May 2021 list by Donalee Jacobs
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21st Birthday
by James Patterson
Investigating the disappearance of a young mother and her baby girl, Detective Lindsay Boxer is presented with evidence that not only proves the innocence of the husband but places the lives of women all over the state of California in grave danger.
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An Amish Surprise
by Shelley Shepard Gray
Returning to the Amish community of Berlin, bookmobile owner Sarah Anne Miller helps Miriam and Calvin Gingerich for the family they’ve always prayed for when she meets a 10-year-old boy named Miles who needs a home.
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Auntie Poldi and the Lost Madonna
by Mario Giordano
There’s only one Auntie Poldi: bewigged, cursing in Bavarian, and knocking back a wee shot of grappa as a pre-breakfast aperitif ... or is there? No one is as they seem (and sound) in a humorous new mystery featuring Sicily’s sultriest sleuth.
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Confessions from the Quilting Circle
by Maisey Yates
When aging matriarch Addie Ashwood dies, she leaves behind her an estranged daughter, three very different granddaughters, and a quilt that needs to be finished, which might be the Ashwood women’s opportunity to stich their family back together, one truth at a time.
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A Distant Shore
by Karen Kingsbury
Reconnecting with a woman whose life he saved when they were both children, FBI secret agent Jack Ryder finds himself falling unexpectedly in love during a dangerous mission involving the woman’s arranged marriage.
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A Dog's Courage
by W. Bruce Cameron
A weekend camping trip in the Rocky Mountains turns into a harrowing struggle for survival when a raging inferno separates Bella from her people, and, alone in the wilderness, must protect two defenseless mountain lion cubs as she searches for Lucas and Olivia.
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Family Reunion
by Nancy Thayer
Newly widowed, Eleanor Sunderland finds dreams of a family reunion in Nantucket shattered when her money-driven children suggest she sell the house and move to a retirement home, and finds a lone ally in her 22-year-old granddaughter, Ari, who moves in with her for the summer.
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Find You First
by Linwood Barclay
Searching for the children he has never known, tech billionaire Miles Cookson, diagnosed with a terminal illness, discovers that, one by one, his potential heirs are vanishing – every trace of them wiped, like they never existed at all.
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Finding Ashley
by Danielle Steel
When the home that has given her new purpose is threatened by a wildfire, a grieving mother reconnects with her estranged sister, a nun, to track down the child she gave up for adoption years earlier.
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Hour of the Witch
by Chris Bohjalian
A resourceful Puritan woman in 1662 Boston plots to escape a violent marriage only to find herself targeted by her disapproving and superstitious neighbors for failing to save a child’s life.
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The Last Green Valley
by Mark Sullivan
In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must run from their land and the only option to find freedom is to go with murderous Nazi officers.
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Light Perpetual
by Francis Spufford
Ingenious and profound, this novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five souls who perished during a visit to a local store, illuminating the shapes of experience, the extraordinariness of the ordinary, the mysteries of memory, and the preciousness of life.
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Local Woman Missing
by Mary Kubica
When Delilah, who disappeared 11 years earlier when she was only 6 years old, shockingly returns, the residents of a quiet suburban neighborhood want to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find.
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Meant to Be Immortal
by Lynsay Sands
After surviving an attempt on his life, Mac Argeneau, an immortal scientist specializing in hematology, finds his life mate in the woman investigating his case and, despite the danger they are both in, must prove to her that she is destined to be his – forever.
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The Newcomer
by Mary Kay Andrews
After her sister is murdered, Letty Carnahan goes on the run with her 4-year-old niece to Florida’s Gulf Coast where she is taken in by a hotel owner and her cynical son, a police detective, who believes she is a danger to them all.
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Robert B. Parker's Payback
by Mike Lupica
When her best friend Spike’s restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, PI Sunny Randall begins to investigate while helping a victim of another crime — two seemingly different cases that converge into one deadly mystery.
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Seven Perfect Things
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Rescuing seven puppies from a nearby river, 13-year-old Abby, whose cruel father makes life miserable, hides the puppies in an abandoned cabin where she meets a grieving widower named Elliot who helps her — and her mother — find the courage to be free.
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Sooley
by John Grisham
Samuel “Sooley” Sooleymon is a raw, young talent with big hoop dreams… and even bigger challenges off the court.
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The Soulmate Equation
by Christina Lauren
Perfect for fans of The Rosie Project and One Plus One, this entertaining novel follows single mom and data and statistics wizard Jess Davis as she, using a revolutionary new scientific dating app, is matched with the app’s arrogant creator who is not what he seems.
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Summer on the Bluffs
by Sunny Hostin
An Emmy Award-winning cohost of The View makes her literary debut with a novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard.
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Swimming Back to Trout River
by Linda Rui Feng
Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, this lyrical novel follows a father’s determination to reunite his family before his daughter Junie’s 12th birthday, even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light.
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Take What You Can Carry
by Gian Sardar
A secretary determined to become a photojournalist in 1979 accompanies her Kurdish boyfriend to a wedding in northern Iraq where she is awakened to a world of constant threat and captures a tragic moment on film that upends her life.
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That Summer
by Jennifer Weiner
While trying to pinpoint the root of her dissatisfaction with her life, Daisy Shoemaker begins receiving misdirected emails meant for another woman and starts living vicariously through her until she discovers that their connection was not completely accidental.
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Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty
by Lauren Weisberger
When her husband is arrested in an Ivy League admissions sting, jeopardizing everything she worked so hard for, Peyton, co-anchor of a hit morning show, soon discovers that this is not the worst of it as dark secrets in their posh world come to light.
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While Justice Sleeps
by Stacey Abrams
Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery Keene, now the legal guardian of power of attorney for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, must unravel the clues he left behind in regards to a dangerous conspiracy that has infiltrated the highest power corridors of Washington.
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