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VPL - Books Just For You - Fiction At Home and Abroad

This list was prepared by VPL's reading experts for a reader interested in BC and Canadian authors, historical fiction, and international settings in print and ebook formats. Favourite authors include Robert Harris and Iona Whishaw.

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  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. An intergenerational saga set in Lagos, London, and Montreal delves into the reverberating effects of a Nigerian mother's choices on her twin daughters' lives.
    eBook, 2020Lightning Source Inc, 2020.
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. A Japanese woman who has been working at a convenience store for 18 years, much to the disappointment of her family, finds friendship with an alienated, cynical and bitter young man who becomes her coworker.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Grove Press, 2018.
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. Young Charlotte Bell lives at a secluded estate called Fayne, straddling the border between England and Scotland. Though she is intelligent, curious, and lively, she is kept in isolation due to a mysterious “condition.”
    Book, 2022Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022.
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. This Governor-General's Award winning novel follows the lives of five survivors of a remote residential school -- Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie -- and their attempts to find peace and recovery in the years after…
    Book, 2020Toronto, Ontario : Harper Perennial, [2020]
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. An absorbing, atmospheric novel of interlocking narratives about the lives of two half-siblings, Vincent and Paul. For readers who enjoyed philosophical explorations and surprisingly entertaining digressions, as well as…
    Book, 2020Toronto, Ontario, Canada : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2020]
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. It’s July 1936 in Toronto, and citizens are sweltering under a heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the rooky private eye in Gilmore’s firm. When his wife is attacked, he is jailed as the main suspect. Frayne must help clear…
    Book, 2019Toronto, ON : Cormorant Books, [2019]
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. Addie LaRue makes a deal with the devil to dodge an unwanted marriage and unremarkable life in 17th century France. A sinister transaction like this always comes at price, though. While Addie is granted immortality in…
    Book, 2020New York : Tor, 2020.
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. Stella Lane, an econometrician with Asperger's, hires escort Michael Phan to boost her dating confidence, sparking an unconventional and passionate romance that challenges societal norms and explores the depth of love…
    Book, 2018New York : Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. "In fifteenth-century China, Tan Yunxian loses her mother at a young age, and her father quickly remarries, sending Yunxian to live with her grandparents...Based on the writings of an historical Ming dynasty female…
    Book, 2023New York : Scribner, 2023.
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. This literary courtroom thriller is about a tragic accident at an alternative healing centre and the ways in which the investigation impacts the various parties -- from the family that has put their savings and hopes…
    Book, 2019New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. This is the first volume in McCall Smith's sensational cozy mystery series featuring Madame Precious Ramotswe, who opens a detective agency in Botswana.
    Book, 1998Edinburgh : Polygon, c1998.
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. Set in 12th century England, this historical novel revolves around the constructions of a grand cathedral, portraying a captivating story of love, betrayal, and political strife. Against the backdrop of this monumental…
    Book, 1989New York : Morrow, c1989.
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT BOOK. Set against the backdrop of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, young lovers are conjoined by their love of music and torn apart by their differing commitments to the ideological project of Mao. Dawn, a gifted musician, puts…
    Book, 2021Toronto, Ontario : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2021.
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. "A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo." — Publisher
    Book, 2024Toronto : Coach House Books, [2024]
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. Hannah’s moving version of the Vietnam narrative centres on the experiences of women. In 1966, a sheltered and patriotic young woman impulsively signs up to become an army nurse in Vietnam. Without adequate training,…
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.