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New York Times Best Sellers February 21st, 2021

Fiction Non-Fiction

1. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah IN 1. Four Hundred Souls edited by Ibram X Kendi As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must & Keisha N Blain 973.0496 FOU choose between saving the family and farm or heading West. A compendium featuring 90 writers covering 400 years of 2. The Survivors by Jane Harper IN African-American history. Kieran Elliott takes his young family to his coastal 2. Think Again by Adam Grant 153.42 GRA hometown, where a body is found on the beach. An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and 3. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett IN unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern world. black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other 3. Just As I Am by 92 Tyson takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine. The late iconic actress describes how she worked to change 4. The Russian by James Patterson & James O Born IN perception of Black women through her career choices. An assassin killing a number of women might disrupt the 4. A Promised Land by 92 Obama detective’s wedding plans. In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack 5. The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse IN Obama offers personal reflections on his formative years and Elin Warner must find her estranged brother’s fiancée, who goes pivotal moments through his first term. missing as a storm approaches a hotel that was once a sanatorium in 5. Unmasked by Andy Ngo On Order the Swiss Alps. A former writer for the online magazine Quillette gives his 6. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig IN perspective on the activist movement antifa. Nora See finds a library beyond the edge of the universe 6. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey 92 McConaughey that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the could have had. diaries he kept over the last 35 years. 7. The Invisible Life Of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab IN 7. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson 305.5 WIL A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries. caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in 8. Send For Me by Lauren Fox IN today. A woman in Wisconsin discovers a trove of her grand 8. Untamed by Glennon Doyle 92 Doyle mother’s letters that detail her experiences in Germany leading The activist and public speaker describes her journey of up to the World War II. listening to her inner voice. 9. Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens IN 9. Becoming by Michelle Obama 92 Obama In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a The former first lady describes her journey from the South woman who survived along in the marsh becomes a murder Side of Chicago to the White House, and how she balanced suspect. work, family and her husband’s political ascent. 10. Girl A by Abigail Dean IN 10. How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi 305.8009 KEN When their mother dies in prison, Lex Gracie and her A primer for creating a more just and equitable society siblings confront their shared past and shifting alliances. through identifying and opposing racism. 11. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman IN 11. When Harry Met Minnie by Martha Teichner On Order A failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at The CBS Sunday Morning correspondent develops a bond an apartment open house. with the ailing owner of a dog she agrees to adopt. 12. A Time For Mercy by John Grisham IN 12. by Mark Harris On Order A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, A of the award-winning theater and film director Miss., in 1990. who was also half of the seminal improv duo with . 13. Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman IN 13. Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion 814.54 DID Sturgis calls on Delaware to help solve a decades-old cold A collection of 12 pieces written between 1968 and 2000 case. that include observations on the underground press and the act 14. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline IN of writing. In a sequel to “Ready Player One,” Wade Watts discovers a 14. A Swim In A Pond In The Rain by George Saunders technological advancement and goes on a new quest. 891.709 SAU 15. The Return by Nicholas Sparks IN A collection of essays examining the functions and A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to importance of works of fiction. North Carolina where two women change his life. 15. Like Streams To The Ocean by Jedidiah Jenkins 128 JEN

The author of “To Shake the Sleeping Self” explores eight

subjects that he believes give life meaning.