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Canadian library staffers, you've got the power! ⚡ Head to the link in our bio and start browsing our monthly catalogues featuring forthcoming eligible titles 📚 for #LoanStars. Read a sample, excerpt, or request an ARC, and once you're ready, recommend the books you think library patrons would love! 😍
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The Relatives by Camilla Gibb🍁 is a #LoanStars

The Relatives by Camilla Gibb🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Lila is on a long, painful journey toward motherhood. Tess and Emily are reeling after their ugly separation and fighting over ownership of the embryos that were supposed to grow their family together. And thousands of miles away, the unknown man who served as anonymous donor to them all is being held in captivity in Somalia. While his life remains in precarious balance, his genetic material is a source of both creation and conflict.

What does it mean to be a family in our rapidly shifting world? What are our responsibilities to each other with increasing options for how to create a family?

As these characters grapple with life-altering changes, they will find themselves interconnected in ways they cannot have imagined, and forced to redefine what family means to them.
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Flight by Laura Griffin is a #LoanStars Adult top

Flight by Laura Griffin is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

When former forensic photographer Miranda Moore moves to the seaside town of Lost Beach, she’s decided to make her living as a wildlife photographer and put crime scenes behind her. But her plans are quickly upended when one morning she comes across a couple sleeping on the beach, entwined in an embrace. Looking closer, she realizes the man and woman aren’t asleep — they’re dead.

Detective Joel Breda sets out to find answers — not only about the unidentified victims in the marshy death scene, but also about the aloof and beautiful photographer who seems to know more about his investigation than he does.

As they uncover the terrorist plot of a merciless serial killer, Miranda and Joel must race against the clock to find the killer before the killer can find them first.
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Never Have I Ever by L.V. Hay is a #LoanStars Adu

Never Have I Ever by L.V. Hay is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Now. A woman gets a note through her door which chills her blood. 'Never have I ever been punished for what I have done.' She thought this was over. But it looks like it's her turn to play. Because no matter how far it goes, you have to obey the rules of the game. And the game is never really over.
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Central Park by Guillaume Musso is a #LoanStars A

Central Park by Guillaume Musso is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Alice, a fierce and respected Parisian cop, wakes up on a Central Park bench with no memory of the night before, handcuffed to a complete stranger — a musician named Gabriel. Disoriented, dazed, and with someone else’s blood on her shirt, Alice works furiously to reconnect the dots. She remembers clubbing with her friends the night before on the Champs-Élysées. Gabriel claims he was playing a gig in Dublin. Was she drugged? Kidnapped? Why is the gun in her jacket pocket missing a bullet? And whose blood is on her clothes?

Over the next twenty-four hours, Alice and Gabriel race across New York in search of answers, stumbling upon a startling set of clues that point to a terrible adversary from the past. Alice must finally confront her memories of hunting the serial killer who took everything from her — a man she thought was dead, until now.
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Meet Me in Paradise by Libby Hubscher is a #LoanSt

Meet Me in Paradise by Libby Hubscher is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Marin Cole has never seen the ocean. Ever since her journalist mother died on an assignment, Marin has played it safe, refusing to set foot outside the state of Tennessee. Her wild-child younger sister, Sadie, has trotted the globe as a photographer, taking on all kinds of dangerous assignments.

When Sadie returns from a tough assignment and looks a little worse for wear, Marin reluctantly agrees to a sisters’ spa weekend on the tropical island of Saba. But her lifelong fear of travel is affirmed when Sadie misses the flight, Marin’s luggage gets mixed up with another passenger’s, and during turbulence, she nearly throws up on Lucas, the handsome stranger who stole her sister’s seat.

What Marin doesn’t know is that Sadie never planned on coming on the trip at all. Instead she has a life-changing plan for Marin — and the mysterious stranger, Lucas. Marin steps outside her comfort zone and with each breathtaking experience, gets closer to discovering her true self…and closer to falling in love.
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The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth

The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

A lot has changed in the years since Ambrosia Wellington graduated from college, and she’s worked hard to create a new life for herself. But then an invitation to her ten-year reunion arrives in the mail, along with an anonymous note that reads “We need to talk about what we did that night.”

It seems that the secrets of Ambrosia’s past — and the people she thought she’d left there — aren’t as buried as she’d believed. Amb can’t stop fixating on what she did or who she did it with: larger-than-life Sloane “Sully” Sullivan, Amb’s former best friend, who could make anyone do anything.

At the reunion, Amb and Sully receive increasingly menacing messages, and it becomes clear that they’re being pursued by someone who wants more than just the truth of what happened that first semester. This person wants revenge for what they did and the damage they caused — the extent of which Amb is only now fully understanding. And it was all because of the game they played to get a boy who belonged to someone else, and the girl who paid the price.

Alternating between the reunion and Amb’s freshman year, The Girls Are All So Nice Here is a shocking novel about the brutal lengths girls can go to get what they think they’re owed, and what happens when the games we play in college become matters of life and death.
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My Mother's Daughter by Perdita Felicien🍁 is a

My Mother's Daughter by Perdita Felicien🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

In 1974, teenage Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she’s also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it’s her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to be their nanny — and she accepts.

This was the beginning of Catherine’s new life: a life of opportunity, but also suffering. Within a few years, she would find herself pregnant a third time — this time in her new country with no family to support her, and this time, with Perdita. Together, in the years to come, mother and daughter would experience racism, domestic abuse and even homelessness, but Catherine’s will would always pull them through.

As Perdita grew and began to discover her preternatural gifts, she was edged onward by her mother’s love, grit and faith. Facing literal and figurative hurdles, she learned to leap and pick herself back up when she stumbled. This book is a daughter’s memoir — a book about the power of a parent’s love to transform their child’s life.
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Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan is a #LoanStars

Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her…

Part breathless confession, part lucid critique, Acts of Desperation renders a consciousness split between rebellion and submission, between escaping degradation and eroticizing it, between loving and being lovable. With unsettling, electric precision, Nolan dissects one of life’s most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it?
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Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted by Gary Barwi

Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted by Gary Barwin🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he’s lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish mom, Gitl, losing himself in the masculine fantasy world of cowboy novels by writers like Karl May — novels equally loved by Hitler, whose troops have just invaded Lithuania and are out to exterminate people like Motl. In his dreams, Motl is a fast-talking, rugged, expert gunslinger capable of dealing with the Nazi threat. But only in his dreams.

As friends and neighbours are killed around them, Motl and Gitl escape from Vilnius, saving their own skins. But they immediately risk everything to try rescue relatives they hope are still alive. With death all around him, Motl decides that a Jew’s best revenge is not only to live, but to procreate. In order to achieve this, though, he must relocate those most crucial pieces of his anatomy lost to him in a glacier in the Swiss Alps in the previous war. It’s an absurd yet life-affirming mission, made even more urgent when he’s separated from his mother, and isn’t sure whether she’s alive or dead. Joining forces, and eventually hearts, with Esther, a Jewish woman whose family has been killed, Motl ventures across Europe, a kaleidoscope of narrow escapes and close encounters with everyone from Himmler, to circus performers, double agents, quislings, fake “Indians” and real ones. Motl at last figures out that he has more connection to the Indigenous characters in western novels than the cowboys.

An imaginative and deeply felt exploration of genocide, persecution, colonialism and masculinity — saturated in Gary Barwin’s sharp wit and perfect pun-play — Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy is a one-of-a-kind novel of sheer genius.
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The Lost Village by Camilla Sten is the #1 March 2

The Lost Village by Camilla Sten is the #1 March 2021 #LoanStars Adult top pick! 👏🥇

Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left — a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn — have plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened.

But there will be no turning back.

Not long after they’ve set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice:

They are not alone.

They’re looking for the truth…
But what if it finds them first?
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📌 Here's the March 2021 #LoanStars Adult list!

📌 Here's the March 2021 #LoanStars Adult list!
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Elephants Do Not Belong in Trees by Russ Willms is

Elephants Do Not Belong in Trees by Russ Willms is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟

When Larry decides he wants to live in the big bushy tree in the middle of the wide-open field, the current residents, Bird, Squirrel and Monkey, are not very welcoming. They throw nuts at him and peck at his head; they tell him to leave and are downright rude. But Larry persists—why can’t he live in the tree? When his new home is threatened by something much bigger than all the animals combined, Larry shows everyone that he cares just as much about the tree as they do.
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The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor is a #LoanStars A

The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Welcome to Keeper’s Croft. Five hundred years ago, protestant martyrs were burned at the stake. Forty years ago, two teenaged girls disappeared without a trace. And two months ago, the vicar of the local parish killed himself.
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The Secret Fawn by Kallie George🍁, Illus. by El

The Secret Fawn by Kallie George🍁, Illus. by Elly Mackay🍁 is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟

A little girl is always missing out on the wonderful things her family gets to see and do, just because she is the youngest and smallest. She misses seeing shooting stars because she goes to bed too early; she can’t pick the first apple of autumn because she’s too short; and, this morning, everyone else got to see a deer…except her. She goes into her backyard in search of the deer, a sugar cube tucked in her pocket. She sees a flick of brown in the orchard—is that the deer? No, it’s just the neighbour’s friendly dog (Shhhhh, Nala!). Is that it by the pond? No, that’s just a bird, playing in the water. Just when she’s about to give up, she spots a fawn, beautiful, quiet and small…just like her.
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The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous is a #LoanStars Ad

The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

1980: Beth Soames is fourteen years old when a kind couple finds her playing the violin at her orphanage’s yearly fund-raiser. The Averills take her home with them to Raven Hall, a rambling manor on the Norfolk coast. There she runs wild with their daughter, Nina, and they become fast friends. At times, Beth even dreams she’s truly part of the family…until she’s asked to take part in what seems like a harmless game—and nothing is ever the same.

Present day: Sadie Langton is an actress struggling to make ends meet when she lands a well-paying gig attending a weekend party. Her anonymous employer sends her a suitcase of clothing, a dossier of the role she is to play, and instructions—it’s strange, but she needs the money, and when she sees the stunning manor she’ll be staying at she can’t resist the chance.
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Dear Black Girls by Shanice Nicole🍁, Illus. by

Dear Black Girls by Shanice Nicole🍁, Illus. by Kezna Dalz🍁is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟

Dear Black Girls is a letter to all Black girls. Every single day poet and educator Shanice Nicole is reminded of how special Black girls are and of how lucky she is to be one. Illustrations by Kezna Dalz support the book's message that no two Black girls are the same but they are all special—that to be a Black girl is a true gift.
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The Push by Ashley Audrain🍁 is a #LoanStars Adu

The Push by Ashley Audrain🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

The Push is a rare and extraordinary gift to readers: a novel about the expectations of motherhood we’re taught not to challenge and what really happens behind the closed doors of even the most perfect-looking families. It’s impossible to put down and impossible to forget.
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Sharing a Smile by Nicki Kramar, Illus. by Ashley

Sharing a Smile by Nicki Kramar, Illus. by Ashley Evans is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟

In a changing world, little Sophie is feeling a bit worried. She loves being outside and playing with her friends in her neighborhood. But going outside lately means wearing a mask—something Sophie is still trying to understand. It makes her nervous when she wants to be brave. And after taking a closer look outside her window, watching her neighbors adjusting to this new normal, she realizes she isn’t the only one who feels a little scared.

Which gives Sophie an idea. With her grandpa’s help, she does something special for the people in her neighborhood. When Sophie sees her small acts of kindness spread, she realizes that with the help of friends in our communities, anyone can find their courage—and their smile.
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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah is a #LoanStars A

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods. The crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all.

In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbours—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman who will discover the best in herself in the worst of times.
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