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👋 Meet Sabina Khan 🍁, the author of Meet Me

👋 Meet Sabina Khan 🍁, the author of Meet Me in Mumbai – a Loan Stars Jr. top pick for September & October 2022!

We had the pleasure of interviewing Sabina on our blog about their love for libraries and passion for books – everything from their favourite librarian, book recommendations, and more 📚

✨ Follow the link in bio to read Sabina’s full interview and meet more Loan Stars authors and illustrators!

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Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble by Alexis H

Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Paris Daillencourt is a recipe for disaster. Despite his passion for baking, his cat, and his classics degree, constant self-doubt and second-guessing have left him a curdled, directionless mess. So when his roommate enters him in Bake Expectations, the nation’s favourite baking show, Paris is sure he’ll be the first one sent home.

But not only does he win week one’s challenge—he meets fellow contestant Tariq Hassan. Sure, he’s the competition, but he’s also cute and kind, with more confidence than Paris could ever hope to have. Still, neither his growing romance with Tariq nor his own impressive bakes can keep Paris’s fear of failure from spoiling his happiness. And when the show’s vicious fanbase confirms his worst anxieties, Paris’s confidence is torn apart quicker than tear-and-share bread.

But if Paris can find the strength to face his past, his future, and the chorus of hecklers that live in his brain, he’ll realize it’s the sweet things in life that he really deserves.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #AlexisHall #Romance #GrandCentralPublishing #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

The Mother of All Degrassi by Linda Schuyler🍁 i

The Mother of All Degrassi by Linda Schuyler🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

When a young schoolteacher decides to teach her Grade 8 class about filmmaking and creates a documentary that ends up being broadcast internationally, she sets in motion a career of storytelling for an age group largely ignored by TV executives and creates one of the most-loved television franchises of all time

Includes fabulous behind-the-scenes photos and stories for Degrassi fans

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #LindaSchuyler #Entertainment #PerformingArts #ECWPress #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Africa Risen by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe

Africa Risen by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Zelda Knight is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country's ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother's ability to change her appearance and perhaps the world.

Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not rising it's already here.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #ScienceFiction #SciFi #TorBooks #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger is a #Loan

Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

What could be more restful, more restorative, than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, complete with spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah’s loving and generous tech-mogul brother found the listing online. The reviews are stellar. It’s his birthday gift to Hannah and includes their spouses and another couple. The six friends need this trip with good food, good company and lots of R & R, far from the chatter and pressures of modern life.

But the dreamy weekend is about to turn into a nightmare. A deadly storm is brewing. The rental host seems just a little too present. The personal chef reveals that their beautiful house has a spine-tingling history. And the friends have their own complicated past, with secrets that run blood deep. How well does Hannah know her brother, her own husband? Can she trust her best friend? And who is the new boyfriend, crashing their party? Meanwhile, someone is determined to ruin the weekend, looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried. Who is the stranger among them?

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #LisaUnger #Thrillers #ParkRowBooks #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Even Though I Knew The End by C. L. Polk🍁 is a

Even Though I Knew The End by C. L. Polk🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.

An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist?the chance to have a future where she grows old with the woman she loves. To succeed, she is given three days to track down the White City Vampire, Chicago's most notorious serial killer. If she fails, only hell and heartbreak await.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #CLPolk #Fantasy #TorBooks #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilk

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

The creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, Terry Pratchett was known and loved around the world for his hugely popular books, his smart satirical humour and the humanity of his campaign work. But that’s only part of the picture.

Before his untimely death, Terry was writing a memoir: the story of a boy who aged six was told by his teacher that he would never amount to anything and spent the rest of his life proving him wrong. For Terry lived a life full of astonishing achievements: becoming one of the UK’s bestselling and most beloved writers, winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and being awarded a knighthood.

Now, the book Terry sadly couldn’t finish has been written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the Pratchett literary estate. Drawing on his own extensive memories, along with those of the author’s family, friends and colleagues, Rob unveils the full picture of Terry’s life - from childhood to his astonishing writing career, and how he met and coped with what he called the ’Embuggerance’ of Alzheimer’s disease.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #RobWilkins #LiteraryFigures #TransworldBooks #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

👋 Meet Jessica Boyd, the author of A Wee Boo – a Loan Stars Jr. top pick for September & October 2022!

We had the pleasure of interviewing Jessica on our blog about their love for libraries and passion for books – everything from their favourite librarian, book recommendations, and more 📚

✨ Follow the link in bio to read Jessica’s full interview and meet more Loan Stars authors and illustrators!

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #JessicaBoyd #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

The Queen by Andrew Morton is a #LoanStars Adult t

The Queen by Andrew Morton is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Painfully shy, Elizabeth Windsor’s personality was well suited to her youthful ambition of living quietly in the country, raising a family, and caring for her dogs and horses. But when her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated, she became heir to the throne—embarking on a journey that would test her as a woman and queen.

Now in The Queen, renowned biographer Andrew Morton takes an in-depth look at Britain’s longest reigning monarch, exploring the influence Queen Elizabeth had on both Britain and the rest of the world for much of the last century. From leading a nation struggling to restore itself after the devastation of the second World War to navigating the divisive political landscape of the present day, Queen Elizabeth was a reluctant but resolute queen. This is the story of a woman of unflagging self-discipline who will long be remembered as mother and grandmother to Great Britain, and one of the greatest sovereigns of the modern era.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #AndrewMorton #Presidents #HeadsofState #GrandCentralPublishing #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Mussolini’s Daughter by Caroline Moorehead is a

Mussolini’s Daughter by Caroline Moorehead is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Edda Mussolini was Benito’s favourite child: spoiled and venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. For much of the twenty-year period of Fascist rule, she was her father’s closest confidante. In 1930, at the age of nineteen, Edda married Count Galeazzo Ciano, who would become the youngest Foreign Secretary in Italian history.

Edda’s dramatic story includes hidden diaries, her father’s downfall and her husband’s execution, and an escape into Switzerland followed by a period in exile. Moorehead draws a portrait of a complicated, bold, and determined woman—one who emerges not just as a witness but as a key player in some of the twentieth century’s defining moments. And we see Fascist Italy with all its glamour, decadence and political intrigue, and the turbulence before its violent end.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #CarolineMoorehead #Europe #KnopfCanada #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

All the Broken Places by John Boyne is a #LoanStar

All the Broken Places by John Boyne is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich’s most notorious extermination camps.

All The Broken Places moves back and forth in time between Gretel’s girlhood in Germany to present-day London as a woman whose life has been haunted by the past. Now, Gretel faces a similar crossroads to one she encountered long ago. Back then, she denied her own complicity, but now, faced with a chance to interrogate her guilt, grief and remorse, she can choose to save a young boy. If she does, she will be forced to reveal the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting. This time, she can make a different choice than before—whatever the cost to herself…

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #JohnBoyne #Historical #DoubledayCanada #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny🍁 is the

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny🍁 is the #1 November 2022 #LoanStars Adult top pick! 👏 🥇

It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has.

As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #LouisePenny #Mystery #Detective #MinotaurBooks #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

It’s here! Check out the November #LoanStars Adu

It’s here! Check out the November #LoanStars Adult List. 📚 ✨

🖼️ Visit the link in our bio to download the poster and learn more about #LoanStars.

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👋 Meet Ashley Winstead, the author of The Last

👋 Meet Ashley Winstead, the author of The Last Housewife – a Loan Stars Adult top pick for August 2022!

We had the pleasure of interviewing Ashley on our blog about their love for libraries and passion for books – everything from their favourite librarian, book recommendations, and more 📚

✨ Follow the link in bio to read Ashley’s full interview and meet more Loan Stars authors and illustrators!

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #AshleyWinstead #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Moonflower by Kacen Callender is a #LoanStars Jr.

Moonflower by Kacen Callender is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟

Moon’s depression is overwhelming. Therapy doesn’t help, and Moon is afraid that their mom hates them because they’re sad. Moon’s only escape is traveling to the spirit realms every night, where they hope they’ll never return to the world of the living again.

The spirit realm is where they have their one and only friend, Wolf, and where they’re excited to experience an infinite number of adventures. But when the realm is threatened, it’s up to Moon to save the spirit world.

With the help of celestial beings and guardians, Moon battles monsters and shadows, and through their journey, they begin to learn that a magical adventure of love and acceptance awaits them in the world of the living, too.

This story of hope shows readers that our souls blossom when we realize that we are as worthy and powerful as the universe itself.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #KacenCallender #General #Scholastic #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Midnight Storm Moonless Sky by Alex Soop 🍁 is a

Midnight Storm Moonless Sky by Alex Soop 🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Blackfoot storyteller Alexander Soop plunges us into a shocking well of imagination in his debut collection of short stories, Midnight Storm Moonless Sky. From hauntings on the Highway of Tears to fearful gatherings of ghosts and the sorrows of racism, Soop combines the social anxieties of Indigenous life with spellbinding flights and frights of speculative fiction. Through these enthralling stories of reality mixed with terror, readers get a wicked glimpse into the genre of Indigenous Horror – a combination of First Nations legends, dark fantasy, apocalyptic and paranormal enchantment, and monstrous secrets. In addition to his hungering to scare the wits out of readers, Alexander Soop also examines the overlooked matters affecting First Nations across the diverse world of Turtle Island. Midnight Storm Moonless Sky is Volume One in the Indigenous Horror series, a spinoff of the UpRoute Indigenous Spirit of Nature imprint.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #AlexSoop #Horror #DurvilePublications #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Finding My Dance by Ria Thundercloud, Illus. by Ka

Finding My Dance by Ria Thundercloud, Illus. by Kalila J. Fuller is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟

At four years old, Ria Thundercloud was brought into the powwow circle, ready to dance in the special jingle dress her mother made for her. As she grew up, she danced with her brothers all over Indian country. Then Ria learned more styles—tap, jazz, ballet—but still loved the expressiveness of Indigenous dance. And despite feeling different as one of the only Native American kids in her school, she always knew she could turn to dance to cheer herself up.

Follow along as Ria shares her dance journey—from dreaming of her future to performing as a professional—accompanied by striking illustrations that depict it while bringing her graceful movements to life.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #RiaThundercloud #KalilaJFuller #People #Places #Penguinyoungreaders #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Cold Case BC by Eve Lazarus 🍁 is a #LoanStars A

Cold Case BC by Eve Lazarus 🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

Lazarus looks at some of the province's most intriguing missing person cases, such as three-year-old Casey Bohun, who vanished from her bed in the middle of the night, and the Jack family of four, who left Prince George to work in a logging camp along the infamous Highway of Tears but were never seen again.

Interviews with law enforcement, forensic experts, and family and friends of the victims add new life to these historical cases, some of which date back to World War II. The book also includes some cases that have been solved, revealing the painstaking investigative work and new forensic technology that ultimately brought about closure for victims' families.

Meticulously researched, Cold Case BC is a fascinating true crime book that reveals startling details about the province's criminal past.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #EveLazarus #Canada #ArsenalPulpPress #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo is a #LoanStars J

A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟

Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage. And almost sixty years after the end of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Lo’s new novel also offers a glimpse into Lily and Kath’s lives since 1955.

Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha’s Vineyard with her best friends—one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria’s parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria expects boredom, but what she finds is Steph Nichols, her grandmother’s gardener. Soon, Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seemed lost becomes unforgettable—for Aria, her family, and the working-class queer community Steph introduces her to. It’s the kind of summer that changes a life forever.

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #MalindaLo #LGBTQ #PenguinYoungReaders #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Tastes Like Schitt by Rachel Floyd & Hannah Floyd

Tastes Like Schitt by Rachel Floyd & Hannah Floyd is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟

With 75 full color recipes, this cookbook features appetizers, drinks, entrees, desserts, and more. Cook your way through them all as you rewatch your favorite episodes. This book makes the perfect gift for any fan of the tv show Schitt’s Creek. As you work your way through the chapters, you will be doing a lot more than just folding in the cheese for the enchilada recipe.

You'll find a variety of recipes for chefs of all levels. Easy-to-follow recipes make it possible to cook, bake and eat your way through Schitt’s Creek. Grab an apron, preheat the oven, and put on your favorite episode. Let’s make a meal that Tastes Like Schitt!

#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #RachelFloyd #HannahFloyd #Cooking #MediaLab #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

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