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NYT Fiction Bestsellers @ the LibraryFebruary 2021
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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 now available at curbside M & T 10-4, W 10-3, Th-Sa 10-2. (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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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 scorpion's tail by Douglas J. PrestonA sequel to Old Bones finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.
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Neighborsby Danielle SteelOpening her home to neighbors in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, a reclusive woman inadvertently triggers events that reveal secrets, divide relationships and forge new bonds among strangers - by the best-selling author of All That Glitters.
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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 by 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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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 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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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 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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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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Ready player twoby Ernest ClineA 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel Ready Player One that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.
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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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Outlawedby Anna NorthForced to flee from a community that hangs barren women as witches, 17-year-old Ada joins a gang of outlaws under a charismatic former preacher who hatches a treacherous plan that risks all of their lives.
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Deadly Cross by James PattersonInvestigating the assassination of the vice president’s wife, Detective Alex Cross and FBI Special Agent Ned Mahoney travel to Alabama to uncover clues from the victim’s early life - by the best-selling author of Criss Cross.
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The guest listby Lucy FoleyAn 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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