NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction | Amherst Town Library

1) Story of my life

Author

Score, Lucy

Series

Story Lake

Notes

#1 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Romance novelist Hazel Hart seeks to overcome her writers block by leaving the big city to buy a house sight unseen in Story Lake, PA. The house comes with a spot on the town council and that's where the trouble begins."-- Provided by publisher.

2) The housemaid

Author

McFadden, Freida

Series

Housemaid novels volume 1

Notes

#2 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 99 week(s).

Formats:

Book, Large Print

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"From behind closed doors, she sees everything" . . . Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But...

3) Ward D

Author

McFadden, Freida

Notes

#3 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

Formats:

Book, Large Print, eAudiobook

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"Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and...

4) The crash

Author

McFadden, Freida

Notes

#4 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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Book, Large Print, eAudiobook

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"Danger lies at the end of the road . . . Tegan is eight months pregnant and her world is crashing down around her. The father of her baby wants nothing to do with her and has promised to make her life hell. She's lost her job at the convenience store. And she has no idea what she's going to do to take care of little one. In a last ditch effort to find help and get away from the threats of her ex, Tegan heads out in a storm to drive to her brother's....

5) Deep end

Author

Hazelwood, Ali

Notes

#6 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for...

6) If cats disappeared from the world

Author

Kawamura, Genki

Notes

#7 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

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Our narrator's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week ... Because how do you decide what makes...

7) Lights out

Author

Allen, Navessa

Series

Into darkness volume 1

Notes

#8 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn't need any more kinks. She likes the one she's landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. She fantasizes about one man in particular hunting her down. But she never could have guessed that one drunken text could make those dreams into reality. Josh Hammond has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps...

8) Fourth wing

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

Series

Empyrean volume 1

Notes

#9 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 26 week(s).

Formats:

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

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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....

9) Funny story

Author

Henry, Emily

Notes

#10 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

Formats:

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

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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...

10) Verity

Author

Hoover, Colleen

Notes

#11 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 151 week(s).

Formats:

Book, Large Print, Audiobook Playaway

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"Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't...

11) Quicksilver

Author

Hart, Callie

Series

Fae & alchemy volume 1

Notes

#12 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 15 week(s).

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

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"Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of...

12) The housemaid's secret

Author

McFadden, Freida

Series

Housemaid novels volume 2

Notes

#13 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 43 week(s).

Formats:

Book, Large Print

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"It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I...

13) A court of thorns and roses

Author

Maas, Sarah J

Series

Court of thorns and roses volume 1

Notes

#14 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 49 week(s).

Formats:

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

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"Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever."-- Provided by publisher.

14) The nightingale

Author

Hannah, Kristin

Notes

#15 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 110 week(s).

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

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"An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II"--Provided by publisher "Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister...