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Popular Fiction and Non-Fiction Collection

The Popular Fiction and Non-Fiction Collection is a changing collection of current best-sellers, popular fiction and non-fiction books, including graphic novels, for your reading pleasure. The collection is located on the main floor of the Lucy Scribner Library near the DVD and CD collections. These books may be checked out for two weeks. The books are arranged on the shelves alphabetically by author and can be searched in the Library Catalog by either author or title.

This guide is intended to aid you in your book selection as it identifies books by genre, see above tabs (adventure, biography, mystery,etc) and those most recently published. Happy Reading!

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November 2020: New Popular Books

The Office of Historical Corrections by Evans, Danielle
ISBN: 9781594487330
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into the complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. (Historical)
To Be a Man by Krauss, Nicole
ISBN: 9780062431028
Publication Date: 2020-11-03
Deftly weaving from one end of life to another - from ageing parents to newborn babies, from a young girl's coming-of-age to an old woman's unexpected delivery of a strange new second youth, from mystery and wonder at a life at its close or at a future waiting to unfold, Nicole Krauss's stories illuminate the moments in the lives of women in which the forces of sex, power and violence collide. With sons and lovers, seducers and friends, husbands lost and regained, or husbands who were never husbands at all, how many men does can a woman's lifetime hold? (Fiction)
The Ministry for the Future by Robinson, Kim Stanley
ISBN: 9780316300131
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story. (Science Fiction)
The Best of Me by Sedaris, David
ISBN: 9780316628242
Publication Date: 2020-11-03
What could be a more tempting holiday gift than a compendium of David Sedaris' best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume. (Humor)

October 2020: New Popular Books

Leave the World Behind by Alam, Rumaan
ISBN: 9780062667632
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong (Suspense).
Attack Surface by Doctorow, Cory
ISBN: 9781250757531
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause was just. It was a dangerous game and a hell of a rush. But seriously self-destructive. And unsustainable (Science Fiction)
The Midnight Library by Haig, Matt
ISBN: 9780525559474
Publication Date: 2020-09-29
'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' (Fantasy)
Dune: the Duke of Caladan by Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J.
ISBN: 9781250764744
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
Leto Atreides, Duke of Caladan and father of the Muad'Dib. While all know of his fall and the rise of his son, little is known about the quiet ruler of Caladan and his partner Jessica. Or how a Duke of an inconsequential planet earned an emperor's favor, the ire of House Harkonnen, and set himself on a collision course with his own death. This is the story. (Science Fiction)
Magic Lessons by Hoffman, Alice
ISBN: 9781982108847
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
An unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, and unveils the story of Maria Owens, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem. Owens is the matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic (Fiction).
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by Schwab, V. E.
ISBN: 9780765387561
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever--and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name (Fantasy).
Is This Anything? by Seinfeld, Jerry
ISBN: 9781982112691
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
Jerry Seinfeld has selected his favorite material, organized decade by decade. In page after hilarious page, one brilliantly crafted observation after another, readers will witness the evolution of one of the great comedians of our time and gain new insights into the thrilling but unforgiving art of writing stand-up comedy (Humor).
The Cold Millions by Walter, Jess
ISBN: 9780062868084
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
A propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two adventure-seeking brothers, the enemies who threaten them, and the women who reveal to them an unjust world on the brink of upheaval. (Historical)
Memorial by Washington, Bryan
ISBN: 9780593087275
Publication Date: 2020-10-27
What happens when a love story collides with the limits of love--and everyone has an opinion? Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years -- good years -- but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. (Love stories)

September 2020: New Popular Books

Anxious People by Backman, Fredrik
ISBN: 9781501160837
Publication Date: 2020-09-08
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a poignant, charming novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined (Humor).
Piranesi by Clarke, Susanna
ISBN: 9781635575637
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house (Fantasy).
Transcendent Kingdom by Gyasi, Yaa
ISBN: 9780525658184
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive (Psychological).
I Am These Truths by Hostin, Sunny and Charisse Jones
ISBN: 9780062950826
Publication Date: 2020-09-22
The Emmy Award winning legal journalist and co-host of The View, Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in this powerful memoir that offers an intimate and unique look at identity, intolerance, and injustice (Biography).
Monogamy by Miller, Sue
ISBN: 9780062969651
Publication Date: 2020-09-08
Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. A golden couple, their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. (Fiction)
A Deadly Education by Novik, Naomi
ISBN: 9780593128480
Publication Date: 2020-09-29
Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered: There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won't allow its students to leave until they graduate . . . or die. The rules are deceptively simple: Don't walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere.(Fantasy)
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Paolini, Christopher
ISBN: 9781250762849
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation (Science Fiction).
The Book of Two Ways by Picoult, Jodi
ISBN: 9781984818355
Publication Date: 2020-09-22
Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised (Fiction).
The Bone Shard Daughter by Stewart, Andrea
ISBN: 9780316541428
Publication Date: 2020-09-08
In an empire controlled by bone shard magic, Lin, the former heir to the emperor, will fight to reclaim her magic and her place on the throne. (Fantasy)
Hench by Walschots, Natalie Zina
ISBN: 9780062978578
Publication Date: 2020-09-22
A novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower--for good or ill--is a properly executed spreadsheet. Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job (Adventure).

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