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PLEASE NOTE! These books were scheduled for publication in May at the time this was created, but as a result of the pandemic, publication dates may change (often delayed until Autumn).
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All Adults Here
by Emma Straub
A matriarch confronts the legacy of her parenting mistakes while her adult children navigate respective challenges in high standards and immaturity, before a teen granddaughter makes a courageous decision to tell the truth.
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All My Mother's Lovers
by Ilana Masad
Shattered by revelations about the recently deceased mother who never entirely accepted her sexuality, a gay woman tracks down the men in her mother's hidden second life while coming to terms with new understandings about monogamy.
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Big Summer
by Jennifer Weiner
A woman confronts the dynamics of friendship and forgiveness while visiting Cape Cod to attend an old friend's increasingly disastrous wedding.
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The Book of V.
by Anna Solomon
This propulsive historical novel intertwines the lives of the Bible's Queen Esther, a senator's wife in the 1970s, and a Brooklyn mother in 2016, whose stories explore how women's realities have not changed for millennia.
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Brave Girl, Quiet Girl
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Kidnapped during a carjacking, two-year-old Etta is discovered and protected by an abandoned homeless teen who forges an unlikely friendship with the child's financially strapped single mother.
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The Bright Side of Going Dark
by Kelly Harms
Forced to fake her wedding for her sponsors after her fiancé jilts her, a popular social media influencer tries to find a life offline.
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Careful What You Click For
by Mary B. Morrison
Four single female friends living in Atlanta easily find career success, but not romantic success and decide together that online dating might be the answer as long as they take certain precautions, follow their plan and have each others' backs.
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Close Up
by Amanda Quick
Protecting a crime-scene photographer who has identified elusive details connecting a string of murders, reclusive investigator Nick Sundridge uses his own uncanny talents to tie the killer to 1930s Hollywood society.
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The Death of Jesus
by J. M. Coetzee
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Childhood of Jesus finds a curious David organizing a soccer team under a local orphanage director who succumbs to a mysterious illness.
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The First Actress
by C. W. Gortner
A historical tale inspired by the life of French actress Sarah Bernhardt traces the rise of a courtesan's daughter whose rebellious style and refusal to give up her child lead her to become the most acclaimed performer of her time.
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Friend: A Novel from North Korea
by Nam-nyong Paek
A tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce, this groundbreaking translation of one of North Korea's most popular writers offers a page-turner of psychological tension as well as a revealing portrait of a society that is typically seen as closed to the outside world.
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Ghosts of Harvard
by Francesca Scottoline Serritella
Defying her family to investigate the suspicious suicide of her schizophrenic genius brother, a Harvard freshman begins to hear the voices of three paranoia-inducing ghosts from different eras in American history.
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Girls of Summer
by Nancy Thayer
Skeptical about their mother's Nantucket romance with a younger man, siblings Juliet and Theo navigate their own tangled relationships involving an idealistic environmentalist and a girl fighting the trauma of a school tragedy.
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A Happy Catastrophe
by Maddie Dawson
Polar opposites Marnie and Patrick are planning a life together when an eight-year-old surprise from Patrick’s past shows up and changes everything.
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Hello, Summer
by Mary Kay Andrews
When the dream job she has pursued all her adult life suddenly disappears, an ambitious journalist returns to her family's small-town newspaper before witnessing a car accident that ends the life of a local war hero.
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I'd Give Anything
by Marisa De Los Santos
Losing her firefighter father in a school tragedy, Ginny hides what she knows about the incident for decades before a scandal involving her husband threatens to destroy everything.
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I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me
by Juan Pablo Villalobos
A Mexican student is kidnapped and tasked with making the daughter of a corrupt political fall in love with him in order to save his cousin’s life. A hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Barcelona.
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The Imperfects
by Amy Meyerson
A family’s discovery of a priceless inheritance leads them on a pursuit for the truth that transforms their lives in unexpected ways.
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The Jane Austen Society
by Natalie Jenner
A group of disparate bibliophiles bands together in the small English village of Chawton in the hopes of restoring the final home of Jane Austen, revealing their respective losses along the way.
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Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen
by Alison Weir
A latest series entry traces the story of the tragic fifth wife of Henry VIII, Katheryn Howard, a teenage beauty who succumbs to the courtship of the ailing king and tries to bear him a son while hiding a dangerous secret.
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The Laundress
by Barbara Sapienza
Twenty-six-year-old Lavinia Lavinia is burdened by her unknown heritage: why was she whisked away from Italy and brought to San Francisco at four years old by her uncle, and what happened to her parents? Slowly she unfolds memories, forms a new family and a finds a sense of self.
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The Motion of the Body Through Space
by Lionel Shriver
Deciding in the face of an ignominious early retirement to enter a triathlon, a once-sedentary narcissist embarks on an obsessive fitness regime while his surgery-debilitated wife is treated with contempt by his sexy personal trainer.
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Mum & Dad
by Joanna Trollope
The efforts of three busy adult siblings to save their parents' vineyard are complicated by long-simmering resentments and differing opinions that test the strength of their bond.
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Old Lovegood Girls
by Gail Godwin
Separated by a devastating loss, two estranged college roommates reach out to each other years later in the face of unpredictable hardships before discovering the power of their unbreakable bond to transform their lives.
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On Ocean Boulevard
by Mary Alice Monroe
Returning to Charleston after a 16-year absence, Cara Rutledge reconnects with family members before her second wedding is abruptly halted by a devastating illness.
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The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen
by Karen Harper
Endearing herself to the British people with her kindness and strength, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the wife of George VI and mother of a future Elizabeth II, orchestrates Edward VIII's exile while hiding damaging secrets.
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Red Dress in Black and White
by Elliot Ackerman
A timely novel set in the course of a single day in Istanbul that depicts how an American woman's efforts to leave her influential Turkish husband become complicated by political corruption.
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Rodham
by Curtis Sittenfeld
A novel of what-might-have-been follows Hillary Rodham as she takes a different path, blazing her own trail — one that unfolds in public as well as in private — and one that crosses paths again and again with Bill Clinton.
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Sansei and Sensibility
by Karen Tei Yamashita
Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in this clever collection of stories that traverse class, race, and gender, bringing wit and humor into our modern world.
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Someone Like You
by Karen Kingsbury
Shattered by the discovery that she is not the biological daughter of her parents, Maddie abruptly ends an engagement and moves away before connecting with the grieving friend of a sister and family she never knew existed.
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Sorry for Your Trouble: Stories
by Richard Ford
A new short-story collection by the award-winning author includes the novella, "The Run of Yourself," in which a New Orleans lawyer tackles the challenges of living beyond his Irish wife's death.
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Summer Darlings
by Brooke Lea Foster
Set during the splendid summer days of 1960s Martha’s Vineyard, a historical novel pulls back the curtain on a mysterious and wealthy family, as seen through the eyes of their nanny—a college student who, while falling in love on the elegant island, is also forced to reckon with the dark underbelly of privilege.
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Summer Longing
by Jamie Brenner
When a baby girl is abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth Cooperman, new to Provincetown, turns to her neighbors for help and is drawn into the drama of the close-knit community as alliances are made, relationships are tested and secrets are uncovered.
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The Summer Set
by Aimee Agresti
Relegated back into obscurity by age discrimination, a former Hollywood A-list star returns to the theater where she got her start and reconnects with her director former flame before a celebrity rival threatens their summer production.
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To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
by Jeff Shaara
The best-selling author draws on extensive research and unprecedented access to the Pearl Harbor memorial and museum archives in a high-suspense, historically accurate thriller inspired by the 1941 attack.
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A Week at the Shore
by Barbara Delinsky
Returning to her family's Rhode Island beach home after a 20-year estrangement, a real estate photographer navigates painful family secrets that test her bonds with her sisters, while her 13-year-old daughter pursues desperately wanted family ties.
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The 20th Victim
by James Patterson
Investigating three simultaneous murders in Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, SFPC sergeant Lindsay Boxer identifies an unsettling link between the victims before the killer's escalating shootings galvanize the country.
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Bombshell
by Stuart Woods
Former CIA operative-turned-movie producer Teddy Fay becomes embroiled in two sticky situations involving a vengeful criminal thug and malicious gossip that is overshadowing the career of a rising Centurion star.
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The Chocolate Cobweb
by Charlotte Armstrong
This outstanding early example of psychological suspense and domestic crime fiction, originally published in 1948, deftly inserts a young woman into a family she's just met in hopes of thwarting a murder.
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Death in the East
by Abir Mukherjee
The reappearance of an unwelcome figure from his past in 1922 India leads Capt. Sam Wyndham to an impossible case of murder. Every time you think you know where this is going, the story surprises.
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Death on Tuckernuck
by Francine Mathews
Investigating a double shooting on a luxury yacht that was grounded during a hurricane three days before her wedding, Nantucket Police Detective Meredith Folger struggles to untangle a case involving false identities, missing guns and a cargo of heroin.
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Eagle Station
by Dale Brown
When Russia and China forge an unlikely alliance to claim the moon's natural resources, Brad McLanahan and the Iron Wolf Squadron scramble to prevent the construction of a heavily armed moon base.
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Fair Warning
by Michael Connelly
When a woman with whom he shared a one-night stand is found brutally murdered, veteran reporter Jack McEvoy tracks a serial killer who has been operating under the radar.
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A Full Cold Moon
by Lissa Marie Redmond
A body of man is found brutally murdered leading to Detective Lauren Riley confronting her past failings, as well as fighting for her future amid the interference of the Icelandic government in the fourth entry in the Cold Case Investigation series.
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Furmidable Foes
by Rita Mae Brown
Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her pet sleuths investigate hidden enemies in their effort to expose a scam involving an upmarket organic grocery store that is selling substandard produce.
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The Goodbye Man
by Jeffery Deaver
A sequel to The Never Game finds Colter Shaw investigating a mysterious organization in Washington State that is either a therapeutic healing colony or a dangerous cult under the sway of a charismatic leader
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A Good Marriage
by Kimberly McCreight
Begged for help by an old friend, an overworked lawyer investigates a suspicious death in a Brooklyn brownstone before she is confronted by a close-knit circle of parents who would protect an exclusive school.
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The Good Wife
by Jane A. Adams
A chilling murder ruins a fun day at the races in the fifth fast-paced historical mystery featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone.
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Hard Cash Valley
by Brian Panowich
Investigating a murder in a Jacksonville motel room, Dane Kirby and his FBI counterpart, Special Agent Roselita Velasquez, find themselves in a race against time to save a boy on the autism spectrum whose savant talents are being violently exploited.
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The Last Trial
by Scott Turow
A brilliant octogenarian defense lawyer on the brink of retirement seeks to prove the innocence of a long-time friend, a former Nobel Prize winner who has been charged with murder.
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The Paladin
by David Ignatius
Set up to take the fall for an illegal covert ops mission targeting a hostile cyber intelligence organization, operations officer Michael Dunne emerges from a year in prison determined to bring justice to the CIA insiders who destroyed his life.
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Pretty Things
by Janelle Brown
To save her mother, a con artist who hustled to give her a decent childhood, Nina must run her most audacious, dangerous scam yet that involves a privileged young heiress as they both try to survive the greatest game of deceit and destruction they will ever play.
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Robert B. Parker's Grudge Match
by Mike Lupica
Reluctantly taking the case of a long-time gangster associate who will forgive a betrayal in return, private investigator Sunny Randall tracks down the man's missing girlfriend and business partner before the murder of a witness reveals unanticipated dangers.
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Seeing Darkness
by Heather Graham
When a terrifying past-life regression during a girls' weekend in Salem reveals a local politician's sinister nature, FBI Krewe of Hunters special agent Jon Dickson teams up with an apprehensive witness to stop a twisted serial killer.
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The Shooting at Chateau Rock
by Martin Walker
When a wealthy farmer is found dead amid revelations about his disinherited family, Bruno follows leads to a Russian oligarch and a shadowy multinational conglomerate in a case involving the chief suspect's daughter and an aging rock star.
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These Women
by Ivy Pochoda
Connected by the deadly obsessions of a single man, five very different women endure lives of danger and anguish, including a mother whose daughter's murder remains unsolved.
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This Is How I Lied
by Heather Gudenkauf
A pregnant detective, still haunted by the cold case murder of her best friend decades earlier is forced to relive the past and finally understand what happened when new evidence comes to light and the case is reopened.
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Truth and Justice
by Fern Michaels
Alexis Thorn and Joe Esposito rally the Sisterhood around an Afghanistan War soldier's grieving widow, a victim of a fertility clinic con artist who has destroyed her chance to have a child with her late husband.
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What You Don't See
by Tracy Clark
When a celebrity stalking turns deadly and lands her policeman friend in the hospital, private investigator Cass Raines must find and bring the attacker to justice.
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Wrath of Poseidon
by Clive Cussler
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuries in this exciting adventure in the bestselling series.
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Beach Read
by Emily Henry
An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a best-selling romance novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer-long writing project that challenges them write well in each others’ styles.
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The Friendship List
by Susan Mallery
Reuniting in the aftermath of a devastating loss, two single moms, lifelong best friends, create a list of challenges, from skydiving to getting tattoos, before their prospects and perspectives are transformed by unexpected love.
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Ghosting: A Love Story
by Tash Skilton
Dumped by his fiancée, Miles is couch-surfing across New York City, has set up shop at a café and no longer believes in love—until chill L.A. transplant Zoey walks into his life.
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Hideaway
by Nora Roberts
Years after escaping a kidnapper with the help of a young man, a Hollywood hopeful pursues healing in Ireland before she is compelled to return to Los Angeles, where she encounters unexpected opportunities in love and vengeance.
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Of Literature and Lattes
by Katherine Reay
In the small town of Winsome, Illinois, two people discover the confusing, complex, and beautiful nature of friendship.
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The Somerset Girls
by Lori Foster
As Autumn and Ember work hand-in-hand to save the animal rescue property their grandparents created, they’ll see that family can be a blessing and a curse.
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Annihilation Aria
by Michael R. Underwood
In this fun series launch, Max is a stranded xeno-archeologist from Earth, Lahra is a stern warrior of a nearly extinct race searching for her people's heir, and Wheel is the couple's cybernetic pilot running from her past. Can they evade space fascists, kick-start a rebellion, and save the galaxy, all while they each try to find their own way home?
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Goldilocks
by Laura Lam
When Earth is ravaged by climate changes that poison the air and water, five women steal a spaceship to colonize a new world in this gripping and unexpected science fiction thriller.
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Network Effect
by Martha Wells
When Murderbot’s human associates are captured and need its help, it must choose between inertia and drastic action, in this first, full-length standalone novel about a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction.
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Sunshield
by Emily B. Martin
Martin spins a graceful web of intrigue, coups, and budding revolution in this fast-paced, swashbuckling adventure, tying up just enough loose ends to bring this series opener to a satisfying close, while leaving enough mysteries unsolved to have readers chomping at the bit for the next installment.
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