Spring Staff Picks 2024

Spring has sprung! Want to enjoy a book in this beautiful Spring weather? We have you covered - take a look at what our staff are reading this season.

Updated September 12, 2024
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12 months to live
Patterson, James
Paper Book
"Patterson and Lupica make a great team" (Carl Hiaasen) who get "deep into the lives of strong women" (Louise Penny) and Jane Smith is their greatest creation--a badass lawyer with a year to live. "Jane Smith is the best character we've ever created. Bar none."
The women of Troy
Barker, Pat
Paper Book
Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods are offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in uneasy limbo, camped in...
Sunbirds
Riwoe, Mirandi
Paper Book
Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party at their tea plantation. One of their guests, Mattijs, a Dutch pilot, hopes to forge a future in the Dutch East Indies, possibly with the family's daughter, Anna, but she is torn between her dreams of...
The heart's invisible furies
Boyne, John
Paper Book
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric...
Collide
Khabra, Bal
Ebook
Can't spell treason without tea
Thorne, Rebecca
Ebook
The Dark Wives
Cleeves, Ann.
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author of the Two Rivers and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves, returns with the eleventh Vera Stanhope novel following The Rising Tide. A local myth. A deadly threat. A man's body is found in the early...
Hex
Olde Heuvelt, Thomas
Paper Book
"This is totally, brilliantly original." --Stephen King "HEX is creepy and gripping and original, sure to be one of the top horror novels of 2016." --George R.R. Martin The English language debut of the bestselling Dutch novel, Hex, from Thomas Olde...
Illustrators' sketchbooks : inside the creative processes of 60 iconic and emerging artists
Salisbury, Martin
Paper Book
Explore the creative process with iconic and emerging illustrators through selections from their sketchbooks. This inspiring collection is an ode to the power and possibilities of the sketchbook. It features the journal pages of sixty artists from around the world...
The impossible story of Hannah Kemp : a novel
Agnew, Leonie
Paper Book
The unpublished manuscript was the winner of the 2022 Tessa Duder Award: a powerful exploration of guilt, forgiveness, choice and personal responsibility. Hannah Kemp is dealing with a traumatic accident for which she was responsible. Struggling to come to terms with her guilt...
The book of elsewhere : a novel
Reeves, Keanu
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An "action-packed [and] profoundly stylish" (Los Angeles Times) epic from Keanu Reeves and China MiƩville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books "[...
Searching for novak
Hodgkinson, Mark
Paper Book
'A fantastic and fascinating exploration of the life of a great champion... Full of compelling insight.' - Tom Hiddleston'This book captures the deep complexities in Novak's mind and his life and how he's dealt with them in a thoughtful, soul-searching way.' - Chris Evert'A...
The Mars house : a novel
Pulley, Natasha
Paper Book
A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee. Named a Best Book of 2024 by The Washington Post * Amazon * Book Riot * LitHub * Paste Magazine * HuffPost In the wake of an...
One last stop
McQuiston, Casey
Paper Book
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER* *INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER* From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... ...
The Life Impossible
Haig, Matt.
Paper Book
The spectacular new book about hope and new beginnings from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author
Praiseworthy
Wright, Alexis.
Paper Book
**Winner, Stella Prize 2024** **Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award** **Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024** **Shortlisted, The...

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