NYT - Hardcover Fiction | Santa Fe Public Library

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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 14 week(s).

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Taken 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. Viewing an apartment normally doesn't turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that: a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment...

2) The awakening

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Roberts, Nora

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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Book, Large Print

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"When Breen Kelly was a girl, her father would tell her stories of magical places. Now she's mired in student debt and working a job she hates. She discovers her mother has been hiding an investment account in her name, funded by her long-lost father - and it's worth nearly four million dollars. She uses some of the money to journey to Ireland, and begins to understand why she kept seeing that silver-haired, elusive man, why she imagined his voice...

3) Daylight

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Baldacci, David

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#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"FBI Agent Atlee Pine's search for her sister Mercy clashes with military investigator John Puller's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy -- from which neither of them will escape unscathed"--

4) Deadly cross

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Patterson, James

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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Book, Audio CD

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"A scandalous double homicide in the nation's capital opens the psychological case files on Detective Alex Cross. Until Kay Willingham's shocking murder inside a luxury limousine, the Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and ex-wife of the sitting vice-president led a public life. Yet few, including her onetime psychologist, had any inkling of Kay's troubled past in the Deep South. Murdered alongside her is Randall Christopher, a respected educator...

5) The evening and the morning

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Follett, Ken

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook

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"It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined: A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when the only home he's ever known is raided...

6) Fortune and glory: a Stephanie Plum novel

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Evanovich, Janet

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#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"When Stephanie's beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chairand the keys to a life-changing fortune. But as Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli's treasure, they discover that they're not the only ones on the hunt. Two dangerous enemies from the past stand in their way - along with a new adversary who's even more formidable: Gabriela Rose, a dark-eyed beauty...

7) Hamnet: a novel of the plague

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O'Farrell, Maggie

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#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet -- a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain -- and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor -- penniless, bullied by a violent father -- falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman -- a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on...

8) The law of innocence

Author

Connelly, Michael

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#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can't make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Mickey elects to defend himself and must strategize and build his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles, all the while looking over his shoulder, as an officer of the court...

9) The midnight library

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Haig, Matt

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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices ... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...

10) Ready player two: a novel

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Cline, Ernest

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#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook

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"A 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"-- Days after winning control of OASIS, the immersive virtual reality environment in which most of humanity chooses to live, Wade Watts discovers a world-changing technological advancement and draws the attention of a merciless...

11) The return

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Sparks, Nicholas

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#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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"Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any. Tending to his grandfather's beloved bee hives while preparing for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love...

12) A time for mercy

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Grisham, John

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#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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Court-appointed lawyer Jake Brigance puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line to defend a sixteen-year-old suspect who is accused of killing a local deputy and is facing the death penalty.

13) The vanishing half

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Bennett, Brit

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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 28 week(s).

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Book, Audio CD

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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...

14) Where the crawdads sing

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Owens, Delia

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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 119 week(s).

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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...