NYT - Hardcover Fiction | Cochranton Area Public Library

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#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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The gods sent monsters to the five kingdoms to remind mortals they must kneel. I've spent my life kneeling--to their will and to my father's. As a princess, my only duty is to wear the crown and obey the king. I was never meant to rule. Never meant to fight. And I was never supposed to be the daughter who sealed an ancient treaty with her own blood. But that changed the fateful day I stepped into my father's throne room. The day a legendary monster...

2) Great big beautiful life

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Henry, Emily

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#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen...

3) My friends: a novel

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Backman, Fredrik

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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who "captures the messy essence of being human" (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger's life twenty-five years later. Most people don't even notice them-three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world....

4) The missing half: a novel

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Flowers, Ashley

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#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Nicole Monroe, still haunted by her sister Kasey's unexplained disappearance seven years ago, teams up with Jenna Connor, whose sister vanished under similar circumstances, as they unravel buried secrets and risk everything to uncover the truth about their missing loved ones.

5) Silver elite

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Francis, Dani

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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Wren Darlington has spent her whole life in hiding, honing her psychic abilities and aiding the rebel Uprising in small ways. On the Continent, being Modified means certain death--and Wren is one of the most powerful Mods in existence. When one careless mistake places her in the hands of the enemy and she's forced to join their most elite training program, she's finally handed the perfect opportunity to strike a devastating blow from inside their...

6) 25 alive

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Patterson, James

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#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene. But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition: the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay's onetime partner who rose to chief of police. A top investigator until the end, Jacobi managed to leave Lindsay a clue. Following a trail of evidence along the west coast, the Women's Murder Club pledges to avenge Jacobi's death before the killer can take another one of their own."--Provided...

7) Onyx storm

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Yarros, Rebecca

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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 16 week(s).

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"After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it's impossible to know who to trust. Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit,...

8) James: a novel

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Everett, Percival

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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 45 week(s).

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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...

9) Say you'll remember me

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Jimenez, Abby

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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes-all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there's nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong... . . . unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake....

10) Strangers in time

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Baldacci, David

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#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life. Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London....

11) Iron Flame

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Yarros, Rebecca

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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 79 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....

12) Broken country: a novel

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Hall, Clare Leslie

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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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When her brother-in-law's actions reconnect her with a former love, Gabriel, whose son eerily resembles her deceased child, Beth's carefully constructed life unravels as past secrets and jealousies resurface, leading to deadly consequences and a difficult choice.

13) The names

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Knapp, Florence

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#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"The story of one family told three different ways, leading to three different fates--a dazzling debut that asks: Can a name shape the course of a life? In the wake of an enormous, history-making storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to name the child after him. But when...

14) The Women (

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Hannah, Kristin

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 66 week(s).

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"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 joins the Army Nurse Corps...