Title: MOST WONDERFUL (Paperback Book)
FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy
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It's the most romantic time of the year.
The holidays are fast approaching, and the Belvedere siblings are a mess. Liz, a Hollywood showrunner and responsible eldest, has no idea how to follow up her hit show's first season, or how to deal with her giant crush on its star, Violet Grace. Birdie turned her chronic middle child syndrome into a career as a stand-up comic, but since she spends more time wooing women than working on new material, she's facing one-hit wonder status, especially once she gets axed by her manager. And Rafi, sensitive romantic and the baby golden boy, proposes to his coworker girlfriend in front of his entire company, only to be turned down by the woman he thought was the love of his life.
Born to three different fathers, the three adult children share one mother: famed actress and singer Babs Belvedere. Seeking direction and holiday cheer, all three siblings head up to their mother's house in the Catskills, determined to swear off love and focus on themselves and their work. But the spirit of the season seems to have different plans for them, and their best intentions are quickly derailed in the most delightful and festive of ways.
Emotional, smart, and sexy, this queer holiday romcom celebrates love, family, and the wild creative life, and is perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Casey McQuiston.
Title: MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS (Paperback Book)
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Naomi's daughters are very different: Martha is determined and driven like her father, while Willow is a free spirit. The three women have always been close, but that doesn't mean they don't have secrets of their own. There are things Naomi has kept from her girls, like the fact that her marriage to their father wasn't quite what it seemed…
Title: MUCH ADO ABOUT NADA (Paperback Book)
FICTION / Romance / General
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A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion
Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married already. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a far cry from realizing the start-up dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper instead of a bang because of a double-crossing business partner. Nothing in her life has turned out the way it was supposed to, and Nada feels like a failure. Something needs to change, but the past is holding on too tightly to let her move forward.
Nada's best friend, Haleema, is determined to pry her from her shell . . . and what better place than at the giant annual Muslim conference downtown, where Nada can finally meet Haleema's fiance, Zayn? And did Haleema mention Zayn's brother Baz will be there?
What Haleema doesn't know is that Nada and Baz have a past - some of it good, some of it bad, and all of it secret. At the conference, that past all comes hurtling back at Nada, bringing new complications and a moment of reckoning. Can she truly say goodbye to what once was, or should she hold tight to her dreams and find their new beginnings?
Title: MURDER RULE (Paperback Book)
FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
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A New York Times best thriller of the year!
"Matters culminate in a courtroom fireworks display worthy of Perry Mason in his prime. The Murder Rule holds one's interest from its cheeky opening pages through its final scene." - Wall Street Journal
For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter story - one running from a horrible truth, and the other fighting to reveal it - that twists and turns in shocking ways, from the internationally bestselling author of The Scholar and The Ruin.
First Rule: Make them like you.
Second Rule: Make them need you.
Third Rule: Make them pay.
They think I'm a young, idealistic law student, that I'm passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system.
They think I'm working hard to impress them.
They think I'm here to save an innocent man on death row.
They're wrong. I'm going to bury him.
Title: MURDER YOUR EMPLOYER : THE MCMASTERS GUIDE TO HOMICIDE (Hardcover Book)
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
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Title: MY FAVORITE MISTAKE (Paperback Book)
FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
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Anna has just lost her taste for the big apple . . .
Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn't want all that? Anna - it turns out.
Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major life event she packs it in, heads back to Ireland, and gets a PR job for a super-high-end coastal retreat.
Tougher than it sounds. Newsflash: the locals hate it. So much so, there have been threats - and violence.
Anna, however, worked in the beauty industry. There's no ugliness she hasn't seen. No wrinkle she can't smooth over. Anna's got this.
Until she discovers that leaving New York doesn't mean escaping her mistakes.
Once upon a time she'd had a best friend. Once upon a time she'd loved a man. Now she has neither. And now she has to face them.
We all make mistakes.
But when do we stop making the same one over and over again?
Praise for Marian Keyes
- "Keyes is the real thing." - The Globe and Mail
- "Everything this woman touches turns to comic gold." - Cosmopolitan
- "Mercilessly funny." - The Times (UK)
- "Clever, hilarious. . . . Gloriously funny." - Sunday Times
- "Turn[s] out page-turner after page-turner." - ELLE Canada
- "Hands down the funniest writer in the business." - The Irish Times
- "Marian Keyes's novels are warm, witty and wise. Even when she's writing about hard-hitting subjects like divorce, depression or alcoholism, she's never preachy or pious." - The Independent
Title: MY LOVER'S LOVER (Paperback Book)
FICTION / Literary
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When Lily moves into new boyfriend Marcus's apartment and plunges headlong into their relationship, she must contend with an intangible, hostile presence - Marcus's ex-girlfriend, Sinead. As Lily and Marcus become more deeply involved, Lily becomes obsessed with Sinead's fate and thinks she sees her everywhere. She must question not only her sanity, but whether the man she loves is someone she can, or should, be with at all.
Title: MY LOVER'S LOVER (Paperback Book)
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When Lily moves into new boyfriend Marcus's apartment and plunges headlong into their relationship, she must contend with an intangible, hostile presence - Marcus's ex-girlfriend, Sinead. As Lily and Marcus become more deeply involved, Lily becomes obsessed with Sinead's fate and thinks she sees her everywhere. She must question not only her sanity, but whether the man she loves is someone she can, or should, be with at all.
Title: MY MURDER (Hardcover Book)
FICTION / Women
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND GLAMOUR!
"One of those rare emotionally intelligent books that are also fun reads⦠Going to keep readers turning pages late into the night." -The New York Times
"Ingeniousâ¦fresh and unpredictable." -The Washington Post
"Gleefully overturn[s] the age-old â~woman-in-trouble' plotâ¦eerie and inventive." -NPR's Fresh Air
What if the murder you had to solve was your own?
Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable toddler. She's also the victim of a local serial killer. Recently brought back to life and returned to her grieving family by a government project, she is grateful for this second chance. But as the new Lou re-adapts to her old routines, and as she bonds with other female victims, she realizes that disturbing questions remain about what exactly preceded her death and how much she can really trust those around her.
Now it's not enough to care for her child, love her husband, and work the job she's always enjoyed - she must also figure out the circumstances of her death. Darkly comic, tautly paced, and full of surprises, My Murder is a devour-in-one-sitting, clever twist on the classic thriller.
Title: NATURAL BEAUTY (Hardcover Book)
FICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander
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Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents - also talented musicians - who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But when an accident leaves her parents debilitated, she abandons her future for a job at a high-end beauty and wellness store in New York City.
Holistik is known for its remarkable products and procedures - from remoras that suck out cheap Botox to eyelash extensions made of spider silk - and her new job affords her entry into a world of privilege and gives her a long-awaited sense of belonging. She becomes transfixed by Helen, the niece of Holistik's charismatic owner, and the two strike up a friendship that hazily veers into more. All the while, our narrator is plied with products that slim her thighs, smooth her skin, and lighten her hair. But beneath these creams and tinctures lies something sinister.
A piercing, darkly funny debut, Natural Beauty explores questions of consumerism, self-worth, race, and identity - and leaves readers with a shocking and unsettling truth.