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Women's health

Fall 2026

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National Geographic History

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Canadian house & home

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Freedom under grace : reflections on the spiritual tradition that formed me : writings, addresses, and homilies, 2001-2013

Leo Pope, 1955-,

"In his first book of original, never-before-seen writings, Pope Leo XIV offers readers around the world a window into the spiritual foundation that would lead him to the papacy -- in his own words before his election. Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost had never published a book. But shortly after his election to the papacy, Leo chose these previously unpublished texts to become his first published collection of writings: Freedom Under Grace. This wide-ranging book captures the heart of his spirituality, forged by the conviction that "man is not defined by what he possesses or what he knows, but rather by what he loves." This collection comes from Prevost's time overseeing the Order of Saint Augustine, distilling his understanding of the Christian life today for individuals, local communities and churches, and the whole Catholic Church. Drawing on the rich tradition of Saint Augustine, Prevost advances an inspiring vision rooted in community and solidarity, commitment to social justice for the poor and marginalized, and the confidence that the gospel of Jesus Christ is what the world most desperately needs to face today's challenges. For anyone looking to Pope Leo for wisdom and pastoral guidance, Freedom Under Grace is essential reading, delivering profound spiritual depth, penetrating theological insight, and unwavering moral courage"--

Date Published:2026

Depression cooking : feeding yourself when it all feels too hard

Menezes, Sonali,

"A warm, generous, and illustrated guide to nurturing yourself when life -- and the world -- is too much. When artist Sonali Menezes found herself struggling with mental illness, disordered eating, and the crushing weight of capitalism, she began to look for easy and delicious ways to feed herself that would both fulfill her hunger and her need for care. Her method -- non-judgmental, anti-diet, and approachable -- became Depression Cooking, a book that combines recipes, personal memoir, and illustrations to provide a guide for those moments in all of our lives when making a meal, and loving yourself, feels impossible. In each chapter, Sonali writes and draws about a challenging period in her life, when food seemed more like an enemy than an ally, and shares the recipes and cooking tips that nurtured her body and her soul. From dal to ramen to "things on toast," Depression Cooking lays out an approach that helps us through life's hardest challenges, whether that's becoming a new parent, being fired from a job, weathering grief, or living on our own for the first time. Part comic, part food memoir, part cookbook, Depression Cooking is a love letter to the sad, hungry, and exhausted versions of ourselves who always deserve care, community, and good food. This empathetic, innovative, and delightfully funny book is one of one, and exactly the permission we all need to enjoy beautiful meals just because we can"--

Date Published:2026

Your retirement reset : how to convert home equity into financial security

Pimento, Susan,

"Retirement has changed, and the old playbook no longer works. Your Retirement Reset will shift the mindset for retirees from fearing financial insecurity to embracing the resources available to them by wisely utilizing their hard-earned assets, including the equity in their home, to create the one thing every senior is searching for: guaranteed, predictable income they can rely on for life. Imagine a world where retirees enjoy their golden years with financial independence, dignity, and a home of their choosing, free from the stress of outliving their savings. For those with the means, that is the reality. For many other seniors, that life is within reach, but achieving it requires solutions for unprecedented challenges: longer lifespans; eroding purchasing power; vanishing private sector pensions; a desire to age in place and damn the torpedoes. Consider this: 75 percent of Canadians over 55 are homeowners, and 90 percent want to age in place. Yet most experience FORO -- fear of running out -- and dread their options: downsizing, renting, or moving in with family. Each means sacrificing the very independence and dignity they've worked a lifetime to achieve. Your Retirement Reset offers a clear, modern roadmap through those challenges, showing readers how to use all their assets, including home equity, to build a retirement that actually works. After decades in the financing industry, Susan Pimento recognized a critical gap: We're taught to save but never to strategically spend our hard-earned savings -- including the equity in our homes. This book rewrites the retirement rulebook. It helps you assess your unique needs and provides plans to safely convert home equity into financial security. Through real-life examples, it offers practical strategies to mitigate FORO while balancing retirement security with legacy goals. And it guides families through the difficult but essential conversations about aging, finances, and independence that too often get avoided until crisis hits. Your retirement deserves a reset. This book shows you how"--

Date Published:2026

The Heights

Rankin, Ian,

"Facing Hyde Park, The Heights is London's most coveted luxury high-rise apartment -- designed to satisfy every need, with a gym, infinity pool, cinema, and more, where self-made owner-developer Allan Franklyn himself has claimed the penthouse duplex. His neighbors include some of "Money London's" biggest personalities: a wealthy art dealer, a young heartthrob pop star, a foreign heiress, a gangster's wife. The residents are used to service, deference, and privacy, all on their terms. But when nighttime concierge Dwayne Hogarth is found dead in the lobby, none of that is in their control anymore, and everyone's under the unwelcome scrutiny of Detective Sergeant Gillian Gish. Her questions begin with the party on the 4th floor the night Dwayne died, which ended with a fight; the missing key to one of the apartments; and a mysterious gap in the security camera footage. Before long, Gish uncovers the unsavory truths and dark secrets that lurk beneath the glittering facades of the building and its inhabitants. Filled with shocking twists and unforgettable characters, The Heights confirms Ian Rankin's status as one of the most original and compelling crime writers of our time"--

Date Published:2026

Free falling

Sage, Lyla,

Running Toades Antiques is no small feat for Clarke Cartwright, especially with the ghost of her childhood crushs father haunting her. Leith Wilkes, lifetime flirt, is preparing to take over his father's farm as the result of an oddly specific clause that his dad left in his inheritance. Leith thinks hes the only one who knows about it, until Clarke drunkenly spills that she knows too, along with other family secrets, and Leith begins to suspect there's more to her then she lets on.

Date Published:2026

Crossing the wine-dark sea : journeys through ancient literature

Wilson, Emily R., 1971-,

Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2026. "In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson -- whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation's imagination -- explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and teaching, Wilson explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems, and the inevitable frustrations of never fully capturing what is in the original work. Across chapters that range from the politics of Helen of Troy to the obscenities of Aristophanes, from Roman imitation of Greek models to contemporary debates over 'foreignizing' and 'domesticizing' styles, Wilson examines how modern norms of gender, sexuality, violence, humor, and power complicate our readings of ancient works, and how translation always risks denaturing what is unique and strange about the ancient world. Brilliant, erudite, and yet accessible to readers with no classical background, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is at once an introduction to the wonders of Greek and Roman literature, a manifesto for the value of translation in a rapidly changing world, and an invitation to encounter ancient cultures anew"--

Date Published:2026

The mystic and the missing girl : a mystery

VanSickle, Vikki, 1982-,

"Small town secrets, a reluctant psychic, and a cold case that could expose them all. Drew Benson can read tarot cards and get impressions from objects -- she just never expected to use her gifts to investigate an infamous cold case. Drew Benson has a secret. She gets visions, something she hasn't tapped into since she was a teenager, when her late aunt, a TV psychic known as Hannah Mystic, became the scapegoat in the unsolved disappearance of a local teenager. Twenty years later, Drew is happy to ignore her gift, focusing instead on keeping the metaphysical shop she inherited from Hannah afloat, wrangling her sole, astrology-obsessed employee, and dodging local rake Foster Banks in her picturesque lakeside hometown. But when Drew's arch-nemesis from high school, now a big city reporter, decides to investigate the cold case from all those years ago, it's Drew's ability that could finally make a break in the decades old mystery. With bills piling up, a disapproving mother laying on the guilt, and a local vandal who wants Drew and her witchy store gone, Drew has a lot to lose. But what she stands to gain -- finding out what happened to the missing teen, clearing her aunt's name, and a second chance at belonging -- could change everything. In The Mystic and the Missing Girl, Vikki VanSickle seamlessly draws readers into an utterly charming world in this unputdownable, small town mystery"--

Date Published:2026

Tom Clancy Pressure depth

Stewart, Jack, (Novelist),

Originally published in standard print: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2026. Jack Ryan Jr. is on Guam for a project for Hendley Associates. It's a perfectly ordinary insurance matter, but trouble finds the Ryans wherever they go. It's no surprise when Jack's involvement with a US Navy dive team working off the coast uncovers a threat to international security. For years, rumors persisted that the Soviets had placed a device for tracking American submarines on the sea floor. By now, the technology should be outdated. But the Americans are still interested in recovering it. It seems like a routine mission until they make a shocking discovery: the defensive network they thought they were looking for is a weapon unlike anything they have ever seen.

Date Published:2026

Trust fall

Painter, Lynn,

After inheriting a wealthy neighbor's estate and relocating from Nebraska to New York City, a teenage girl struggles to adjust to an elite private school and her new social environment. When she receives academic help from the great-nephew of the deceased benefactor, the two become involved in an effort to uncover the reasons behind the unexpected inheritance. As their investigation progresses, they must navigate questions of trust, identity, and emerging romantic feelings.

Date Published:2026

Return to Breakneck Island

Ryan, Tom, 1977 February 26-,

For generations, the MacLeary family lived on Breakneck Island - a rocky outcrop with a lighthouse - in an isolated and physically-demanding existence. One night in 1932, the entire family disappears without a trace during a storm. Nearly a century later, three people are drawn to Breakneck Island and its perplexing past, pursuing the real story of the MacLearys. Tom Ryan lives in Halifax, NS.

Date Published:2026

Killing the boogeyman : a novel

Chizmar, Richard, 1965-,

Notorious serial killer Joshua Gallagher -- dubbed "the Boogeyman" by the media -- has vanished from prison. One moment, he was locked inside a maximum-security cell; the next, he was gone, leaving behind on the wall a crude hangman puzzle and two chilling words: IT'S TIME. Now, days later, the world is coming apart again. Bodies are turning up near writer and Gallagher confidante Richard Chizmar's home, echoing the Boogeyman's signature horrors. The news frenzy reignites while the police chase shadows ... even as Gallagher's twisted true crime fanbase celebrates online, acknowledging that he's something more than human now. To everyone else, it's a desperate hunt for answers. To Chizmar, it's more like destiny closing in. The evidence, the sightings, the voices in the dark all point to one unthinkable conclusion: the Boogeyman never left. And very soon, Chizmar must come face-to-face with the thing wearing Gallagher's skin, and learns all too quickly that some nightmares don't return -- they evolve.

Date Published:2026

Peck & Peck : a novel

Garmus, Bonnie,

Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest. It's 1982, New York City. Crime is on the rise, muggings are in the streets, and Batter Gray, recent college graduate with a skill that no one wants -- an "ear" for poetry -- is worried about his future. While all of his friends have real jobs, he's folding T-shirts at the Gap. As for love? No. Not unless you count Sallie Mae, the student loan tyrant. He hears from Sallie all the time. But when Batter gets a dream job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane. Soon Batter is knee-deep in the secret war between the two Editors in Chief, the famous Peck brothers -- twins and enemies -- as well as being privy to the private affairs of their thirty-nine editors, whose professed mission is the same: Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest. And by burn, they mean incinerate. Because at Peck & Peck, "good" isn't good enough, "interesting" doesn't cut it, plagiarists aren't tolerated, and parolees run the mailroom. Still want to submit your poem? Go with God.

Date Published:2026

The pools : a love story

Lockhart, E.,

Lexie, struggling with her mother's illness, moves to a small New England town famous for its mysterious hot springs, where she meets Chester, the town's golden boy with secrets of his own, and soon finds herself caught in an event that changes everything.

Date Published:2026

A time of witches : a novel

Martin, Madeline,

Includes recipes. Originally published in trade paperback: Toronto, ON : Hanover Square Press, 2026. Lilith and Sybil, two women bound by blood and betrayal, must break silence across centuries that has stolen womens power for generations - or be silenced forever.

Date Published:2026

Baby-sitters little sister : Karen's new year. 13, Karen's New Year /

Yingst, DK,

"Based on the novel by Ann M. Martin"--Cover. Simultaneously published in hardcover: New York : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2026. For New Year's Eve, Karen thinks everyone should make a promise. Hannie is going to stop biting her nails. Kristy promises not to talk to her boyfriend about softball on the phone so much. And Karen makes the most promises of all -- nine! But pretty soon, everyone starts breaking their promises. And Karen's brothers and sisters are calling her a spy! Poor Karen. Why is everyone bad at making New Year's promises except her?

Date Published:2026

The fall affair

Keeland, Vi,

"A burned-out divorce attorney inherits her grandmother's chaotic antique shop in Italy -- only to discover a hidden family legacy, a vineyard feud with a charming winemaker, and a mysterious tea set that could destroy the love she's just begun to find"--

Date Published:2026

This book may cause side effects : the curious and dangerous power of the nocebo effect, placebo's evil twin

Pilcher, Helen,

"In this book may cause side effects, Dr. Helen Pilcher explores the "nocebo" effect -- the shadow side of the placebo -- and shows how our convictions can sometimes quite literally harm us Take the COVID vaccine. If you experienced side effects from your COVID vaccine, there is a 76% chance that these were caused by your belief that you would experience them -- not by the mRNA circulating your system. Or, even more extreme, take the case of Sam Shoeman: Although his diagnosis of late-stage esophageal cancer turned out to be erroneous, he was nonetheless dead in months. The power of words, especially from health-care providers, is so formidable that even a wrong diagnosis can actually kill. Our health, or lack of it, is as much about our expectations about illness and its causes as it about damaged cells or wayward hormones. And because we can never fully step outside our cultural context, it's only by understanding these effects that we can hope to prevent them. This Book May Cause Side Effects explores a range of contemporary and historical examples of the nocebo effect, from "hex deaths" to TikTok "illfluencers" to functional neurological disorders, or real illnesses with real symptoms that nonetheless lack any kind of physical basis. Although the nocebo effect has always existed, the advent of the Internet has accelerated its spread. Thankfully, though, Dr. Helen Pilcher also walks us through steps we can take individually and culturally to avoid invoking the nocebo, like reevaluating our relationship to technology, setting up risk-minimizing guidelines in health-care settings, and even crowbarring open-label placebo therapies and nocebo-blocking medicines into the pharmacological toolkit. This Book May Cause Side Effects tells us that though our own minds construct the nocebo effect, it is also in our power to stop it"--

Date Published:2026