May 2020 list by Donalee Jacobs
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All Adults Here
by Emma Straub
A matriarch confronts the legacy of her parenting mistakes while her adult children navigate respective challenges in high standards and immaturity, before a teen granddaughter makes a courageous decision to tell the truth. By the best-selling author of Modern Lovers.
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Big Summer
by Jennifer Weiner
A woman confronts the dynamics of friendship and forgiveness while visiting Cape Cod to attend an old friend's increasingly disastrous wedding.
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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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Braised Pork
by An Yu
Discovering her husband’s dead body beside a pencil sketch of a mysterious figure, Jia Jia launches an odyssey across contemporary Beijing before discovering unexpected love with a jaded bartender.
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Camino Winds
by John Grisham
The best-selling author presents 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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Catherine House
by Elisabeth Thomas
A dangerously curious, rebellious undergraduate uncovers a shocking secret about an exclusive circle of students and the dark truths beneath their school's promises of prestige.
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The End of October
by Lawrence Wright
Investigating dozens of mysterious deaths in an Indonesian internment camp, a World Health Organization doctor finds himself on a race to uncover the origins of a mysterious killer virus and find a cure before it decimates world populations.
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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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The Goodbye Man
by Jeffery Deaver
A sequel to The Never Game finds Colter Shaw investigating a mysterious organization in Washington State that is either a therapeutic healing colony or a dangerous cult under the sway of a charismatic leader.
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If It Bleeds
by Stephen King
The award-winning literary master presents a collection of four novella-length tales, complementing the title piece with the stories, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, and Rat.
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The Last Trial
by Scott Turow
A brilliant octogenarian defense lawyer on the brink of retirement seeks to prove the innocence of a long-time friend, a former Nobel Prize winner who has been charged with murder.
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Little Secrets
by Jennifer Hillier
A year after the disappearance of her son, Marin hires a P.I. to pick up where the police left off, only to discover that her husband is having an affair with a younger woman, which is a problem Marin wants to fix by any means necessary.
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Robert B. Parker's Grudge Match
by Mike Lupica
Reluctantly taking the case of a long-time gangster associate who will forgive a betrayal in return, private investigator Sunny Randall tracks down the man's missing girlfriend and business partner before the murder of a witness reveals unanticipated dangers.
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A Royal Kiss & Tell
by Julia London
Enlisting the help of the incomparable Lady Carolina, who, unbeknownst to him, is trying to ruin his reputation, Prince Leopold of Alucia risks losing his heart, soul and his good standing in the arms of this deceptively sweet and sexy woman.
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Seeing Darkness
by Heather Graham
When a terrifying past-life regression during a girls' weekend in Salem reveals a local politician's sinister nature, FBI Krewe of Hunters special agent Jon Dickson teams up with an apprehensive witness to stop a twisted serial killer.
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Something She's Not Telling Us
by Darcey Bell
After her daughter is kidnapped, Charlotte suspects her brother’s girlfriend, who seemed a little obsessed with the child, but all is not as it seems. By the best-selling author of A Simple Favor.
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The Talented Mr. Varg
by Alexander McCall Smith
A sequel to The Department of Sensitive Crimes finds detective Ulf Varg and his team investigating a playboy whose blackmailing case is complicated by Ulf’s brother’s questionable politics. By the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
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The Trustworthy One
by Shelley Shepard Gray
One broken young woman’s search for peace leads her back to her hometown, where she rediscovers her faith and reconnects with those she loves most.
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Truths I Never Told You
by Kelly Rimmer
Uncovering disturbing evidence that her mother did not die in a car accident when her sisters and she were toddlers, a woman on maternity leave pieces together journal entries to uncover harrowing truths about her father.
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The 20th Victim
by James Patterson
Investigating three simultaneous murders in Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, SFPC sergeant Lindsay Boxer identifies an unsettling link between the victims before the killer's escalating shootings galvanize the country.
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Untamed Shore
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Facing limited prospects in 1979 Baja California, a young woman from a poor fishing village becomes entwined in the lives of three wealthy American tourists before the death of one is complicated by revelations about their true identities.
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Walk the Wire
by David Baldacci
The best-selling author of The Fix presents a highly charged thriller in which fan-favorite character Amos Decker embarks on an action-packed investigation that is complicated by Baldacci’s signature twists and turns.
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The Wedding Dress
by Danielle Steel
A treasured wedding gown made in 1928 Paris is handed down through four generations of women in a family shaped by the San Francisco social scene, two world wars, the Civil Rights era, and the rise of Silicon Valley.
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A Week at the Shore
by Barbara Delinsky
Returning to her family's Rhode Island beach home after a 20-year estrangement, a real estate photographer navigates painful family secrets that test her bonds with her sisters, while her 13-year-old daughter pursues desperately wanted family ties.
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The Wife Stalker
by Liv Constantine
When the husband she has been patiently supporting for years ends their marriage upon falling in love with another woman, Joanna finds herself enmeshed in an ugly custody battle while struggling with a therapist who dismisses her concerns.
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