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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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February 2021: New Popular Books

The Power Couple by Berenson, Alex
ISBN: 9781982103699
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
a supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep. (Suspense)
Girl A by Dean, Abigail
ISBN: 9780593295847
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
For readers of Room and Sharp Objects, a propulsive and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivity-but not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life. (Psychological)
The Witch's Heart by Gornichec, Genevieve
ISBN: 9780593099940
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
Angrboda's story begins where most witch's tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to give him knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into a remote forest. There she is found by a man Loki, and her initial distrust grows into a deep and abiding love. Their union produces three unusual children, each with a secret destiny, who she is keen to raise at the hidden from Odin's all-seeing eye. But as Angrboda slowly recovers her prophetic powers, she learns that her blissful life - and possibly all of existence - is in danger. (Love stories)
The Four Winds by Hannah, Kristin
ISBN: 9781250178602
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli-like so many of her neighbors-must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. (Historical)
The Removed by Hobson, Brandon
ISBN: 9780062997548
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love. (Fiction)
Between Two Kingdoms by Jaouad, Suleika
ISBN: 9780399588587
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery. (Biography)
The Kindest Lie by Johnson, Nancy
ISBN: 9780063005631
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
An eye-opening novel about the profound racial injustices and class inequalities roiling society in America. (Fiction)
A History of What Comes Next by Neuvel, Sylvain
ISBN: 9781250262066
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race. But Mia's family is not the only group pushing the levers of history: an even more ruthless enemy lurks behind the scenes. (Science Fiction)

January 2021: New Popular Books

Black Buck by Askaripour, Mateo
ISBN: 9780358380887
Publication Date: 2021-01-05
For fans of Sorry to Bother You and Wolf of Wall Street: a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems (Fiction).
The Divines by Eaton, Ellie
ISBN: 9780063012196
Publication Date: 2021-01-19
The girls of St John the Divine, an elite English boarding school, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys, and chain-smoking cigarettes. They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cuttingly humorous in the way that only teenage girls can be. For Josephine, now in her thirties, the years at St John were a lifetime ago. She hasn’t spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shuttered its doors in disgrace. (Fiction)
Before the Ruins by Gosling, Victoria
ISBN: 9781250759153
Publication Date: 2021-01-12
That summer, there were four of them, all on the cusp of adulthood: Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em, whiling away the hours in a deserted manor house with a rich, sordid history. Sorely without the ambition and opportunities that her friends have always counted on, Andy finds herself terrified of a future that will take them all down very different paths. Her newfound fears make her reckless, resulting in increasingly destructive behavior. When the group learns that a diamond necklace, stolen fifty years ago, might still be somewhere on the manor grounds, the Game―half treasure hunt, half friendly deception―begins. But the Game becomes much bigger than the necklace, growing to encompass years of secrets, lies, and, ultimately, one terrible betrayal. (Suspense)
Twenty by Grippando, James
ISBN: 9780062915085
Publication Date: 2021-01-05
It is the message every parent of a school-age child fears: “Active Shooter on Campus.” Jack Swyteck is at his office when he receives the emergency text from Riverside Day School. Both his daughter, Righley, and his wife, FBI agent Andie Henning, are in danger. Andie is in the school’s rec center when she hears the fire alarms, then loud popping noises and screams coming from the hallway. A trained law-enforcement officer, Andie knows she’s supposed to stay locked down inside the room. But Righley is in her kindergarten classroom and Andie must get her to safety. (Thriller)
A Thousand Ships by Haynes, Natalie
ISBN: 9780063065390
Publication Date: 2021-01-26
In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose lives, loves, and rivalries were forever altered by this long and tragic war. (Historical)
The Prophets by Jones, Jr., Robert
ISBN: 9780593085684
Publication Date: 2021-01-05
A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. (Love stories)
The Doctors Blackwell by Nimura, Janice P.
ISBN: 9780393635546
Publication Date: 2021-01-19
The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. (Biography)
Aftershocks by Owusu, Nadia
ISBN: 9781982111229
Publication Date: 2021-01-12
Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world--from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone. When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen she still felt as if she had so many competing personas that she couldn't keep track of them all without cracking under the pressure of trying to hold herself together. (Biography)
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Ruffin, Amber and Lamar, Lacey
ISBN: 9781538719367
Publication Date: 2021-01-12
Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism. (Humor)

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