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  • Beth is in mourning due to the death of her son when her first love moves back to town and a chain of events takes place that alters their lives. Unfolding with the urgency of a thriller, this novel deftly explores topics such as first…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2025. — FIC Hall
  • Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by…
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2025, c2024. — FIC Feene
  • Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. So when her real dad -- a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years…
    BookNew York, NY : Pamela Dorman Books, 2025. — FIC Moyes
  • Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she'll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father's -- now a…
    Book[Toronto] : Viking, 2025. — FIC Knigh
  • Gail Baines is having a bad day. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn't even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail's ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep,…
    Book[Toronto] : Bond Street Books, 2025. — FIC Tyler
  • Alice is more comfortable behind a camera than living her life. When her Nan has surgery, Alice takes her for rest and relaxation at their favorite lake cottage. Alice falls for their handyman neighbor Charlie, who brings her out of her…
    BookToronto, Ontario : Viking, 2025. — FIC Fortu
  • A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations of the human heart, in language…
    BookToronto, Ontario : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2025. — FIC Adich
  • In 1956, the only dolls on the market for little girls let them pretend to be mothers. Ruth's vision for a doll shaped like a grown woman and outfitted in an enviable wardrobe will let them dream they can be anything. In the decades to…
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2025. — FIC Rosen
  • A grandmother and granddaughter are snowed in at a lavish party at a mansion where the host has been murdered, and the unlikely sleuthing pair must draw on a unique skillset to navigate a dangerous game together.
    BookNew York : Dutton, 2025. — FIC Mulle
  • Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life. It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant,…
    BookNew York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. — FIC Horow
  • In 1581, Emilia Bassano, like most young women of her day, is allowed no voice of her own. But as the Lord Chamberlain's mistress, she has access to all theater in England, and finds a way to bring her work to the stage secretly. And yet,…
    BookToronto : Random House Canada, 2024. — FIC Picou
  • Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — FIC Hanna
  • Grace Winters is a widow and retired math teacher whose life seems to be getting smaller and smaller. She keeps out of the way of people and passes time watching the birds in her garden and doing crossword puzzles. But when a long-lost…
    BookToronto : Harper Avenue, 2024. — FIC Haig
  • Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, leaving nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of…
    Book[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, 2024. — FIC Kwan
  • After North Carolina’s richest -- and most notorious -- heiress dies, her adopted son, Camden, rejects his inheritance until 10 years later, when his uncle’s death pulls him and his wife back into the family fold at Ashby House where he…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2024, c2023. — FIC Hawki
  • Hired to write a rom-com screenplay with her hero, movie-writing legend Charlie Yates, Emma, arriving in LA, discovers he's kind of a jerk and doesn't even believe in love and refusing to go down without a fight, she decides to write her…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — FIC Cente
  • It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she…
    BookNew York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2024. — FIC Reid
  • The quietly devastating sequel to Brooklyn picks up two decades later with Eilis Lacey, now in her 40s, hemmed in by her overbearing in-laws on Long Island in 1976. First Eilis discovers that her husband, Tony, has been unfaithful, then…
    Book[Toronto] : McClelland & Stewart, 2024. — FIC Toibi
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