Title: The Trail of Lost Hearts Author: Tracey Garvis Graves Published by: St. Martin's Press on Mar. 26, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Romance Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover Source: St. Martin's Press Book Rating: 8.5/10 New York Times bestselling author Tracey Garvis Graves takes readers on a life affirming journey, where two lost souls find the unexpected courage to love again. Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn’t see c ..read more

Title: Extinction Author: Douglas Preston Published by: Forge Books on Apr. 23, 2024 Genres: Mystery/Thriller, Science Fiction Pages: 384 Format: ARC, Paperback Source: Forge Books Book Rating: 8.5/10 Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire’s son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by wha ..read more

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