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Title: A LINE TO KILL (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

Author: HOROWITZ, A

Publisher: HARPER COLLINS CANADA LTD


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The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz.

When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation - or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past.

Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests - an eccentric gathering that includes a bestselling children's author, a French poet, a TV chef turned cookbook author, a blind psychic, and a war historian - along with a group of ornery locals embroiled in an escalating feud over a disruptive power line.

When a local grandee is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Hawthorne and Horowitz become embroiled in the case. The island is locked down, no one is allowed on or off, and it soon becomes horribly clear that a murderer lurks in their midst. But who?

Both a brilliant satire on the world of books and writers and an immensely enjoyable locked-room mystery, A Line to Kill is a triumph - a riddle of a story full of brilliant misdirection, beautifully set-out clues, and diabolically clever denouements.

 

A LOVE LIKE THE SUN

Title: A LOVE LIKE THE SUN (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Romance / Contemporary

Author: NEILSON, RISS M.

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

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"Extraordinary... a raw, vulnerable, breath-stealing love you can feel as you read."
- Emily Henry

"Dazzling, tender, and romantic." - Carley Fortune

Lifelong best friends spend a fateful summer discovering what might happen if they were to be something more in this radiant, heart-clenching adult debut.


Laniah Thompson is a homebody who craves privacy. Issac Jordan is internet famous and spends his days followed by paparazzi. She runs a small business with her mom in her hometown. He runs an international brand.

And they've been best friends since childhood.

When Issac comes home to Providence for the first time in months and discovers Laniah's dream is slipping out of reach as she and her mom struggle to pay the bills at Wildly Green, their natural hair store, she refuses to take a dime from him. And so, he does what any self-respecting best friend would do: tells the world they're dating.

Suddenly business is booming, and Laniah agrees to his ridiculous plan to pretend to be lovers for the course of the summer. Just long enough to catch the eye of an investor and get her dream back on track, like she helped him do so many years ago, he reminds her.

Too soon, though, Laniah knows she's playing with fire, because for as long as they've been friends there's an undeniable pull they've never given in to. And as the lines between art and life - real and pretend - blur, it becomes harder and harder to see where friendship ends and something else begins....

Told over the course of three sizzling summer months, A Love Like the Sun is about shared history, those who make us our bravest selves, and love in its many forms.

 

A MINOR CHORUS

Title: A MINOR CHORUS (Hardcover Book)

FICTION / Indigenous / General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or Native American)

Author: BELCOURT, BILLY-RAY

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

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*WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada's most daring literary talents.


An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness.

What ensues is a series of conversations, connections, and disconnections that reveals the texture of life in a town literature has left unexplored, where the friction between possibility and constraint provides an insistent background score.

Whether he's meeting with an auntie distraught over the imprisonment of her grandson, engaging in rez gossip with his cousin at a pow wow, or lingering in bed with a married man after a hotel room hookup, the narrator makes space for those in his orbit to divulge their private joys and miseries, testing the theory that storytelling can make us feel less lonely.

Populated by characters as alive and vast as the boreal forest, and culminating in a breathtaking crescendo, A Minor Chorus is a novel about how deeply entangled the sayable and unsayable can become - and about how ordinary life, when pressed, can produce hauntingly beautiful music.

 

A NARROW DOOR

Title: A NARROW DOOR (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological

Author: HARRIS, JOANNE

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER CANADA


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An electrifying tale of psychological suspense and revenge at an elite grammar school where secrets run deep.

"A dark world of emotional complexity and betrayal, where twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems." - Alex Michaelides, bestselling author of The Silent Patient

"Exhilarating. Addictive. Fierce." - Bridget Collins, bestselling author of The Binding

"A psychological thriller you can't put down and an antiheroine you won't forget." - Harlan Coben

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Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules.

It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls.

Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.

But Rebecca is here to make her mark. She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. After all, you can't keep a good woman down.

 

A NOVEL LOVE STORY

Title: A NOVEL LOVE STORY (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Romance / Paranormal / General

Author: POSTON, ASHLEY

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

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A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fictionâ¦literally, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics.

Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The fictional kind, anyway. Because at least imaginary men don't leave you at the altar. She feels safe in a book. At home. Which might be why she's so set on going her annual book club retreat this year - she needs good friends, cheap wine, and grand romantic gestures - no matter what.

But when her car unexpectedly breaks down on the way, she finds herself stranded in a quaint town that feels like it's right out of a novelâ¦

Because it is.

This place can't be real, and yet⦠she's here, in Eloraton, the town of her favorite romance series, where the candy store's honey taffy is always sweet, the local bar's burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the afternoon. It feels like home. It's perfect - and perfectly frozen, trapped in the late author's last unfinished story.

Elsy is sure that's why she must be here: to help bring the town to its storybook ending.

Except there is a character in Eloraton that she can't place - a grumpy bookstore owner with mint-green eyes, an irritatingly sexy mouth and impeccable taste in novels. And he does not want her finishing this book.

Which is a problem because Elsy is beginning to think the town's happily-ever-after might just be intertwined with her own.

 

A SHOT IN THE DARK

Title: A SHOT IN THE DARK (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Romance / Contemporary

Author: LEE, VICTORIA

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER " A passionate and powerful romance featuring a transgender man and an ex-Orthodox woman who find each other through their devotion to art, and fall in love despite all odds, from bestselling author Victoria Lee

"A sensual love story about art and passion . . . emotional and heart-aching." - Ashley Poston, New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics


A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, She Reads, Publishers Weekly


Elisheva Cohen has just returned to New York after almost a decade away. The wounds of her past haven't fully healed, but four years of sobriety and a scholarship to study photography with art legend Wyatt Cole are signs of good things to come, right? They could be, as long as Ely resists self-sabotage. She's lucky enough to hit it off with a handsome himbo her first night out in the city. But the morning after their mind-blowing hookup, reality comes knocking. When Wyatt Cole walks into the classroom, Ely realizes the man she just spent the night with, the man whose name she couldn't hear over the loud club music, is her teacher.

Everyone in the art world is obsessed with Wyatt Cole. He's immensely talented and his notoriously reclusive personal life makes him even more compelling. But behind closed doors, Wyatt's past is a painful memory. After coming out as transgender, Wyatt was dishonorably discharged from the military and disowned by his family. Since these traumatic experiences, Wyatt has worked hard for his sobriety and his flourishing art career. He can't risk it all for Ely, no matter how attracted to her he is or how bad he feels about insisting she drop his class in exchange for a strictly professional mentorship. Wyatt can help with her capstone photography project, but he cannot, under any circumstances, fall in love with her in the process.

Through the lens of her camera, Ely must confront the reason she left New York in the first place: the Orthodox community that raised her, then shunned her because of her substance abuse. Along the way, Wyatt's walls begin to break down, and each artist fights for what's right in front of them - a person who sees them for all that they are and a love that could mean more than they ever imagined possible.

 

A TOWN CALLED SOLACE

Title: A TOWN CALLED SOLACE (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Small Town & Rural

Author: LAWSON, MARY

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, CBC BOOKS AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

"I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel" - Anne Tyler

New York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the "wilderness of the human heart", is back after almost a decade with a fresh and timely novel that is different in subject but just as emotional and atmospheric as her beloved earlier work.


A Town Called Solace, the brilliant and emotionally radiant new novel from Mary Lawson, her first in nearly a decade, opens on a family in crisis. Sixteen-year-old Rose is missing. Angry and rebellious, she had a row with her mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Left behind is seven-year-old Clara, Rose's adoring little sister. Isolated by her parents' efforts to protect her from the truth, Clara is bewildered and distraught. Her sole comfort is Moses, the cat next door, whom she is looking after for his elderly owner, Mrs. Orchard, who went into hospital weeks ago and has still not returned.

Enter Liam Kane, mid-thirties, newly divorced, newly unemployed, newly arrived in this small northern town, who moves into Mrs. Orchard's house - where, in Clara's view, he emphatically does not belong. Within a matter of hours he receives a visit from the police. It seems he is suspected of a crime.

At the end of her life, Elizabeth Orchard is also thinking about a crime, one committed thirty years previously that had tragic consequences for two families, and in particular for one small child. She desperately wants to make amends before she dies.

Told through three distinct, compelling points of view, the novel cuts back and forth among these unforgettable characters to uncover the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect them. A Town Called Solace is a masterful, suspenseful, darkly funny and deeply humane novel by one of our great storytellers.

 

A WEREWOLF'S GUIDE TO SEDUCING A VAMPIRE

Title: A WEREWOLF'S GUIDE TO SEDUCING A VAMPIRE (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Romance / Paranormal / Vampires

Author: HAWLEY, SARAH

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

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Ben Rosewood never meant to be bound to a vampire succubus, especially one as sexy-yet-terrifying as Eleonore Bettencourt-Devereux, but he has to admit there are some fang-tastic perksâ¦.

Werewolf Ben Rosewood is happy with his life. One hundred percent. Everything is fine. His business, Ben's Plant Emporium, is thriving, and he's even expanding the shop. His anxiety disorder isâ¦well, it's been better, but that comes with the territory of running a business and having beastly urges every full moon, right? As for romance - who has the time? Though his family is desperate to see him settled, Ben is fine approaching forty as a single werewolf. But after drunkenly bidding on and winning a supposedly-possessed crystal on eBay one night, he finds himself face-to-face with a beautiful yet angry vampire.

Eleonore Bettencourt-Devereux is a rare breed - a vampire succubus born from two elite European bloodlines during medieval times. Thanks to an evil witch, she's been stuck in a crystal since she was thirty, forced to obey orders from the possessor of the rock. Eleonore's been dreaming of breaking the spell and severing the witch's head for centuries. But did this witch really sell her to someone new, and for only ninety-nine cents?

Eleonore would claw this werewolf's heart out and eat it, if only the binding spell would allow her to. But Eleonore and Ben soon realize they can help each other with both vengeful and less hostile needs. And why not have a little fun along the way?

 

A WINTER IN NEW YORK

Title: A WINTER IN NEW YORK

FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy

Author: SILVER, JOSIE

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she's been looking for in this stunning novel from the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December.

When Iris decides to move to New York to restart her life, she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really is— all the nostalgic movies set in New York she'd watched with her mom while eating their special secret-recipe gelato didn't quite do it justice.

But Bobby, Iris's best friend, isn't about to let her hide away. He drags her to a famous autumn street fair in Little Italy, and as they walk through the food stalls, a little family-run gelateria catches her eye—could it be the same shop that's in an old photo of her mother's?

Curious, Iris returns the next day and meets the handsome Gio, who tells her that the shop is in danger of closing. His uncle, sole keeper of their family's gelato recipe, is in a coma, so they can't make more. When Iris samples the last remaining batch, she realizes that their gelato and her gelato are one and the same. But how can she tell them she knows their secret recipe when she's not sure why Gio's uncle gave it to her mother in the first place?

Iris offers her services as a chef to help them re-create the flavor and finds herself falling for Gio and his family. But when Gio's uncle finally wakes up, all of the secrets Iris has been keeping threaten to ruin the new life—and new love—she's been building all winter long.

 

A WINTER WISH

Title: A WINTER WISH (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Romance / Contemporary

Author: STONE, EMILY

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

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When an unexpected inheritance forces two total opposites to work together, Lexie must decide if Theo is going to push her out - or pull her in for the kiss of a lifetime - in this heartwarming holiday novel from the author of Always, in December and One Last Gift

When Lexie learns of her father's death, she doesn't know how to feel; they've barely spoken in the last ten years. And she feels even more confused when she discovers he's left her half of his successful holiday travel company.

The other half of the company has been left to her father's young executive, Theo. And the will stipulates that the two of them must find a way to run the company successfully together for a year, or sell now and walk away with nothing.

Theo isn't thrilled to be working alongside someone who knows nothing about the business, and Lexie isn't thrilled to be working with an uptight stick-in-the-mud. As a result, the two decide that Lexie can play the part of silent partner so they don't have to work together too intimately.

But "silent" has never been a good word to describe Lexie. And as a traveler herself, she finds the company to be unique: It specializes in trips that explore the holiday traditions of cultures all over the world. And when the company decides to scout a French lemon festival as a potential new offering, a certain delightfully meddlesome assistant contrives to make sure both Theo and Lexie attend, giving them plenty of quality time together in the gorgeous French countryside.

Soon Lexie and Theo begin to realize there may have been some snap judgements made about each other. But as Lexie knows, mixing business and pleasure isn't always a good idea...

 


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