NYT - Hardcover Fiction | Teton County Library

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#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 14 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...

2) Funny story

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Henry, Emily

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#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...

3) Five broken blades

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Corland, Mai

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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook

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"The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the God King Joon. He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined & or sold. And now each of the five blades will come for him. Each has tasted bitterness, from the hired hitman seeking atonement, a lovely assassin who seeks...

4) The 24th hour

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Patterson, James

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#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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""SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married. Before they can raise their glasses, there's a disturbance in the restaurant. A woman has been assaulted. Claire examines the victim. Lindsay makes an arrest. Yuki takes the case. Cindy covers it. The legal...

5) Long Island: a novel

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Tóibín, Colm

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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to the town...

6) Fourth wing

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Yarros, Rebecca

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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 53 week(s).

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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....

7) Iron flame

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Yarros, Rebecca

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#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 27 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....

8) Summers at the Saint

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Andrews, Mary Kay

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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper. . . . Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as "the Saint." If you grew up coming here, you were "a Saint." If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were "an Ain't." Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn't rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer...

9) A calamity of souls

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Baldacci, David

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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows that every man deserves a solid defense and agrees to...

10) The ministry of time: a novel

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Bradley, Kaliane

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#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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"An ingeniously imagined, hilarious romp through time, space, and the human heart... The Ministry of Time asks: What does it mean to defy history, when history is living in your house?" -- In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for...

11) Only the brave: a novel

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Steel, Danielle

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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly....

12) Remarkably bright creatures: a novel

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Van Pelt, Shelby

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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 50 week(s).

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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"--

13) Table for two: fictions

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Towles, Amor

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#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...

14) Mistakes we never made

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Brown, Hannah

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Emma Townsend can sum up her situationship with hot-as-hell romantic red flag Finn Hughes in one word: almost. They almost dated in high school. They almost hooked up after college. They almost took things too far one magical night. Their whole story is one series of "almosts" and "nearlys," and now they just kind of can't stand each other. Like, at all. But this weekend, one of their mutuals is getting married . . . and Emma and Finn will have to...