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NYT Fiction Bestsellers @ the LibraryNovember 2020
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Many of these books are on our Bestsellers Shelves. To hold one or more titles, place an online hold or phone 415.789.2661 for currently available BelTib copies. Search for more by entering BelTib Bestsellers in the catalog search box. Library checkouts are available at curbside M, W, Th & F, 10-2; T, 2-7. (Please check the website for any curbside hour changes.) While we are closed for browsing the physical shelves, we encourage you to check out and download eBooks, as well. If you need help, phone 415.789.2661 or email refdesk@beltiblibrary.org.
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A time for mercy by John GrishamCourt-appointed lawyer Jake Brigance puts his career and the safety of his family on the line to defend a 16-year-old murder suspect who is facing the death penalty - by the best-selling author of A Time to Kill.
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The return by Nicholas SparksMoving into a family beekeeper cabin to recuperate from war injuries, an Afghanistan veteran falls in love with a guarded sheriff while working with a sullen local teen to investigate the mystery of a grandparent’s death.
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The searcher by Tana FrenchLooking to start a new life in a small Irish village, former Chicago police officer Cal Hooper comes out of retirement to help find a missing kid and uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat.
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The invisible life of Addie LaRue by Victoria SchwabMaking a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early 18th-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name - by the best-selling author of the Villains series.
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The evening and the morning by Ken FollettA prequel to the best-selling The Pillars of the Earth follows the experiences of a young boatbuilder, a scholarly monk and a Norman noblewoman against a backdrop of the Viking attacks at the end of the 10th century in England.
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The book of two waysby Jodi PicoultExperiencing memories of a man other than her husband while surviving a plane crash, an end-of-life doula on the brink of a fateful decision envisions two disparate paths that find her staying with her family or reconnecting with the past.
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Anxious peopleby Fredrik BackmanTaken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers—including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages and a plucky octogenarian—discover their unexpected common traits.
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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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Leave the world behindby Rumaan AlamSheltering in a New York beach house with a couple that has taken refuge during a massive blackout, a family struggles for information about the power failure while wondering if the cut-off property is actually safe.
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Troubles in paradiseby Elin HilderbrandAs drama unfolds around her and her family after the death of her husband, who was leading a double life, Irene Steele gets some help from a mysterious source and a new beginning in the paradise of St. John after the truth is finally revealed.
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Where the crawdads sing by Delia OwensViewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a tragedy, a beautiful hermit who has survived for years in a marsh becomes targeted by unthinkable forces - a first novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Cry of the Kalahari.
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The midnight library by Matt HaigAs Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one -- following a different career, undoing old breakups or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist -- she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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The guest listby Lucy Foley An expertly planned celebrity wedding between a rising television star and an ambitious magazine publisher is thrown into turmoil by petty jealousies, a college drinking game, the bride's ruined dress and an untimely murder.
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The silence by Don DeLilloFive people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment in 2022 react to a mysterious, catastrophic event that severs all of modern life’s digital connections in this new novel from the National Book Award-winning author of White Noise.
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