NYT - Hardcover Fiction | Westchester Library System

"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...

3) Hello beautiful: a novel

Author

Napolitano, Ann

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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy: his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. His skill on the basketball court earned him a scholarship to a college far away from his childhood home. Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman, surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her three younger sisters: Sylvie, the dreamer, happiest with her nose in a book and dreams...

4) Hang the Moon

Author

Walls, Jeannette/ Walls, Jeannette (NRT)

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#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"A rollicking tale." —The Washington Post *"Propulsive." —Associated Press * "Wild, smart, energetic." —Los Angeles Times * "Brilliant and effervescent." —NPR

From the #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle, the instant New York Times bestseller a "rip-roaring, action-packed" (The New York Times) novel about an indomitable young woman in prohibition-era Virginia.
Sallie...

5) Dark angel

Author

Sandford, John

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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"Letty Davenport's days working a desk job at are behind her. Her previous actions at a gunfight in Texas and her incredible skills with firearms draw the attention of several branches of the US government, and make her a perfect fit for even more dangerous work. The Department of Homeland Security and the NSA have tasked her with infiltrating a hacker group, known only as Ordinary People, that is intent on wreaking havoc. Letty and her reluctant...

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

Author

Zevin, Gabrielle

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#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 30 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"--

7) City of dreams: a novel

Author

Winslow, Don

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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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After fleeing to California to start a new life, Danny Ryan must decide whether he is going to do the FBI a favor that may make him a fortune or kill him. Danny Ryan, a young widower and mob underboss, has left the East Coast and settled in California with his young son in tow. The move has been good for Danny; in his new base of operations, his power, influence, and wealth have grown. Now he's heading up to Hollywood to rein in two of his crew,...

8) It ends with us

Author

Hoover, Colleen

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#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"In this "brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn't let go, long after you've finished it" (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Your Perfects, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can't stop thinking about her first love. Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from...

9) Where are the children now?

Author

Clark, Mary Higgins

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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to...

10) Things I Wish I Told My Mother: The Most Emotional Mother-daughter Novel in Years

Author

Patterson, Susan/ Dilallo, Susan/ Patterson, James (CON)

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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

11) Romantic comedy: a novel

Author

Sittenfeld, Curtis

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#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...

12) Homecoming: a novel

Author

Morton, Kate

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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Called home to care for her grandmother after a fall, Jess, a journalist, discovers a book chronicling the police investigation into an old unsolved murder that has a shocking connection to her family. "The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve,...

13) Demon Copperhead: a novel

Author

Kingsolver, Barbara

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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 27 week(s).

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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....

14) Pineapple Street: a novel

Author

Jackson, Jenny

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#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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"A deliciously funny, sharply observed novel of family, wealth, love and tennis, this zeitgeisty debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one, the millennial conscience of the family, who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her...

15) Remarkably bright creatures: a novel

Author

Van Pelt, Shelby

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2023-05-07. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 14 week(s).

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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a...