NYT - Hardcover Fiction | Roanoke Public Library

1) Fourth wing

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

Series

Empyrean volume 1

Notes

#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 20 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....

2) Holly: a novel

Author

King, Stephen

Notes

#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Book, Audio, Audiobook CD, Large Print

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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,...

3) The last devil to die

Author

Osman, Richard

Series

Thursday Murder Club novels volume 4

Notes

#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Instant #1 New York Times bestseller
A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman
It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club.

Shocking news reaches them—an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.
The gang's search leads them into the antiques business,...

4) Tom Lake: a novel

Author

Patchett, Ann

Series

Reese's book club

Notes

#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

Formats:

Book, Audio, Audiobook CD, Playaway, WPL Large Print

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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. "In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor...

5) Lessons in chemistry: a novel

Author

Garmus, Bonnie

Notes

#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 72 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A must-read debut! Meet Elizabeth Zott: a formidable, unapologetic and inspiring (PARADE) scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show in this novel that is irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel. It reminds you that change takes time and always requires heat (The New York Times Book Review). "A unique heroine...

6) Code red

Author

Flynn, Vince

Series

Mitch Rapp

Notes

#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor--especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor-bound to answer. The Syrian government appears to have created a highly addictive new narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. It's a major threat to Losa's business and he's determined to send someone to keep him on top by any means necessary. Rapp is the perfect choice for the mission. Not only...

7) Demon Copperhead: a novel

Author

Kingsolver, Barbara

Notes

#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 47 week(s).

Formats:

Book, Audio, eAudiobook, Playaway

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"Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s 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. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction,...

8) The covenant of water: a novel

Author

Verghese, Abraham

Notes

#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 21 week(s).

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Book, Book on CD, eBook, Kindle

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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least...

9) Wellness: a novel

Author

Hill, Nathan

Notes

#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"A witty and poignant new novel about marriage, middle age, tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together"--

10) The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Author

McBride, James

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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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Book, Large Print

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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...

11) Bright young women

Author

Knoll, Jessica

Notes

#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

12) The fraud

Author

Smith, Zadie

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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...

13) The river we remember: a novel

Author

Krueger, William Kent

Notes

#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Book, Large Print

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"On Memorial Day, 1958, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the...

14) Starter villain

Author

Scalzi, John

Notes

#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

15) None of this is true: a novel

Author

Jewell, Lisa

Notes

#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-10-08. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...