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Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens

Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens

Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy’s home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy’s glamorous mother is throwing a tea party for Daisy’s birthday, and the whole family is invited, from eccentric Aunt Saskia to dashing Uncle Felix. But it soon becomes clear that this party isn’t really about Daisy at all. Naturally, Daisy is furious. Then one of their party falls seriously, mysteriously ill—and everything points to poison. With wild storms preventing anyone from leaving, or the police from arriving, Fallingford suddenly feels like a dangerous place to be. Not… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racist language
Sexism
Classism
Ableism
Alcohol consumption mentioned
Dead bodies discussed
Emesis
Death of a father from suicide mentioned
Murder by arsenic poisoning, on-page
Floods

The Accidental Pinup by Danielle Jackson

The Accidental Pinup by Danielle Jackson

Photographer Cassie Harris loves her job—her company Buxom Boudoir makes people look beautiful and feel empowered with her modern twist on classic pinup photography. Cassie’s best friend, Dana, is about to launch her own dangerously dreamy lingerie line and wants Cassie to shoot and direct the career-changing national campaign. But company politics and Dana’s complicated pregnancy interfere, and Cassie finds herself—a proud plus-size Black woman—not behind the camera but in front of it… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism, fatphobia & sexism
Parental abandonment recounted
Gambling addiction (secondary character)
Alcohol consumption
High-risk pregnancy mentioned (secondary character)

The Accidental Bad Girl by Maxine Kaplan

The Accidental Bad Girl by Maxine Kaplan

After getting caught hooking up with her best friend’s ex on the last day of junior year, Kendall starts senior year friendless and ostracized. She plans to keep her head down until she graduates. But after discovering her online identity has been hacked and she’s being framed for stealing from a dealer, Kendall is drawn into a tenuous partnership with the mastermind of a drug ring lurking in the shadows of her Brooklyn private school. If she wants to repair her tattered reputation and save her neck, she’ll have to decide who she really is—and own it. The longer she plays the… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexism
Rape
Drugging
Stalking

The Frame-Up by Meghan Scott Molin

The Frame-Up by Meghan Scott Molin

MG Martin lives and breathes geek culture. She even works as a writer for the comic book company she idolized as a kid. But despite her love of hooded vigilantes, MG prefers her comics stay on the page. But when someone in LA starts recreating crime scenes from her favourite comic book, MG is the LAPD’s best—and only—lead. She recognizes the golden arrow left at the scene as the calling card of her favourite comic book hero. The thing is…superheroes aren’t real. Are they? When too-handsome-for-his-own… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Homomisia
Recreational drug use
Murder

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Misogyny
Persecution for witchcraft
Martial rape & sexual assault
Arranged marriage
Miscarriage
Murder
Immolation
Drowning
Torture

A List of Cages by Robin Roe

A List of Cages by Robin Roe

When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he’s got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn’t easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can’t complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian—the foster brother he hasn’t seen in five… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Misogyny
Child abuse, on-page
Disordered eating
Alcohol consumption
Starvation
Hospital
Bullying
Death of a parent

Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia Manansala

Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala

Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can’t bring herself to open her new cafe after the unpleasantness that occurred a few months ago at her aunt’s Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie’s Kitchen. No, things are heating up quite literally, since summer, her least favourite season, has just started. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia
Sexism
Coming out scene
Anxiety & panic attacks, on-page
Alcohol consumption
Dead body
Emesis
Death of a mother recounted
Murder
Hostage situation

The Four Profound Weaves by RB Lemberg

The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg

The Surun’ do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But Uiziya now seeks her aunt Benesret in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay. Among the Khana, women travel in caravans to trade, while men remain in the inner quarter as scholars. A nameless man struggles to embody Khana masculinity, after many years of performing the life of a woman, trader, wife, and grandmother. As the past catches up to the nameless man, he must choose between the life he dreamed of and Uiziya, and Uiziya must….. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Transmisia
Deadnaming
Misgendering
Misogyny
Torture

Anna K Away by Jenny Lee

Anna K: Away by Jenny Lee

How the mighty have fallen. Anna K, once the golden girl of Greenwich, CT, and New York City, has been brought low by a scandalous sex tape and the tragic death of her first love, Alexia Vronsky. At the beginning of the summer, her father takes her to the other side of the world, to connect with his family in South Korea and hide her away. Is Anna in exile? Or could this be her chance to figure out who she really is? Back in the U.S., Lolly has forgiven Steven for cheating on her, and their relationship feels stronger than ever. But when Lolly meets a boy at her beloved theatre camp, she has to ask herself how well Steven will ever reall… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Sexual harassment
Cheating
Parental divorce mentioned
Substance addiction
Drug use
Alcohol consumption
Overdose discussed
Grief & loss depiction
Gun violence

Black Lies by KA Merikan

Black Lies by K.A. Merikan

Griffith has spent two of the most amazing years with his boyfriend Mark, who is undoubtedly The One. Mark is everything Griffith could want in a man. Sexy, kind, always there for him, showering him with gifts and anticipating his needs. Until one wrong turn sends them crashing into Mark’s past, and suddenly Griff doesn’t even know who his boyfriend is anymore. A spy? A mafioso? Or a ruthless criminal who has lied to Griff about his identity all along, hiding his brutality under charming smiles… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Rape mentioned
Sexual assault mentioned
Murder
Organised crime (mafia)