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The Survivors by Jane Harper

The Survivors by Jane Harper

Kieran Elliott’s life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.

Kieran’s parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn.

When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Parent with Dementia
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a friend
Death of a sibling recounted
Murder
Disappearance of a sibling recounted

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along a muddy track. Only four come out on the other side.

Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker, Alice Russell. Because Alice knew secrets, about the company she worked for and the people she worked with. The four returning women tell Falk a tale of fear, violence and fractured trust during their days in the remote Australian bushland. And as Falk delves into the disappearance of Alice, he begins to suspect some dangers ran far deeper than anyone knew.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Slut shaming
Nonconsensual distribution of private photographs online
Eating disorder
Abortion & miscarriage mentioned
Death of a parent recounted
Murder
Fire mentioned
Animal attack (snake)
Bullying

The Dry by Jane Harper

The Dry by Jane Harper

In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.

Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier.
But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Luke’s death now threatens to bring to the surface.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Child physical & sexual abuse
Rape & sexual assault of a child
Incest (father-daughter)
Domestic violence
Gambling addiction
Depression mentioned
Suicide & murder-suicide (theme)
Attempted suicide by immolation, on-page
Alcohol consumption
Smoking
Graphic dead bodies
Blood & gore depiction, including burns
Hospitalisation
Death of a friend
Death of a son, daughter-in-law & grandson
Death of a child
Death of a father from bowel cancer mentioned
Murder
Gun violence
Fire
Drought (theme)
Mugging & home invasion recounted
Animal death & hunting

The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge

The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge

Martha can tell things about a person just by touching their clothes, as if their emotions and memories have been absorbed into the material. It started the day she fell from the tree at her grandma’s cabin and became blind in one eye.

Determined to understand her strange ability, Martha sets off to visit her grandmother, Mormor – only to discover Mormor is dead, a peculiar boy is in her cabin and a terrifying creature is on the loose. Then the spinning wheel starts creaking, books move around and terror creeps in . . .

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Disfigurmisia & internalised disfigurmisia
Cheating
Child abuse mentioned
Parent with alcoholism mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Dead bodies
Hospitalisation recounted
Eyeball trauma & loss of vision (theme)
Scars
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a father in a car accident recounted
Death of a grandmother
Murder
Gun violence
Hanging mentioned
Homelessness

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer

Bree Tanner can barely remember life before she had uncannily powerful senses, superhuman reflexes, and unstoppable physical strength. Life before she had a relentless thirst for blood… life before she became a vampire. All Bree know it that living with her fellow newborns has few certainties and even fewer rules: watch your back, don’t draw attention to yourself, and above all, make it home by sunrise or die. What she doesn’t know: her time as an immortal is quickly running out. Then Bree finds an unexpected friend in DIego, a newborn just as curious as Bree about their mysterious creator, whom they only know.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Blood depiction & blood-drinking
Murder

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

When the National Security Agency’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage… not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.

Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism
Fatmisia & body shaming
Sexual harassment
Child abandonment
Murder

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man’s chest. His baffling conclusion: it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years – reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against their sworn enemy, the Catholic church.

In Rome, the college of cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Yet somewhere within the walls of the Vatican, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape
Blood & gore depiction
Murder
Torture
Immolation

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Orphaned and physically flawed in a civilization that shuns and discards the weak, Kira faces a frightening uncertain future.

When she is summoned by the Council if Guardians, Kira prepares to fight for her life, but the Council has unexpected plans for her. Now Kira faces new responsibilities. On her quest for truth, she discovers things that will change her life forever.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism
Misogyny
Child abuse
Suicide
Loss of vision
Death of a child
Murder
Physical assault
Poisoning

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Suicide
Needles
Infanticide
Drowning mentioned
War & battle mentioned
Animal death

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.

When Romeo first lays eyes on the bewitching Juliet, it’s love at first sight. But though their love runs true and deep, it is also completely forbidden. With family and fate determined to keep them apart, will Romeo and Juliet find a way to be together?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Suicide by poison
Alcohol consumption mentioned
Murder
Sword violence & stabbing