NYT - Hardcover Fiction | Jackson Public Library

1) Counting miracles: a novel

Author

Sparks, Nicholas

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#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change--or even make our peace with--the path we've taken. Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather's military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down....

2) Intermezzo: a novel

Author

Rooney, Sally

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#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney"--

3) The women

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Hannah, Kristin

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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 34 week(s).

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"'Women can be heroes, too.' 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...

4) Here one moment: a novel

Author

Moriarty, Liane

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#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. How do they know? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight (the bride and groom, the possibly famous woman, the giant Hemsworth-esque...

5) Playground: a novel

Author

Powers, Richard

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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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The tiny atoll of French Polynesia has been chosen for humanity's next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea, but first, the island's residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

6) Iron flame

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

Series

Empyrean volume 2

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#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 47 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....

7) The life impossible

Author

Haig, Matt

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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide "What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet..." When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan....

8) Somewhere beyond the sea

Author

Klune, TJ

Series

Cerulean Chronicles

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#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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In the sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, Arthur Parnassus, headmaster of a strange orphanage, and the other inhabitants of Marsyas Island must fight to save the dangerous and magical children of the orphanage or risk the entire island falling apart.

9) Tell me everything: a novel

Author

Strout, Elizabeth

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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it: What does anyone's life mean? It's autumn in Maine, and...

10) The night we lost him: a novel

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Dave, Laura

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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Reeses Book Club Pick The Last Thing He Told Me comes a riveting mystery wrapped in an epic love story"--

11) The god of the woods

Author

Moore, Liz

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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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"When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp -- as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. And this isn't the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared in this region: Barbara's...

12) We solve murders

Author

Osman, Richard

Series

We solve murders volume 1

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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy's business now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private security officer, she doesn't stay still long enough for habits or routines. She's currently...

13) By any other name: a novel

Author

Picoult, Jodi

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard - one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays - from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright has...