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Kiss the Sky by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Kiss the Sky by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

Rose Calloway thought she had everything under control. At twenty-three, she’s a Princeton graduate, an Academic Bowl champion, a fashion designer and the daughter of a Fortune 500 mogul. But with a sex addict as a sister and roommate, nothing comes easy.

After accepting help from a producer, Rose agrees to have her life filmed for a reality television show. The Hollywood exec is her last chance to rev…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia & body shaming
Slut-shaming
Adult-minor relationship
Paedophilia & grooming
Sexual assault
Abandonment
Parental abuse
Alcoholism
Sex addiction
Nightmares
Disordered food & weight thoughts
Cancer
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Wrongful incarceration
Bullying

The Maddest Obsession by Danielle Lori

The Maddest Obsession by Danielle Lori

Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time. Nobody can crack Gianna’s facade . . . no one anyway, until he comes along. Most see a paragon of morality; a special agent upholding the law. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Christian Allister has always followed… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut shaming
Rape
Sexual assault
Sex work
Cheating
Child neglect recounted
Antisocial Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Panic attacks
Drug use
Overdose
Imprisonment

Exactly Where You Need to Be by Amelia Diane Coombs

Exactly Where You Need to Be by Amelia Diane Coombs

Florie’s OCD and her mother’s worrying have kept her from a lot of things, like having an after-school job and getting her driver’s license. And now that she’s graduated high school, while her best friend Kacey is headed off to Portland in the fall, Florie’s taking a parent-sanctioned gap year off before starting college. When the decision was made, Florie was on board, but now she can’t ignore the growing itch to become the person she wants to be and venture outside the quaint, boring Washington town she grew up in… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism, racism, homophobia & biphobia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Anxiety & panic attacks
Depression
Alcohol consumption
Alcoholism mentioned
Emesis

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Ableism
Bimisia
Homomisia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Alcohol consumption
Alcoholism mentioned
Emesis

The Last Boyfriend by Nora Roberts

The Last Boyfriend by Nora Roberts

Owen is the organizer of the Montgomery clan, running the family’s construction business with an iron fist – and an even less flexible spreadsheet. And though his brothers give him grief for his compulsive list making, the Inn BoonsBoro is about to open right on schedule. The only thing Owen didn’t plan for was Avery MacTavish….

Avery’s popular pizza place is right across the street from the inn, giving her a first-hand look at its amazing renovation — and a newfound appreciation for Owen. Since he was her first boyfriend when they were kids, Owen has never been far from Avery’s thoughts. But the attraction she’s feeling for him now is far from innocent… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Infidelity discussed
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Abortion
Grief & loss depiction

Dreamfall by Amy Plum

Dreamfall by Amy Plum

Cata Cordova suffers from such debilitating insomnia that she agreed to take part in an experimental new procedure. She thought things couldn’t get any worse…but she was terribly wrong.

Soon after the experiment begins, there’s a malfunction with the lab equipment, and Cata and six other teen patients are plunged into a shared dreamworld with no memory of how they got there. Even worse, they come to the chilling realization that they are trapped in a place where their worst nightmares have come to life. Hunted by creatures from their darkest imaginations and tormented by secrets they’d rather keep buried, Cata and the others will be forced to band together to face their biggest fears. And if they can’t find a way to defeat their dreams, they will never wake up.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Mental health stigmatization
Child abuse
Domestic violence
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Depression
Narcolepsy
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Eating disorders
Psychosis
Suicidal tendencies
Self sacrifice
Sleep disorders, specifically chronic insomnia
Nightmares
Medical experimentation
Coma
Scars
Gore depiction
Genocide
War themes

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

What if you aren’t the Chosen One? The one who’s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death?

What if you’re like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Fatmisia
Anxiety
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Eating disorder (anorexia)
Parent with alcoholism
Suicide mentioned

Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft

Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft

Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft

He says he loves you. So…why does he do that?

You’ve asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men—and change your life. In Why Does He Do That? you will learn about:

• The early warning signs of abuse
• The nature of abusive thinking
• Myths about abusers
• Ten abusive personality types
• The role of drugs and alcohol
• What you can fix, and what you can’t
• And how to get out of an abusive relationship safely

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexism & misogyny
Body shaming & fatmisia
Racism & racial slurs
Slut-shaming
Victim blaming
Sex worker shaming & slurs
Rape, including by coercion
Sexual abuse
Sexual harassment
Abusive relationships
Age-gap relationships, including adult-minor
Cheating, including grey-area cheating
Child abuse, including sexual abuse
Domestic abuse & violence
Dubious consent scenarios
Emotional abuse
Paedophilia & grooming
Parental abuse & neglect
Physical abuse
Verbal abuse
Mental illness
Substance addiction, including alcoholism
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Suicidal ideation
Intrusive thoughts
Physical assault
Murder & attempted murder
Recreational drug use
Medical treatment & procedures
Death of a parent or guardian
Gun violence
Disappearance of a loved one
Poverty themes
Blackmail
Bullying

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients’ lives — a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can’t stop hooking up with the wrong guys — she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language
Sexism & misogyny
Victim blaming
Sexual harassment
Workplace harassment
Abuse, neglect & abandonment
Abusive relationships
Verbal abuse
Intimate partner abuse & violence
Estrangement & disownment
Child abuse
Mental illness
Intrusive thoughts
Addiction
Depression
Suicidal ideation
Medical treatment & procedures
Terminal illness
Cancer
Heart disease & heart attack
Physical injuries & wounds
Amputation/Loss of limb
Hospital & hospitalisation
Death of a child
Death of a friend
Death of a sibling
Grief & loss depiction
Physical assault
Stalking
Car accident

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily R Austin

Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism
Homophobia & slurs
Anxiety, panic attacks, nightmares & intrusive thoughts
Depression & dissociation (protagonist)
Disordered eating including binging and purging
Suicidal ideation & attempted suicide
Sibling with alcoholism
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption
Emesis (multiple, on-page)
Death of a husband from cancer mentioned (secondary character)
Death of an estranged uncle by overdose mentioned
Housefire
Car accident resulting in injury (broken arm)
Animal death (rabbit, recounted & discussed)