May 2019 list by Donalee Jacobs
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The 18th Abduction
by James Patterson
Detective Lindsay Boxer teams up with intrepid journalist Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of three schoolteachers amid rumors of a notorious Eastern European war criminal spotted on the streets of San Francisco.
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The Big Kahuna
by Janet Evanovich
Nick Fox and Kate O’Hare have their work cut out for them in a wild adventure that features a stoner, an Instagram model, a Czech oligarch and a missing unicorn.
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Blessing in Disguise
by Danielle Steel
Loving three very different men throughout her lifetime, a single mother and art consultant examines the unique bonds she shares with her three daughters, before an unexpected twist of fate brings a past secret to light.
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Collusion
by Newt Gingrich
An FBI terrorism expert and a disgraced Navy SEAL team up to prevent the assassination of a high-ranking Kremlin official who would help prevent a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
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Day of the Dragon
by Katie MacAlister
A paranormal romance, which also includes the novel Wolf’s Mate by Celia Kyle, follows a young woman who doesn’t believe in the supernatural until she meets Archer Andras of the Storm Dragons and discovers that she is the key to saving the world.
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Deception Cove
by Owen Laukkanen
A recently widowed marine suffering PTSD from her time in Afghanistan has her service dog kidnapped by a corrupt deputy sheriff who wants to blackmail her into delivering goods allegedly stolen by her husband before his death.
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Disappearing Earth
by Julia Phillips
The shattering disappearance of two young girls from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula compounds the isolation and fears of a tight-woven community, connecting the lives of neighbors, witnesses, family members and a detective throughout an ensuing year of tension.
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The Girl He Used To Know
by Tracey Garvis Graves
A tumultuous but tender love affair between a socially awkward chess club member and a courageous, quirky girl is shattered by an unforeseen tragedy that forces them to confront respective anxieties when they reunite a decade later.
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A Good Enough Mother
by Bev Thomas
When a new patient, Dan—unstable and traumatized— looks exactly like her missing son, psychotherapist Ruth Hartland is determined to help him, but soon, her own complicated feelings cloud her professional judgement, and she begins to cross some dangerous boundaries.
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Home Remedies
by Xuan Juliana Wang
A debut collection of 12 stories reflecting the current freedom-seeking generation of Chinese youth ranges from the experiences of a first-generation Chinese-American family to the pressures on a pair of divers at the Beijing Olympics.
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The Last Time I Saw You
by Liv Constantine
Supported by her childhood best friend in the aftermath of her mother's murder, a prominent heart surgeon receives threatening taunts from the killer and risks her mental stability in her desperation to solve the case.
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Little Lovely Things
by Maureen J. Connolly
Speeding down the highway on the way to work, her two little girls sleeping in the back seat, medical resident Claire Rawlings doesn't have time for the nausea overtaking her. But as the world tilts sideways, she pulls into a gas station, runs to the bathroom, and passes out. When she wakes up minutes later, her car--and her daughters--are gone. The police have no leads, and the weight of guilt presses down on Claire as each hour passes with no trace of her girls. All she has to hold on to are her strained marriage, a potentially unreliable witness and the desperate but unquenchable belief that her daughters are out there somewhere.
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Mistress of the Ritz
by Melanie Benjamin
The director of the luxurious Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris and his courageous American wife, Blanche Auzello, risk their marriage and lives to support the French Resistance during World War II. By the best-selling author of The Aviator's Wife.
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Murder in the Reading Room
by Ellery Adams
In order to save her boyfriend, who has been kidnapped, Jane Steward is forced to lead his captor to a historic estate that he believes houses Ernest Hemingway's lost suitcase, a search that leads instead to murder.
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The Paris Diversion
by Chris Pavone
Kate Moore from The Expats partners with a French agent to investigate a bombing threat in Paris, a race against time that is complicated by her husband's missing nemesis and a suspicious absence of orders from Langley.
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A Prince on Paper
by Alyssa Cole
Nya Jerami, who wants to escape her sheltered life, reluctantly enters into a pretend engagement with celebrity prince Johan von Braustein, whom she loves to hate, only to start falling for the playboy prince for real.
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The Pursuits of Lord Kit Cavanaugh
by Stephanie Laurens
Kit Cavanugh and Sylvia Buckleberry fight to secure her school and to expose the blackguard trying to sabotage his yacht business; yet an even more dastardly villain lurks, one who threatens the future both discover they now hold dear.
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Resistance Women
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Resisting the power grabs of an increasingly formidable Nazi Party in 1930s Berlin, the courageous American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends engage in a clandestine battle to sabotage Hitler's regime.
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The Road Home
by Richard Paul Evans
A conclusion to the trilogy that includes, The Forgotten Road, finds Charles struggling with his ex-wife's engagement while continuing his pilgrimage toward Santa Monica along iconic Route 66.
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The Satapur Moonstone
by Sujata Massey
India's only female lawyer in 1922 helps the royal ladies of Satapur by getting involved in the power plays and ancient vendettas of the palace in the second novel of the series following The Widows of Malabar Hill.
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The Scribbly Man
by Terry Goodkind
After centuries of bitter feuds and bloodshed, First Wizard Richard and Mother Confessor Kahlan have engineered a fair, peaceful kingdom until they receive a threat that will destroy everything they have fought for.
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The Summoning
by Heather Graham
A startling manifestation during a séance at her Savannah bed-and-breakfast prompts Kristi Stewart to partner with investigator Dallas Wicker, who ties the property's history to the suspicious death of a colleague.
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Sunset Beach
by Mary Kay Andrews
Reluctantly accepting a job at her estranged father's law firm in the aftermath of her mother's passing, Drue is tangled in a decades-old mystery that threatens everyone she loves. By the best-selling author of The High Tide Club.
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Tightrope
by Amanda Quick
When her new bed-and-breakfast is threatened by a robot innovator's untimely death, a former trapeze artist teams up with an enigmatic man who would track down a cipher machine prototype.
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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Making an obligatory pilgrimage to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out their mother's final rites, three estranged British-Punjabi sisters make unexpected discoveries about why their mother was forced to leave India.
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