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   Coming in June:
Eruption
by Michael Crichton and James Patterson

June 3, 2024

Two of the world's most popular and prolific modern authors team up for a thriller about a history-making eruption in Hawaii that threatens to reveal a huge secret the US military has been hiding for decades. 

Michael Crichton and James Patterson together present 'Eruption', started by Crichton before his death and completed by Patterson.

Thrillers & Suspense
Shelterwood: A novel
by Lisa Wingate

June 4, 2024

In 1990 Oklahoma, Valerie, a Law Enforcement Ranger reporting for duty at Horsethief Trail National Park, is immediately faced with the long-hidden burial site of three children, and working with the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police, unearths old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.

Historical Fiction
The Comfort of Ghosts
by Jacqueline Winspear

June 4, 2024

In 1945 London, psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs visits a vacant Belgravia mansion where she finds four adolescent orphans and a demobilized, gravely ill soldier and as she tries to bring comfort to them all, she is forced to examine her own painful past and the beliefs she has always accepted as true.

Historical Fiction, Mystery & Detective
The Secret History of Audrey James
by Heather Marshall  

June 4, 2024

'The Secret History of Audrey James' is a gripping novel about a pianist in Berlin on the cusp of WWII and the choices she makes that echo across generations. Inspired by true stories of courageous women and the German resistance during WWII, this is a captivating novel about the unbreakable bonds of friendship, the sacrifices we make for those we love, and the healing that comes from human connection.
Heather Marshall lives near Toronto, ON.

Historical Fiction
The Forever Dog Life: 120+ Recipes, longevity tips, and new science for better bowls and healthier homes
by Karen Shaw Becker & Rodney Habib 

June 4, 2024

Sharing wonderful stories and incredible canines, the authors of the #1 internationally best-selling The Forever Dog offer simple ways you can help your dog live longer and better with more than 120 nutritionally packed recipes and practical instructions for creating a healthy, sustainable lifestyle and environment for your best friend. 
Habib lives in Dartmouth, NS.
 
Pets / Dogs
The Young Forever Cookbook: More Than 100 Delicious Recipes for Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life
by Mark Hyman

June 4, 2024

This companion cookbook to the #1 New York Times best-selling Young Forever offers more than 100 satisfying recipes, featuring ingredients proven to support longevity, helping readers maintain a healthy life — and creating a healthier future.

 Cooking / Health & Healing
Swan Song
by Elin Hilderbrand

June 11, 2024

When a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious and overly extravagant Richardsons, social mayhem ensues in the tight-knit Nantucket community, but when their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island must save the day—and their way of life.  Series: Nantucket (4)

Women's Fiction
The Housemaid is Watching
by Freida McFadden

June 11, 2024

The New York Times bestselling author presents another addictive psychological thriller in the series in which the Housemaid, now with a family of her own, moves to the suburbs, leaving her dark secrets behind, but soon finds this seemingly perfect neighborhood the most dangerous place of all. Series: Housemaid (3)

Thrillers & Suspense
North of Nowhere: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner
by Marie Wilson  

June 11, 2024
 
'North of Nowhere' is the incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it.
Marie Wilson spent six years crisscrossing the country as a commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Prior to her work in reconciliation, she spent more than 20 years with CBC/Radio-Canada as an award-winning journalist and broadcaster in Canada’s North and Quebec. Born in Ontario, she now lives in Yellowknife, NT.
 
Biography / Indigenous Culture
Thank You, More Please: A feminist guide to breaking dumb dating rules and finding love
by Lily Womble

June 11, 2024

A dating coach and founder of Date Brazen flips patriarchal dating on its head and challenges you to ask for and get what you want, providing a proven feminist framework that will help you create an epic love life, one that attracts more than you thought possible.

Family & Relationships / Love & Romance
The Midnight Feast
by Lucy Foley

June 18, 2024

During the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxe coastal retreat built on top of old secrets, those in attendance all have an agenda but not everyone will survive.

Thrillers & Suspense
The Glassmaker
by Tracy Chevalier

June 18, 2024

From the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure.  From the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Historical Fiction
The Next Mrs. Parrish: A Novel
by Liv Constantine

June 18, 2024

With her husband Jackson getting out of prison, prominent socialite Amber Patterson Parrish, when an enemy from her past emerges looking for revenge, she, Jackson and Jackson's ex-wife Daphne become unlikely allies but when all is said and done, they'll have to fight for everything they have left in this zero-sum game.

Thrillers & Suspense
Same As It Ever Was
by Claire Lombardo

June 18, 2024

Finally at age 57, Julie Ames feels she has a firm handle on things, but a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her teenaged daughter and a seductive resurgence of the past threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor's edge.

Fiction, Family Life
Resurrection
by Danielle Steel

June 25, 2024

A successful influencer and one part of a power couple on the international stage, 42-year-old Darcy Gray, after her perfect life comes crashing down, must stay indefinitely in France during an escalating worldwide health crisis and, through her newfound friendships with others who are stranded, begins to see glimpses of new possibilities.

Women's Fiction
Finding Mr. Write
by Kelley Armstrong  

June 25, 2024

A woman writing under a male pseudonym lands a huge book deal but finds herself falling for the man she hired to pretend to be her, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling Darkest Powers.

Romance
Flashback
by Iris Johansen

June 25, 2024

Twenty years after their mother was the second victim of the Bayside Stranger, two sisters disappear leaving Kendra Michaels to investigate the cold case, in the 11th novel of the series following More Than Meets the Eye.

Thrillers & Suspense
 
Known to the Victim
by K. L. Armstrong  

June 25, 2024

Amy Gibson is the host of a popular true crime podcast that focuses on crimes against women committed by their partners. So when her brother Oliver is accused of the unthinkable, Amy sets out to prove her brother's innocence. But the more she learns the more she realizes that nothing is ever as it seems - especially when it comes to family.
K. L. Armstrong lives in Alymer, ON.

Thrillers & Suspense
Free the Land: How we can fight poverty and climate chaos
by Audrea Lim 

June 25, 2024
 
This revealing analysis demonstrates the profound effects of viewing land primarily as a means of generating profit, particularly how it exacerbates racial disparities in housing, gentrification and environmental crises. 
Lim is originally from Calgary, AB.
 
Social Science / Human Geography
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   Coming in July: 
The Haters
by Robyn Harding  

July 2, 2024

After a scathing one-star review of her book causes a flood of bad reviews, Camryn Lane, as the online harassment bleeds into her personal life, is determined to find out who's behind it, and when the troll's actions turn deadly, she will stop at nothing to finally learn why she's being targeted.  Harding lives in Vancouver, BC.

Psychological Fiction
Flashpoint
by Catherine Coulter

July 2, 2024

As a deadly conspiracy unfolds, FBI agent Dillon Savich races to protect a witness from an attack and help a psychic child search for his missing father in the latest novel of the series following Reckoning. 

Legal thriller
Breaking the Dark: A Jessica Jones crime novel
by Lisa Jewell

July 2, 2024

Retired superhero Jessica Jones helps a distraught mother search for her missing teenage twins who disappeared while visiting their father in the UK in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of None of This is True.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thrillers & Crime
The Briar Club: A novel
by Kate Quinn

July 9, 2024

In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.

Thrillers, Historical Fiction
The Summer Pact : A novel
by Emily Giffin

July 9, 2024

Ten years after they made a pact, promising to always be there for each other in their times of need, Hannah, when one of the happiest moments of her life is suddenly turned upside down, calls on her closest friends, and together, they embark on a shared journey of self-discovery, forgiveness and acceptance.

Women's Fiction
Confessions of the Dead
by James Patterson & J. D. Barker

July 9, 2024
 
The arrival of a mysterious teen girl disrupts the idyllic peace of Hollows Bend, leading Sheriff Pritchett to investigate a wave of shocking crimes that lead him closer and closer to a lake that doesn't appear on any map.
 
Psychological Thriller
The Burning
by Linda Castillo

July 9, 2024

Discovering the charred body of an Amish man, chained to a stake and burned alive, in the woods, newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder, at odds with everyone around her, uncovers a secret legacy that shatters everything she thought she knew about the Amish themselves—and her own roots.

Mystery: Police Procedural
Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future
by Jeremy Kahn

July 9, 2024

In 'Mastering AI', Fortune magazine journalist Jeremy Kahn draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI’s impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy and the way we work, learn, and create to unknitting our social fabric, jeopardizing our democracy, and fundamentally altering the way we think.

Computers / Artifical Intelligence
Tiger, Tiger: His Life, As It's Never Been Told Before
by James Patterson

July 15, 2024

A #1 best-selling author looks at the life of Tiger Woods—how he rose to success, what drove him to fall so spectacularly, and how has he made his way back to the pinnacle of golf.

Biography / Sports - Golf
JFK Jr. : An intimate oral biography
by RoseMarie Terenzio

July 16, 2024

Sharing never-before-told stories and insights, JFK Jr.'s closest friends, confidantes, lovers, classmates, teachers and colleagues paint a vivid portrait of one of the most notable figures of the 20th century, revealing how the boy who saluted became the man America came to know and love who still captures public imagination 25 years after his tragic death.

Biography / Political 
Hard to Kill
by James Patterson & Mike Lupica

July 29, 2024

Attorney Jane Smith takes on the case of an unlucky man accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons and potentially a second family in the third novel of the series following Jane Effing Smith.

Legal Thriller
What Have You Done?
by Shari Lapena  

July 30, 2024

When the body of Diana Brewer is discovered in a hayfield by a local farmer, sleepy little Fairfield, Vermont, a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects and a place of fear and paranoia where everyone wants answers.  
Shari Lapena lives outside Toronto, ON.

Thrillers & Suspense
The Hidden Storyteller
by Mandy Robotham

July 30, 2024

Set seven years after the events of 'The Berlin Girl'
, 'The Hidden Storyteller' follows reporter Georgie Young as she returns to Germany to look into reports of a serial killer terrorizing the women of the destroyed city of Hamburg. But she soon discovers that some secrets of war did not die with Hitler.

Historical Fiction, Thriller
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   Coming in August:
Fire and Bones
by Kathy Reichs

August 6, 2024

Kathy Reichs returns with this 23rd twisty, surprise-packed thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself at the centre of an arson investigation, a deepening mystery, and a stunning culmination of violence and deception.

Thrillers & Suspense
Joy
by Danielle Steel

August 13, 2024

In this deeply moving novel from Danielle Steel, a determined young woman must survive a series of abandonments to find a love that is worthy of her.

Women's Fiction
The Longest Road: To Hell and Back Again from Addiction to Advocacy
by Joe Calendino and Gary Little  

August 13, 2024
 
Recovery is the longest road toward a better future. So says Joe Calendino, former full-patch Hells Angel and now award-winning youth community leader. In 'The Longest Road', Calendino keeps it raw and real - he’s the first to admit that his path to advocacy has been anything but straight. From the Hells Angels clubhouse to the darkest crack dens to the scene of a recent life-changing accident, Calendino reveals all his moments of struggle, intervention, recovery, and redemption.
Calendino and Little live in Vancouver, BC.
 
Self-Help / Substance Abuse & Addictions
By Any Other Name : A novel
by Jodi Picoult

August 20, 2024

Two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—are both forced to hide behind another name to make their voices heard.
Told in intertwining narratives, this sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire asks what price each woman is willing to pay to see their work live on—even if it means they will be forgotten.
 
Women's Fiction
This Is Why We Lied
by Karin Slaughter

August 20, 2024

Will Trent and Sara are swept up in a mystery on their honeymoon while staying at a remote location in this 12th installment of the 'Will Trent' series.

Thrillers & Suspense
The Knowing: The Enduring Legacy of Residential Schools
by Tanya Talaga  

August 27, 2024
 
In 'The Knowing', Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga, one of Canada’s top investigative journalists, retells the history of this country as only she can - through an Indigenous lens, by tracing the life of her great-great grandmother and family as they lived through this government- and Church-sanctioned genocide.
Talaga is of Polish and Indigenous descent. Her great-grandmother was a residential school survivor, her great-grandfather was an Ojibwe trapper and labourer, and her grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation. She lives in Toronto, ON.

History / Indigenous People in the Americas
In Winter I Get Up at Night
by Jane Urquhart  

August 27, 2024

In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane Urquhart’s brilliant new novel, which Emer narrates, will leave the reader forever changed. Urquhart lives in southeastern Ontario.

Literary Fiction
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