April 2021 list by Nanette Alderman
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Act Your Age, Eve Brown
by Talia Hibbert
When his life is taken over by a purple-haired tornado of a woman named Eve Brown, B&B owner Jacob Wayne tries to fight his attraction to this sunny, chaotic woman who is his natural-born enemy.
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Band of Sisters
by Lauren Willig
Eschewed by her wealthy graduated classmates, a former scholarship student reluctantly volunteers to help World War I French civilians before finding herself surrounded by desperate families in villages decimated by German bombs.
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The Bounty
by Janet Evanovich
Straitlaced FBI agent Kate O’Hare and international con man Nick Fox reluctantly team up with the fathers who taught them everything they know to prevent a shadowy international organization from claiming a fortune in Nazi gold.
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The Committed
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer finds the unnamed “man of two minds” and his blood brother dealing drugs in 1980s Paris, where he navigates the worlds of privileged clients while trying to reconcile two politically polarized friends.
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The Consequences of Fear
by Jacqueline Winspear
Entreated by a witness nobody believes to investigate a murder, Maisie Dobbs uncovers a conspiracy with devastating implications for Britain’s war effort during the Nazi occupation of Europe.
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The Devil in Her Bed
by Kerrigan Byrne
Countess by day and vengeance seeker by night, beautiful Countess of Mont Claire, Francesca Cavendish, crosses paths with the Devil of Dorset—the Earl of Devlin—who believes he has met his match like no other.
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Double Jeopardy
by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington launches an investigation in coastal Maine, where he confronts high-connected and well-funded family enemies hiding in plain sight among the region’s stately houses and private clubs.
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Every Mother's Son
by William W. Johnstone
To rescue the kidnapped daughter of a retired Army colonel, the Jackals must infiltrate a crime lord’s guarded fortress where they discover that she doesn’t want to be rescued – and that this time, they have no one to save but themselves.
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Fast Ice
by Clive Cussler
Investigating the disappearance of a NUMA colleague on the icebergs of Antarctica, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are confronted by a radical environmentalist who would use a Nazi-era weapon to usher in a new Ice Age.
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The Girls Are All So Nice Here
by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Receiving ominous threats during a 10-year college reunion, Ambrosia and her best friend discover that they are being targeted by an unknown adversary who would exact revenge for a dangerous secret from their past.
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Libertie
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Coming of age as a free-born Black woman in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson struggles against her mother’s medical aspirations for her when she finds herself more drawn to a musical career that could compromise her autonomy.
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Lightning Game
by Christine Feehan
Returning to his family’s Appalachian homestead, only to encounter another GhostWalker on the property, Rubin helps the alluring stranger gain control over her lightning powers before uncovering her disturbing ulterior motive.
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Machinehood
by S. B. Divya
In 2095, when her client is killed in front of her, Weiga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, discovers that a new and mysterious terrorist group called The Machinehood is responsible and that they are just getting started.
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A Matter of Life and Death
by Phillip Margolin
Rising attorney Robin Lockwood takes the death-penalty case of a homeless father who has been set up for the murder of a prominent judge’s wife.
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Meant to Be
by Jude Deveraux
A historical family saga chronicling the lives and loves of three generations of women in a small Kansas community.
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Raft of Stars
by Andrew J. Graff
Fleeing into the woods believing that they have accidentally murdered an abusive parent, two young boys, unaware that they have become the focus of a desperate search, navigate dangerous natural threats in their effort to survive.
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Red Island House
by Andrea Lee
A tale of love and identity that follows two decades in a marriage between an African-American professor and her wealthy Italian husband in tropical Madagascar.
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Sunflower Sisters
by Martha Hall Kelly
Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey, an ancestor of Caroline Ferriday, travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress.
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Wild Sign
by Patricia Briggs
Tapped by the FBI to investigate the disappearance of an entire small community, mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham become dangerously compelled by a mysterious force in the nearby California mountains.
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Win
by Harlan Coben
When Windsor Horne Lockwood III--or Win, as his few friends call him--discovers that his suitcase and a painting stolen during a robbery and kidnapping at his family's estate twenty years ago ended up in a dead man's apartment, his interest is piqued and he decides to investigate.
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