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Popular FictionApril 2021
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Turn a Blind eye : A Detective William Warwick Novel by Jeffrey ArcherGoing undercover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police Force, Detective Inspector William Warwick is compromised by a high-profile trial and a teammate's romantic relationship with his suspect
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Hour of the Witch by Chris BohjalianA resourceful Puritan woman in 1662 Boston plots to escape a violent marriage only to find herself targeted by her disapproving and superstitious neighbors for failing to save a child’s life. By the best-selling author of The Red Lotus.
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Whereabouts by Jhumpa LahiriAn English translation of a first Italian-language novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland follows the routines of a misfit city dweller who experiences a year of remarkable transformation in the aftermath of a parent’s death.
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Reunion Beach by Elin HilderbrandA group of bestselling authors and writers pay tribute to legendary, larger-than-life New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy, capturing her unforgettable spirit, joy, and humor in stories of reunions and love.
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The Woman With the Blue Star by Pam JenoffInspired by the harrowing true stories of those who hid from the Nazis in the sewers, this emotional testament to the power of friendship follows Ella, an affluent Polish girl, as she helps Sadie and her pregnant mother survive despite the worsening dangers of the war.
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The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys BowenInheriting her beloved great-aunt’s sketchbook, a recently divorced woman uncovers mysteries about her great-aunt’s star-crossed romance with a nobleman in World War II Venice. By the award-winning author of In Farleigh Field.
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Great Circle by Maggie ShipsteadA century after daredevil female aviator Marian Graves’s disappearance in Antarctica, actress Hadley Baxter is cast to play her and immerses herself in the role as their fates — and their dreams — become intertwined.
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The Music of Bees : a novel by Eileen GarvinThree strangers navigating grief and devastating setbacks cross paths in a rural Oregon town, where they find unexpected friendship, healing and new chances on local honeybee farm. A first novel by the author of How to Be a Sister.
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A Dog's Courage : a dog's way home novel by W. Bruce CameronA weekend camping trip in the Rocky Mountains turns into a harrowing struggle for survival when a raging inferno separates Bella from her people, and, alone in the wilderness, must protect two defenseless mountain lion cubs as she searches for Lucas and Olivia.
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The Souvenir Museum : stories by Elizabeth McCrackenThe award-winning author of The Giant’s House presents a story collection that includes entries about a fear-testing Texas water park venture, a widower’s puffin search and a villain actress’s New Year celebration.
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Revelations by Mary SharrattRevealing to her 15th-century village's holy woman that she has been experiencing visions after nearly dying in childbirth, Margery is entrusted with her confessor's radical writings and the task of secretly sharing their contents.
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The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly MustianMurder breaks through the racial divide that separates two teenage girls, forging an unlikely friendship. A first novel.
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The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel CleetonAt the end of the 19th century, reporter Grace Harrington and a courier secretly working for Cuban revolutionaries in Havana free “The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba” who has been unjustly imprisoned—a mission that forces them all to fight for their freedom as war looms on the horizon.
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The Social Graces by Renée RosenA tale spanning three decades and based on true events imagines the bitter rivalry between Gilded Age hostess Caroline Astor and family newcomer Alva Vanderbilt against a backdrop of the latter’s rejection by the society that both would control.
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The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard WrightA major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel from the 1940s by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy
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Things We Lost to the Water : a novel by Eric NguyenLeaving Vietnam behind, Huong and her two sons adapt to life in New Orleans in different ways as they search for identity as individuals and as a family until disaster strikes the city, forcing them to find a new way to come together.
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Sorrowland by Rivers SolomonFleeing from the strict religious compound where she was raised, Vern, in the safety of the forest, gives birth to twins, and to keep her small family safe, unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of.
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The Last Green Valley by Mark SullivanIn late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel decide they must run in retreat from their land with murderous Nazi officers they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom.
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