Hi everyone, here are the top New York Times fiction and non-fiction bestsellers for the week that ends August 25, 2019.
(Click on the book covers to read a summary of each plot and to request the books of your choice.)
FICTION:
ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN by Garth Stein:
An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.
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ASK AGAIN, YES by Mary Beth Keane:
The lives of neighboring families in a New York City suburb intertwine over four decades.
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BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate:
A South Carolina lawyer learns about the questionable practices of a Tennessee orphanage.
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BELOVED by Toni Morrison:
Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A former slave living in Ohio is haunted by events at the Kentucky plantation from which she escaped 18 years ago.
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CHANCES ARE …by Richard Russo:
Three men in their 60s who met in college reunite on Martha’s Vineyard, where mysterious events occurred in 1971.
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CITY OF GIRLS by Elizabeth Gilbert:
An 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene.
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DANGEROUS MAN by Robert Crais:
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike get more than they bargained for when they investigate the abduction of a bank teller.
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EVVIE DRAKE STARTS OVER by Linda Holmes:
In a seaside town in Maine, a former Major League pitcher and a grieving widow assess their pasts.
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THE INN by James Patterson and Candice Fox:
A former Boston police detective who is now an innkeeper must shield a seaside town from a crew of criminals.
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LAST HOUSE GUEST by Megan Miranda:
Avery Greer must fight the clock to clear her name and uncover her friend’s real killer.
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LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng:
An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.
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NEW GIRL by Daniel Silva:
Gabriel Allon, the chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.
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NICKEL BOYS by Colson Whitehead:
Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later.
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ONE GOOD DEED by David Baldacci:
A World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail.
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OUTFOX by Sandra Brown:
F.B.I. Agent Drex Easton has a hunch that the conman Weston Graham is also a serial killer.
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THE RECKONING by John Grisham:
A decorated World War II veteran shoots and kills a pastor inside a Mississippi church.
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SUMMER OF ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand:
The Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface.
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TURN OF THE KEY by Ruth Ware:
A nanny working in a technology-laden house in Scotland goes to jail when one of the children dies.
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UNDER CURRENTS by Nora Roberts:
Echoes of a violent childhood reverberate for Zane Bigelow when he starts a new kind of family in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens:
In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
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NON-FICTION:.
BAD BLOOD by John Carreyrou:
The rise and fall of the biotech startup Theranos.
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BECOMING by Michelle Obama:
The former first lady describes her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House, and how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.
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BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates:
A meditation on race in America.
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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk:
How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
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BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah:
A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”
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CALYPSO by David Sedaris:
A collection of comedic stories on mortality, middle age and a beach house dubbed the Sea Section.
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EDUCATED by Tara Westover:
The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
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JUSTICE ON TRIAL by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino:
The conservative authors give their take on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson:
A civil rights lawyer and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.
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MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE by Lori Gottlieb:
A psychotherapist gains unexpected insights when she becomes another therapist’s patient.
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THE MOMENT OF LIFT by Melinda Gates:
The philanthropist shares stories of empowering women to improve society.
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THE PIONEERS by David McCullough:
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters.
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THE RANGE by David Epstein:
An argument for how generalists excel more than specialists, especially in complex and unpredictable fields.
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SECOND MOUNTAIN by David Brooks:
A New York Times Op-Ed columnist espouses having an outward focus to attain a meaningful life.
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THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD by Toni Morrison:
A collection of essays and speeches written over four decades, including a eulogy for James Baldwin and the author’s Nobel lecture.
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THREE WOMEN by Lisa Taddeo:
The inequality of female desire is explored through the sex lives of a homemaker, a high school student and a restaurant owner.
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UNFREEDOM OF THE PRESS by Mark R. Levin:
The conservative commentator and radio host makes his case that the press is aligned with political ideology.
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Have a great day!
Linda Reimer, SSL
Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.
