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1) The games Gods play

Author

Owen, Abigail

Series

Crucible (Abigail Owen) volume 1

Notes

#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This story is my latest obsession.” —USA Today bestselling author, Devney Perry The gods love to play with us mere mortals. And every hundred years, we let them… I have never been favored by the gods. Far from it, thanks to Zeus. Living as a cursed office clerk for the Order of Thieves, I just keep my head down and hope the capricious beings who rule from Olympus won't notice me. Not an easy feat,...

2) Capture or kill

Author

Bentley, Don

Series

Mitch Rapp novels volume 23

Notes

#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Azad Ashani tries to thwart an Iranian plot that could trigger a catastrophic conflict in the Middle East while CIA Director Irene Kennedy races to confirm Osama bin Laden's location.

3) Passions in death

Author

Robb, J. D

Series

In Death series volume 59

Notes

#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Homicide Detective Eve Dallas hunts a killer who turns a wedding party into a murder scene in the next novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, J.D. Robb, Passions in Death. On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls' night out has turned into a murder scene. One of the brides lies in a pool of blood, garroted...

4) The women

Author

Hannah, Kristin

Notes

#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 31 week(s).

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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively...

5) The life impossible

Author

Haig, Matt

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#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace...

6) By any other name: a novel

Author

Picoult, Jodi

Notes

#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard -- one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright...

7) Blue sisters: a novel

Author

Mellors, Coco

Notes

#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein. The three Blue sisters are exceptional - and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a...

8) Iron flame

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

Series

Empyrean volume 2

Notes

#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 44 week(s).

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"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 she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....

9) Creation lake: a novel

Author

Kushner, Rachel

Notes

#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Time, LitHub, The Millions, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more!

"At last I get to say how deeply, madly, irrecoverably I loved Creation Lake...it was all stylish and cool, and then somehow...

10) Fourth wing

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

Series

Empyrean volume 1

Notes

#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 70 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" humans....

11) The god of the woods

Author

Moore, Liz

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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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"When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp--as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. And this isn't the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared in this region: Barbara's...

12) All the colors of the dark

Author

Whitaker, Chris

Series

Read with Jenna

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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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"1975 Is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges-Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer....

13) Ghost soldier: a novel of the Oregon files

Author

Maden, Mike

Series

Oregon files volume 18

Notes

#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"When African jihadis attack a Nigerian regiment using American weapons, Cabrillo and the Oregon crew are on the case, investigating from Afghanistan to Kuala Lumpur to track a mysterious arms dealer--a genius, or perhaps a devil--known only as the Vendor. Cabrillo goes undercover to find the Vendor's base, but his adversary isn't just an arms smuggler. He's an arms maker, and Cabrillo just walked into a lethal military game alongside the most dangerous...

14) The wedding people: a novel

Author

Espach, Alison

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming for years--she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband,...