Coming Soon 3
The city beyond the sea
Thomson, Pari, author
2024
Eager to rescue her mother and the missing Botanists, Daisy's next adventure finds her at sea in search of the lost city of Iffenwild, where green magic runs deep.
Clifford's school day
Bridwell, Norman. author
2024
"Emily Elizabeth...brings her puppy, Clifford, to school for show-and-tell. Together with the rest of the class, Clifford tries to fingerpaint, bake cookies, and play in water and sand. But the small red puppy always makes a mess! Luckily, Emily Elizabeth is there to make sure they have a fun day at school!"-- Provided by publisher.
The devil's ransom
Taylor, Brad, 1965-, author
2024
When his covert company, along with every other entity in the Taskforce, is hit with a ransomware attack linked to the Taliban, Pike must stop a plot to alter the balance of power on the global stage orchestrated by a former NSA specialist in the U.S. government.
The digger and the dark
Kuefler, Joseph, author, illustrator
2024
Digger and the other trucks are ready for bed until two mischievous raccoons appear who are not tired--AT ALL--and the big machines decide just a few more minutes of playtime won't hurt...or will it?
I Want to Die But I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist.
Sehee, Baek.
When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a guide for herself. She never imagined she would reach so many people with her reflections. Healing is a difficult, non-linear process, though. In this second book, the inner conflict Baek Sehee experiences in treatment becomes more complex, more challenging, and she reaches out to hold the hands of all those for whom grappling with everyday despair is part of a lifelong project, part of the journey. Print run 75,000.
A is for Amish
Gray, Shelley Shepard, author
2024
Siblings Martin, Kelsey, Beth, and Jonny are as different as can be, but they are all longing to reinvent their lives. Raised by their divorced lapsed-Amish father and English mother, they only knew real stability and a sense of family when visiting their Old Order grandparents, Josiah and Sylvia Schrock, in peaceful small-town Millersburg, Ohio. Now the four want to try living with them and joining their faith - much to the Schrocks' surprise. Yet given time and patience - and adhering to their grandparents' unexpectedly challenging rules - the whole family might just find what they're looking for.
The Knowing The Enduring Legacy of Residential Schools.
Talaga, Tanya.
2024
It is believed that nearly 20,000 Indigenous children have been lost on Turtle Island. The system, fuelled by Church and state, committed the most heinous of crimes: sexually, physically and emotionally abusing children over decades, many of whom died and were buried on the grounds of the schools. Award-winning Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of this country as only she can - through an Indigenous lens, by tracing the life of her great-great grandmother and family as they lived through this government- and Church-sanctioned genocide. Hometown: Toronto, ON. Print run 60,000.
Le projet Barnabé
Fan, Terry, auteur, illustrateur
2020
Barnabé est une créature mi-éléphant mi-souris qui vit dans un laboratoire secret pour les Animaux idéaux. Toutefois, il est loin d’être idéal : il se trouve dans une section du labo pour les Projets ratés. Un jour, Barnabé prend une décision qui va changer le cours de sa vie. Suivez cet être courageux dans cette aventure remarquable alors qu’il poursuit ses rêves de liberté! Les frères Fan se surpassent avec des illustrations à couper le souffle. Un livre à lire absolument!
Les amis de Meesha
Percival, Tom, 1977- auteur, illustrateur
2020
Meesha adore fabriquer toutes sortes de choses, mais il y a UNE chose qu’elle trouve difficile : se faire des amis. Quand elle essaie, elle ne sait pas quoi faire, quoi dire ou quand le dire. Mais un jour, Meesha découvre qu’elle a un talent extraordinaire. La suite de cette histoire surprendra les lecteurs de tous âges à coup sûr! Un album charmant qui inspirera les jeunes à faire confiance aux autres, tout en restant fidèles à eux-mêmes.
Les contes de Sophie
Holzwarth, Devon, auteur, illustrateur
2022
Une nuit, alors que Sophie lit son livre préféré, elle est emportée par une puissante rafale. Avant même de comprendre ce qui lui arrive, un tapis volant la transporte dans un monde magique. Que va-t-elle découvrir lorsqu’elle se plongera dans ses autres livres?
Loud
Afualo, Drew.
2024
The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy book by the TikTok and Spotify star Drew Afualo. Drew Afualo is best known as the internet's "Crusader for Women" and is at the head of a new generation of entertainment's rising stars. This is part manual, part manifesto, and part memoir. It makes it clear that behind her fearsome laugh is a mission and a life philosophy, a strategy for self-confidence from the inside out, and a pathway to once and for all remove men from the center of how women and fems think about themselves. Print run 200,000.
The murder inn
Patterson, James, 1947- author
2024
The Inn at Gloucester is the lone structure on a rocky Massachusetts shoreline. Former Boston police detective Bill Robinson runs the place as a refuge from life's cruel disappointments. When two strangers arrive for a temporary stay among the permanent residents, they're welcomed with no questions asked. There's another new resident in town. A crime boss. And he doesn't like the close watch Robinson and Spears keep over Gloucester. Local criminals are turning up dead. Teaming up with Sheriff Spears and three fearless residents, Robinson begins a risky defense of his town, his chosen family, and his home.
Nexus A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI.
Harari, Yuval Noah.
Yuval Noah Harari looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we need to make in the face of non-human intelligence.
Our little secret
Jackson, Lisa, author
2024
Brooke Harmon is ready to end her brief affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he's not worth throwing away everything she holds dear. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand. He doesn't. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together. Little more than a year later, Brooke wants to believe it's all behind her. Her family has survived intact. Gideon has vanished. But the fear hasn't disappeared. Brooke can't tell how much of it is paranoia, and how much is justified, but she's worried. And maybe she's right to be. Because Gideon is a man who keeps his promises.
Resurrection A Novel.
Steel, Danielle.
To celebrate twenty years of marriage, Darcy Gray impulsively flies to Rome to surprise her husband, who is tending to business interests there. Instead, she gets the shock of her life, which upends her whole world. Darcy finds a welcoming refuge in the home of the aging French movie star Sybille Carton. There, she meets a widowed American engineer and former Marine. Bill Thompson is kind and courteous but also carries an air of mystery about him. Darcy begins to see glimpses of new possibilities. Print run 400,000.
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
Klune, TJ.
Arthur Parnassus is the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there. But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve. And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home - one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from - Arthur knows they're at a breaking point.
The Summer Escape A Novel.
Shalvis, Jill.
Anna Moore didn't just wake up one day and decide to go on a wild quest, so how in the world does she end up racing against the clock with Owen Harris, a sexy, enigmatic adventurist, to prove her beloved dad innocent of stealing a million-dollar necklace? Together Anna and Owen go on a scavenger hunt for clues to the past. On opposing sides and suspicious of each other as they are, Anna and Owen still can't deny the inexplicable and explosive chemistry between them - with an outcome of which will prove the necklace isn't the only thing stolen - their hearts have been as well. Print run 30,000.
The Summer Pact A Novel.
Giffin, Emily.
Four freshmen arrive at college from completely different worlds. As their college years fly by, their bond intensifies and the four become inseparable. But as graduation nears, their lives are forever changed after a desperate act leads to tragic consequences. Ten years later, it soon becomes clear that they are facing their own crossroads. True to their promise, they agree to take a time out from lives headed in wrong directions and embark on a journey of self-discovery, forgiveness, and acceptance. Author of "Meant to Be." Print run 25,000.
Swan Song
Hilderbrand, Elin.
Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious Richardsons, Ed, Sharon, and everyone in the community are swept up in high drama. When the Richardsons' house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island is up in arms. Print run 750,000.
Waiting for the Long Night Moon Stories.
Peters, Amanda.
Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place - from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of Indigenous children, to the present-day fight for the right to clean water. A young man returns from residential school only to realize he can no longer communicate with his own parents. A young woman finds purpose and healing on the front lines as a water protector. An old man remembers his life as he patiently waits for death. And a young girl nervously dances in her first Mawi'omi. Author of "The Berry Pickers." Residence: Annapolis Valley, N.S. Print run 6,000.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Hendrix, Grady.
Set in Florida in the 1970s, this novel follows five young women in a home for unwed mothers who find a guide to witchcraft. Author of "How to Sell a Haunted House." Print run 250,000.