A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this beloved novel that inspired the film starring Cate Blanchett.**"Whip-smart and divinely funny." —**New York TimesBernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and ...

The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II.Between youth and adulthood...At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship. By her early twenties she has learned t...

Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential growth in computing technology has allowed significant growth in mathematical modelling of the dynamics of agricultural systems. The complexity of approaches has grown in parallel with the availabil...

An emotional and inspiring World War Two time-slip novel of danger and courage. This is a story inspired by true events and stories of Irena Sendler and the women of the Polish Żegota.It's the worst time in humanity and yet there is still light in the darkness…1942, WarsawYoung Zofia finds herself leading a double life when she is enlisted to help the fearless Irena Sendler save hundreds of Jewish ...

**WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE • WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD • WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE • WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • WINNER OF THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION •SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 CLIMATE FICTION PRIZENamed A Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail • The New Yorker...

Declared “a writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), New York Times bestselling author María Dueñas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances.A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Bla...

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma.In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house ma...

Don't miss this hilarious BL take on the isekai genre!After getting stabbed on the bus, the manga artist Tetsuo Tanaka finds that he has been reincarnated... into the BL manga he created?! Although he quickly runs into the sexually adventurous love interest Takumi, Tetsuo has unfortunately been reincarnated as Atsushi, the promiscuous rival to the canon seme.Although Tetsuo/Atsushi is initially able to successfully make a move on the alluring Takumi, fate/the plot seems to ...

Poetry is the language of love, laughter, friendship, guidance and romance. This book is filled with poetry of each category. No matter where you find yourself, no matter what the situation you are sure to find something to make your load lighter and easier to bare. Because sometimes it's easier just knowing that somebody understands...

THE CEDAR HOLLOW HARVEST FAIRE Book Five of the Cedar Hollow SeriesLeo finishes his book on a Wednesday in August and comes downstairs and stands in the kitchen doorway and says nothing. Clara looks at him and knows.Fourteen months. Every morning at five, before anyone else was awake, photographing the thing he loved because he finally understood the difference between saving something out of fear and saving it out of love. The boo...

THE CEDAR HOLLOW COMMUNITY GARDEN Book Two of the Cedar Hollow SeriesThe library is saved. The relationship is new. And then the community center burns down.Two months into whatever she and Leo are calling this, Clara Bennett still finds his coffee cup in her kitchen and his daughter's rain boots in her entryway. It's a little weird. She thinks that's probably a good sign — the kind of weird that means something is real.The...

THE CEDAR HOLLOW HOLIDAY MARKET Book Three of the Cedar Hollow SeriesThe cookbook is done. The garden is permanent. Clara and Leo are married. Everything should feel settled.It almost does.The Cedar Hollow Community Cookbook has just arrived in six boxes on the library's circulation desk — Ruby's drawing on the cover, Emma's recipe on page forty-seven, exactly as they wrote it. The holiday market opens Saturday. The communi...