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Reads for your holiday courtesy of the bookworms at WHILEAWAY BOOKSHOP & CAFE

NEW RELEASE
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY
AMOR TOWLES
In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett
Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the
warden of the juvenile work farm where he

has just served fteen months for involuntary
manslaughter. With his mother long gone,
his father recently deceased, and the family
farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett
plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother
Billy and head to California to start a new
life. But when the warden drives away, Advertise with us,
NON-FICTION Emmett discovers that two friends from the
LOVE STORIES work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden’s car. ey have a

very di erent plan for Emmett’s future, one that will take the four of them

TRENT DALTON on a fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City. you’ll love our readers
Inspired by a personal moment of profound
love and generosity, Trent Dalton, bestselling author
YOUNG ADULT
and one of Australia’s nest journalists, spent two months in

2021 speaking to people from all walks of life, asking them YOUʼLL BE THE DEATH OF ME
one simple and direct question: ‘Can you please tell me a love KAREN MCMANUS

story?’ e result is an immensely warm, poignant, funny, and Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close - best
moving book about love in all its guises, including observations, friends back in middle school. So, when Cal
pulls into campus late for class, and runs

re ections and stories of people falling into love, falling out of
into Ivy and Mateo, they decide to ditch
love, and never letting go of the loved ones in their hearts.
school. Just like old times. But they’re not
the only ones skipping school that day.
When the trio spot classmate Brian ‘Boney’
CRIME
Mahoney acting suspiciously downtown
THE MAN WHO DIED they follow him into an empty building and
TWICE walk straight into a murder scene. Brian’s
not the only one keeping secrets, and when
RICHARD OSMAN
their day of freedom turns deadly it’s only a
After the success of e ursday matter of time before the truth comes out.

Murder Club, Richard Osman’s crime-

ghting septuagenarians are back in YOUNG READER
ROOFTOPPERS

e Man Who Died Twice.

It’s the ursday after the ursday

KATHERINE RUNDELL

Murder Club’s rst case. Elizabeth
A beautiful novel about a group of urchins
has been approached by a man from
living on the rooftops of Victorian
her past who has made a mistake — a
Paris, which is a tribute to believing in
‘stolen diamonds, the mob is involved’
the impossible. Hopeful, inspiring and
kind of mistake — and he needs her
thrilling in equal measure, this is a classic
help. It quickly becomes clear that this
adventure story about pursuing your

isn’t anything like their rst small town
dreams and never ignoring what could be
case, so with the help of Joyce, Ron and Ibrihim, Elizabeth gets to work.
possible...
Can she nd the killer and the diamonds before it’s too late?

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