April 2024 list by Nanette Alderman
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The Angel of Indian Lake
by Stephen Graham Jones
Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her.
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The Emperor and the Endless Palace
by Justinian Huang
Woven together by the twists and turns of fate, two men are reborn, lifetime after lifetime. Within the treacherous walls of an ancient palace and the boundless forests of the Asian wilderness to the heart-pounding cement floors of underground rave scenes, our lovers are inexplicably drawn to each other, constantly tested by the worlds around them.
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Everyone Is Watching
by Heather Gudenkauf
A twisty locked-room thriller about a mysterious, high-stakes game show that proves life-threatening.
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Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice
by Elle Cosimano
Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime, Vero, arrive in Atlantic City and must find the location of Vero's kidnapped crush and a stolen car.
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Floating Hotel
by Grace Curtis
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. Each guest has a secret, every member of staff a universe unto themselves. At the center of these interweaving lives and interlocking mysteries stands Carl, one time stowaway, longtime manager, devoted caretaker to the hotel.
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Good Half Gone
by Tarryn Fisher
After witnessing her twin sister get kidnapped years prior, Iris Walsh decides to intern at a hospital for the criminally insane where she believes the perpetrator is being held and discovers something even more sinister going on.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
While in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her family, newlywed Meddy Chan is unwittingly drawn into a decades-long war between Jakarta's most powerful business factions along with her Aunties and must come with a plan to save them all.
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Happily Never After
by Lynn Painter
A woman who learns her fiancé has cheated again hires a professional objector to stand up at their nuptials and stop the proceedings. She soon discovers that she and her new contractor have sizzling chemistry.
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Listen for the Lie
by Amy Tintera
When Lucy's friend Savvy is murdered, anyone could be the killer, even Lucy, and soon enough a true-crime podcast comes investigating.
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The Lost Book of Bonn
by Brianna Labuskes
In 1946 Germany while cataloging literature plundered by the Nazis, librarian Emmy Clarke finds a poetry collection which leads her to two sisters, a horrific betrayal, and an extraordinary protest of hundreds of brave women who did what so few others dared to do under the Third Reich—they said no.
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Never Fall Again
by Lynn Huggins Blackburn
Landry Hutton, quiet artist-in-residence of The Haven, came to Gossamer Falls to build a new life and a new home for her and her daughter with the unexpected help of a handsome former Marine. But when danger threatens them, can Callum Shaw help protect both their hearts and lives?
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The New Couple in 5B
by Lisa Unger
Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad's late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. At first, the building and its eclectic tenants couldn't feel more welcoming. But as the Lowans settle into their new home, Rosie starts to suspect that there's more to the Windermere than meets the eye.
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The Princess of Las Vegas
by Chris Bohjalian
Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency, and obsession.
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Sleeping Giants
by Sylvain Neuvel
Years after waking up dozens of feet below the ground on the palm of what seems to be a mysterious giant metal hand, a top-level physicist leads a team of people to discover the nature of the hand, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity.
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Studies at the School by the Sea
by Jenny Colgan
Even though literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast, lately she's been feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown.
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A Touch of Chaos
by Scarlett St. Clair
The gods are at war, the Titans have been released, and Hades and Persephone must fight tooth and nail for their happy ending. To end the chaos, Persephone must draw upon her darkness and embrace who she's become-goddess, wife, queen of the Underworld. Once, Persephone made bargains to save those she loves. Now, she will go to war for them.
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The Underground Library
by Jennifer Ryan
When the Blitz destroys Bethnal Green Library in London, librarian Juliet Lansdown, along with two other women, relocates the stacks to the local Underground station where the city's residents shelter nightly. They are determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up, but soon tragedy after tragedy threatens to destroy what they've built.
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Until August
by Gabriel Garcâia Mâarquez
In a rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Ana Magdalena Bach has been happily married for 27 years, and yet, every August, she travels by ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
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The Weavers of Alamaxa
by Hadeer Elsbai
The Daughters of Izdihar, a group of women fighting for the vote and against the patriarchal rule of Parliament, have finally made strides in having their voices heard only to find them drowned out by the cannons of the fundamentalist Ziranis. As long as Alamaxa continues to allow for the elemental magic of the weavers, the Zirani will stop at nothing to end what they perceive is a threat to not only their way of life, but the entire world.
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