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These are the Loan Stars November 2020 Adult picks:

Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent from Simon & Schuster

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline from Ballantine Books

Joni Mitchell Backstage Pass by Michael O'Neill from Danann Books 🍁

Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything by Kristin Bair from Alcove Press

The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo from Random House Canada

Dearly by Margaret Atwood from McClelland & Stewart 🍁

This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear from Soho Press

Extraordinary Canadians: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation by Peter Mansbridge from Simon & Schuster 🍁

The Fires of Vengeance by Evan Winter from Orbit

A Galway Epiphany by Ken Bruen from Mysterious Press

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These are the Loan Stars October 2020 Adult picks:

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab from Tor/Forge

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman from Simon & Schuster

The Searcher by Tana French from Viking

The Night Piece by Andre Alexis from McClelland & Stewart 🍁

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow from Orbit

Baking Day with Anna Olson by Anna Olson from Appetite by Random House 🍁

Confessions on the 7:45: A Novel by Lisa Unger from Park Row Books

Black Matters by Afua Cooper from Fernwood Publishing 🍁

Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories by Michael Posner from Simon & Schuster 🍁

If I Knew Then by Jann Arden from Knopf Random House 🍁

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#ICYMI: The June - September Adult Top 10 list! 📚

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These are the Loan Stars Summer 2020 Adult picks:

The Swap by Robyn Harding from Simon & Schuster  🍁

The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis from Dutton

Memoirs and Misinformation by Jim Carrey from Random House Canada  🍁

The Safe Place by Anna Downes from Minotaur Books

The Daughters of Ys by M.T. Anderson from First Second  🍁

Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay from Penguin Canada

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia from Del Rey 🍁

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke from Bloomsbury Publishing

Hamnet and Judith by Maggie O'Farrell from Knopf Canada  

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager from Dutton

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Me, the moment my library opens again

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When you realize you’ve come to rely on a influx of Star Wars gifs to tell what day it is

Oh, it’s May 4th. Cool, cool, cool. *resumes reading book *

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Have you heard about the Loan Stars May 2020 Adult picks?

Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson from House of Anansi Press 🍁

The Watershed by Doreen Vanderstoop from Freehand Books 🍁

Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5) by Martha Wells from Tor/Forge

Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner from Atria Books

The Trouble With Hating You by Sajni Patel from Grand Central Publishing

The Children's Bible by Lydia Millet from WW Norton

Officer Clemmons by Francois Clemmons from Catapult

The Goodbye Man (Colter Shaw #2) by Jeffrey Deaver from G.P. Putnam Sons

Mary Pickford by George A. Walker from Porcupine's Quill 🍁

Beach Read by Emily Henry from Berkley

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My new book club trying to figure out how to not talk over each other in zoom

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“It’s not flirting unless there’s a book involved” - Me

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Going on any social media channel and seeing how many bookclubs were formed in the last week

Can I join too?

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Recommendations to get a hold on

The Loan Stars April 2020 adult top 10

The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya from ECW Press 🍁

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler from Doubleday Canada

Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier from Minotaur Books 🍁

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd from Viking

Forest Green by Kate Pullinger from Doubleday Canada 🍁

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa from McClelland & Stewart 🍁

A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones from St. Martin's Press

A Match Made for Murder (Lane Winslow #7) by Iona Whishaw from Touchwood Editions 🍁

A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry from Viking

And don’t forget! More library-approved recommendations are available on our website loanstars.ca.

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The March & April 2020 Loan Stars Jr. Top 10

Bet you can’t read just one! 

Canadian Women Now and Then by Elizabeth MacLeod, Illus. Maïa Faddoul from Kids Can Press 🍁- April 2020

A Book for Escargot by Dashka Slater, Illus. Sydney Hanson from Farrar Straus & Giroux - April 2020

The Silence of Bones by June Hur from Feiwel & Friends 🍁- April 2020

Sticks & Scones (Check, Please! #2) by Ngozi Ukazu from First Second - April 2020

Dewdrop by Katie O'Neill from Oni Press - April 2020

Dragonslayers (Wings of Fire: Legends #2) by Tui T. Sutherland from Scholastic - March 2020

Marie Curie and the Power of Persistence by Karla Valenti, Illus. Annalisa Beghelli from Sourcebooks - April 2020

Powwow by Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane from Orca Book Publishers 🍁- April 2020

The Stone of Sorrow by Brooke Carter from Orca Book Publishers 🍁- April 2020

Girl Crushed by Katie Heaney from Knopf Books for Young Readers - April 2020

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For those who love to read despite all the obstacles

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When you realize you actually like the book you were assigned to read

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Happy Valentine’s Day from the Loan Stars team!

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Why worry about the lousy March weather? Think about March books instead!

Coming soon:

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler from St. Martin's Press

Baby Food in an Instant Pot by Jennifer House MSc, RD & Marilyn Haugen from Robert Rose 🍁

An Embarrassment of Witches by Sophie Goldstein & Jenn Jordan from St. Top Shelf Productions

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen from St. Martin's Press

How a Woman Becomes a Lake by Marjorie Celona from Penguin Canada 🍁

Overdose by Benjamin Perrin from Penguin Canada 🍁

Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger from House of Anansi Press 🍁

The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin from Orbit

Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit from Viking

Deacon King Kong by James McBride from Riverhead Books

Find more on loanstars.ca! 

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