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  How to Build a Boat

  Elaine Feeney

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  Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize 
   
   
   
  Shortlisted for the 2023 An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 
   
   
   
  One of the Globe and Mail's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" 
   
   
   
  One of the Globe 100's Best Books of 2023 
   
   
   
  Jamie O'Neill loves the color red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of certain objects, books with dust jackets, rivers, cats, and Edgar Allan Poe. At age thirteen, there are two things he wants most in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother, Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind, these things are intimately linked, and at his new school, despite the daily barrage of bullies and cathedral bells, he meets two teachers who might be able to help him, though each struggles against inertias of their own. 
   
   
   
  How to Build a Boat is the story of how one boy's irrepressible dream finds expression through a community propelled by love out of grief. Lyrical and compassionate, it's a novel about the courage of conviction and the power of the imagination to transform—and how sometimes the best way to break free of old walls is to build something beautiful within them.

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  King Solomon's Mines

  H. Rider Haggard

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  King Solomon’s Mines, first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. It relates a journey into the heart of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the legendary wealth said to be concealed in the mines of the novel’s title. It is significant as the first fictional adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered the genesis of the Lost World literary genre. - Haggard wrote over 50 books, among which were 14 novels starring Allan Quatermain.(Summary by Wikipedia/John Nicholson)

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  Fire and Glass

  Linda Seed

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  She’s engaged to a man with a promising future. But even as she makes plans to say “I do,” another man is hoping that she won’t…. 
  It wasn't easy for Lacy Jordan to watch her best friends get paired off one by one, while she was still single and toiling away at a low-paying job. Maybe that's how she ended up engaged to her mother's chiropractor—a man who looks good on paper, but whose stiff manner and controlling ways leave Lacy cold. 
  When steamy-hot glass artist Daniel Reed rescues Lacy from a dicey situation, she finds herself feeling things for him that she's never felt for another man. But Daniel's reluctance to accept her love—and everything that comes with it—means he's the one who needs an adjustment, before both of their hearts are shattered. 
  FIRE AND GLASS is the fourth book in Linda Seed’s Main Street Merchants series. Read the books readers have called "absolutely fantastic," "wonderful," and "funny and emotional."

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  Deck the Fire Halls

  N. R. Walker

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  Doctor Robinson O’Reilly is burned out. Exhausted, jaded, and disillusioned with the bureaucracy of his profession, he’s ready to throw away his entire career. Convinced to take a part-time position in a small town instead, he packs his medical bag for Hartbridge, Montana. 
  Who knows, maybe the change of pace and mountain air will do him good. 
  Firefighter Captain Soren De Silva moved to Hartbridge two years ago. He loves the town, the people, his job. What he doesn’t like is the lack of queer men. Well, the lack of available queer men. There are a few queer couples in town whom Soren can only look at with envy. 
  He wants what they have. 
  There’s a new doctor in town; not Soren’s usual type, but there’s something about him that Soren can’t ignore. A friendship sparks between them and Soren can’t help but wonder if that Hartbridge Christmas magic the others joke about is real. 
  Because a spark leads to flames, and this is not a fire Soren wants to extinguish.

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  The Proxy Bride

  Zoe Boccabella

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  In 1939, Giacinta sets sail from Italy to Australia. Decades later, a granddaughter discovers the true story of her family. 
  Imagine marrying someone you've never met ... 
   
  When Sofie comes to stay with her grandmother in Stanthorpe, she knows little of Nonna Gia's past. In the heat of that 1984 summer, the two clash over Gia's strict Italian ways and superstitions, her chilli-laden spaghetti and the evasive silence surrounding Sofie's father, who died before she was born. Then Sofie learns Gia had an arranged marriage. From there, the past begins to reveal why no-one will talk of her father. 
   
  As Nonna Gia cooks, furtively adding a little more chilli each time, she also begins feeding Sofie her stories. How she came to Australia on a 'bride ship', among many proxy brides, knowing little about the husbands they had married from afar. Most arriving to find someone much different than described. 
   
  Then, as World War II takes over the nation, and in the face of the growing animosity towards Italians that sees their husbands interned, Gia and her friends are left alone. Impoverished. Desperate. To keep their farms going, their only hope is banding together, along with Edie, a reclusive artist on the neighbouring farm and two Women's Land Army workers. But the venture is made near-impossible by the hatred towards the women held by the local publican and an illicit love between Gia and an Australian, Keith. 
   
  The summer burns on and the truth that unfolds is nothing like what Sofie expected ... 
   
  The author of Mezza Italiana brings to life a unique point of migrant women's untold experience, in a resonant novel of family, food and love.  
   
  'A deeply engrossing and authentic story, with such passionate realism you must keep reading.' - JACKIE FRENCH 
   
  'An authentic and heartfelt read that examines the connections we make when faced with hardship ... It's an inspiring look at women coming together to form their own community.' - BETTER READING

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  Lightburst: Love Like Gravity

  Mike Sheriff

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  Lightburst: Love Like Gravity is tailor-made for on-the-go listeners who need a quick sci-fi fix! 
   
  The Disruptions aren’t the only thing troubling 16-year-old Bex. A mysterious melody haunts her thoughts and tugs at her heart. Bizarre blue-violet coronas orbit the heads of her friends and family like miniature galaxies. 
   
  Are the anomalies somehow connected to her dead sister? Are they the byproducts of an unravelling world? Are they the signposts of an unravelling mind? 
   
  A strange woman holds the answers. For Bex, the answers reveal a connection between life and death that she never dreamed possible...

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