Bibliothèque publique Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library: General Fiction: February 2026

Recent Releases

This Is Where the Serpent Lives
by Daniyal Mueenuddin

Spanning decades, this moving, lyrical look at life and social class in modern-day Pakistan follows memorable characters, from orphaned Bayazid, who rises to the position of chauffeur to Hisham, who's the heir to a large estate, to Hisham himself, who attended college in the United States, as well as others connected to these two. "This is a masterpiece," raves Publishers Weekly. Read-alikes: When the Fireflies Dance by Aisha Hassan; Aravind Adiga's novels.

The Award
by Matthew Pearl

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, aspiring author David Trent and his girlfriend rent the upper floor in a house belonging to well-known writer Silas Hale. But while David dreams of mentorship, he gets the cold shoulder. That is, until he wins an award and Silas invites him to a literary party, which leads to murder and more in this witty send-up of the writing life. Read-alikes: Daniel Aleman's I Might Be in Trouble; R.F. Kuang's Yellowface.

The Pelican Child: Stories
by Joy Williams

In her latest collection, "a gift from a master of the form" (Publishers Weekly), author Joy Williams includes 12 lyrical, witty, and surreal tales, including "Nettle," "After the Haiku Period," and "Baba Iaga & The Pelican Child." For another acclaimed story collection, try: Margaret Atwood's Old Babes in the Wood.

The City Changes Its Face
by Eimear McBride

It’s 1995. Outside their grimy window, the city rushes by. But in the flat there is only Stephen and Eily. Their bodies, the tangled sheets. Unpacked boxes stacked in the kitchen and the total obsession of new love. Eighteen months later, the flat feels different. Love is merging with reality. Stephen’s teenage daughter has re-appeared, while Eily has made a choice, the consequences of which she cannot outrun. Now they face a reckoning for all that's been left unspoken - emotions, secrets and ambitions. Tonight, if they are to find one another again, what must be said aloud?

Swallows
by Natsuo Kirino

When a young single woman in Tokyo decides she's ready to sell anything-even her womb-to escape the precarity of her life, an agency pairs her with a wealthy couple desperate to have a child. The match seems made in heaven. She even looks a little like the wife. But is anything ever that simple?

The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
by Michiko Aoyama

Nestled at the bottom of a five-story apartment block in the community of Advance Hill is the children's playground in Hinode Park. If you look to the side, standing on stubby legs, is a hippo. Its upturned eyes give it a teary look, yet for decades, its quiet power has sustained the hearts of one community. According to urban legend, if you touch the exact part of the hippo where you have an ailment or wound, you will see swift signs of recovery.

Remain
by Nicholas Sparks

After his sister’s death and his treatment at a psychiatric facility, New York architect Tate moves to a Cape bed-and-breakfast, where he has an immediate connection with Wren; but hate and greed fester below the surface of Wren’s life, and Tate must unearth the truth about the past.

A New New Me
by Helen Oyeyemi

Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week. There’s a Kinga for every day: On Mondays, you can catch Kinga-A deleting food delivery apps. By Friday, Kinga-E is happy to spend the days soaking, wine-drunk, in the bath. Kingas A–G, perhaps unsurprisingly, live a varied life -- between them is a matchmaker, a scent-crazed perfumer, and a window cleaner, all with varying degrees of apathy, anger, introversion, and bossiness. It’s an arrangement that’s not without its fair share of admin, grudges, and half-truths. But when Kinga-A discovers a man tied up in their apartment, the Kingas have to reckon with the possibility that one of them might be planning to destroy them all.

A Dog in Georgia
by Lauren Grodstein

With her stepson at college and her husband probably cheating on her again, middle-aged Amy Webb focuses on internet videos of Angel, a dog in Tbilisi, Georgia. When Angel goes missing, Amy heads to Eastern Europe to help find him, and maybe herself too.

The Wilderness
by Angela Flournoy

An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship. Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood - overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences - swoops in and stays. As these friends move from the late 2000’s into the late 2020’s, from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another - amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life.

Wreck
by Catherine Newman

In Western Massachusetts, Rocky juggles family life with her husband, adult children and aging father, until her fixation on a local accident and an ominous medical concern stirs up anxieties that threaten to upend her fragile sense of normalcy.

My Beloved: A Mitford Novel
by Jan Karon

Father Tim’s love letter to wife Cynthia goes missing and circulates among his neighbors; Harley gets an important letter of his own; a broken heart teaches Old Mayor Esther a lesson; and thanks to Lace and Dooley, readers get what they’ve been waiting for: Sadie.

The Phoebe Variations
by Jane Hamilton

Seventeen-year-old Phoebe was never interested in her birth family. But on the cusp of her high school graduation, her adoptive mother, Greta, insists on a visit to meet her biological parents and siblings. The encounter is a jolt, a revelation that derails Phoebe. With the help of her best friend Luna, Phoebe runs away -- as far as their friend Patrick O'Connor's chaotic home, where she hopes to go unnoticed among his thirteen siblings. What begins as a adolescent rebellion soon spirals into a whirlwind of transformation and self-discovery. As Phoebe grapples with her shifting identity, she must navigate the tumultuous road out of girlhood and chart a new and unknown course.

What a Time to Be Alive
by Jade Chang

Struggling with grief, unemployment, and a fractured family, Lola Treasure Gold unexpectedly rises to fame as a self-help guru after a viral video, but she must confront accusations, personal loss, and the mystery of her missing mother while seeking her own truth.

Lightbreakers
by Aja Gabel

The marriage of Maya, an artist, and Noah, a quantum physicist, is complicated by Serena, the lost child that Noah had with his ex-wife, Eileen. When Noah is asked to participate in a clandestine time travel project, the couple relocates to the Janus Lab, deep in the desert. Noah finds himself drawn into the dangerous kind of time travel that could result in seeing Serena again, and his past begins to overtake him. When his ex-wife, Eileen, joins the project, Maya embarks on a journey to her own past. As Noah, Maya, and Eileen grapple with the balance between holding on and letting go, new information emerges that the Janus Lab might not be exactly what it seems.

Contact your librarian for more great books!