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NYT Fiction Bestsellers @ the LibraryJuly 2020
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With the resumption of Library checkouts (curbside M-F, 10am-2pm), many of these books are on our shelves. To hold one or more available copies, phone 415.789.2661. While closed for browsing the physical shelves, we encourage you to check out and download eBooks, as well. If you need help, phone 415.789.2661 or email refdesk@beltiblibrary.org.
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The vanishing half by Brit Bennett Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a Black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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28 summersby Elin Hilderbrand The best-selling author of Summer of ‘69 presents a tale inspired by the film Same Time Next Year that follows a man’s discovery of his mother’s long-term relationship with the husband of a presidential frontrunner.
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Where the crawdads sing by Delia OwensViewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a tragedy, a beautiful hermit who has survived for years in a marsh becomes targeted by unthinkable forces - a first novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Cry of the Kalahari.
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Camino winds by John GrishamThe best-selling author of Fair Warning presents a follow-up to Camino Island that finds novelist Mercer Mann’s continued efforts to find literary inspiration in the idyllic region complicated by mysterious intrigues.
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The summer house by James Patterson Investigating four Army Rangers who have been implicated in the destruction of a luxurious summer lake resort, Army Major and former NYPD cop Jeremiah Cook is stonewalled by local law enforcement and dangerous secrets.
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The guest listby Lucy Foley An expertly planned celebrity wedding between a rising television star and an ambitious magazine publisher is thrown into turmoil by petty jealousies, a college drinking game, the bride's ruined dress and an untimely murder.
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If it bleeds by Stephen KingThe award-winning literary master presents a collection of four novella-length tales, complementing the title piece with the stories, "Mr. Harrigan’s Phone", "The Life of Chuck" and "Rat".
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Fair warning by Michael Connelly When a woman with whom he shared a one-night stand is found brutally murdered, veteran reporter Jack McEvoy tracks down a serial killer who has been operating under the radar - by the best-selling author of The Poet.
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The last flightby Julie Clark Working for months on a plan to escape her secretly violent husband, Claire impulsively swaps airline tickets with a stranger also on the run before a fateful accident compels her to assume the other’s identity.
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American dirtby Jeanine CumminsSelling two favorite books to an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, a bookstore manager is forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America.
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Deacon King Kongby James McBride In the aftermath of a 1969 Brooklyn church deacon’s public shooting of a local drug dealer, the community’s African-American and Latinx witnesses find unexpected support from each other when they are targeted by violent mobsters.
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Hideaway
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Nora Roberts
Years after escaping a kidnapper with the help of a young man, a Hollywood hopeful pursues healing in Ireland before she is compelled to return to Los Angeles, where she encounters unexpected opportunities in love and vengeance.
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Daddy's girls by Danielle Steel Inheriting a California ranch upon their single father’s sudden death, three sisters evaluate their very different childhoods while uncovering paradigm-shifting secrets about their father’s identity that strengthen their bond with each other - by the best-selling author of The Wedding Dress.
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Big summerby Jennifer WeinerA woman confronts the dynamics of friendship and forgiveness while visiting Cape Cod to attend an old friend’s increasingly disastrous wedding - by the best-selling author of Good in Bed and Mrs. Everything.
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Death in her handsby Ottessa Moshfegh Discovering a note and grave while walking her dog in the woods, an elderly widow becomes obsessed with learning the victim’s story before her grip on reality is shaken by what she uncovers - by the award-winning author of McGlue.
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