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Staff Picks 2024 - Adult Fiction

Staff members from across our 15 branches were asked to choose a book to add to our library's collection. Whether they were new, old favourites, or something they thought patrons would love--anything was fair game! Here are their picks for Adult Fiction!

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  • Staff pick from the Crysler Branch. Science fiction. First in the bestselling Expanse series, a "modern masterwork" of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that…
    Book, 2021New York : Orbit, 2021. — Corey bk.1
  • Never Whistle at Night

    An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology : Are You Ready to Be Un-settled?

    Staff pick from the Administration team. Horror fiction. Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai'po,…
    Book, 2023Toronto : Random House Canada, 2023. — Never
  • Staff pick from District 2. Biographical fiction. Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. 'On…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Penguin Press, 2019. — Vuong
  • Staff pick from the Morrisburg Branch. Contemporary fiction. Following the loss of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss.…
    Book, 2024Boston, MA : Godine, 2024. — VanBo
  • Staff pick from the Lancaster Branch. Historical fiction. An unforgettable story of love and resistance surrounding two young people born across social lines, set against a tumultuous political landscape in India.
    Book, 2024New York : Flatiron Books, 2024. — Rao
  • Staff pick from the Finch Branch. Fantasy fiction, Magic realist fiction. When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store's…
    Book, 2021New York : Yen ON, an imprint of Yen Press, LLC, 2021. — Higas
  • Staff pick from the Long Sault Branch. Thriller. Hazel wants a new life. She's thirty years old, single, and her private investigation business is months away from folding. Her luck takes a turn when Madeline Hemsley, a mysterious socialite, pays…
    Book, 2024[Place of publication not identified] : Houndstooth Books, 2024. — Mille bk.1
  • Staff pick from the Alexandria Branch. Historical fiction. 'The Poisonwood Bible' is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry…
    Book, 2005New York : Harper Perennial, 2005. — Kings
  • Staff pick from District 1. Historical fiction. The story of Mika, a Jewish boy, who finds a way to survive in the Warsaw ghetto - a stunning novel for anyone who was moved by 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz'. This is a story about survival. It is an…
    Book, 2021Canada : Orion Publishing Group, 2021.
  • Staff pick from the Winchester Branch. Fantasy fiction. Raina Bloodgood has one desire: kill the Frost King and the Witch Collector who stole her sister. On Collecting Day, she means to exact murderous revenge, but a more sinister threat sets fire…
    Book, 2021[New York City] : City Owl Press, 2021. — Weaks bk.1
  • Staff pick from the Williamstown Branch. Humour. Professional underachiever Dan Foster is finally taking a vacation. Sure, his life has been average at best and, yeah, he has never quite lived up to his potential. But after a few Miller Lites in…
    Book, 2024Naperville, Illinios : Sourcebooks Landmark, 2024. — Wassm
  • Staff pick from District 1. Contemporary fiction. Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? Can they create their own traditions and rituals? Whom can they consider…
    Book, 2024New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — Savas
  • Staff pick from the Avonmore Branch. Fantasy fiction, Romance fiction. A warrior princess trained in isolation, Lara is driven by two certainties. The first is that King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy. And the second is that she’ll be the…
    Book, 2024New York : Del Rey, 2024. — Jense bk.1
  • Staff pick from the South Mountain Branch. Classic fiction. At twenty-nine, Valancy has never been in love, and it seems romance has passed her by. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she finds her only consolations in the…
    Book, 2019Toronto : Tundra Books, 2019. — Montg
  • Staff pick from the Ingleside Branch. Mystery fiction. Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, began her working life at the age of thirteen as a servant in a Belgravia mansion, only to be discovered reading in the library by her employer, Lady…
    Book, 2014New York : Soho, [2014] — Winsp bk.1
  • Staff pick from the Morrisburg Branch. Fantasy fiction. Third book in the 'Dragons of Terra' series, Brian Naslund's 'Fury of a Demon' is the final installment in a fast-paced adventure series perfect for comic book readers and fans of heroic…
    Book, 2021New York : Tor, 2021. — Naslu bk.3