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NYT Fiction Bestsellers @ the LibraryMay 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 fiction BelTib Bestsellers here. NEW HOURS: Checkouts are available at curbside Monday - Saturday 10-4. (Check 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 refdesk@beltiblibrary.org.
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Ocean prey by John SandfordPicking up a stalled FBI case involving three murdered Coast Guardsmen, Lucas Davenport teams up with detective Virgil Flowers to investigate the suspicious activities of a sophisticated boat and mysterious diver - by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Prey series.
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The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country by Amanda GormanOn January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration, where she captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe, celebrating the promise of America and affirming the power of poetry.
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The devil's hand : a thriller by Jack CarrFormer Navy SEAL James Reece embarks on a top-secret CIA mission of retribution, while in a dangerous world region the supreme leader of a cadre of assassins orchestrates a plot to defeat the United States.
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A 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 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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The red book by James PattersonLaunching an investigation of his own when his instincts tell him that more is behind a political shooting on Chicago’s West Side, SOS Detective Billy Harney uncovers a spate of murders connected to his troubled past.
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The good sister by Sally HepworthTwin sisters who are polar opposites but who are harboring a deep, dark secret about their sociopathic mother must face the consequences of both her actions and their own when one tries to start a family.
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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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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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Stargazer by Anne HillermanOfficer Bernie risks her relationship with Chee to investigate the disappearance of a former college roommate, whose confession for murder does not add up - by the best-selling author of The Tale Teller.
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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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When the stars go darkby 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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Good companyby Cynthia D'Aprix SweeneyEverything she thought she knew about herself, her happy marriage of twenty years and her relationship with her best friend is upended when Flora stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband's wedding ring, the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter was five.
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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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Northern spyby Flynn BerryCertain that her beloved sister did not join the IRA by choice, a Catholic BBC producer confronts impossible decisions that test family bonds, the limits of her ideals and her responsibilities as a mother.
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