Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council.

• The Shoe on the Roof, Will Ferguson (Simon & Schuster Canada)
• Sleeping in the Ground, Peter Robinson (McClelland & Stewart)
• In the Midst of Winter, Isabel Allende (Atria Books/S&S Canada)
• Rose & Poe, Jack Todd (ECW Press)
• Uncommon Type: Some Stories, Tom Hanks (Knopf Canada)
• The Rules of Magic, Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster)
• Seven Days of Us, Francesca Hornak (Berkley/PRHC)
• Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan (Scribner/S&S Canada)
• The Power, Naomi Alderman (Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group Canada)
• Has the World Ended Yet? Peter Darbyshire (Wolsak & Wynn Publishers)

Visit LoanStars.ca for more great book recommendations and information about how publishers and library staff can get involved.