January - April 2021 list by Nanette Alderman
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All the Forgivenesses
by Elizabeth Hardinger
In Appalachia and the Midwest at the turn of the 20th century, 15-year-old Albertina “Bertie” Winslow leads her farm family through a series of challenges and triumphs.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
by Christy Lefteri
A beekeeper and his artist wife have their lives upended and must flee after war destroys their home in Aleppo, Syria, and they set off on a dangerous journey towards an uncertain future in England.
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A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
by Charlie Fletcher
When a beloved family dog is stolen, her boy owner sets out on a life-changing journey through the ruins of a dystopian world to bring her back.
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The Bromance Book Club
by Lyssa Kay Adams
To win back his wife, who wants a divorce, desperate Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source — a secret romance-reading club of Nashville’s top alpha men.
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The Chain
by Adrian McKinty
A parent receives a panicked phone call from a stranger who reveals that both of their children have been kidnapped by someone who demands that they abduct another child to prevent the murders of their own.
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The Chestnut Man
by Søren Sveistrup
When a serial killer begins leaving handmade dolls at his murder scenes, two detectives struggle to put aside their differences and follow forensic clues linking the case to a politician’s kidnapped daughter.
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The Flatshare
by Beth O'Leary
Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence.
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A dark fairy tale inspired by folklore is set against the Jazz age in Mexico’s underworld, where a young dreamer is sent by the Mayan God of Death on a life-changing journey.
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How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse
by K. Eason
Rory Thorne always imagined she’d inherit her father’s throne and govern the interplanetary Thorne Consortium. Then her father is assassinated, her mother gives birth to a son, and Rory is betrothed to the prince of a distant world. With a small team of allies Rory must block a plan to unseat her betrothed and steal the throne.
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Miracle Creek
by Angie Kim
A dramatic murder trial in the aftermath of an experimental medical treatment and a fatal explosion upends a rural Virginia community where personal secrets and private ambitions complicate efforts to uncover what happened.
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The Night Olivia Fell
by Christina McDonald
After her pregnant daughter is declared brain dead from a fall off a bridge and placed on life support, a grieving mother notices suspicious injuries and resolves to uncover the truth.
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The Right Sort of Man
by Allison Montclair
Organizing a matchmaking business together in spite of their differences, two women from 1946 London find their promising company endangered when one of their clients is arrested for the murder of another.
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Singapore Sapphire
by A. M. Stuart
Relocating to 1910 Singapore to get a fresh start, Harriet Gordon stumbles on the dead body of her first client before a traumatic incident from the past challenges her partnership with a local inspector.
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The Sun Is a Compass
by Caroline Van Hemert
Details the biologist adventurer's treks in the vast wilderness region spanning the Pacific rainforest through the Alaskan Arctic, where her husband and she tested their physical boundaries while making profound natural-world connections and discoveries about animal survival.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
by Alix E. Harrow
A woman navigating the out-of-place artifacts in her caretaker’s sprawling early 20th-century mansion discovers a mysterious book that reveals impossible truths about the world and her own past.
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Trust First
by Bruce Deel
In these true stories about the men and women who fell through the cracks in our social services system, the author shows the power of radical trust to change lives.
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The Twisted Ones
by T. Kingfisher
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods.
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The Unwinding of the Miracle
by Julie Yip-Williams
A memoir by a young mother with Stage IV metastatic cancer describes her experiences as a Vietnamese political refugee-turned-Harvard-educated lawyer before terminal illness inspired her blog to share the real-world guidance she wished she'd had.
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Waiting for Tom Hanks
by Kerry Winfrey
When romantic-comedy-obssessed Annie gets a job on the set of a movie, she meets lead actor Drew Danforth, a cocky prankster with whom Annie finds herself sharing classic rom-com moments.
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The Woman in the White Kimono
by Ana Johns
Traces the intertwined stories of a young woman from 1950s Japan who must choose between her heart and home, and a journalist in modern America who discovers her father's long-buried secrets.
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