May 2017 list by Nanette Alderman
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Ararat
by Christopher Golden
When an ancient relic believed to be Noah's Ark is discovered in the aftermath of an avalanche on Mount Ararat in Turkey, a team of investigating scholars, archaeologists and filmmakers find the corpse of a monster on the ship before a massive blizzard traps them on the site with a mysterious predator.
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Arslan
by M. J. Engh
Follows Arslan, a young Asian general, as he conquers the world in a week without firing a shot and sets up his headquarters in a small town in Illinois.
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Blade Bound
by Chloe Neill
Merit, the protector of House Cadogan, must fight to the death for everything she loves when her lover, Master Vampire Ethan Sullivan, is violently attacked, and a dark magic spreads across the city.
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The Book of Joan
by Lidia Yuknavitch
After a series of endless wars sends most humans to live on a mysterious platform known as CIEL, the remaining earthlings, who have mutated, become galvanized by a child-warrior named Joan who possesses a mysterious power and can commune with the earth.
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The Ebb Tide
by Beverly Lewis
Spending the summer working as a nanny in Cape May, young Amish woman Sallie meets a marine biology student and makes discoveries about herself and the world outside her community that compel her to question her commitments to the home she has always loved.
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Endgame
by Ahmet Altan
A womanizing writer who has lived his entire life in the city retires to a sunbaked Turkish village. Instead of the quiet life he hoped for, he encounters a world of suspicion, paranoia, and violence.
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Fast & Loose
by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington, a New York City cop turned rainmaker for a white-shoe Manhattan law firm, tackles a formidable case that challenges the boundaries of his talents.
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Heartstone
by Elle Katharine White
In a retelling of "Pride and Prejudice," Aliza Bentaine agrees when the people of Merybourne Manor hire Riders to fight the monsters threatening their kingdom, but is thrown off guard by her romantic attraction to the proud dragonrider Alastair Daired.
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I Found You
by Lisa Jewell
A lonely single mom who offers shelter to an amnesiac man and a young bride who is told that her missing husband never existed struggle to make sense of their transforming worlds and connection to a sister and brother whose lives were shattered by secrets more than two decades earlier.
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Lost Rider
by Harper Sloan
Returning home after a 10-year career as a rodeo star to take care of his family’s horse-farming business, Maverick Austin Davis is unable to deny his attraction to Leighton Elizabeth James, his younger sister’s best friend whose heart he once crushed.
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The Night the Lights Went Out
by Karen White
Moving to an Atlanta suburb after her divorce, Merilee forges tenacious bonds with a town matriarch and a wealthy supermom before terrible secrets throw the lives of all three women into turmoil.
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Prussian Blue
by Philip Kerr
Hiding on the French Riviera when his cover is blown, Bernie Gunther finds himself in a cat-and-mouse game with an old and dangerous enemy before fleeing to Berlin, where he places his survival in the hands of dubious former allies.
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Sandpiper Cove
by Irene Hannon
While raising her son alone and contemplating a rise in petty crimes, Hope Harbor’s busy police chief finds herself pleasantly distracted by a handsome ex-con.
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Six Four
by Hideo Yokoyama
A Tokyo press officer attached to the cold case of a 7-year-old's abduction 14 years earlier investigates a disturbing anomaly, only to be stymied by an unimaginable discovery.
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Slow Burn Cowboy
by Maisey Yates
Finn Donnelly finds his platonic relationship with Lane Jensen on the line after one kiss and refuses to fall for the headstrong beauty until she shows him that there is nothing hotter than friendship turned to slow-burning love.
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Walkaway
by Cory Doctorow
Abandoning formal society to pursue a minimalist counterculture life in a near-future world wrecked by climate change, a disenchanted senior and his heiress paramour inspire a host of followers who become obsessed with cheating death in ways that turn the world upside down.
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