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Julia's House Goes Home by Ben Hatke is a #LoanSta

The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield 🍁 is a #L

Living With Viola by Rosena Fung 🍁 is #1 in the

The Last Guest by Tess Little is the #1 October 20

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The October #LoanStars Adult list is here! 📚 ✨ ⠀
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Alt text: October 2021 Loan Stars Adult list. The Last Guest by Tess Little. The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield. The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox. The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling. Mooncakes and Milk Bread by Kristina Cho. The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock. Truth or Dare by M.J. Arlidge. Beat Bobby Flay by Bobby Flay, Stephanie Banyas & Sally Jackson. Island Eats by Dawn Postnikoff & Joanne Sasvari. The Final Chapter by Jerome Loubry.⠀
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Dark Things I Adore by Katie Lattari is a #LoanSta

Celebrate with Kim-Joy by Kim-Joy is a #LoanStars

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik is a #LoanStars A

The Mystery of Right and Wrong by Wayne Johnston 🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John’s, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he encounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers.⠀
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Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughters. Her Dutch-born father, Hans, lived in Amsterdam during WWII, and says he was in the Dutch resistance. After the war, he emigrated to South Africa, where he met his wife, Myra, had his daughters and worked as an accounting professor at the University of Cape Town. Something happened, though, that caused him to uproot his family and move them all, unhappily, to Newfoundland.⠀
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Wade soon discovers that the beautiful van Hout daughters are each in their own way a wounded soul. The oldest, Gloria, at twenty-eight has a string of broken marriages behind her. Carmen is addicted to every drug her Afrikaner drug-pusher husband, Fritz, can lay his hands on. Bethany, aka Deathany, the most sardonic and self-deprecating of the sisters, is fighting a losing battle with anorexia. And then there is Rachel, who reads The Diary of Anne Frank obsessively, and diarizes her days in a secret language of her own invention, writing to the point of breakdown and beyond.⠀
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As the truth works its way inevitably to the surface, Wade learns that nothing in the world of the van Houts is what it seems.⠀
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Alt text: September 2021 Loan Stars Adult Top Picks. The Mystery of Right and Wrong by Wayne Johnston from Knopf Random Vintage Canada. Literary. A masterwork from one of the country’s most critically acclaimed and beloved writers, Wayne Johnston reveals haunting family secrets he’s kept for more than 30 years, unfolding them in a novel that grapples with sexual abuse, male violence and madness.⠀
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All Day Baking by Michael James & Pippa James is a

What Are Friends For? by Lizzie O’Hagan is a #Lo

Matrix by Lauren Groff is a #LoanStars Adult top p

The Strangers by Katherena Vermette 🍁 is a #Lo $The Strangers by Katherena Vermette 🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks like. Phoenix has nearly forgotten what freedom feels like. And Elsie has nearly given up hope. Nearly.⠀ ⠀ After time spent in foster homes, Cedar goes to live with her estranged father. Although she grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and sister, Phoenix, she’s hoping for a new chapter in her life, only to find herself once again in a strange house surrounded by strangers. From a youth detention centre, Phoenix gives birth to a baby she’ll never get to raise and tries to forgive herself for all the harm she’s caused (while wondering if she even should). Elsie, struggling with addiction and determined to turn her life around, is buoyed by the idea of being reunited with her daughters and strives to be someone they can depend on, unlike her own distant mother. These are the Strangers, each haunted in her own way. Between flickering moments of warmth and support, the women diverge and reconnect, fighting to survive in a fractured system that pretends to offer success but expects them to fail. Facing the distinct blade of racism from those they trusted most, they urge one another to move through the darkness, all the while wondering if they’ll ever emerge safely on the other side. ⠀ ⠀ This is a searing exploration of race, class, inherited trauma, and matrilineal bonds that — despite everything — refuse to be broken.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ Alt text: September 2021 Loan Stars Adult Top Picks. The Strangers by Katherena Vermette from Penguin Canada. Literary. Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks like. Phoenix has nearly forgotten what freedom feels like. And Elsie has nearly given up hope. Nearly. This is a searing exploration of race, class, inherited trauma, and matrilineal bonds that — despite everything — refuse to be broken.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #CanLit #KatherenaVermette #Literary #PenguinCanada #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub$

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman is a #Loan

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is the #1 Septe

The September #LoanStars Adult list is here! 📚

Birding for Kids by Damon Calderwood 🍁 & Donald

The Perfect Family by Robyn Harding 🍁 is a #Lo

Find Spot at Nursery by Eric Hill is a #LoanStars

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