NYT - Hardcover Fiction | Santa Fe Public Library

1) Fourth wing

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

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#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 28 week(s).

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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general -- also known as her tough-as-talons mother -- has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile"...

2) Iron flame

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

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#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity." —Xaden Riorson
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.
Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how

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3) The edge

Author

Baldacci, David

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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America's dirtiest secrets -- can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless...

4) The little liar: a novel

Author

Albom, Mitch

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#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Greek city during WWII, to America, where the intertwined lives of three survivors are forever changed by the perils of deception and the grace of redemption.

Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a

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5) The exchange: after The Firm

Author

Grisham, John

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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a stunning new legal thriller that marks the return of Mitch McDeere, the brilliant hero of The Firm. What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of...

6) The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Author

McBride, James

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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...

7) Resurrection walk

Author

Connelly, Michael

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#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department...

8) Lessons in chemistry: [a novel]

Author

Garmus, Bonnie

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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 80 week(s).

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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...

9) The secret

Author

Child, Lee

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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected. Until one body -- the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window -- generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army's representative. Reacher may be an exceptional...

10) Dirty thirty

Author

Evanovich, Janet

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#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same...

11) Holly: a novel

Author

King, Stephen

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#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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"Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In this new novel, Holly once again claims the spotlight,...

12) Demon Copperhead: a novel

Author

Kingsolver, Barbara

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 55 week(s).

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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....