May 2020 list by Nanette Alderman
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The Age of Witches
by Louisa Morgan
Harriet Bishop, descended from a long line of witches, uses magic to help women in need -- not only ordinary women, but also those with powers of their own. She must intervene when a distant cousin wields dangerous magic to change the lives of two unsuspecting young people... one of whom might just be a witch herself.
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The Ancestor
by Danielle Trussoni
Inheriting a noble title, money and a castle in Italy, Alberta “Bert” Monte believes this sudden windfall is a dream come true until she arrives in Italy and unravels a dark legacy of ancestral treasures that is in her very genes.
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And the Killer Is...
by G. A. McKevett
When a nonagenarian movie star is found murdered in her derelict 1920s mansion, private investigator Savannah Reid, Dirk and the Moonlight Magnolia gang search for answers dating back to Hollywood’s golden era.
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The Book of Longings
by Sue Monk Kidd
A first-century intellectual fights the limitations imposed on women before an encounter with an 18-year-old Jesus leads to their marriage, his dangerous public ministry and her flight to safety in Alexandria.
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Broken
by Don Winslow
Drug dealers, bounty hunters, fugitives, struggling cops and lost souls rob, steal, kill, corrupt and betray their way through five intense novellas in this collection.
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Camino Winds
by John Grisham
A follow-up to Camino Island that finds novelist Mercer Mann’s continued efforts to find literary inspiration in the idyllic region complicated by mysterious intrigues.
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The Crow's Call
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
When the sole providers of their Pennsylvania Amish Country family are killed in a devastating accident, Amy helps her mother take over their greenhouse business, which is being threatened by shifting family roles and a competitive rival.
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The Engineer's Wife
by Tracey Enerson Wood
When her happy domestic life is turned upside-down by her husband’s work as the chief engineer on an under-construction Brooklyn Bridge, Emily Warren Roebling gradually takes over the project to advocate on behalf of worker safety.
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Envious
by Lisa Jackson
Discovering they are half-sisters, Bliss, Katie and Tiffany—three very different, independent women—try to escape the shadows of their past in order to have a future with the men in their lives.
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Heiress for Hire
by Madeline Hunter
When Minerva Hepplewhite inherits a fortune from his late uncle, Chase Radnor is intrigued by this spirited beauty who sets up a discreet business to rival his own and asks for her help in uncovering the truth about his uncle’s demise.
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Hidden Salem
by Kay Hooper
Investigating three disappearances amid a rise in local occult activities, Salem FBI Special Crimes Unit Grayson Sheridan searches for his missing partner, while a woman who has been enduring unexplained nightmares risks her life to rescue a stranger.
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A Hundred Suns
by Karin Tanabe
In the 1930s an American journeys to Indochine in the name of family fortune, the glamorous world she finds herself in—and the truth she may be running from.
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The Last Emperox
by John Scalzi
This thrilling conclusion to the best-selling Interdependency series follows Emperox Grayland II as she fights a desperate final battle for her crown and empire while striving to save her citizens from eternal intergalactic isolation.
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Miss Julia Knows a Thing or Two
by Ann B Ross
Miss Julia’s efforts to help a friend escape unemployment are complicated by her husband’s mysterious illness and the abrupt appearance of a suspicious grandchild she has never met on her doorstep.
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Not That Kind of Guy
by Andie J. Christopher
Avoiding relationships after breaking up with her long-term boyfriend, state attorney Bridget Nolan asks an intern to be her escort to her brother’s wedding only to find herself in a whirlwind Las Vegas romance.
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One Fatal Flaw
by Anne Perry
Teaming up with brilliant scientist Miriam fford Croft to prove the innocence of a murder suspect, lawyer Daniel Pitt rules the case an accident before his client is found dead in the same manner, bringing Miriam’s test methods into question.
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Providence
by Max Barry
A four-person crew aboard Earth’s first warship prepares to defend the planet from hostile aliens only to find their communications disrupted by a sudden and devastatingly real space battle.
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Revenge
by James Patterson
Investigating the suspicious suicide of a young woman whose family once employed him as a bodyguard, former SAS soldier David Shelley makes unsettling discoveries that are complicated by the victim’s father’s thirst for revenge.
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Savage Son
by Jack Carr
While a woman flees for her life in Siberia and a traitorous CIA officer goes into hiding within the Russian mafia, James Reece slowly recovers from brain surgery, unaware that he has been targeted by dangerous adversaries.
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Three Hours in Paris
by Cara Black
A suspenseful historical tale based on the mystery of Hitler’s abrupt departure from newly occupied 1940 Paris follows the mission of a British intelligence markswoman who, while trying to assassinate the Führer, discovers that she has been set up.
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Walk the Wire
by David Baldacci
When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they sense that the thriving fracking town is ripe for trouble. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall. The sudden boom has brought a slew of problems with it, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution — and now murder.
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