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The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain

The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain

Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she’s in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As Riley works to uncover the truth, her discoveries will put into question everything she thought… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child sexual abuse resulting in pregnancy recounted
Suicide
Sibling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Death of a parent
Murder

Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain

Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain

Kacey Cleary’s whole life imploded four years ago in a drunk-driving accident. Now she’s working hard to bury the pieces left behind—all but one. Her little sister, Livie. Kacey can swallow the constant disapproval from her born-again aunt Darla over her self-destructive lifestyle; she can stop herself from going kick-boxer crazy on Uncle Raymond when he loses the girls’ college funds at a blackjack table. She just needs to keep it together until Livie is no longer a minor, and then they can get the hell out of Grand Rapids, Michigan… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Sexism
Rape
Alcoholism
Manic-depressive episode
Murder

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

I didn’t ask for any of this. I didn’t ask to be some kind of hero. But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know? Sure, I’ve read the books. I’ve seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little bluebirds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can’t be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There’s still a yellow brick road—but even that’s crumbling… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parent with alcoholism
Alcohol consumption
Medical experimentation
Knife violence
Physical assault
Tornado
Animal death
Poverty

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

Audrey can’t leave the house. she can’t even take off her dark glasses inside the house. Then her brother’s friend Linus stumbles into her life. With his friendly, orange-slice smile and his funny notes, he starts to entice Audrey out again – well, Starbucks is a start. And with Linus at her side, Audrey feels like she can do the things she’d thought were too scary. Suddenly, finding her way back to the real world seems achievable.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist slurs
Fatmisia
Social Anxiety & Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Depressive episodes

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Stockholm Syndrome (theme)
Suicidal ideation
Self-harm
Drugging
Kidnapping & captivity

Tatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons

Tatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons

Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes consumed by the belief that her husband, Red Army officer Alexander Belov, is still alive and needs her desperately. Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander barely escapes execution and is forced to lead a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by the Soviet high command. Yet Alexander is determined… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic abuse
Child abuse
Alcoholism
Pregnancy
Torture
War themes

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler’s armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad. Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcoholism
Pregnancy
Miscarriage & abortion mentioned
Starvation
Blackmail
Explosion & bombings
War themes

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo,

Kim Ji-young is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation: At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother. In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In university, she is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships by her professor. In the office, she is an exemplary employee who is overlooked for promotion by her manager. At home, she is a wife who has given up her career to take care… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcoholism
Depression
Pregnancy & childbirth
Miscarriage mentioned
Abortion mentioned
Bullying

Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride.

Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse & neglect
Domestic abuse & violence recounted
Parent with a substance addiction
Death of a parent, off-page
Gun violence
Kidnapping

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbour clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Fatmisia
Incest
Alcoholism
Infertility mentioned
Physical injury
Death of a child
Murder
Car accident
Animal death
Animal cruelty