Category: Fiction
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Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Feb 2019 Synopsis: From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius. But she’s the only deaf person in her school, so people often treat her like she’s not very smart. If you’ve ever felt like no one was listening to you,…
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A Groom of One’s Own by Emma St. Clair: Content Warnings
Publication Date: March 2024 Synopsis: He always dreamed of getting married—but for love, not to avoid deportation. Eli Hopkins has it all—almost. A hockey career with the wildly popular Appies. Teammates who are like brothers. The only thing he’s missing is someone to share it all with. Oh—and correctly filed…
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Summer Ever After by Kortney Keisel: Content Warnings
Publication Date: June 2024 Synopsis: Falling in love is easy. Finding the right guy to spend happily ever after with… that’s the hard part. But I have a foolproof plan. I’m taking the tropes that work in romance books and applying them to my love life. Only one bed? Never fails.…
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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2023 Synopsis: When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other.…
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Steal the Morrow by Jenelle Leanne Schmidt: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2023 Synopsis: The city may be dangerous, but it holds his only hope… Abandoned on a remote highway after bandits murder his parents, young Olifur finds safety with Fritjof. The gruff woodsman teaches him and other orphans to live off the land. When Fritjof falls ill, Olifur…
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Road Trip Rescue by Becca Wierwille: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2023 Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Kimmy trusts dogs more than people. After all, her dog Bo never made fun of her for having one hand. But two years ago, Bo disappeared. When Kimmy stumbles across a magazine photo of a dog in upstate New York that looks just like…
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2017 Synopsis: Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park…
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My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite: Content Warnings
Publication Date: July 2018 Synopsis: When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third boyfriend Ayoola’s dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess…
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The Walls We Built by Kassandra Garrison: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2021 Synopsis: At the young age of eight, Charlotte Pryor was abandoned by her mother and brother without an explanation. Left only with her father, Charlotte pushes away anyone who could hurt her. Now at college, she is forced to interact with her peers and a particularly…
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The Queens Gambit by Beth Brower: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2016 Synopsis: Eleanor, the young queen of Aemogen, is confronted with the greatest threat her country has ever faced: surrender Aemogen’s sovereignty to the treacherous Imirillion Empire or endure a devastating and impossible war. Now she must decide if she will forfeit her people’s liberty or fight.…
