NYT - Hardcover Fiction

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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) Iron flame

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

Series

Empyrean volume 2

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#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 4 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....

3) The Exchange: after The Firm

Author

Grisham, John

Series

Firm volume 2

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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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Book, Large Type

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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...

4) The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Author

McBride, James

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#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 15 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...

5) Lessons in chemistry

Author

Garmus, Bonnie

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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 82 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...

6) The little liar: a novel

Author

Albom, Mitch

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#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi 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 chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...

7) Must die: a thriller

Author

Patterson, James

Series

Alex Cross novels volume 32

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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"Detective Alex Cross is in the sights of the Dead Hours Killer, a serial murderer on a ruthless mission ... An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. 'Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,' DC Metro Police dispatch says. 'A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto.' Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane...

8) The edge

Author

Baldacci, David

Series

6:20 man novels volume 2

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#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

"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...

9) Unnatural death

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Series

Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27

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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including...

10) Holly: a novel

Author

King, Stephen

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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 13 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,...

11) Inheritance

Author

Roberts, Nora

Series

Lost bride trilogy volume 1

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#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him... Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about--and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including...

12) Resurrection walk

Author

Connelly, Michael

Series

Mickey Haller novels volume 7

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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 4 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. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is innudated with pleas from incarcertaed people claiming innocence. He brings on board his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false. Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for five...

13) Dirty thirty

Author

Evanovich, Janet

Series

Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 30

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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 5 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...

14) Demon Copperhead: a novel

Author

Kingsolver, Barbara

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#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 57 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....

15) The covenant of water: a novel

Author

Verghese, Abraham

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-12-17. It has been on the list for 29 week(s).

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