NYT - Hardcover Fiction | Crawford County Federated Library System

1) Fourth wing

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

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#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 20 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) Holly: a novel

Author

King, Stephen

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#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Book, Book on CD, Large Print

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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 (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King's new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised...

3) The last devil to die

Author

Osman, Richard

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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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When a dangerous package goes missing on Boxing Day, the Thursday Murder Club, when one of their own is murdered, take on their most deadly opponents yet.

4) Tom Lake: a novel

Author

Patchett, Ann

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#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

5) Lessons in Chemistry: : A Novel

Author

Garmus, Bonnie

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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 72 week(s).

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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. 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's the...

6) Code red

Author

Mills, Kyle

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#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor--especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor-bound to answer. The Syrian government appears to have created a highly addictive new narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. It's a major threat to Losa's business and he's determined to send someone to keep him on top by any means necessary. Rapp is the perfect choice for the mission. Not only...

7) Demon Copperhead: a novel

Author

Kingsolver, Barbara

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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 47 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. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....

8) The covenant of water: a novel

Author

Verghese, Abraham

Notes

#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 21 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook

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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...

9) Wellness: a novel

Author

Hill, Nathan

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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"A witty and poignant new novel about marriage, middle age, tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together"--

10) The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Author

McBride, James

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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 7 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...

11) Bright young women

Author

Knoll, Jessica

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#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in Bright Young Women. The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is...

12) The fraud

Author

Smith, Zadie

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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...

13) The river we remember: a novel

Author

Krueger, William Kent

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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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When the body of a wealthy landowner is found floating in the Alabaster River on Memorial Day in 1958, Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero, struggles to solve this murder that has the town of Jewel, Minnesota, up in arms, while putting to rest the demons from his own past.

14) Starter villain

Author

Scalzi, John

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#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after...

15) None of this is true: a novel

Author

Jewell, Lisa

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...