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It is 1959 and the Canadian Navy is at the forefront in the area of anti-submarine warfare systems research and development. The RCMP has received information from the FBI in the States, warning of a possible Soviet plan to send agents to the port city to steal whatever they can get. The security in Halifax is run almost entirely by the navy. The RCMP decides to send their own man down to assess the effectiveness of their system and to try and root out the Soviet agents along with exposing any contacts within the service that may be cooperating or otherwise, assisting them.

Eighty-two-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from Saskatchewan to Halifax. Her husband Otto wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. I will try to remember to come back, Etta writes. Otto has seen the ocean, having crossed the Atlantic years ago to fight in a far-away war, so he understands. But with Etta gone, the memories come crowding in. The only way to keep them at bay is to keep his hands busy.

Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985.

One of The New York Times's Notable Books of 2024, a New York Times Best Thriller of 2024, a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2024, People Magazine's #1 Book of the Year, a New York Public Library Top 10 Pick of 2024, one of NPR's "Books We Love" 2024, and one of Time Magazine's "100 Must-Read Books of 2024." Named a Best Book of the Year by: Real Simple, Oprah Daily, Newsweek, and Vulture. "Extraordinary... Reminds me of Donna Tartt's 1992 debut, The Secret History...

Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage.

During the 15 Year War fought between Japan and China, the eldest daughter of the Akamatsu family buried a bag of money in the back garden of her home in Hiroshima. The money had been given to her by her brother who was off to fight in China. When the Atom Bomb was dropped on the city by the Americans during the heights of the Second World War, the intensity of the bomb managed to reach the bag buried at least two feet below ground, and burn up all the paper money.

June Hur, bestselling author of The Red Palace , crafts a devastating and pulse-pounding tale that will feel all-too-relevant in today's world, based on a true story from Korean history. Hope is dangerous. Love is deadly. 1506, Joseon. The people suffer under the cruel reign of the tyrant King Yeonsan, powerless to stop him from commandeering their land for his recreational use, banning and burning books, and kidnapping and horrifically abusing women and girls as his personal playthings. Seventeen-year-old Iseul has lived a sheltered, privileged life despite the kingdom's turmoil.

Born during the Great Depression, Jean-Claude Morel is an Everyman, an ordinary Montreal construction worker who has built the city with his own hands, digging its metro, creating islands, and weaving expressways through the downtown core. But the progress has come at a cost: neighbourhoods have been razed, streets wiped off the map, and the Morel family expropriated. Teeming with life, Morel uncovers a story of Montreal that has been buried under years of glitzy urban renewal and modernization.

From award-winning verse novelist Shari Green comes an unforgettable story of friendship, first love, and an impossible choice between integrity and duty, family and friends, all while fighting for a dream. Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a historical YA novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s.

The remarkable new novel from Matt Haig, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, which has sold more than nine million copies worldwide. "What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet . . . " When retired math teacher Grace Winters inherits a run-down house on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza from a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. Grace arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.