March 2020 list by Nanette Alderman
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The Bear
by Andrew Krivak
Living close to the land in an Eden-like post-civilization world, a girl learns the secrets of hunting and star navigation before finding herself in an unknown landscape, where a bear imparts powerful natural-world lessons.
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Black Sunday
by Tola Rotimi Abraham
Joining a new church in 1996 Lagos in the face of impoverishing losses, twins Bibike and Riyike find their bond challenged by wrenching hardships, a father’s reckless choice and their respective views on independence.
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A Blight of Blackwings
by Kevin Hearne
A sequel to A Plague of Giants finds Daryck pursuing vengeance against the giants, while Hanima leads a movement to keep magic in the hands of the people and captain Koesha navigates dangerous waters to find her lost sister.
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Chasing Cassandra
by Lisa Kleypas
Determined to marry for love, Lady Cassandra Ravenel resists the advances of compelling railroad magnate Tom Severin, who takes advantage of a situation that nearly destroys Cassandra’s reputation.
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The Coldest Warrior
by Paul Vidich
When the release of the Rockefeller Commission report implicates the CIA in the death of a bioweapons scientist decades earlier, agent Jack Gabriel confronts a life-threatening cover-up at the highest levels of government.
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A Crafter Quilts a Crime
by Holly Quinn
Craft store owner Sammy Kane investigates after a popular quilter dies in the middle of a live mannequin window display contest.
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A Divided Loyalty
by Charles Todd
Investigating the murder of an unknown victim who was found within a great prehistoric circle near Stonehenge, Rutledge follows unreliable clues to an impossible conclusion that places him on the wrong side of Scotland Yard.
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The Holdout
by Graham Moore
A woman is wrongly implicated in a murder one decade after convincing the members of a deadlocked jury to return a not-guilty verdict.
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House of Trelawney
by Hannah Rothschild
Four women from an eccentric and dysfunctional family of English aristocrats navigate historical events, from wars to economic recessions, that have driven their once-grand Cornwall estate into ruin.
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The Lost Diary of M
by Paul Wolfe
A reimagining of the life of Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer traces her marriage to a CIA chief, presidential affair and LSD experiments before her baffling murder a year after JFK’s assassination.
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Perfect Little Children
by Sophie Hannah
Spying on a former best friend she has not seen in years, Beth is alarmed when she discovers that the woman’s children do not appear to have aged.
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Picard: The Last Best Hope
by Una McCormack
An original prequel novel based on the new Star Trek series centered around iconic Starfleet captain Jean-Luc Picard introduces a next generation of fans to favorite and new characters.
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Postscript
by Cecelia Ahern
A long-awaited sequel to the best-selling PS, I Love You finds Holly reluctantly agreeing to let her sister tell Gerry’s story on her podcast, before terminally ill listeners reach out for help writing their own missives.
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The Queen's Fortune
by Allison Pataki
A historical novel inspired by the life of Desiree Clary finds the future queen of Sweden and Norway entering a secret engagement with Napoleon Bonaparte before imperial uprisings and his relationship with rising-star Josephine places her life at risk.
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Real Life
by Brandon Taylor
Keeping his head down at a lakeside Midwestern university where the culture is in sharp contrast to his Alabama upbringing, an introverted African-American biochem student endures unexpected encounters that bring his orientation and defenses into question.
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Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Resurrection
by Joshua Hood
When he receives a mysterious email from a former colleague and is then attacked by an unknown hit team at his job site, former Treadstone agent-turned-carpenter Adam Hayes is forced to come out of retirement to discover who wants him dead.
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Saint X
by Alexis Schaitkin
When a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with one of the men originally suspected of killing her sister, Claire, hoping to gain his trust and learn the truth, forms an unlikely attachment with this man whose life is forever marked by the same tragedy.
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Salt River
by Randy Wayne White
When his reckless bachelor friend reveals that he has fathered numerous children through sperm-bank donations, Doc Ford races to prevent his friend’s past misdeeds from turning deadly during an impromptu family reunion.
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The Third to Die
by Allison Brennan
A disgraced detective teams up with an ambitious FBI special agent to prevent a cycle of murders by a killer who ended the life of a colleague’s sister. By the author of the Lucy Kincaid series.
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Weather
by Jenny Offill
Hired by her famous podcaster mentor to answer letters from increasingly polarized fans, a librarian who has acquired her education from a lifetime spent reading struggles between the limits of her knowledge and growing crises in the outside world.
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