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Tuesday January 27
BAYVIEW LCBO

Kate Jacobs - Knit Two
The Sequel to the Beloved #1 New York Times Bestseller
The Friday Night Knitting Club—MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD

Knit Two returns to the Manhattan knitting store Walker & Daughter five years after the death of the store's owner, Georgia Walker. Georgia's daughter Dakota is now an 18 year old freshman at NYU, running the knitting store part-time with the help of the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club. Drawn together by their love for Dakota and the sense of family the club provides, each knitter is struggling with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce, for Darwin, newborn twins, for Lucie, being both a single mom and caregiver for her elderly mother, and for seventysomething Anita, marriage to her sweetheart Marty over the objections of her grown children.

As Kate Jacobs returns to the world of Walker & Daughter, she's once again keyed into many of the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter and friend. Every woman who picks up this book will see themselves in its characters--the very thing that made The Friday Night Knitting Club such a huge word-of-mouth success. A true love letter to the power of women's friendships, and, of course, knitting, Knit Two is entertainment with a heart.

Thursday, February 19
THE KINGSWAY LCBO

Ilana Stanger-Ross - Sima’s Undergarments for Women

In a hidden bra shop in Brooklyn, one woman’s fifty-year-old secret comes unhooked.

There are some life-long quests that all women have in common—meaningful work, true love, and a bra that doesn’t leave red marks on your skin. With a gracefulness evocative of Amy Bloom and Alice McDermott, prizewinning writer Ilana Stanger-Ross has created a secret underground New York sisterhood where women of every shape and creed can come to share their milestones, laughter, loves, and losses against a backdrop of discount lingerie. In the comfort of her Brooklyn basement bra shop, Sima Goldner teaches other women to appreciate their bodies, but feels betrayed by her own. Shamed by her infertility and a secret from her youth, she has given up on happiness and surrendered to a bitter marriage. But then Timna, a young Israeli with enviable cleavage, becomes the shop seamstress. As the two serve the colorful customers of the orthodox Jewish neighborhood, Sima finds herself awakened to adventure and romance. Years after giving up on their marriage, Sima and her husband, Lev, must decide if what they have is worth saving.

Tuesday, March 24
BURLINGTON LCBO

Sherri Vanderveen - Absent

What happens when a father disappears? How are the empty spaces of an absence filled?

In 1979, Otto Sinclair flees in the wake of a tragic fire, leaving his family to sort through the ashes. Twenty-eight years later, he comes back to them: his wife Lenore, a kept woman in mourning with a box of memories in the trunk of her car; his daughter Ruby, who peoples her world with the imaginary and the unattainable; his son Gavin, confined in a prison of his own creation; and the ghost of his mother, dead on the third floor of the house he burned down.

A single act of desperation can echo for decades. Now, a wounded family struggles to answer one final question: is it possible to forgive when it's impossible to forget?

Thursday, March 26
SUMMERHILL LCBO

Edeet Ravel - Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth

From Edeet Ravel, internationally acclaimed author of the Tel Aviv Trilogy, comes a deeply personal and emotionally resonant novel about an unexpected friendship between two young women. Maya and Rosie meet one day at the local dry cleaner’s and their instant friendship quickly blossoms into an inseparable bond. Both are children of Holocaust survivors, but Maya refuses to become entangled in her mother’s past, while Rosie is drawn into her parents’ haunted world. Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth is at once a novel about the strength and nature of friendship, the weight of the secrets we keep, and whether or not we are ever able to truly live beyond the past.

Thursday, April 16
THE KINGSWAY LCBO

Kim Echlin – The Disappeared

This story of passionate love between a Canadian and her Cambodian lover evokes their tumultuous relationship in a world of colliding values. Set against the backdrop of horrific loss, these two self-exiled lovers struggle to recreate themselves in a world that rejects their hopes. Spare, unrelenting, and moving, The Disappeared is an unforgettable consideration of love, language, justice, and memory set against the backdrop of the killing fields of Pol Pot.