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A sneak peek at the May arrivals!
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Shelter in Place
Nora Roberts
A group of survivors navigate trauma and recovery challenges in the aftermath of a mass shooting at a movie theater, an event that inspires a career in law enforcement, triggers devastating PTSD and gives way to an escaped killer's plot to orchestrate an event with an even higher death toll.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 29
Place Hold
 Princess
James Patterson
Jack Morgan, the head of the world's foremost investigation agency receives at invitation to meet Princess Caroline, third in line to the British throne, and soon finds out that he is to find a close friend of the princess before the media catches wind of the scandal.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 15
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 The Crooked Staircase
Dean Koontz
Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk tracks a powerful Department of Justice operative at the center of a high-tech conspiracy that killed her husband and now threatens those closest to her as part of an agenda to seize power.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 8
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 The Cast
Danielle Steel
When Kait Whittier teams up with producer Zack Winter to launch a television series, she finds a second family among the cast and crew, but in the midst of it all Kait is forced to confront the greatest challenge a mother can ever know.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 15
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 The Outsider
Stephen King
In the aftermath of a boy's brutal murder in Flint City, a local detective is forced to arrest a popular Little League coach who, in spite of an alibi, presents with open-and-shut evidence that is called into question when the suspect's true nature and the realities of the crime come to light.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 22
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 The Other Lady Vanishes
Amanda Quick
Escaping from a sanitarium and taking a job at a tea shop in a 1930s California seaside resort town, Adelaide bonds with a man hiding as a widower before a local con artist's murder draws them into the shadowy underground.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 8
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 The Burning Maze
Rick Riordan
The Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth as the human teenager Lester Papadopoulos, and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor--and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles--somewhere in the American Southwest.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 1
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 The Gray Ghost
Clive Cussler
The grandson of a man who was wrongly accused of stealing a recovered Rolls Royce prototype a century earlier hires husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo to solve the mystery and clear his grandfather's name.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 29
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 Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic
Ace Atkins
After a Boston journalist receives paint chips from a painting stolen decades earlier, private investigator Spenser enters the shady world of black market art dealers, aged Mafia bosses, and vendettas in hopes of locating it.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 1
Place Hold
 By Invitation Only
Dorothea Benton Frank
A young, sophisticated Chicago woman falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina, and trades the bustle of cosmopolitan city life for the vagaries of a small Southern community.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 15
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 Love and Ruin
Paula McLain
After meeting and falling in love while she covered the Spanish Civil War in Madrid, Martha Gellhorn is forced to choose between her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her career as a war correspondent.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 1
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 The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Ruth Ware
After erroneously receiving a mysterious letter about a large inheritance, Hal attends the deceaseds funeral and realizes that something is very, very wrong.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 29
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 The Forgotten Road
Richard Paul Evans
With everyone believing he died in a plane crash, Chicago celebrity Charles James re-evaluates his life after narrowly escaping death and decides to walk from Chicago to California, where he hopes to rekindle his relationship with his ex-wife.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 1
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 The High Tide Club
Mary Kay Andrews
Hired by a millionaire from a vast barrier island home, an attorney learns the story of the new client's now-deceased friends, her determination to protect the land, clues about an unsolved murder, and her plans for heirs and descendants.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 8
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 How It Happened
Michael Koryta
After a troubled teen, no stranger to the law, admits to her involvement in a brutal murder, Rob Barrett, an FBI investigator and interrogator stakes his reputation on her confession only to have the information she provided prove false.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 15
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 To the Moon and Back
Karen Kingsbury
Devastated when his father commits suicide days before his college graduation, Harry returns to his home in Maine, where he is baffled by the increasingly sensual attentions of a mysterious woman and his own alluring stepmother, who he comes to realize are hiding dangerous secrets.
Scheduled Publication Date: May 29
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Publication dates subject to change.
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Women's Voices Author Series
Series spotlights recently published memoirs from women based in the Southwest.
 Saturday, April 21
11am - 12:15pm
Downtown Library
Lynne Hartke
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Under a Desert Sky, Lynne Hartke asks herself the hard questions of not only her cancer diagnosis, but also the diagnoses of both parents. Readers will discover that even in life's hardest places, they are not alone in their fear, they are not foolish to hope, and they are never forgotten by a loving God.
Lynne Hartke is a Voice of Hope for the American Cancer Society, a pastor's wife, community volunteer, blogger, and grandma.
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No need to worry about meeting times or baked goods. Simply drop in and out when it suits you! Bring your own wine!
To join, go to our
Facebook page
, and click on "Groups" on the list on the left-hand side. Click on "CPL Reads," then click on "Join Group."
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Looking for more book recommendations?
NoveList Plus is a great resource for fiction or nonfiction reading recommendations, series information, reviews, articles, lists of award-winning books, and more. It includes Audiobook Recommendations, Common Core connections, and readalikes galore!
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