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Title: ROUGE (Hardcover Book)

FICTION / Literary

Author: AWAD, MONA

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

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*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*USA TODAY BESTSELLER*
A New York Times Editor's Choice

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a "Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age" (Good Housekeeping) and "darkly funny horror novel" (NYLON) about a lonely young woman who's drawn to a cult-like spa in the wake of her mother's mysterious death. "Surreal, scary and deeply moving - like all the best fairytales" (People).

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time, Vogue, The Guardian, Goodreads, Bustle, The Millions, LitHub, Good Housekeeping, PureWow, Our Culture Mag, and more!


For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Meduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother's) obsession with the mirror - and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.

Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry - as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

 

RULES FOR GHOSTING

Title: RULES FOR GHOSTING (Paperback Book)

FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Transgender

Author: SHORE, SHELLY JAY

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

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To save his family's failing funeral home - and his own chance at a queer love story - a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored in this poignant and tender debut.

"Part romance, part ghost story, part Jewish family epic, Rules for Ghosting is a meditation on life, death, and healing that is at turns bitingly funny and deeply moving. Shelly Jay Shore is an immense talent." - Anita Kelly, author of Love & Other Disasters

Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might have been easier if his grandfather's ghost didn't give him scathing looks of disapproval as he went through a second, HRT-induced puberty, or if he didn't have the pressure of all those relatives - living and dead - judging every choice he makes. It's no wonder that Ezra runs as far away from the family business as humanly possible.

But when the floor of his dream job drops out from under him and his mother uses the family Passover seder to tell everyone she's running off with the rabbi's wife, Ezra finds himself back in the thick of it. With his parents' marriage imploding and the Friedman Family Memorial Chapel on the brink of financial ruin, Ezra agrees to step into his mother's shoes and help out . . . which means long days surrounded by ghosts that no one else can see.

And then there's his unfortunate crush on Jonathan, the handsome funeral home volunteer . . . who just happens to live downstairs from Ezra's new apartment . . . and the appearance of the ghost of Jonathan's gone-too-soon husband, Ben, who is breaking every spectral rule that Ezra knows.

Because Ben can speak. He can move. And as Ezra tries to keep his family together and his heart from getting broken, he realizes that there's more than one way to be haunted - and more than one way to become a ghost.

 

RUN BABY RUN

Title: RUN BABY RUN (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Family Life / General

Author: LENHARDT ,

Publisher: HARPER COLLINS CANADA LTD


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Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Camille Perri comes a story about a mother, a daughter and a road trip that's about to take a hard left turn...

Darcy Evans is getting married. In a week. To a man who is her childhood dream come true. But a late-night confession from her best friend changes everything and before she even has time to unpack it, she must endure a road trip to the ceremony with her estranged mother, Marja. It was always the two of them against the worldâ¦until Marja ghosted Darcy three years ago. No car in the world has enough room for all of their baggage.

The drive from Austin to Chicago is nostalgic, claustrophobic, incredibly messy and exactly what both women need. As they each find themselves at a crossroads in their lives, long-held secrets are revealed - ones that reshape Darcy's memories of the past and forever alter the future she'd recently been so certain of. She hadn't known what a reunion with her mother might bring, but sometimes following your heart means taking a path you never plannedâ¦and finding a love you never imagined.

"A compelling story of second chances and being true to yourself." - Harper Bliss, author of Seasons of Love,on The Secret of You and Me

 

SAM

Title: SAM (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Literary

Author: GOODMAN, ALLEGRA

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY " "I've been an Allegra Goodman fan for years, but Sam is hands down my new favorite. I loved this powerful and endearing portrait of a girl who must summon deep within herself the grit and wisdom to grow up." - Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE " What happens to a girl's sense of joy and belonging - to her belief in herself - as she becomes a woman? This unforgettable portrait of coming-of-age offers subtle yet powerful reflections on class, parenthood, addiction, lust, and the irrepressible power of dreams.


A VOGUE AND REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR


"There is a girl, and her name is Sam." So begins Allegra Goodman's moving and wise new novel.

Sam is seven years old and living in Beverly, Massachusetts. She adores her father, though he isn't around much. Her mother struggles to make ends meet, and never fails to remind Sam that if she studies hard and acts responsibly, adulthood will be easier - more secure and comfortable. But comfort and security are of little interest to Sam. She doesn't fit in at school, where the other girls have the right shade of blue jeans and don't question the rules. She doesn't care about jeans or rules. All she wants to climb. Hanging from the highest limbs of the tallest trees, scaling the side of a building, Sam feels free.

As a teenager, Sam begins to doubt herself. She yearns to be noticed, even as she wants to disappear. When her climbing coach takes an interest in her, his attention is more complicated than she anticipated. She resents her father's erratic behavior, but she grieves after he's gone. And she resists her mother's attempts to plan for her future, even as that future draws closer.

The simplicity of this tender, emotionally honest novel is what makes it so powerful. Sam by Allegra Goodman will break your heart, but will also leave you full of hope.

 

SAME AS IT EVER WAS

Title: SAME AS IT EVER WAS (Hardcover Book)

FICTION / Family Life / General

Author: LOMBARDO, CLAIRE

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had ("wonderfully immersiveâ¦deliciously absorbing" - NPR) returns with another brilliantly observed family drama in which the enduring, hard-won affection of a long marriage faces imminent derailment from events both past and present.

Same As It Ever Was showcases the consummate style, signature wit, and profound emotional intelligence that made The Most Fun We Ever Had one of the most beloved novels of the past decade. Featuring a memorably messy family and the multifaceted marriage at its heart, Lombardo's debut was dubbed "the literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler" (The Guardian) and hailed as "ambitious and brilliantly written" (Washington Post). In this remarkable follow-up - another elegant and tumultuous story in the tradition of Elizabeth Strout, Ann Patchett, and Celeste Ng - Lombardo introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters, this time by way of her singularly complicated protagonist.

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she finally feels, at age fifty seven, that she has a firm handle on things.

She's unprepared, though, for what comes next: a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her spikey teenaged daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past, all of which threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor's edge.

Same As It Ever Was traverses the rocky terrain of real life, - exploring new avenues of maternal ambivalence, intergenerational friendship, and the happenstantial cause-and-effect that governs us all. Delving even deeper into the nature of relationships - how they grow, change, and sometimes end - Lombardo proves herself a true and definitive cartographer of the human heart and asserts herself among the finest novelists of her generation.

 

SAME TIME NEXT SUMMER

Title: SAME TIME NEXT SUMMER (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Romance / Contemporary

Author: MONAGHAN, ANNABEL

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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Sam's life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family's Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt. But there's no reason for a thirty-year-old engaged woman to feel panicked around the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen. Right?

 

SANDMAN BOOK 1

Title: SANDMAN BOOK 1 (Paperback Book)

Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy

Author: GAIMAN, NEIL

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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A New York Times bestseller!

From the award-winning writer of American Gods and Coraline, The Sandman is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time. Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece set the standard for mature, lyrical fantasy in the modern comics era.


Illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, the series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven.

An unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death, this first of four volumes - drawn by Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, and Kelley Jones, with spectacular guest art by Chris Bachalo, Colleen Doran, Charles Vess, and Michael Zulli - introduces readers to a dark and enchanting world of dreams and nightmares: the home of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, and his kin, the Endless.

Collects the story arcs "Preludes and Nocturnes," "The Doll's House," and "Dream Country," from The Sandman #1-20 - including the first comic book to ever win a World Fantasy Award, issue #19s "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

 

SCORPICA

Title: SCORPICA (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Fantasy / Epic

Author: MACALLISTER , G

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER CANADA


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A centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single girl being born in this sweeping epic fantasy that's perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Circe.

Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world, throwing long-standing alliances into disarray as each queendom begins to turn on each other - and new threats to each nation rise from within.

Uniting the stories of women from across the queendoms, this propulsive, gripping epic fantasy follows a warrior queen who must rise from childbirth bed to fight for her life and her throne, a healer in hiding desperate to protect the secret of her daughter's explosive power, a queen whose desperation to retain control leads her to risk using the darkest magic, a near-immortal sorcerer demigod powerful enough to remake the world for her own ends - and the generation of lastborn girls, the ones born just before the Drought, who must bear the hopes and traditions of their nations if the queendoms are to survive.

 

SEA OF TRANQUILITY

Title: SEA OF TRANQUILITY (Hardcover Book)

FICTION / Literary

Author: MANDEL, EMILY ST JOHN

Publisher: HARPER COLLINS CANADA LTD

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"One of [Mandel's] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet." - The New York Times

"Mandel's sensational sixth novel offers immense pleasures of puzzle box plotting and high-flying imagination. . . . Masterfully plotted and deeply moving, this visionary novel folds back on itself like a hall of mirrors to explore just what connects us to one another, and how many extraordinary contingencies bring us to each ordinary day of our lives." - Esquire

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel, a "bold and exciting" (The Economist) and "transcendent" (Wall Street Journal) novel filled with "puncturing emotional truths" (Glamour)

In this captivating tale of imagination and ambition, a seemingly disparate array of people come into contact with a time traveller who must resist the pull to change the past and the future. The cast includes a British exile on the west coast of Canada in the early 1900s; the author of a bestselling novel about a fictional pandemic who embarks on a galaxy-spanning book tour during the outbreak of an actual pandemic; a resident of a moon colony almost 300 years in the future; and a lonely girl who films an old-growth forest and experiences a disruption in the recording. Blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, Emily St. John Mandel's dazzling story follows these engrossing characters across space and time as their lives ultimately intersect.

Sea of Tranquility is a breathtaking and wondrous examination of the ties that bind us together, by a master storyteller.

 

SECLUDED CABIN SLEEPS SIX

Title: SECLUDED CABIN SLEEPS SIX (Paperback Book)

FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological

Author: UNGER , LISA

Publisher: HARPER COLLINS CANADA LTD


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"A deliciously tense ride." - Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of One By One

INSTANT BESTSELLER

Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling locked-room thriller.


What could be more restful than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah's generous brother found the listing online. The reviews are stellar. It'll be three couples on this trip with good food, good company and lots of R & R.

But the dreamy weekend is about to turn into a nightmare.

A deadly storm is brewing. The rental host seems just a little too present. The personal chef reveals that their beautiful house has a spine-tingling history. And the friends have their own complicated past, with secrets that run blood deep.

How well does Hannah know her brother, her own husband? Can she trust her best friend? Meanwhile, someone is determined to ruin the weekend, looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried. Who is the stranger among them?

" People Magazine Book of the Week
" PopSugar Best Thriller and Mystery
" CrimeReads Best Psychological Thrillers
" Goodreads Editor's and Readers Most Anticipated Book
" BookPage Best Mysteries of November
" BookBub Best Mysteries and Thrillers
" Scary Mommy Best Fall Releases
" St. Paul Pioneer Press Top Reads
" The Saturday Evening Post Best Books to Cozy Up with this Fall


Don't miss The New Couple in 5B, Lisa Unger's newest psychological thriller about a couple that inherits an apartment with a truly chilling past.

Looking for more spine-tingling thrillers? Check out these other titles by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger:
  • Under My Skin
  • The Stranger Inside
  • Confessions on the 7:45
  • Last Girl Ghosted
  • The New Couple in 5B (coming March 2024!)

 


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