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  1. Spare
    by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
    Random House Canada
    Jan 10, 2023
    BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty
    Hardback
    Spare
    by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
    Random House Canada
    Jan 10, 2023
    BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty
    Hardback
    It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on.

    For Harry, this is that story at last.

    Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness—and, because he blamed the press for his mother’s death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight.

    At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure, and two combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn’t find true love.

    Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple’s cinematic romance and rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Watching his wife suffer, their safety and mental health at risk, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try, in fact, had been his mother. . . .

    For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.
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  2. Someone Else's Shoes
    by Jojo Moyes
    Pamela Dorman Books
    Feb 07, 2023
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    Someone Else's Shoes
    by Jojo Moyes
    Pamela Dorman Books
    Feb 07, 2023
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

    “Very few authors have the power to make you laugh on one page and cry on the next. Moyes is one of them.” —The New York Times

    A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars

    Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else’s shoes?


    Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope--she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in.

    That’s because Sam Kemp – in the bleakest point of her life – has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag--she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat. When she tries on Nisha’s six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, the resulting jolt of confidence that makes her realize something must change—and that thing is herself.

    Full of Jojo Moyes’ signature humor, brilliant storytelling, and warmth, Someone Else’s Shoes is a story about how just one little thing can suddenly change everything.
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  3. Encore in Death
    by J. D. Robb
    St. Martin's Press
    Feb 07, 2023
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
    Hardback
    Encore in Death
    by J. D. Robb
    St. Martin's Press
    Feb 07, 2023
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
    Hardback

    The homicide cop with a passion for justice returns in the captivating crime thriller series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

    It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who’d conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And now Eve Dallas has made her entrance—but not as a guest. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died, with physical symptoms pointing to cyanide, and the police have crashed the party.

    From all accounts, he wasn’t the kind of star who made enemies. Everyone loved him—even his ex-wife. And since the champagne cocktail that killed him was originally intended for Eliza, it’s possible she was the real target, with a recently fired assistant, a bitter rival, and an obsessed fan in the picture. With so many attendees, staff, and servers, Eve has her work cut out determining who committed murder in the middle of the crowd—and what was their motivation. As one who’s not fond of the spotlight herself, she dreads the media circus surrounding a case like this. All she wants is to figure out who’s truly innocent, and who’s only acting that way…

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  4. Without a Trace
    by Danielle Steel
    Delacorte Press
    Jan 03, 2023
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    Without a Trace
    by Danielle Steel
    Delacorte Press
    Jan 03, 2023
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Danielle Steel, a powerful story about fighting for a chance at happiness—whatever the cost.

    Charles Vincent seems to have it all—a beautiful wife, two successful children, and a well-paying career. Yet happiness remains out of reach. He is trapped in a loveless marriage and his job is simply a paycheck. But his life changes forever one night as he drives along the Normandy coast, heading to their lavish château for the weekend. In one terrifying moment, Charles falls asleep at the wheel and veers off the road, plunging thirty feet down the face of a rocky cliff.

    Miraculously, Charles survives. After gathering the courage to climb to safety, he starts to walk—bruised, bloody, and desperate for help. In the dark of night, he happens upon a cabin where he meets the kind and beautiful Aude Saint-Martin. They have an instant connection, and as she nurses him back to health, Charles begins to discover the passion he’s been missing for so many years.

    In the aftermath of the crash, Charles has a startling realization: He doesn’t have to go back. He could simply choose to disappear, to walk away from his old life. When his car is discovered, he’ll be presumed dead, washed away at sea. If he stays with Aude, he has a chance at a fuller, happier life that he didn’t know was possible. It all seems too good to resist. But Aude has secrets of her own, and before long their pasts catch up to them, threatening everything they have fought to build.

    What would happen if you were given a chance to walk away from everything in your life and start over with a blank slate, and you had a split second to decide? In Without a Trace, Danielle Steel tells an irresistible story of the risks two people are willing to take in exchange for a chance at the life they’ve always wanted.
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  5. Just the Nicest Couple
    by Mary Kubica
    Park Row
    Jan 10, 2023
    FICTION / Thrillers / Domestic
    Hardback
    Just the Nicest Couple
    by Mary Kubica
    Park Row
    Jan 10, 2023
    FICTION / Thrillers / Domestic
    Hardback
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    “Grabs you on the first page and doesn’t let go until you reach the end.” —Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me


    A husband’s disappearance links two couples in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing, Mary Kubica

    Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found.

    Lily Scott, Nina’s friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out what happened leading up to Jake’s disappearance, especially not Nina. But Nina is out there looking for her husband, and she won’t stop until the truth is discovered.

    "Rich with detail and a mounting, almost suffocating sense of dread, Just the Nicest Couple is a dark and twisted exploration of loyalty, family, and how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love." —Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Never Here

    Don't miss Mary Kubica's newest novel, She's Not Sorry, where an ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient's frightening past...

    Look for these other edge-of-your-seat thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica:
    • The Good Girl
    • Pretty Baby
    • Don’t You Cry
    • Every Last Lie
    • When the Lights Go Out
    • The Other Mrs.
    • Local Woman Missing
    • She's Not Sorry

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  6. Code Name Sapphire
    by Pam Jenoff
    Park Row
    Feb 07, 2023
    FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II & Holocaust
    Hardback
    Code Name Sapphire
    by Pam Jenoff
    Park Row
    Feb 07, 2023
    FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II & Holocaust
    Hardback
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    "A heart-wrenching exploration of the decisions women must make when their loyalties are put to the test.” –Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary


    A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris

    1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind.

    Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network led by a mysterious woman named Micheline and her enigmatic brother Matteo. But when a grave mistake causes Lily’s family to be arrested and slated for deportation to Auschwitz, Hannah finds herself torn between her loyalties. How much is Hannah willing to sacrifice to save the people she loves?


    Don’t miss Pam Jenoff’s new novel, Last Twilight in Paris, a gripping mystery and an unforgettable story about love and survival.


    Read these other sweeping epics from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff:
    • The Lost Girls of Paris
    • The Woman with the Blue Star
    • The Orphan’s Tale
    • The Ambassador’s Daughter
    • The Diplomat’s Wife
    • The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach
    • The Kommandant’s Girl
    • The Winter Guest

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  7. Exiles
    by Jane Harper
    Flatiron Books
    Jan 31, 2023
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery
    Hardback
    Exiles
    by Jane Harper
    Flatiron Books
    Jan 31, 2023
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery
    Hardback

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    "I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." —Stephen King

    “Once again Harper proves that she is peerless in creating an avalanche of suspense with intimate, character-driven set pieces...Harper’s legions of fans will exult in reading Exiles.”
    —David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author

    FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR JANE HARPER COMES EXILES, A CAPTIVATING MYSTERY ABOUT A MISSING MOTHER

    Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is on his way to a small town deep in Southern Australian wine country for the christening of an old friend's baby. But mystery follows him, even on vacation.

    This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Kim Gillespie's disappearance. One year ago, at a busy town festival on a warm spring night, Kim safely tucked her sleeping baby into her stroller, then vanished into the crowd. No one has seen her since. When Kim's older daughter makes a plea for anyone with information about her missing mom to come forward, Falk and his old buddy Raco can't leave the case alone.

    As Falk soaks up life in the lush valley, he is welcomed into the tight-knit circle of Kim’s friends and loved ones. But the group may be more fractured than it seems. Between Falk’s closest friend, the missing mother, and a woman he’s drawn to, dark questions linger as long-ago truths begin to emerge. What would make a mother abandon her child? What happened to Kim Gillespie?

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  8. The House of Wolves
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Jan 09, 2023
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    The House of Wolves
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Jan 09, 2023
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    Instant New York Times Bestseller!

    James Patterson and Mike Lupica are the thriller dream team! Jenny Wolf’s murdered father leaves her in charge of a billion-dollar empire—and a family more ruthless than Succession's Roys and Yellowstone’s Duttons.

    The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head–thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf.

    That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune.

    She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves.

    And she has a murdered father to avenge—if she can survive the killers all around her.

    An unforgettable family drama by two writers at the top of their craft.


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  9. Unnatural History
    by Jonathan Kellerman
    Ballantine Books
    Feb 07, 2023
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    Unnatural History
    by Jonathan Kellerman
    Ballantine Books
    Feb 07, 2023
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying thriller of art and brutality from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.

    Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. That shadow world and the violence it breeds draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong.

    On a superficially lovely morning, a woman shows up for work with her usual enthusiasm. She’s the newly hired personal assistant to a handsome, wealthy photographer and is ready to greet her boss with coffee and good cheer. Instead, she finds him slumped in bed, shot to death.

    The victim had recently received rave media attention for his latest project: images of homeless people in their personal “dream” situations, elaborately costumed and enacting unfulfilled fantasies. There are some, however, who view the whole thing as nothing more than crass exploitation, citing token payments and the victim’s avoidance of any long-term relationships with his subjects.

    Has disgruntlement blossomed into homicidal rage? Or do the roots of violence reach down to the victim’s family—a clan, sired by an elusive billionaire, that is bizarre in its own right?

    Then new murders arise, and Alex and Milo begin peeling back layer after layer of intrigue and complexity, culminating in one of the deadliest threats they’ve ever faced.
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  10. Sleep No More
    by Jayne Ann Krentz
    Berkley
    Jan 03, 2023
    FICTION / Romance / Suspense
    Hardback
    Sleep No More
    by Jayne Ann Krentz
    Berkley
    Jan 03, 2023
    FICTION / Romance / Suspense
    Hardback
    New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz returns with the first novel of the Lost Night Files, an exciting new romantic suspense trilogy about a night that changed three women forever—but that none of them can remember.

    Seven months ago, Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers were strangers, until their fateful stay at the Lucent Springs Hotel. An earthquake and a fire partially destroyed the hotel, but the women have no memory of their time there. Now close friends, the three women co-host a podcast called the Lost Night Files, where they investigate cold cases and hope to connect with others who may have had a similar experience to theirs—an experience that has somehow enhanced the psychic abilities already present in each woman.

    After receiving a tip for their podcast, Pallas travels to the small college town of Carnelian, California, to explore an abandoned asylum. Shaken by the dark energy she feels in the building, she is rushing out when she’s stopped by a dark figure—who turns out to be the women's mysterious tipster.

    Ambrose Drake is certain he’s a witness to a murder, but without a body, everyone thinks he’s having delusions caused by extreme sleep deprivation. But Ambrose is positive something terrible happened at the Carnelian Sleep Institute the night he was there. Unable to find proof on his own, he approaches Pallas for help, only for her to realize that Ambrose, too, has a lost night that he can’t remember—one that may be connected to Pallas. Pallas and Ambrose conduct their investigation using the podcast as a cover, and while the townsfolk are eager to share what they know, it turns out there are others who are not so happy about their questions—and someone is willing to kill to keep the truth from coming out.
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