10/14/2026
✨ NEW ARRIVALS ✨
Here are some more new titles in our Adult Fiction collection! If any of these books interest you, you can place a hold at any time through our online catalogue: catalogue.nlpl.ca
For a description of each book, keep reading...
SINGLE PLAYER – TARA TAI
- “Cat Li cares about two things: video games and swoony romances. The former has meant there's not been much of the latter in her (real) life, but when she lands her dream job writing the love storylines for Compass Hollow - the next big thing in games - she knows it's all been worth it. Then she meets her boss: the infamous Andi Zhang, who's not only an arrogant hater of happily-ever-afters determined to keep Cat from doing her job but also impossibly, annoyingly hot.”
- “As Compass Hollow's narrative director, Andi couldn't care less about love - in-game or out. After getting doxxed by internet trolls three years ago, Andi's been trying to prove to the gaming world that they're a serious gamedev. Their plan includes writing the best game possible, with zero lovey-dovey stuff. That is, until the man funding the game's development insists Andi add romance in order to make the story 'more appealing to female gamers.'”
- “Forced to give Cat a chance, Andi begrudgingly realizes there's more to Cat than romantic idealism and, okay, a cute smile. But admitting that would mean giving up the single-player life that has kept their heart safe for years. And when Cat uncovers a behind-the-scenes plan to destroy Andi's career, the two will have to put their differences aside and find a way to work together before it's game over.”
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD – SABINA NORDQVIST
- “Your fake relationship shouldn't come with chronic feelings. Skylar is done with offline relationships--especially romantic ones. Living with chronic illness means she's heard it all before: unreliable, high-maintenance, too much. She'd rather spend her free time in her online chronic pain support group, and lately, she can't help but notice Pike, the hot new guy with a penchant for broody poetry. When a chaotic night in the group forces her to pose as his girlfriend, she reluctantly agrees to keep up the charade in real life. Surprisingly, he's thoughtful, sweet, and--most importantly--doesn't flinch at the things that have scared others away.”
- “Fake dating gets a lot more complicated when she discovers Pike isn't just some guy. He's a professional snowboarder whose career-ending injury is as infamous as his pl***oy past. He won't talk about that, though. He's fine. Really. But pretending to be in love with Skylar turns out to be the least depressing thing he's done in months. As they spend more time together, she starts to notice the cracks in his carefully crafted image, and for once, he doesn't mind being seen.”
- “After all the bed-sharing and late-night talks, it becomes harder for both of them to pretend. But just as things start turning real, the paparazzi catch on, wanting the scoop on how everyone's favorite Olympic medalist is doing post-accident. Dating while disabled comes with challenges of its own, but public speculation and invasive questions are something else entirely. If their newfound feelings can't survive the spotlight, their not-so-fake relationship may be over before it ever truly begins.”
LEILA & KHALED – NYLA MATUK
- “A decolonial vacation romance between two Palestinians-one raised in exile, the other rooted on the land-searching for home in each other.”
- “Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegation of academics on her first journey to Occupied Palestine. What begins as an intellectual pilgrimage becomes an intimate, destabilizing return to an ancestral land her family was exiled from. There, she meets Khaled-a younger Palestinian man who pulls her into a mesmeric trance of desire, curiosity, and confrontation. Their brief charged affair unfolds in a landscape shaped by rupture and resistance, each of them bearing different inheritances of the same loss.”
- “One night in Khaled's hotel room, Leila listens as he recounts a harrowing confrontation with a former paramilitary who participated in the Nakba of 1948. The conversation cracks open buried grief and fury, bringing history violently into the present. Leila and Khaled is a love story and a reckoning-a lyrical, unflinching meditation on belonging, memory, and the enduring wounds of colonialism.”
SOUVENIRS DE LUI – COLLEEN HOOVER, PAULINE VIDAL
- French translation of Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
- “‘J'ai raté ma vie...’ Le constat est amer. À quarante-trois ans, l'acteur Ricky Lam est toujours la coqueluche d'Hollywood, mais il est terriblement seul. Il ne connaît pas ses deux fils, nés de passades d'un soir et pour lesquels il se contente de payer une pension alimentaire. Bien qu'il n'ait pas touché à la drogue depuis plus de quinze ans, il n'a pas réussi à regagner la confiance de son frère Philip, qui est aussi son agent. Il ne perd pourtant pas espoir... jusqu'au jour de l'accident.”
- “La mort de Philip déclenche alors une série de questions. Peu à peu, ses secrets se dévoilent. Argent, tragédie, scandale... Qui était-il réellement? Roxanne, sa veuve, pourrait aider Ricky à le découvrir. Mais depuis toujours elle le hait, et depuis toujours elle l'obsède.”
THE MIDNIGHT TAXI – YOSHA GUNASEKERA
- “Siriwathi Perera doesn't quite know where she's going in life. She never expected to be a taxicab driver in New York City, struggling to make ends meet and still living with her parents at twenty-eight. The true-crime podcasts that keep Siri company as she drives don't do much to make up for the legal career she imagined for herself, or the brother she's grieving.”
- “When public defender Amaya Fernando gets into her cab, they make a quick connection through their shared Sri Lankan roots. Siri, whose social circle is limited to her grade-school best friend, Alex, thinks things might finally be looking up with this new potential friendship. But she's suddenly dropped into her own true crime when she discovers her next passenger murdered in the backseat, and she has to call Amaya sooner than she'd expected.”
- “Pinned as the obvious and only suspect, and desperate to clear her name, Siri chases down leads across the boroughs of New York City with Amaya's help. But with her court date looming, they have just five days to find out who really killed the midnight passenger-or Siri's life will be over before she can even truly live it.”
A FAR-FLUNG LIFE – M. L. STEDMAN
- “Remote Western Australia, 1958: here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a vast sheep station, Meredith Downs. It is a million acres, an ocean of arid land. On an ordinary day, on a lonely road, under the unending blue sky, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo. In seconds the lives of the entire MacBride family are shattered. And then, tragedy revisits, when a twist of consequences claims the life of one sibling, and leads another to give up everything for the sake of an innocent child. Matt, the youngest MacBride, is plunged into a moral and emotional journey for which there is no map, no guide. The secret at the heart of this gutting and beautiful story forces him to choose between love and duty, sacrifice and happiness.”
- “A Far-flung Life is a tale about family and belonging, fate and time. It is about people trying to do their best, and each, for private reasons, seeking shelter from the storm of life. Can a fleeting moment unravel a whole life, mar it indelibly and irrevocably? Can compassion, resilience, and forgiveness allow us to come to terms with our human imperfections? These are the questions Stedman asks in A Far-flung Life, her profoundly moving, uplifting, and luminous new novel about what the heart can endure for the sake of love.”
