Title: The Wartime Book Club Author: Kate Thompson Published by: Forever on Apr. 9, 2024 Genres: Historical Fiction Pages: 512 Format: Paperback Source: HBG Canada Book Rating: 10/10 Inspired by true events, The Wartime Book Club is an unforgettable story of everyday bravery and resistance, full of romance, drama, and camaraderie and a tribute to the joy of reading and the power of books in our darkest hour. The Isle of Jersey was once a warm and neighborly community, but in 1943, German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule.   Nazis have ordered Grace L ..read more

Title: The Celestial Wife Author: Leslie Howard Published by: Simon & Schuster Canada on Apr. 9, 2024 Genres: Historical Fiction Pages: 368 Format: ARC, Paperback Source: Simon & Schuster Canada Book Rating: 8/10 A young fundamentalist Mormon girl facing a forced marriage escapes her strict, polygamist community and comes of age in the tumultuous 1960s in this captivating novel inspired by shockingly true events. Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up Keep sweet with every breath, for it is a matter of life or death 1964. Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemake ..read more

Title: Relative Strangers Author: A.H. Kim Published by: Graydon House on Apr. 2, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Romance Pages: 352 Format: Paperback Source: Kaye Publicity Book Rating: 8/10 A twenty-first-century family drama featuring two sisters, their ex-hippie mother, multiple messy love affairs, and one explosive secret that could ruin everything Amelia Bae-Wood’s life is falling apart. Unemployed, newly single, and completely broke—for reasons she hasn’t told anyone yet—she hitchhikes across California to deal with the fallout of her mother’s eviction from the family estate. Needing ..read more

Title: The Night in Question Author: Susan Fletcher Published by: Doubleday Canada on Apr. 2, 2024 Genres: Mystery/Thriller Pages: 440 Format: ARC, Paperback Source: Penguin Random House Canada Book Rating: 8.5/10 A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, and the power of forgiveness. Florrie Butterfield—eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition—believes there can’t be any more adventures or surprises in life to experience. Yet one midsummer’s evening, there’s an accident at Babbington Hall—the adult residence where sh ..read more

Title: The Lost Letters of Aisling Author: Cynthia Ellingsen Published by: Lake Union Publishing on Apr. 1, 2024 Genres: Historical Fiction Pages: 302 Format: ARC, Paperback Source: Firefly Distributed Lines Book Rating: 9/10 A woman faces the past she fled in a heart-stirring novel about unforgettable love and indomitable courage by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Lighthouse Keeper. Rainey’s grandmother makes a startling Take me home. To Ireland, the country she fled post–World War II. Though they’re inseparably close, Rainey knows few of her grandmother’s secrets. Until ..read more

Title: The Gathering Author: C.J. Tudor Published by: Doubleday Canada on Apr. 9, 2024 Genres: Mystery/Thriller Pages: 352 Format: ARC, Paperback Source: Penguin Random House Canada Book Rating: 8.5/10 A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secrets and superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man Deadhart, Alaska. 873. Living. In a small Alaska town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven’t seen ..read more

Title: Daughter of Mine Author: Megan Miranda Published by: Marysue Rucci Books on Apr. 9, 2024 Genres: Mystery/Thriller Pages: 368 Format: ARC, Paperback Source: Simon & Schuster Canada Book Rating: 8.5/10 The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors. When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel’s not the ..read more

Title: How to Plot a Payback Author: Melissa Ferguson Published by: Thomas Nelson on Apr. 2, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Romance Pages: 320 Format: Paperback Source: Uplit Reads Book Rating: 8/10 He crossed an ocean, and it still wasn’t enough to escape his lifelong nemesis. Now he has to work with her. Successful screenwriter Finn Masters just landed his dream job writing for Neighbors, one of Hollywood’s highest-rated, longest-running sitcoms. The only downside? It will put him back in proximity of the show’s universally adored, optimistic, altruistic star, Lavender Rhodes, who has be ..read more

Title: The Secret Keeper Author: Genevieve Graham Published by: Simon & Schuster Canada on Apr. 2, 2024 Genres: Historical Fiction Pages: 448 Format: ARC, Paperback Source: Simon & Schuster Canada Book Rating: 10/10 From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War II novel about two sisters who join the war effort—one as a codebreaker and the other as a pilot—and the secrets that threaten to tear them apart. Perfect for fans of The Rose Code and The Nightingale . Twin sisters Dot and Dash Wilson share many things, and while they ..read more

Title: Here We Go Again Author: Alison Cochrun Published by: Atria Books on Apr. 2, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA Pages: 368 Format: ARC, Paperback Source: Simon & Schuster Canada Book Rating: 8.5/10 The author of Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country. A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be friends. They spent their childhood summers running through the woods, rebelling against their conservative small town, and dreaming of escapi ..read more