NYT - Hardcover Fiction | Maury Loontjens Memorial Library

1) Fourth wing

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

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#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 30 week(s).

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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....

2) Iron flame

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

Notes

#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....

3) The exchange: after The Firm

Author

Grisham, John

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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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"In this explosive sequel to The Firm, Mitch, a partner at the largest law firm in the world, is asked for a favor by a mentor in Rome that plunges him into a sinister plot that has global implications and once against places everyone he holds dear in danger."--

4) The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Author

McBride, James

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#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 15 week(s).

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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...

5) Lessons in chemistry: a novel

Author

Garmus, Bonnie

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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 82 week(s).

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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it{u2019}s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel{u2013}prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with{u2014}of all things{u2014}her mind. True chemistry...

6) The little liar: a novel

Author

Albom, Mitch

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#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"A trustworthy boy who has never told a lie, 11-year-old Nico Krispis, duped by a German officer into leading his family and fellow Jewish residents to their doom, becomes a pathological liar, in a story that explores honesty, devotion and revenge-and the power of love to ultimately redeem us."--

7) Alex Cross must die

Author

Patterson, James

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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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Inspiration for Cross, coming soon to Prime Video-Alex Cross, fresh from a brush with death himself, is on the trail of the Dead Hours Killer. Detectives Cross and Sampson are tracking a serial killer who's fatally ambushing young men in the "Dead Hours" murders. They don't hear the machine gun fire. At first. "Drop whatever you're doing, Dr. Cross, and head to Reagan Airport," DC Metro Police dispatch says. "A plane just crashed and exploded on...

8) The edge

Author

Baldacci, David

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#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"Sent to a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA operative who was in possession of countless state secrets, ex-Army ranger Travis Devine, with no one to trust, must unravel a long history of secrets while evading those who want him dead."--

9) Unnatural death

Author

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why."--

10) Holly: a novel

Author

King, Stephen

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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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"Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In this new novel, Holly once again claims the spotlight,...

11) Inheritance

Author

Roberts, Nora

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#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about--and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including a majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast, which the will stipulates she must live in it for at least three years. Her engagement recently broken, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth-and why it was all kept secret...

12) Resurrection walk

Author

Connelly, Michael

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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"With the help of his half-brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, defense attorney Mickey Haller sets out to prove the innocence of a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy, putting Mickey in the crosshairs of a killer who doesn't want the case reopened--or the truth coming to light."--

13) Dirty thirty

Author

Evanovich, Janet

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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"Trenton, New Jersey's most underappreciated bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, while taking care of her boyfriend's giant orange dog, tracks the former security guard of a local jeweler who supposedly stole a fortune of diamonds, and must keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty."--

14) Demon Copperhead: a novel

Author

Kingsolver, Barbara

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#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 57 week(s).

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"The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses."--

15) The covenant of water: a novel

Author

Verghese, Abraham

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. It has been on the list for 29 week(s).

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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...