New Titles

Katabasis : a novel

Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),


Alice Law sacrifices everything to study Magick under Professor Grimes—until his death sends him to Hell. Determined to secure his recommendation and her future, Alice risks everything by following him into the underworld.
Date Published:2025

Bones of a giant : a novel

Isaac, Brian Thomas.


Summer, 1968. For the first time since his big brother, Eddie, disappeared two years earlier--either a runaway or dead by his own hand--sixteen-year-old Lewis Toma has shaken off some of his grief. His mother, Grace, and her friend Isabel have gone south to the United States to pack fruit to earn the cash Grace needs to put a bathroom and running water into the three-room shack they share on the reserve, leaving Lewis to spend the summer with his cousins, his Uncle Ned and his Aunt Jean in the new house they've built on their farm along the Salmon River. Their warm family life is almost enough to counter the pressures he feels as a boy trying to become a man in a place where responsible adult men like his uncle are largely absent, broken by residential school and racism. Everywhere he looks, women are left to carry the load, sometimes with kindness, but often with the bitterness, anger and ferocity of his own mother, who kicked Lewis's lowlife father, Jimmy, to the curb long ago. Lewis has vowed never to be like his father--but an encounter with a predatory older woman tests him and he suffers the consequences. Worse, his dad is back in town and scheming on how to use the Indian Act to steal the land Lewis and his mom have been living on. And then, at summer's end, more shocking revelations shake the family, unleashing a deadly force of anger and frustration. With so many traps laid around him, how will Lewis find a path to a different future?
Date Published:2025

Summer, 1968. For the first time since his big brother, Eddie, disappeared two years earlier--either a runaway or dead by his own hand--sixteen-year-old Lewis Toma has shaken off some of his grief. His mother, Grace, and her friend Isabel have gone south to the United States to pack fruit to earn the cash Grace needs to put a bathroom and running water into the three-room shack they share on the reserve, leaving Lewis to spend the summer with his cousins, his Uncle Ned and his Aunt Jean in the new house they've built on their farm along the Salmon River. Their warm family life is almost enough to counter the pressures he feels as a boy trying to become a man in a place where responsible adult men like his uncle are largely absent, broken by residential school and racism. Everywhere he looks, women are left to carry the load, sometimes with kindness, but often with the bitterness, anger and ferocity of his own mother, who kicked Lewis's lowlife father, Jimmy, to the curb long ago. Lewis has vowed never to be like his father--but an encounter with a predatory older woman tests him and he suffers the consequences. Worse, his dad is back in town and scheming on how to use the Indian Act to steal the land Lewis and his mom have been living on. And then, at summer's end, more shocking revelations shake the family, unleashing a deadly force of anger and frustration. With so many traps laid around him, how will Lewis find a path to a different future?

Date Published:2025

The Grand Paloma Resort : a novel

Natera, Cleyvis.


The Grand Paloma Resort is a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where the guests enjoy incredible luxury, and the staff is always eager to please -- that is, until they are pushed to the brink.
Date Published:2025

The finest hotel in Kabul : a people's history of Afghanistan

Doucet, Lyse, 1958-


The rise and fall of modern Afghanistan is told through the Inter‑Continental Kabul hotel and the people who worked there, from its glamorous early days to decades of war and political upheaval.
Date Published:2025

Songs of love on a December night : a novel

Richards, David Adams.


After Jamie’s father is found dead, the town quickly suspects Jamie despite his claims of innocence. As old grudges, hidden motives, and shady characters swirl through Miramachi, it becomes clear there’s far more to the murder than anyone wants to admit.
Date Published:2025

Restaurant kid : a memoir of family and belonging

Phan, Rachel.


Rachel Phan grew up feeling sidelined as her parents poured their energy into running a family restaurant—a dream born from their survival through war and migration. For Phan, the restaurant became both a symbol of sacrifice and a source of emotional distance within her family.
Date Published:2025

Julie Chan is dead : a novel

Zhang, Liann,


Julie Chan steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade.
Date Published:2025

Hot gimmick

Aihara, Miki.


Volume number from cover. "Three in one"--Cover. Translated from the Japanese. Paging is from back to front to preserve the original Japanese format. The story revolves around Hatsumi Narita, a passive sixteen-year-old girl who lives in a company housing complex that is ruled by the tyrannical Mrs. Tachibana...
Date Published:2009

Unanxious : 50 simple truths to help overthinkers feel less stress and more calm

Humble the Poet, 1981-


A book for overthinkers by an overthinker. Learn to start living a life you create--no longer burdened by the need to numb yourself from feelings of anxiety and burnout--through insightful stories, journal prompts, and down-to-earth advice.
Date Published:2025

It's not summer without you

Han, Jenny


Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
Date Published:2010

Starry starry night

Mootoo, Shani,


Out of the frayed filaments of the yarn of memory, a cohesive tale is spun. In Starry Starry Night, Shani Mootoo gives us the singular voice of Anju Goshal, a young girl living in 1960s Trinidad. Spanning her life between the ages of four and twelve, we experience the world just as Anju does, coming to understand she has evolved into a keen observer because her safety depends on it. Through her clear-eyed perspective, the reader is fully transported and becomes both a witness to and participant in Anju's negotiations of an unexpectedly new and complex life. Starry Starry Night illuminates the experiences of a well-off and socially advancing family during the turn of a country's fortunes. Thoughtfully articulated via the innocent commentary of a child, the book tackles larger issues of family, loss, and trauma. It relays the story of a British colony just before and after its independence and touches on the racial and class problems faced as a result of colonialism. Beautifully crafted and rich with sumptuous detail, this unique narrative coalesces into a portrait of a child who, despite privileged appearances, must become independent and fend for herself. It also depicts adults who, while so wrapped up in their own dramas, fail to see the needs of the children who depend on them. Starry Starry Night is an innovative and revelatory work of autofiction from a celebrated voice in contemporary fiction.
Date Published:2025

Out of the frayed filaments of the yarn of memory, a cohesive tale is spun. In Starry Starry Night, Shani Mootoo gives us the singular voice of Anju Goshal, a young girl living in 1960s Trinidad. Spanning her life between the ages of four and twelve, we experience the world just as Anju does, coming to understand she has evolved into a keen observer because her safety depends on it. Through her clear-eyed perspective, the reader is fully transported and becomes both a witness to and participant in Anju's negotiations of an unexpectedly new and complex life. Starry Starry Night illuminates the experiences of a well-off and socially advancing family during the turn of a country's fortunes. Thoughtfully articulated via the innocent commentary of a child, the book tackles larger issues of family, loss, and trauma. It relays the story of a British colony just before and after its independence and touches on the racial and class problems faced as a result of colonialism. Beautifully crafted and rich with sumptuous detail, this unique narrative coalesces into a portrait of a child who, despite privileged appearances, must become independent and fend for herself. It also depicts adults who, while so wrapped up in their own dramas, fail to see the needs of the children who depend on them. Starry Starry Night is an innovative and revelatory work of autofiction from a celebrated voice in contemporary fiction.

Date Published:2025

Theodore Boone : the accomplice

Grisham, John,


Woody Lambert is in trouble. He comes from a broken family, suffers bad grades at school and his older brother, Tony, is on probation for a drug offence. When Woody inadvertently gets caught up with Tony and one of his friends, Garth, cruising around Strattenburg in a beaten-up Mustang drinking beer, one thing leads to another and Garth holds up a convenience store with a fake gun. Though he had no involvement in the crime other than being in Garth's car, Woody is arrested as an accomplice. He's going to need serious legal advice to avoid juvenile prison. Enter Theodore Boone: after all, Theo has already decided that he will become the best courtroom lawyer in the state. It's just that, at the age of thirteen, Theo is years from being a qualified lawyer and Woody needs help right now.
Date Published:2020

Woody Lambert is in trouble. He comes from a broken family, suffers bad grades at school and his older brother, Tony, is on probation for a drug offence. When Woody inadvertently gets caught up with Tony and one of his friends, Garth, cruising around Strattenburg in a beaten-up Mustang drinking beer, one thing leads to another and Garth holds up a convenience store with a fake gun. Though he had no involvement in the crime other than being in Garth's car, Woody is arrested as an accomplice. He's going to need serious legal advice to avoid juvenile prison. Enter Theodore Boone: after all, Theo has already decided that he will become the best courtroom lawyer in the state. It's just that, at the age of thirteen, Theo is years from being a qualified lawyer and Woody needs help right now.

Date Published:2020

All eyes on him

Xander, Iliana.


When Natalie saw her best friend leaving the club with a handsome stranger, she never would have thought that the next morning, her friend would be discovered unconscious at a bus stop. What happened that night? Only her best friend knows.
Date Published:2026

The emperor of gladness : a novel

Vuong, Ocean, 1988-


One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai's relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.
Date Published:2025

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai's relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.

Date Published:2025

The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club : a novel

Kelly, Martha Hall.


In 2016, Mari visits Martha’s Vineyard and discovers her own hidden ties to the island through the story of two sisters in 1942 whose lives were upended by World War II, forbidden love, and danger off the coast.
Date Published:2025

Margaret's new look

Ashenburg, Katherine.


Museum curator Margaret juggles a major Dior exhibition, vanishing couture pieces, and tense workplace politics while uncovering family secrets about her Jewish heritage. Everything converges when an elderly couture collector—possibly linked to Dior—becomes the key to both the mysteries at work and the truths she must face at home.
Date Published:2025

To place a rabbit

Anand, Madhur, 1971-


A scientist agrees to retranslate a lost novella, but memories of a past French lover blur into the work, unraveling her orderly life—especially when both the novelist and the lover suddenly reappear.
Date Published:2025

Celestina's house

Gonzalez, Clarissa Trinidad.


After a family betrayal, Celestina escapes to a neglected Manila house that feels like home despite its ghosts. She plunges into the city’s nightlife seeking meaning, but when real happiness finally appears, a dark figure from her past threatens to destroy everything she’s built.
Date Published:2024

The immortal woman : a novel

Chang, Su


A former Red Guard and her American‑raised daughter clash over identity and politics, leading to a tragic confrontation that ultimately opens a path toward healing and hope.
Date Published:2025

The hunger we pass down

Lee, Jen Sookfong,


Single mother Alice Chow is drowning. With a booming online cloth diaper shop, her resentful teenage daughter Luna, and her screen-obsessed son Luca, Alice can never get everything done in a day. So, it’s a relief when Alice wakes up one morning and everything has been done. Someone–or something–has been doing her chores for her. Alice should be uneasy, but the extra time lets her connect with her children and with her hard-edged mother, who begins to share their haunted family history from Alice’s great-grandmother, a comfort woman during WWII, through to Alice herself. But the family demons, both real and subconscious, are about to become impossible to ignore.
Date Published:2025

Single mother Alice Chow is drowning. With a booming online cloth diaper shop, her resentful teenage daughter Luna, and her screen-obsessed son Luca, Alice can never get everything done in a day. So, it’s a relief when Alice wakes up one morning and everything has been done. Someone–or something–has been doing her chores for her. Alice should be uneasy, but the extra time lets her connect with her children and with her hard-edged mother, who begins to share their haunted family history from Alice’s great-grandmother, a comfort woman during WWII, through to Alice herself. But the family demons, both real and subconscious, are about to become impossible to ignore.

Date Published:2025