NYT - Hardcover Fiction | Cochranton Area Public Library

1) The 6:20 man: a thriller

Author

Baldacci, David

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#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance"-- "Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes...

2) Wrong place wrong time: a novel

Author

McAllister, Gillian

Notes

#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking...

3) Portrait of an unknown woman

Author

Silva, Daniel

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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals...

4) The Hotel Nantucket: a novel

Author

Hilderbrand, Elin

Notes

#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can...

5) The it girl

Author

Ware, Ruth

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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends--Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily--during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing...

6) The last thing he told me: a novel

Author

Dave, Laura

Notes

#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 60 week(s).

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"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers- Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a US marshal...

7) Sparring partners

Author

Grisham, John

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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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"'Homecoming' takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's ... stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...

8) Shattered

Author

Patterson, James

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#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Nothing could tear #1 New York Times bestseller Detective Michael Bennett away from his new bride--except the murder of his partner and best friend. NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett and top FBI abduction specialist Emily Parker have a history. Working case after case, each can predict the other's next move. So when she fails to show at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, Bennett risks venturing far outside his jurisdiction. The investigation...

9) Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow: a novel

Author

Zevin, Gabrielle

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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"-- On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...

10) The many daughters of Afong Moy: a novel

Author

Ford, Jamie

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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...

11) Lessons in chemistry: a novel

Author

Garmus, Bonnie

Notes

#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 14 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...

12) Mercury Pictures presents: a novel

Author

Marra, Anthony

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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"When we first meet Maria Lagana, she's rewriting scripts at Mercury Pictures, a failing Hollywood studio known for its schlock. Maria's job is to re-craft dialogue and action to circumvent the censors, a skill she's mysteriously adept at. Born in Italy, as a teenager Maria witnessed Mussolini's censors arrest her father, an event that will destroy her family and burden Maria with questions of guilt and responsibility she will carry with her throughout...

13) The midnight library

Author

Haig, Matt

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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 87 week(s).

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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...

14) Reckoning: an FBI thriller

Author

Coulter, Catherine

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#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter's #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger"--

15) Black dog

Author

Woods, Stuart

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2022-08-21. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"After returning home from a treacherous adventure, Stone Barrington is all too happy to settle back down in his New York City abode. But when he's introduced to a glamorous socialite with a staggering inheritance, Stone realizes his days are about to be anything but quiet. As it turns out, Stone's intriguing new companion has some surprisingly familiar ties and other far more sinister ones--including a nefarious enemy who gets too close for comfort....