown and deepened into something far more complicated. Yet as Kai’s body recovers, his psyche remains broken. How could he ever be the man he was, and the man Sacha deserves? But an intergalactic war has a way of forcing a man to be the hero he was always meant to be…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Torture
Kidnapping & captivity

Burn It Down by Jess Anastasi

Burn It Down by Jess Anastasi

When an arsonist targets a kind-hearted park ranger, a firefighter steps up to protect him… and overcome his fear of dating in the process.

Park Ranger Troy Hurst has his hands full with a long, hot summer causing fires to break out all over the Sam Houston National Forest, and it looks like the weather isn’t the only culprit. But helping two abandoned teenage boys and facing the memory of his own difficult childhood will require all Troy’s strength and courage—he doesn’t have anything left to deal with the increasingly dangerous fires… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Parental abuse
Physical & verbal intimate partner abuse
Alcoholism
Homelessness

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Skyler, Ellie, Scarlett and Amelia Grace are forced to spend In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape
Domestic abuse
Child abuse
Substance addiction
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Pregnancy from rape
Graphic abortion
Autopsy
Decapitation
Death of a sister
Murder
Torture
Car accident
Imprisonment
Earthquake
Death of a pet