May 2021 list by Nanette Alderman
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All the Children Are Home
by Patry Francis
Two long-term foster parents in a mid-20th-century Massachusetts community reluctantly take in an abused young girl who strengthens their family’s bonds in unexpected ways.
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The Cottage on Lighthouse Lane
by T. Davis Bunn
After an on-set accident leaves him shaken, Billy Walker leaves Hollywood behind and seeks refuge in Miramar Bay where he meets a special woman who has a seemingly divine ability to comfort — and who is everything he needs.
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The Bohemians
by Jasmin Darznik
Celebrating the life and career of photographer Dorothea Lange, this novel explores the wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion and daring.
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Death with a Double Edge
by Anne Perry
Joining forces with Toby Kitteridge to investigate the murder of a senior barrister, Daniel Pitt follows leads through London’s teeming underworld, before hostile adversaries begin targeting his loved ones.
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The Devil's Hand
by Jack Carr
Former Navy SEAL James Reece embarks on a top-secret CIA mission of retribution, while in a dangerous world region, the supreme leader of a cadre of assassins orchestrates a plot to defeat the United States.
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Disappeared
by Linda Castillo
As a thunderstorm rages, Kate Burkholder receives a call from a frantic young woman. Her two-year-old son is missing. Officers brave the downpour to search for the toddler, fearing he may have been swept away in the rising creek waters. But a family secret leads Kate to believe this disappearance may be more complicated.
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An Earl, the Girl, and a Toddler
by Vanessa Riley
Suffering amnesia after surviving a shipwreck, a young woman is freed from Bedlam by a London barrister determined to uncover her true.
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Fugitive Telemetry
by Martha Wells
Assisting Preservation Station security when he discovers a murdered body on the premises, Murderbot reluctantly speaks to humans to help identify the victim and determine what happened.
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
by Becky Chambers
When a freak technological failure strands travelers at the Five-Hop One-Stop on the planet Gora, three alien strangers get to know each other.
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A Gambling Man
by David Baldacci
Aloysius Archer travels to 1950s California to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent but immediately finds himself involved in a scandal.
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Go West, Young Man
by William W. Johnstone
As the farmers of rural Green County, Missouri choose sides between the North and the South in 1860, John Zachary listens to his heart and moves his family West across the Oregon Trail facing mental challenges and physical hardships.
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The Last Night in London
by Karen White
A journalist in 2019 London interviews a World War II-era model to learn the story of the woman’s best friendship with a Royal Air Force pilot’s wife, who was catapulted by the Blitz into a web of intrigue and secrets.
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Legacy of War
by Wilbur Smith
A sequel to Courtney’s War finds a plot against Saffron and her husband, Gerhard, triggering consequences throughout post-World War II Europe, before Leon finds himself caught between colonialism and rebellion in an independence-seeking Kenya.
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Mirrorland
by Carole Johnstone
Returning to her gothic childhood home in the wake of her estranged twin’s disappearance, Cat uncovers long-held secrets involving her sister’s left-behind clues and a mysterious treasure hunt.
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Miss Julia Happily Ever After
by Ann B. Ross
A highly anticipated final installment in the best-selling series finds an outbreak of wedding fever in Abbotsville upended by a mysterious vandal who challenges a lively Miss Julia to save the day, and her friends’ nuptials.
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Murder on Wall Street
by Victoria Thompson
Midwife Sarah Brandt Malloy and her detective husband, Frank, scour the upper echelons of society as well as Gilded Age New York City’s highest-risk areas to prove a family man’s innocence of a dangerous rival’s murder.
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Peaces
by Helen Oyeyemi
Honeymooning aboard a historic former tea-smuggling train, newlyweds Otto and Xavier enjoy the locomotive’s fantastical accommodations before encountering a secretive fellow passenger, who imparts a surprising message.
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Second First Impressions
by Sally Thorne
A spoiled, tattooed rich man reluctantly agrees to become an assistant to two casually exploitative nonagenarians before unexpectedly catching the eye of the property’s serious-minded manager.
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Twice Shy
by Sarah Hogle
Inheriting half of a Tennessee estate in considerable need of repairs, a hopeless romantic clashes with her fellow heir, an alluring but stoic groundskeeper whose visions for the property differ from her own.
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The Warlord
by Gena Showalter
Fan-favorite character, Taliyah Skyhawk, returns in a series debut that pits the ice maiden against her greatest enemy, a villain of unimaginable brutality. By the best-selling author of the Lords of the Underworld paranormal romances.
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