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September 2024 Adult Top 10 Picks

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  1. Here One Moment
    by Liane Moriarty
    9780385699792
    Doubleday Canada
    Sep 10, 2024
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    Here One Moment
    by Liane Moriarty
    9780385699792
    Doubleday Canada
    Sep 10, 2024
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
    From the beloved author of Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband’s Secret comes a moving novel of love, marriage, family, and trying to find certainty in a fragile world.

    "A riveting story so wild you don't know how she'll land it, and then she does, on a dime." —Anne Lamott

    Life is full of twists and turns you never see coming. But what if you did?

    The plane is jam-packed. Every seat is taken. So of course the flight is delayed! Flight attendant Allegra Patel likes her job—she's generally happy with her life, even if she can't figure out why she hooks up with a man she barely speaks to—but today is her twenty-eighth birthday. She can think of plenty of things she'd rather be doing than placating a bunch of grumpy passengers.

    There's the well-dressed man in seat 4C who is compulsively checking his watch, desperate not to miss his eleven-year-old daughter's musical. Further back, a mother of two is frantically trying to keep her toddler entertained and her infant son quiet. How did she ever think being a stay-at-home mom would be easier than being a lawyer? Ethan is lost in thought; he's flying back from his first funeral. A young couple has just gotten married; she's still wearing her wedding dress. An emergency room nurse is looking forward to traveling the world once she retires in a few years, it's going to be so much fun! If they ever get off the tarmac. . . .

    Suddenly a woman none of them know stands up. She makes predictions about how and when everyone on board will die. Some dismiss her. Others will do everything they can to make sure her prophecies do not come to pass. All of them will be forever changed.

    How would you live your life if you thought you knew how it would end? Would you love who you love or try to love someone else? Would you stay married? Would you stop drinking? Would you call up your ex-best friend you haven’t spoken to in years? Would you quit your job?

    Intricately plotted, with the wonderful wit Liane Moriarty has become famous for, Here One Moment brilliantly looks at friends, lovers, and family and how we manage to hold onto them in our harried modern lives.
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  2. The Life Impossible
    by Matt Haig
    9781443474498
    HarperAvenue
    Sep 03, 2024
    Hardback
    The Life Impossible
    by Matt Haig
    9781443474498
    HarperAvenue
    Sep 03, 2024
    Hardback

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    New York Times Bestseller

    The remarkable new novel from Matt Haig, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, which has sold more than nine million copies worldwide

    “What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet . . . ”

    When retired math teacher Grace Winters inherits a run-down house on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza from a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. Grace arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.

    Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have possibly dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

    Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

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  3. Counting Miracles
    by Nicholas Sparks
    9780385675284
    Doubleday Canada
    Sep 24, 2024
    FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
    Hardback
    Counting Miracles
    by Nicholas Sparks
    9780385675284
    Doubleday Canada
    Sep 24, 2024
    FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
    Hardback
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change—or even make our peace with—the path we’ve taken.

    “Sparks is superb at what he does. The setting is postcard perfect. The characters are immensely likable. . . . This is a tidy miracle you can count on.” —The Washington Post

    Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather’s military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down. But when his grandmother passes away, her last words to him are find where you belong. She also drops a bombshell, telling him the name of the father he never knew—and where to find him.

    Tanner is due at his next posting soon, but his curiosity is piqued, and he sets out for Asheboro, North Carolina, to ask around. He’s been in town less than twenty-four hours when he meets Kaitlyn Cooper, a doctor and single mom. They both feel an immediate connection; Tanner knows Kaitlyn has a story to tell, and he wants to hear it. To Kaitlyn, Tanner is mysterious, exciting—and possibly leaving in just a few weeks.

    Meanwhile, nearby, eighty-three-year-old Jasper lives alone in a cabin bordering a national forest. With only his old dog, Arlo, for company, he lives quietly, haunted by a tragic accident that took place decades before. When he hears rumors that a white deer has been spotted in the forest—a creature of legend that inspired his father and grandfather—he becomes obsessed with protecting the deer from poachers.

    As these characters’ fates orbit closer together, none of them is expecting a miracle . . . but that may be exactly what is about to alter their futures forever.
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  4. We Solve Murders
    by Richard Osman
    9780593653227
    Pamela Dorman Books
    Sep 17, 2024
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General
    Hardback
    We Solve Murders
    by Richard Osman
    9780593653227
    Pamela Dorman Books
    Sep 17, 2024
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General
    Hardback
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

    “Madcap fun, with an entertaining new cast of characters and Osman’s trademark wit. Delightful!” —Shari Lapena

    From the #1 bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Series

    A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .

    Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s job now.

    Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She’s currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . . .

    As a thrilling race around the world begins, can Amy and Steve outrun and outsmart a killer?

    Solving murders. It’s a family business.
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  5. Intermezzo
    by Sally Rooney
    9780735281820
    Knopf Canada
    Sep 24, 2024
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    Intermezzo
    by Sally Rooney
    9780735281820
    Knopf Canada
    Sep 24, 2024
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

    Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

    Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

    Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

    For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
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  6. Lies He Told Me
    by James Patterson
    9780316403894
    Little, Brown and Company
    Sep 30, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    Lies He Told Me
    by James Patterson
    9780316403894
    Little, Brown and Company
    Sep 30, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    An attorney and mother of two discovers her husband’s secret life—and it might cost them all their lives.

    "Wow! Lies He Told Me is a roller coaster from start to finish! I was hooked from the first page, and the final twist blew me away! This is a thriller you won't want to miss!"
    —Freida McFadden, #1 bestselling author of The Housemaid

    Everyone in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, knows David and Marcie Bowers.

    David owns the local pub.

    Marcie is a former big-city lawyer who practices family law.

    When David jumps into Cotton River to save a drowning stranger, he’s celebrated as a hero. His muscled physique, shaved head, and piercing blue eyes are broadcast on every news outlet.

    For most people, newfound fame is a lifeline.

    For David Bowers, it’s a death sentence.

    For Marcie Bowers, it’s a test.

    A wife knows the difference between a loving husband and father and a cold-blooded assassin. Right?
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  7. The Night We Lost Him
    by Laura Dave
    9781668002933
    S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
    Sep 17, 2024
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    The Night We Lost Him
    by Laura Dave
    9781668002933
    S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
    Sep 17, 2024
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    An instant New York Times bestseller from the author of The Last Thing He Told Me

    “Dave’s signature blend of twisty mystery, family drama, and moving love story is top-notch” (The Boston Globe) in this instant New York Times bestseller where estranged siblings chase a fifty-year-old family secret that shaped their father’s mysterious life—and death…

    “Pulse pounding suspense and moving family drama” —People

    “A master storyteller. You won’t want to miss this one.” —Harlan Coben

    “The perfect mix of heart-pounding and heartfelt…Dave delivers yet another suspenseful page-turner that should be a book club staple for a long time to come.” —New York Post

    Nora Noone’s father was many things to many people. To the public he was a self-made titan of industry, whose luxury boutique hotels were among the most coveted destinations in the world. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving yet distant family man who managed to keep his finances—and his families—separate. But, to Nora, he was always a mystery—especially after his suspicious death at his cliffside home.

    Though the authorities insist there was no foul play, Nora and her estranged brother, Sam, believe otherwise. As they form an uneasy alliance to unpack the mystery, they start putting together the pieces of their father’s past and uncover a family secret that changes everything.

    With Laura Dave’s “signature blend of pulse-pounding suspense” (People) and “trademark emotional heft” (New York Post), The Night We Lost Him is a “propulsive” (Oprah Daily) must-read, with a heartbreaking final twist you’ll never see coming.
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  8. Nexus
    by Yuval Noah Harari
    9780771019661
    Signal
    Sep 10, 2024
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies
    Hardback
    Nexus
    by Yuval Noah Harari
    9780771019661
    Signal
    Sep 10, 2024
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies
    Hardback
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

    For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?

    Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.

    Information is not the raw material of truth, nor is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.
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  9. Death at the Sign of the Rook
    by Kate Atkinson
    9780385694971
    Bond Street Books
    Sep 03, 2024
    FICTION / Literary
    Hardback
    Death at the Sign of the Rook
    by Kate Atkinson
    9780385694971
    Bond Street Books
    Sep 03, 2024
    FICTION / Literary
    Hardback
    •INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER•
    WELCOME TO ROOK HALL. THE STAGE IS SET. THE PLAYERS ARE READY. BY NIGHT’S END, A MURDERER WILL BE REVEALED.

    Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting.

    But Jackson soon uncovers a string of unsolved art thefts that lead him down a dizzying spiral of disguise and deceit to Burton Makepeace, a formerly magnificent estate now partially converted to a hotel hosting Murder Mystery weekends.

    As paying guests, impecunious aristocrats and old friends collide, we are treated to Atkinson’s most charming and fiendishly clever mystery yet, one that pays homage to the masters of the genre—from Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers to the modern era of Knives Out and Only Murders in the Building.


    Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinson’s signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodie’s most outrageous and memorable case yet.
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  10. An Eye for an Eye
    by Jeffrey Archer
    9780008640118
    HarperCollins
    Sep 24, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    An Eye for an Eye
    by Jeffrey Archer
    9780008640118
    HarperCollins
    Sep 24, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback

    The unputdownable new rollercoaster read from Sunday Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer – one of the must read books of 2024!

    ‘An absolute page-turner’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review

    ‘Impossible to put down’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review

    ‘So many turns and twists’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review

    'Master of the pager turner' – Daily Mail

    'Compelling' – David Baldacci

    Selected as one of Waterstones’ Best Books for 2024

    ***

    In one of the most luxurious cities on earth…

    A billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis.

    In the heart of the British establishment…

    Lord Hartley, the latest in a line of peers going back over two hundred years, lies dying. But his will triggers an inheritance with explosive consequences.

    Two deaths. Continents apart. No obvious connection.

    So why are they both at the centre of a master criminal's plot for revenge?

    And can Scotland Yard's William Warwick uncover the truth before it's too late…

    The ultimate race-against-time is about to begin.

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