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Perry Chafe

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERCBC Books “86 Works of Canadian Fiction to Read in the First Half of 2023”CBC Books “40 Canadian Books to Read This Summer”From the writer and producer of the hit TV shows Republic of Doyle and Son of a Critch, a poignant coming-of-age debut novel about the mysterious disappearance of a young girl and the fragility of childhood bonds, set against the backdrop of a s...

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Perry Chafe

Tana French meets Ann Cleeves in this gritty, atmospheric crime novel about Levi, a slumlord’s son who becomes the prime suspect when a tenant disappears, leaving behind a dead body—and his tool bag.Levi learned the rules early. His father made sure of that—sending him door to door to collect rent while he waited in the truck with a beer and a tire iron.Know the assholeMoney upfrontNever let a tenant fall behindNever get ...

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Perry Chafe

Tana French meets Ann Cleeves in this gritty, atmospheric crime novel about Levi, a slumlord’s son who becomes the prime suspect when a tenant disappears, leaving behind a dead body—and his tool bag.Levi learned the rules early. His father made sure of that—sending him door to door to collect rent while he waited in the truck with a beer and a tire iron.Know the assholeMoney upfrontNever let a tenant fall behindNever get ...

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Michael Crummey

A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK'Has energy, empathy and a wickedly colourful way with words' Erica Wagner, Guardian'Authentic to the harshness of the world that Michael Crummey so brilliantly recreates' The Times'A vibrant historical novel... Potent' New Yorker, Books of the YearIn a remote Newfoundland p...

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Amy Stuart

In this tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day, a woman prepares for a party that goes dreadfully wrong—for fans of Ashley Audrain and Lisa Jewell.Nadine Walsh’s summer garden party is in full swing. The neighbors all have cocktails, the catered food is exquisite—everything’s going according to plan.But Nadine—devoted wife, loving mother, and doting daughter—finds herself standing over a dead body in her basement while her guests c...

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Ian Ferguson, Will Ferguson

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A Miranda Abbott Mystery

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Wickedly funny and full of surprising twists.” – Mark Leiren-Young, winner of the Leacock Medal for HumourA once-beloved television sleuth finds herself far from Hollywood and witness to a murder during a small-town theatre production—and is convinced it’s up to her to solve the case.Introducing a new comedic crime series from the bestselling Ferguson brothers, for fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday...

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Ellen Keith

From the author of The Dutch Wife comes a riveting novel set during World War II about two sisters, one of whom secretly adopts a Jewish baby and the other who is married to a Nazi sympathizerAmsterdam, 1941. When the Nazis invade Amsterdam, singer Johanna Vos watches in horror as her Jewish friends are forbidden from performing with her onstage, and the vibrant music scene she loves is all but erased. Johanna helps organize the Artists’ Resistance, an und...

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Waubgeshig Rice

**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERTwelve years after the lights go out . . .An epic journey to a forgotten homelandThe hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow.**In the years since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky has led his community in remote northern Canada off the rez and into the bush, where they’ve been rekin...

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Daniel Kalla

From internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla comes a riveting thriller about online body shaming, toxic diet pills, a vulnerable mega-celebrity, and a rapidly rising body count.When Owen Galloway, the track star son of a prominent US senator, is found dead of an overdose in his bedroom, LAPD Detective Cari Garcia suspects that he’s just another teenager who hid a drug addiction.In Vancouver, Dr. Julie Rees, an experienced toxicologist, notices a gro...

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Jann Arden

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwriter, member of Canada's Music Hall of Fame and star of her own hit TV sitcom. A little bit All Creatures Great and Small, a little bit Fargo and all Jann Arden!On mean Harp Bittlemore’s blighted farm, hidden away in the Backhills, nothing has gone right for a very long time. Crops don’t grow, the pigs and chickens stay skinny and the three aged dair...

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Thao Thai

A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick"A riveting mother-daughter tale." — Elle"Radiant. … An intimate account of one family’s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.” — Washington PostA sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of th...

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Linwood Barclay

In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father—who was taken into witness protection years ago—before his enemies can get to him.Your dad’s not a good person. Your dad killed people, son.These are some of the last words Jack Givins’ father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protecti...