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To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and invite her to come understand the secrets hiding in their banquet of decay. Fascination morphs into an obsessive need to know what the vultures know. Andi turns to Dr. Fawning, but even the therapist cannot help her comprehend the secrets she’s buried beneath anger-induced blackouts. Her girlfriend, Luna, tries to help Andi battle her inner darkness and infatuation with the vultures. However, the desire to taste dead flesh, to stitch… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide & suicidal ideation mentioned
Self-harm
Death of a child mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Graphic cannibalism
Murder
Torture
Animal abuse & cruelty
Animal death

The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard

The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard

Paris has survived the Great Houses War – just. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage. The citizens continue to live, love, fight and survive in their war-torn city, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over the once grand capital. House Silverspires, previously the leader of those power games, lies in disarray. Its magic is alluring; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicidal ideation
Drug use & abuse
Blood and gore depiction
Mutilation
Torture
Colonialism

Runebinder by Alex Kahler

Runebinder by Alex R. Kahler

When magic returned to the world, it could have saved humanity, but greed and thirst for power caused mankind’s downfall instead. Now once-human monsters called Howls prowl abandoned streets, their hunger guided by corrupt necromancers and the all-powerful Kin. Only Hunters have the power to fight back in the unending war, using the same magic that ended civilization in the first place. But they are losing. Tenn is a Hunter, resigned to fight even though hope is nearly lost. When he is singled out by a seductive Kin named Tomás and the enigmatic Hunter Jarrett…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Homomisia
Dubious consent scenarios
Suicide & suicidal ideation
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent
Death of a friend
Graphic murder
Torture
Animal death & hunting

The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland-a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic–and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien–a women’s world. What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus’s consequences, told through first-person narratives. Dr. MacLean; Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicidal ideation

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered worldwide acclaim, though it wasn’t the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath’s original manuscript and her own selection and arrangement of poems. This edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of her poem “Ariel,” which provide a rare glimpse into the creative process of a beloved writer.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Antisemitism
Depression
Suicide & attempted suicide
Suicidal ideation
Pregnancy
Miscarriage
Death of a father

The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson

The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson

Rory and her friends are reeling from a series of sudden and tragic events. While racked with grief, Rory tries to determine if she acted in time to save a member of the squad. If she did, how do you find a ghost? Also, Rory’s classmate Charlotte has been kidnapped by Jane and her nefarious organization. Evidence is uncovered of a forty-year-old cult, ten missing teenagers, and a likely mass murder. Everything indicates that Charlotte’s in danger, and it seems that something much bigger and much more terrible is coming. Time is run… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted suicide & suicidal ideation recounted
Nonconsensual drugging, on- & off-page
Hospital
Coma
Blood depiction & blood-drinking
Minor physical injuries
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a friend
Kidnapping
Cults
Mass murder by poison
Explosion
Car accident recounted

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia & homomisic slurs
Coming out themes
Ableism & ableist language
Racism
Attempted sexual assault of a child by an uncle, on-page
Parental abandonment & neglect
Physical, verbal & emotional child abuse
Domestic violence recounted, off-page
Cheating mentioned
Nightmares
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Hospitalisation for attempted suicide recounted
Suicidal ideation
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Graphic body horror
Emesis
Murder & attempted murder
School shooting
Gun & knife violence
Car accident
Loss of autonomy (ghost possession)
Animal death (insects)
Animal abuse & torture (insects)
Bullying

Sisters of Shadow and Light by Sara Larson

Sisters of Shadow and Light by Sara B. Larson

Zuhra and Inara have grown up in the Citadel of the Paladins, an abandoned fortress where legendary, magical warriors once lived before disappearing from the world–including their Paladin father the night Inara was born. On that same night, a massive, magical hedge grew and imprisoned them within the citadel. Inara inherited their father’s Paladin power; her eyes glow blue and she is able to make plants grow at unbelievable rates, but she has been trapped in her own mind because of a “roar” that drowns everything else out–leaving Zuhra virtually alone with… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Self harm
Suicidal ideation
Starvation
Death of a parent

Bang by Barry Lyga

Bang by Barry Lyga

Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one—not even Sebastian himself—can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father’s gun. Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend—Aneesa—to distract him from his darkest thoughts. But even this relationship cannot blunt the pain of his past. Because Sebastian knows exactly how to rectify his childhood crime and sanctify… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Islamomisia
Suicidal ideation
Death of an infant

Bad Mommy by Tarryn Fisher

Bad Mommy by Tarryn Fisher

When Fig Coxbury buys a house on West Barrett Street, it’s not because she likes the neighbourhood, or even because she likes the house. It’s because everything she desires is next door: The husband, the child, and the life that belongs to someone else.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & slut-shaming
Infidelity
Suicidal ideation
Miscarriage
Cancer
Death of a parent
Stalking