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These books came before the buzz—explore the stories that were transformed into popular movies, TV series, and dramatic adaptations.

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  • Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist
    Book, 2022Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2022. — FIC GAR
  • In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.
    Book, 2020New York: Viking, 2020. — F MYS OSM
  • The million-copy bestselling phenomenon: a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step.
    Book, 2015London : Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. — FIC BAC
  • Acerbic, funny, tender and wise, acclaimed author Miriam Toews’s spellbinding seventh novel contains a universe of revelatory thinking about gender, justice, freedom and power
    Book, 2018Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2018. — FIC TOE
  • Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.
    Book, 2014New York : Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2014. — FIC MOR
  • The inspiration for the upcoming Prime Video series Scarpetta—starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Postmortem, the groundbreaking thriller that introduced Dr. Kay Scarpetta…
    eBook, 2009Scribner, 2009
  • As the summer seasons pass, Belly has to choose between two brothers who love her…and she’ll have to break one of their hearts.
    Book, 2010New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2010, c2009. — YA FICHan # 01
  • Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood—and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
    Book, FIC NG
  • The Otis-Winbury wedding promises to be an event to remember: the groom's wealthy parents have spared no expense to host a lavish ceremony at their oceanfront estate. But it's going to be memorable for all the wrong reasons after tragedy strikes: a…
    Book, 2018New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — FIC HIL
  • Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene…
    eBook, 2024In Print Media, 2024
  • For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. Soon to be a Netflix Film.
    Book, FIC VAN
  • More than ten years after her Giller-shortlisted title Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson returns with a striking and precise coming-of-age novel, in which every day teen existence meets Indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics and cannibalistic river…
    Book, 2018Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2018. — FIC ROB
  • Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-this is the mysterious story of a young black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations.
    eBook, 2004Little, Brown and Company, 2004
  • An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is “a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper. The kind of book that gets handed down” (USA TODAY).
    Book, 2016New York : Atria Paperback, 2016. — F ROM HOO
  • From New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware comes The Woman in Cabin 10, a suspenseful and haunting novel set at sea.
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Scout Press, 2016. — FIC WAR
  • Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in Quebec is called to a tiny hamlet south of Montreal to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of a local fixture in the village. Watch this series on Prime titled Three Pines.
    Book, 2005London : Headline, 2005. — F MYS Pen
  • In the reality TV show The Running Man, the only objective is to stay alive.
    eBook, Penguin Publishing Group
  • The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

    Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII

    El-Hai, Jack
    In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil. Now the major motion picture, Nuremberg, starring Russell…
    Book, 2013New York : PublicAffairs, 2013. — 341.69 Elh
  • Winner of the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A dazzling, original novel of slavery and freedom. Adapted as a Hulu original series in 2025.
    Book, 2018Toronto : Patrick Crean Editions, 2018. — FIC EDU
  • A deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare’s eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play. Adapted in 2025 as major motion picture.
    eBook, 2020Knopf Canada, 2020