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Most Requested BooksNovember 2020
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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 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 see the website for any curbisde 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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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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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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The searcher
by Tana French
Looking 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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All the devils are here by Louise Penny Horrified when his billionaire godfather is targeted in a near-fatal accident, Chief Inspector Gamache follows clues deep within the Paris Archives to uncover gruesome, decades-old secrets - by the award-winning author of A Better Man.
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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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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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Squeeze me by Carl HiaasenWhen a high-society dowager murdered at the height of Palm Beach’s charity gala season is declared a political martyr by the colorful president she supported, a talented wildlife wrangler uncovers the truth amid the discovery of a controversial affair.
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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 law of innocence by Michael ConnellyDefense attorney Mickey Haller utilizes his legal team’s resources from behind bars to organize his own defense when he is framed for murder by an unknown adversary - by the best-selling author of the Harry Bosch series.
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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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Rage by Bob WoodwardIn his second book of nonfiction on the Trump presidency, Woodward records 17 on-the-record interviews over seven volatile months in which the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the "dynamite behind every door."
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The lying life of adults by Elena FerranteThe best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend presents the story of an Italian teen who searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.
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Untamed by Glennon DoyleAn activist, speaker and philanthropist offers a memoir wrapped in a wake-up call that reveals how women can reclaim their true, untamed selves by breaking free of the restrictive expectations and cultural conditioning that leaves them feeling dissatisfied and lost.
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One by one by Ruth WareWhen an offsite company retreat is upended by an avalanche that strands them in a remote mountain chalet, eight coworkers are forced to set aside their corporate rankings and mutual distrust in order to survive.
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Transcendent kingdom by Yaa GyasiA follow-up to the best-selling Homegoing finds a sixth-year PhD candidate grappling with the childhood faith of the evangelical church in which she was raised while researching the science behind the suffering that has devastated her Ghanaian immigrant family.
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American dirtby Jeanine CumminsSelling two favorite books to an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, a bookstore manager is forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America.
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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 orderby Daniel Silva The award-winning author of The New Girl and The Other Woman presents a latest high-action thriller that pits enigmatic art restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon against an international threat that tests the limits of his skills.
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Too much and never enough : how my family created the world's most dangerous man by Mary L. Trump In this portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a light on the history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who she claims now "threatens the world's health, economic security and social fabric".
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