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PLEASE NOTE! These books were scheduled for publication in June at the time this was created, but as a result of the pandemic, publication dates may change.
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28 Summers
by Elin Hilderbrand
The best-selling author of Summer of ‘69 presents a tale inspired by the film, Same Time Next Year, that follows a man’s discovery of his mother’s long-term relationship with the husband of a Presidential frontrunner.
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500 Miles from You
by Jenny Colgan
A London nurse suffering PTSD is transferred to a small town in the Scottish Highlands, switching places with an Army veteran who feels like a fish out of water in the city, uniting the pair in an email friendship.
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Always the Last to Know
by Kristan Higgins
After their father suffers a stroke, two sisters must return home and deal with the paths both their lives have taken as well as their parents’ relationship.
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Barbarians at the PTA
by Stephanie Newman
A mother and daughter face cliques, cyberbullying and snobs in a wealthy NYC suburb in this hilarious, sharp, and hope-filled debut.
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The Bell in the Lake
by Lars Mytting
A young woman in an isolated 19th-century Norway village marries a pastor who would modernize the church and discontinue pagan rituals, before the arrival of a sophisticated German architect traps the couple between the forces of the past and present.
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The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season
by Molly Fader
Three generations of women who come together at the family orchard to face secrets from the past and learn to believe in the power of hope and forgiveness.
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The Black Swan of Paris
by Karen Robards
A celebrated singer in World War II occupied France joins the Resistance to save her estranged family from being killed in a German prison.
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A Burning
by Megha Majumdar
An opportunistic gym teacher and a starry-eyed misfit find the realization of their ambitions tied to the downfall of an innocent Muslim girl who has been wrongly implicated in a terrorist attack.
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Cactus Jack
by Brad Smith
A terrific novel about a thirty-something single woman, the untried colt she inherits, a horse crazy little girl, and their band of misfits and has-beens who stick it to the establishment in the cutthroat world of horse racing.
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Daddy's Girls
by Danielle Steel
Inheriting a California ranch upon their single father’s sudden death, three sisters evaluate their very different childhoods while uncovering paradigm-shifting secrets about their father’s identity that strengthen their bond with each other.
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Dance Away with Me
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Seeking refuge in a Tennessee mountain town to recover from heartbreak, a young widow and midwife bonds with an enigmatic artist, a helpless infant and a passel of curious teens in a small and suspicious community.
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The Daughters of Erietown
by Connie Schultz
A first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explores the impact of forfeited dreams, long-kept secrets and evolving gender roles on a small family throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
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The Fallen
by Carlos Manuel ℓlvarez
Cuban family members individually nararate a series overlapping, daily events as they grow more and more apart, from the father, who is a committed revolutionary and die-hard Fidelista to the son who is bitter about his limited freedoms.
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Friends and Strangers
by J. Courtney Sullivan
Struggling to adjust to small-town life after having a baby, an accomplished New York City journalist immerses herself in social media before bonding with a babysitter from a very different walk of life.
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Her Last Flight
by Beatriz Williams
Investigating the fate of a forgotten aviation pioneer, a 1947 war correspondent tracks down the pilot’s former student before learning the remarkable story of their complicated and passionate relationship.
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The House of Whispers
by Laura Purcell
Fleeing to Cornwall after accepting a position as a nurse to an elderly woman, Hester is surrounded by superstitious staff who enact bizarre rituals and tell her of fairies who hunt for humans to steal back to their realm.
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How the Penguins Saved Veronica
by Hazel Prior
Determined to find a worthy cause where she can dedicate her millions, octogenarian Veronica rediscovers love, family and connection while bonding with an unknown grandson and infiltrating a scientific team on behalf of endangered penguins in Antarctica.
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I Was Told It Would Get Easier
by Abbi Waxman
A freedom-seeking teen questioning her future goals and an insecure mom who would strengthen their bond embark on a college tour with a bus full of strangers only to see their carefully mapped plans devolve into off-road misadventures.
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The Joyce Girl: A Novel of Jazz Age Paris
by Annabel Abbs
With Lucia’s behavior growing increasingly erratic, author James Joyce sends her to pioneering psychoanalyst Carl Jung, where she will tell her own story—an account of thwarted ambition, passionate creativity and the power of love to both inspire and destroy.
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The Lies That Bind
by Emily Giffin
Forging an unlikely connection with a stranger at a bar who warns her against resuming a dysfunctional relationship, an aspiring reporter investigates when the man goes missing on September 11, 2001.
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Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
by Vicky Zimmerman
Volunteering at the Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies in the wake of midlife setbacks, Kate is pushed by a sharped-tongued nonagenarian resident to follow the rather outdated advice of a 1950s cooking-oriented self-help guide.
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Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Devastated by her 1875 suicide attempt, the sisters of widowed former First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln navigate the consequences of their husbands’ choices while advocating for Mary’s needs.
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Nine Shiny Objects
by Brian Castleberry
A stunning literary saga that chronicles the unexpectedly, eerily intersecting lives of a line of utopia-seekers over the course of half a century that reveals the divided heart of modern America itself.
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Parakeet
by Marie-Helene Bertino
Visited by a bird she believes to be the spirit of her late grandmother days before her wedding, a bride receives a warning not to get married and embarks on a frantic search for her long-lost brother.
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The Second Home
by Christina Clancy
Inheriting their family’s Cape Cod summer home years after long-term estrangement, two sisters are reunited by a man with a legitimate claim to the property who would set the record straight.
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The Secret Women
by Sheila Williams
Three new friends, women all with mothers who have recently died, find long-buried secrets when they help each other sort through their mothers’ belongings.
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Sorry I Missed You
by Suzy Krause
This poignant novel about long-lost love and unlikely friendships is the perfect read for anyone who has ever felt haunted by their past (or by anything else).
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The Summer House
by Lauren K. Denton
A moving story about the friendship of two women reeling from betrayal and divorce whose shared faith helps them face the pain of the past, embrace the future, and learn who they truly are.
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery
by Rosalie Knecht
A sequel to Who Is Vera Kelly? finds the gay ex-CIA agent tackling her first case as a private investigator when a search for a foster child takes her from the Dominican Republic to the Caribbean.
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The View from Here
by Hannah Roberts McKinnon
Three very different siblings are at the center of a novel about what it means to be a family, set over the course of one unforgettable Connecticut summer.
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The Voyage of the Morning Light
by Marina Endicott
Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years. When their stern father dies, Thea travels to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing journey to the other side of the world.
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All the Broken People
by Leah Konen
Moving to rustic Woodstock to escape an unhappy past, Lucy bonds with an alluring couple, Vera and John, who embroil her in a plot to fake John’s death, before Lucy finds herself framed for the man’s actual murder.
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The Clutter Corpse
by Simon Brett
Stumbling upon a murdered body in a cluttered flat, professional home organizer Ellen Curtis begins to doubt suspicions that are targeting the victim's escaped prisoner son before uncovering disturbing links between the crime and her own past.
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Dark August
by Katie Tallo
A young woman haunted by her tragic past returns to her hometown and discovers that there might be more to her police detective mother’s death—and last case—than she ever could have imagined.
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Dead West
by Matt Goldman
Visiting Hollywood to investigate Beverly Mayer’s heartbroken grandson’s reckless spending activities, Minneapolis private detective Nils Shapiro infiltrates the grieving man’s disorienting inner circle to uncover the truth about a fiancée’s tragic death.
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Devolution
by Max Brooks
A modern retelling of the Bigfoot legend is presented as a gripping journal by a woman from a high-tech Pacific Northwest community who becomes cut off from civilization by a volcanic eruption before witnessing the flight of starving humanoid beings.
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The Dilemma
by B. A. Paris
Organizing a lavish birthday party after decades of hardship, a woman hiding a secret about a daughter who cannot attend is forced to confront a devastating truth when her husband arranges a surprise.
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The Distant Dead
by Heather Young
When a young boy finds himself at the center of a murder mystery, several members of an American small town must deal with the fallout.
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The Finders: A Mace Reid K-9 mystery
by Jeffrey B. Burton
After losing his beloved springer spaniel, Mace Reid, who specializes in human remains detection, adopts a new cadaver dog trainee, a rescue dog named Vira with a mysterious past, who helps him find a serial killer.
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The Girl from Widow Hills
by Megan Miranda
Rendered famous in childhood for her miraculous survival of a dangerous storm, a young woman changes her name and struggles to hide from the media before waking up one evening to find a corpse at her feet.
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Hush
by James Patterson
An imprisoned ex-cop seeking justice for her brother’s murder is offered her freedom in exchange for helping the Deputy Police Commissioner who put her away rescue his missing daughter and grandchild.
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Love & Other Crimes: Stories
by Sara Paretsky
A collection of thrilling crime and detective short stories, many featuring legendary detective V.I. Warshawski—including a brand-new V.I. story.
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The Last Flight
by Julie Clark
Working for months on a plan to escape her secretly violent husband, Claire impulsively swaps airline tickets with a stranger also on the run before a fateful accident compels her to assume the other’s identity.
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The Mountains Wild
by Sarah Stewart Taylor
A series debut set in Dublin and New York introduces homicide detective and divorced mom Maggie D’arcy, who in the wake of a disappearance and new clues reopens the investigation into her cousin’s disappearance 23 years earlier.
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The Persuasion
by Iris Johansen
Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn’s artistic daughter, Jane, teams up with former flame Seth Caleb and confronts their complicated dynamic while trying to escape a brilliant psychopath.
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The Red, Red Snow
by Caro Ramsay
Two bodies are discovered at a cottage in a remote highland glen. The killer would appear to have arrived and left without leaving a trace, not even a footprint in the snow. As the snow piles higher, detectives Anderson and Costello put their wits to solving a seemingly impossible crime.
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Riviera Gold
by Laurie R. King
Visiting the French Riviera in the summer of 1925, Russell and Holmes are embroiled in a mystery shaped by the traditional pleasures of Monte Carlo and the modern delights of the Jazz Age.
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Running from the Dead
by Mike Knowles
A six-year search for a kidnapped boy ends in a murder that leaves a private detective trying to find a girl on the run before the police find him.
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Seven Lies
by Elizabeth Kay
Lying to her best friend about liking her wealthy, priggish husband, Jane discovers that one lie leads to another—and to murder — in a thriller about the toxic friendships between women, obsession and the things we do for love.
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A Sprinkling of Murder
by Daryl Wood Gerber
Fairy-garden store owner Courtney Kelly believes in inviting magic into your life, but when uninvited trouble enters her shop, she’ll need more than a sprinkling of her imagination to solve a murder.
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The Stepdaughter
by Debbie Howells
The English village of Abingworth is rocked when the body of Niamh Buckley’s best friend, Hollie, is found, and Niamh’s mother realizes that her daughter holds the key to finding out what happened.
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The Summer House
by James Patterson
Investigating four Army Rangers who have been implicated in the destruction of a luxurious summer lake resort, Army Major and former NYPD cop Jeremiah Cook is stonewalled by local law enforcement and dangerous secrets.
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They Did Bad Things
by Lauren A. Forry
Twenty years after college, five friends are trapped inside a crumbling, secluded mansion on the Scottish isle of Doon; and must fight each other—and the unknown mastermind behind their gathering—as they confront the role they played in their former housemate’s death.
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The Voter File
by David Pepper
Investigating a grad student’s claims about an impossible election result, disgraced reporter Jack Sharpe uncovers the activities of voter database hackers before finding himself questioning the country he loves and the president he admires.
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You Can Go Home Now
by Michael Elias
Queens cop Nina Karim is on the hunt for a killer while battling violent secrets of her own.
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Ask Me Anything
by P. Z. Reizin
Struggling with limited prospects in the years after her father’s abandonment, Daisy uses smart devices to organize care for her aging mother, unaware that the devices are secretly working to transform her family’s happiness.
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A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby
by Vanessa Riley
Created by a shrewd countess, The Widow’s Grace is a secret society with a mission: to help ill-treated widows regain their status, their families, and even find true love again—or perhaps for the very first time.
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A Good Duke Is Hard to Find
by Christina Britton
Exiling herself to the Isle of Synne after being left at the altar a third time, Lenora Hartley has resigned herself to a life of solitude until she meets mysterious Peter Ashford who makes her pulse race.
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The New Normal
by Tracy Brogan
After landing a job as a co-host of a local morning show, divorced single mom, Carli, begins a friendship with the handsome, new neighbor next door and can’t decide if she wants to ruin a good thing with romance.
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Summer at Lake Haven
by RaeAnne Thayne
Wedding dress designer Samantha Fremont falls for a handsome British widower with two young children who is in Haven Point for his sister’s wedding, not knowing that his secretly being a Lord may put their relationship in jeopardy.
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Take a Hint, Dani Brown
by Talia Hibbert
A young woman who agrees to fake-date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral.
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A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians
by H. G. Parry
An alternate-world tale of revolution and wonder follows necromancer Robespierre’s revolutionary outcry and weather mage Toussaint L’Ouverture’s slave revolt before newly elected Prime Minister William Pitt considers the legalization of magic for commoners.
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The Ghosts of Sherwood
by Carrie Vaughn
The first of the "Locksley Chronicles," this delightful novella looks at what comes after the legend. Robin Hood and Marion have married and settled down, but when their children are kidnapped the adventure continues with lively action and lovable characters.
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Hella
by David Gerrold
Hella is a planet where everything is oversized - the trees are mile-high, the dinosaur herds are huge, and the weather is extreme. The colonists are barely self-sufficient, so tensions rise when a starship of refugees arrive in this outstanding tale of interstellar intrigue
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The Kingdom of Liars
by Nick Martell
A story of secrets, rebellion, and murder are shattering the Hollows, where magic costs memory to use, and only the son of the kingdom’s despised traitor holds the truth.
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Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel follows the experiences of a courageous socialite in 1950s Mexico who is drawn into the treacherous secrets of an isolated mansion.
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We Ride the Storm
by Devin Madson
In the midst of a burgeoning war, three warriors—Princess Miko Ts’ai; assassin Cassandra Marius; and Captain Rah e Torin—chase their ambitions no matter what the cost.
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