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Most Requested BooksMay 2021
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Many of these books are on the Bestsellers Shelves. To hold one or more available copies, phone 415.789.2661. Search for more BelTib Bestsellers here . NEW HOURS: Library checkouts are available at curbside Monday - Saturday 10-4. (See the website for any curbside hour changes.) While 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 us at refdesk@beltiblibrary.org.
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The four winds by Kristin HannahA Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California - by the best-selling author of The Nightingale.
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The Midnight Library by Matt HaigWhen 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.
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Caste : the origins of our discontents by Isabel WilkersonThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, impact everyday American lives.
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Klara and the sun by Kazuo IshiguroWaiting to be chosen by a customer, an Artificial Friend programmed with high perception observes the activities of shoppers while exploring fundamental questions about what it means to love - by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go.
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Hamnet : a novel of the plague by Maggie O'FarrellThe award-winning author of I Am, I Am, I Am presents the evocative story of a young Shakespeare’s marriage to a talented herbalist before the ravaging death of their 11-year-old son shapes the production of his greatest play.
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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 consequences of fear : a Maisie Dobbs novel by Jacqueline WinspearEntreated by a witness nobody believes to investigate a murder, Maisie Dobbs uncovers a conspiracy with devastating implications for Britain’s war effort during the Nazi occupation of Europe - by the award-winning author of The American Agent.
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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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We run the tides : a novel by Vendela VidaTeen Maria Fabiola's sudden disappearance in the aftermath of a vehement dispute with best friend Eulabee about the nature of an act they witness while walking to their upscale all-girls' school exposes dark community secrets - by the award-winning author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name.
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The Paris library : a novel by Janet Skeslien CharlesBased on a true story, Charles describes how a lonely, 1980s teenager befriends an elderly neighbor and uncovers her past as a librarian at the American Library in Paris where she joined the Resistance when the Nazis arrived.
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When the stars go dark : a novel by Paula McLainRetreating to her childhood foster home in the wake of a tragedy, a veteran missing-persons detective becomes entwined in the search for a local teen whose disappearance eerily resembles an unsolved case from the detective’s past.
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Deacon King Kong : a novel by James McBrideIn the aftermath of a 1969 Brooklyn church deacon’s public shooting of a local drug dealer, the community’s African-American and Latinx witnesses find unexpected support from each other when they are targeted by violent mobsters.
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Keep sharp : build a better brain at any age by Sanjay GuptaThe Emmy Award-winning CNN chief medical correspondent and best-selling author of Chasing Life draws on cutting-edge scientific research to outline strategies for protecting brain function and maintaining cognitive health at any age.
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Win by Harlan CobenWhen Windsor Horne Lockwood III--or Win, as his few friends call him--discovers that his suitcase and a painting stolen during a robbery and kidnapping at his family's estate twenty years ago ended up in a dead man's apartment, he decides to investigate using his personal connection to the case, his ungodly fortune, and his own unique brand of justice.
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Transient desires by Donna LeonInvestigating a mysterious boating accident outside his jurisdiction, commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague Claudia Griffoni discover that one of the suspects is associated with Laguna’s sinister underworld - by the award-winning author of Trace Elements.
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A promised land by Barack ObamaIn the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Of women and salt by Gabriela GarciaThe daughter of a Cuban immigrant battles addiction and the fallout of her decision to take in the child of an ICE detainee, while her mother wrestles with displacement trauma and complicated family ties.
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Homeland elegies : a novel by Ayad AkhtarIn this deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, the author blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
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