Skip to main content
G
Greater Victoria Public Library
All Lists
New Arrivals
*New & Notable Adult Fiction - September Highlights*
Unpublished
Share
Published this month and new to the collection
Updated September 5, 2024
G
Greater Victoria Public Library
A list cannot be published until it has at least four items.
List was unpublished.
List was published.
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
Entitlement
Alam, Rumaan
Paper Book
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The night we lost him : a novel
Dave, Laura
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller "Drama, mystery, and intrigue" (PureWow) unfold in this instant New York Times bestseller about estranged siblings chasing a fifty-year-old secret that shaped their father's mysterious life--and death--in...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Death at the Sign of the Rook: A Novel
Atkinson, Kate
Paper Book
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....
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The Wedding : A Novel
Basran, Gurjinder.
Paper Book
You're invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface. Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
Bradley, Alan.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers a secret that brings the greatest shock of her life. "I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the best...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
A sunny place for shady people : stories
Enriquez, Mariana
Paper Book
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by "Buenos Aires's sorceress of horror" (Samanta Schweblin, The New York Times) "Entertaining, political and exquisitely gruesome, these...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The Lovers.
Faubion, Rebekah.
Paper Book
If Kit Larson believes one thing, it's that the cards never lie. She's seen it proven time and time again as a tarot reader and mystic influencer. But unfortunately the cards didn't warn her about her most recent breakup or her parents' divorce, so when Kit is offered a gig at another influence's...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The life impossible
Haig, Matt, 1975- author.
Paper Book
"An odyssey of action and awe." --The New York Times "A wry and tender love-letter to the best of being human." --Benedict Cumberbatch The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
Klune, T. J.
Ebook
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Creation Lake
Kushner, Rachel
Paper Book
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Time, LitHub, The Millions, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Something, Not Nothing : A Story of Grief and Love
Leavitt, Sarah
Paper Book
In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt's partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a rapid decline at the end of her life. About a month after Donimo's death, Sarah began making comics again as a way to deal with her profound sense of...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Guide Me Home
Locke, Attica
Paper Book
In this stunning culmination of the award-winning Highway 59 trilogy, Detective Darren Mathews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the case of a missing black college student from an all-white sorority and soon finds a town that will stop at nothing to keep its secrets hidden&...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Bringer of Dust
Miro, J. M.
Paper Book
* One of Indigo's Most Anticipated Books * One of the CBC's Canadian Fiction Books to Read in Fall 2024 In the highly-anticipated second book of the Talents Trilogy, the world of the dead is closer than you think. Agrigento, Sicily, 1883. With the orsine...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The Capital of Dreams
O'Neill, Heather.
Paper Book
A breathtaking dark fairy tale of survival and betrayal from the vivid imagination of Heather O'Neill Fourteen-year-old Sofia Bottom lives in a small country that Europe has forgotten. But inside its borders, the old myths of trees that come alive and fairies who live among their roots...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Sunshine and spice
Palit, Aurora
Paper Book
When two complete opposites agree to fake date in order to solve their cultural dilemmas, they find the only force more powerful than an immigrant mother's matchmaking schemes might just be true love. Naomi Kelly will do anything to make her new brand consulting business a...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Playground.
Powers, Richard.
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 KIRKUS PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Overstory comes an epic tale of love, friendship and humanity's next great adventure. When two...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Intermezzo
Rooney, Sally.
Paper Book
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...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Colored television
Senna, Danzy
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "A laugh-out-loud cultural comedy... This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard." -LA Times "Funny, foxy and fleet...The jokes are...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The cottage around the corner : a novel
Soria, Destiny
Paper Book
A feisty witch and a handsome mage must put their heated business rivalry aside to save their small town from supernatural forces in this charming contemporary fantasy romcom from the author of Thief Liar Lady. "Delightful and sweet . . . the magic and the romance both...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
We Solve Murders
Osman, Richard
Paper Book
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or
log in here.