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From bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a novel of love, loss, and honour amidst the horrors of war and its aftermath. In the summer of 1916, Private Daniel Baker marches into battle with the boys of Nova Scotia's 25th Battalion. Out of brutal necessity, Danny has steeled himself against the trials and horrors of war, but he is completely unprepared to meet the love of his life in war-torn France. Audrey Poulin has the soul of an artist. She lives alone with her grandmother in the quiet French countryside, where her only joy is in her brush and palette.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction -- One of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century -- A New York Times Bestseller -- One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2022 -- Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. "Buzzy and enthralling. A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery. Fun as hell to read." -- Oprah Daily. "A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression." -- Vanity Fair.

A lush, feminist reimagining of what happened to Wendy after Neverland, for fans of Circe and The Mere Wife. – Locus Award Finalist for Best First Novel – Find the second star from the right, and fly straight on ’til morning, all the way to Neverland, a children's paradise with no rules, no adults, only endless adventure and enchanted forests – all led by the charismatic boy who will never grow old. But Wendy Darling grew up. She has a husband and a young daughter named Jane, a life in London. But one night, after all these years, Peter Pan returns.

Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York City that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family. “Readers will find a poignant, memorable voice they’ll feel lucky to have met.” — Harper’s Bazaar – Best Summer Beach Reads of 2023 Soila is a lucky girl by anyone’s estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative mother and a chorus of aunts, she has lived a protected life in Nairobi. Soila is headstrong and outspoken, and she chafes against her mother’s strict rules.

Proper Regency ladies are not supposed to become magicians—but Miss Abigail Wilder is far from proper. The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends to discover why. Abigail's father, the Lord Sorcier of England, believes that a dark lord of faerie is involved. But while Abigail is willing to match her magic against Lord Longshadow, neither her father nor high society believes that she is capable of doing so. Thankfully, Abigail is not the only one investigating the terrible events.

National bestseller • Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling. “Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep insights into our country’s divides.”—Los Angeles Times. One of BookPage’s ten best books of the year • Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Locus Award • Longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.

Inspired by a little-known chapter of World War II history, a young Protestant girl and her Jewish neighbour are caught up in the terrible wave of hate sweeping the globe on the eve of war in this powerful love story that's perfect for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. If you're reading this letter, that means I'm dead. I had obviously hoped to see you again, to explain in person, but fate had other plans.

National bestseller • #1 New York Times bestseller. A delight for readers of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, this blockbuster debut set in 1960s California features the singular voice of Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.

Best Book of Summer 2023: The Boston Globe – Deep South Magazine – Ms. Magazine – BookRiot – Top 20 Books of 2023: BookBrowse. "Brilliant, absorbing, and powerfully moving." —Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild – "[A] gripping and tenderly executed drama." —The New York Times. A novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and Louisiana, following one young man's quest to survive an often misunderstood disease, and find love, music, and himself, in the process.

A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood. 1930s, Hogan's Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency.