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Most Popular of 2021

Check out what our most popular titles were of 2021! Borrow a copy and see what all the hype was about!

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  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression. Available in other…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2021. — F HANNA 2021
  • A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. It established Jake as a classic American hero—a lawyer who seeks truth and justice at all costs, even when his life and reputation are on the line. Brigance returned in 2013’s…
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2020] — M GRISH 2020
  • A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget. France, 1714: 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…
    BookNew York : Tor, 2020. — SF SCHWA 2020
  • 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…
    Book[New York, New York] : Viking, 2020. — F HAIG 2020
  • In the romantic tradition of Dear John and The Lucky One, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with the story of an injured Navy doctor -- and two women whose secrets will change the course of his life. Available in…
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020. — F SPARK 2020
  • In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming-of-age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever…
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018] — F OWENS 2018
  • Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up —…
    BookNew York : Atria Paperback, 2016. — ROM HOOVE 2016
  • From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. It’s a love letter. To life. It’s also a guide to…
    eBookCrown, 2020
  • A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster. Available in other formats.
    Blu-ray Disc[United States] : Universal, 2021. — DRA/GRE/2021
  • We all have stories we never tell. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen’s…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — F DAVE 2021
  • A hearing-impaired girl is visited by the Virgin Mary and can suddenly hear, speak, and heal the sick. As people flock to witness her miracles, terrifying events unfold. Are they the work of the Virgin Mary or something much more sinister?…
    Blu-ray Disc[United States] : Columbia Pictures, 2021. — HOR/UNH/2021
  • When Breen Kelly was a girl, her father would tell her stories of magical places. Now she’s an anxious twentysomething mired in student debt and working a job she hates. But one day she stumbles upon a shocking discovery: her mother has…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2020. — ROM ROBER 2020
  • A retired sheriff and his wife, grieving over the death of their son, set out to find their only grandson. Available in other formats.
    Blu-ray Disc[United States] : Universal, 2021. — DRA/LET/2021
  • When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — YA F MEYER 2020
  • When Cpt. Artemis and her loyal soldiers are transported to a new world, they engage in a desperate battle for survival against enormous enemies with incredible powers. Feature film based on the video game by Capcom. Available in other…
    Blu-ray DiscCulver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2021] — DRA/MON/2021
  • Harry Potter's life is miserable. His parents are dead and he's stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about…
    BookNew York : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 1998. — J ROWLI 1998
  • After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent. Available in other formats.
    Blu-ray Disc[United States] : Universal, 2021. — HOR/FRE/2021
  • For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Now he has…
    BookNew York : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 1999. — J ROWLI 1999
  • Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city. Available in other…
    Blu-ray Disc[United States] : Warner Brothers, 2021. — DRA/LIT/2021
  • A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who've pursued him into the U.S. Available in other formats.
    Blu-ray Disc[United States] : Universal, 2021. — DRA/MAR/2021