May 2021 list by Bernadette L.
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Accidentally Engaged
by Farah Heron
Determined to marry for love in spite of her parents’ interfering matchmaking schemes, Reena Manji pretends to be engaged to a neighbor in her father’s employ in the hopes of winning a couples’ cooking competition.
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All That Really Matters
by Nicole Deese
Molly McKenzie has made social media influencing a lucrative career, but nailing a TV show means proving she's as good in real life as she is online. So she volunteers with a youth program. Challenged at every turn by the program director, Silas, and the kids' struggles, she's surprised by her growing attachment. Has her perfect life been imperfectly built?
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All Through the Night
by Tara Johnson
Set in the early years of the Civil War, a young female hospital volunteer and a doctor operating undercover as an abolitionist develop a strong attraction as they work together to stop the plans of a secret society so vile, the course of their lives, and the war, could be altered forever.
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At the End of the World, Turn Left
by Zhanna Slor
A unique literary mystery set in Milwaukee's eclectic Riverwest neighborhood during the 2008 recession that weaves together the tale of two immigrant sisters with very different ideas of home. Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel's Orthodox community. Anna, a young artist and student, was only an infant when her family left but still yearns to find her roots.
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The Light of the Midnight Stars
by Rena Rossner
Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an effort to survive - and change the fate of their family forever.
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The Moonlight School
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Based on true events, a young woman used to the finer things in life arrives in small town Appalachia in 1911 to help her formidable cousin combat adult illiteracy by opening moonlight schools.
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Those Who Are Saved
by Alexis Landau
Given hours to report to an internment camp when Nazis occupy France, a Jewish-Russian émigré places her young daughter in the care of a trusted governess before an unexpected opportunity to escape to America leads to a heartbreaking separation.
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When Twilight Breaks
by Sarah Sundin
Two Americans meet in 1938 in the heart of Nazi Germany. Their efforts to expose oppression attract unwanted attention, pulling them deeper into danger as the world marches toward war.
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