Month: April 2020

Hi everyone, here is our bi-weekly recommended listening posting for Monday, April 27, 2020.

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Our listening suggestions today includes ten streaming albums, from the Freegal Music Catalog, and a selection of related music videos.

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 If you have questions about how to use the Freegal Music Service, please let me know! You can contact me by leaving a message on the blog.

Or, you can send an email to the following address reimerl@stls.org and I’ll get back to you!

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Freegal Streaming Suggestions:

The Best Of Elvin Bishop: Tulsa Shuffle by Elvin Bishop (Genre: Blues-Rock)

Elvin Bishop was born in California, grew up in Iowa and, inspired by the blues music he heard on the radio,  began playing the guitar as a youth. Bishop went on to join the popular sixties group The Butterfield Blues Band before launching a solo career. The Best Of Elvin: Bishop: Tulsa Shuffle is a soulful, rocking bluesy 18-song collection by Bishop and his early seventies band.

Songs include: Tulsa Shuffle, How Much More, The Things That I Used To Do, Sweet Potato, Honey Bee, Prisoner of Love, Party Till The Cows Come Home, Hogbottom (Album Version), As the Years Go Passing By, So Good, Rock My Soul and Rockbottom

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Big Hits Of The Fifties by Various Artists (Genre: Pop, Vocal)

Big Hits Of The Fifties features great pop music from the fifties, an era when the radio waves were filled with optimistic music, and singers offering sweet vocals were backed up by buoyant swinging orchestras and strings.

This is an relaxing and optimistic 23-song set featuring the tunes: Too Young by Nat King Cole, Jezebel by Frankie Lane, Glow Worm by The Mills Brothers, Half As Much by Rosemary Clooney, Rags To Riches by Tony Bennett, The Blacksmith Blues by Ella Mae Morse & Sugarbush by Doris Day & Frankie Lane.

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The Final (1994) by Wham! (Genre: Pop)

The Final was Wham!’s finale, a greatest hits collection, first released in 1994, that does indeed feature all their pop hits including Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Carless Whisper, I’m Your Man, Everything She Wants and Freedom.

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Fetch The Bolt Cutters (2020) by Fiona Apple (Genre: Pop, Rock)

Fetch The Bolt Cutters is the new and delightful fifth album by Fiona Apple. The songs on the album feature a well-balanced plate of emotions including angst, anger, humor and playfulness.

Song List: I Want You To Love Me, Shameika, Fetch The Bolt Cutters, Under The Table, Relay, Rack of His, Newspaper, Ladies, Heavy Balloon, Cosmonauts, For Her, Drumset & On I Go.

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French Impressions (2012) by Joshua Bell & with Jeremy Denk (Genre: Classical, Violin)

The talented violinist Joshua Bell plays music by romantic French composers on this Uplifting LP accompanied by the pianist Jeremy Denk.The album includes the following sonatas: Sonata No. 1 in D minor, for violin & piano, Op. 75 by Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonata in A major, for violin & piano by César Franck & Sonata for violin & piano by Maurice Ravel.

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Good Souls, Better Angels (2020) by Lucinda Williams (Genre: Folk, Roots Rock)

Good Souls, Better Angels is the brand-new album by the reflective singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams.

Williams is a very introspective songwriter who writes of the highs and lows of life and incorporates little daily life details, like descriptions of how the coffee is brewing and the sound made by a car driving over a gravel road into music making her songs both thoughtful in scope and exceptionally accessible. If you’re familiar with William’s music, then you already know this! If you’re a new to William’s music, I urge you to give her music a listen as it is wonderful!

Song List: You Can’t Rule Me, Bad News Blues, Man Without a Soul, Big Black Train, Wakin’ Up, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Shadows & Doubts, When the Way Gets Dark, Bone of Contention, Down Past the Bottom, Big Rotator & Good Souls.

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Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (1965) by Patti Page (Genre: Easy Listening, Vocal, Country)

Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte is a classic album by the great vocalist Patti Page.

Songs include Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, Try to Remember, The Green Leaves of Summer, Jamacia Farewell, Croce di oro, Who’s Gonna Show My Pretty Little Feet, Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair, Longing to Hold You Again, Danny Boy, Can’t Help Falling in Love and Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair).

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Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection (2019) by Pete Seeger (Genre: Folk)

This Smithsonian Folkways description of this 137-song collection, released on what would have been Seegers 100th birthday – May 3, 2019, is a good one, so I’m going to cite it here!

“He was a singer, a rebel, and a voice of the people. With a banjo and a selfless dedication to justice and the transformative power of music, he inspired all of humanity to question the status quo, to sing out and speak up against oppression wherever they witnessed it. His body of work reflects a deep reverence for the earth and all of those who walk on it; you can hear it in his voice and in the voices of the thousands of people who sang and continue to sing with him every day. Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection is a career-spanning anthology of one of America’s most quintessential, celebrated, and influential musicians. Featuring classic recordings, 20 previously unreleased tracks, historic live performances, and special collaborations, this set encompasses over 60 years of Pete’s Folkways catalog, released on the occasion of his 100th birthday.”

The collection features all the popular songs Seeger is know for including We Shall Overcome, If I Had a Hammer, Turn Turn Turn, Goodnight, Irene, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine and many more.

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Tapestry (1963/2013) by Chuck Wayne (Genre: Jazz)

Tapestry is considered by many to be the best album by the bebop jazz guitarist Chuck Wayne – check it out!

Song List: On Green Dolphin Street, My Favorite Things, Satin Doll, Down the Road, Loads of Love, Askaterine, Lady’s Love Song, ‘Round Midnight, Greensleeves, Softly as in a Morning & Thank the Lord.

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The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle (1973) by Bruce Springsteen (Genre: Rock, Folk)

The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle is Springsteen’s third album, and it is a bit of a transitional one, as he moved away from the more folk based music featured on his first two albums to the more rock based music he has since become known for. Although by whatever description you give his music, he is a terrific songwriter and performer – enjoy!

Song List: The E Street Shuffle, 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), Kitty’s Back, Wild Billy’s Circus Story, Incident on 57th Street, Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) & New York City Serenade.

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Recommended Videos:

Hogbottom by Elvin Bishop

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Party Till The Cows Come Home by Elvin Bishop

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The Blacksmith Blues by Ella Mae Morse

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Too Young by Nat King Cole

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Freedom by Wham!

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Wake Me Up Before You Go Go by Wham!

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Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

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Shameika by Fiona Apple

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Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 75: I. Allegro agitato by Joshua Bell with Jeremy Denk

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Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, M. 77: III. Perpetuum mobile. Allegretto by Joshua Bell with Jeremy Denk

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Man Without A Soul by Lucinda Williams

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When The Way Gets Dark by Lucinda Williams

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Green Leaves of Summery by Patti Page

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Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte by Patti Page

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We Shall Overcome by Pete Seeger

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Where Have All The Flowers Gone by Pete Seeger

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‘Round Midnight by Chuck Wayne

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Softly As The Morning Sunrise by Chuck Wayne

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E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen

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Rosalita by Bruce Springsteen

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Be well!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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REFERENCES:

Print References

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn

Online References

AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/

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Isle Of Calm: Stream 6 Hours Of Soothing Music, https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815457669/isle-of-calm-stream-6-hours-of-soothing-music

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Lucinda Williams: A Guide To Her Best Songs written by Ann Powers. NPR. April 24, 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/04/24/843340924/lucinda-williams-a-guide-to-her-best-songs

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The Wit, Wisdom And Awe Of Fiona Apple’s ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’by Bob Boilen, Ann Powers & Marissa Lorusso. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2020/04/19/838236937/the-wit-wisdom-and-awe-of-fiona-apples-fetch-the-bolt-cutters

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Digital Catalogs:

Note: There are apps for each catalog or, you can download digital content to a PC.

The Digital Catalog (OverDrive)

The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.

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Freegal Music

You can stream an unlimited amount of music for the duration of the Corona Crisis.

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RBDigital:

RBDigital offers on-demand magazines, so you can read til your heart’s content!

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here are our recommended titles for the week, and while the library is closed the weekly recommendations will all be digital – eBooks & downloadable audiobooks available through the Digital Catalog.

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April is National Humor Month, and as we’re running out of month, I thought I’d recommend humorous titles this week!

Recommended Reads:

The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion: A Novel by Fannie Flagg (Format: eBook)

The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You, is at her hilarious and superb best in this new comic mystery novel about two women who are forced to reimagine who they are.

Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with is her mother, the formidable Lenore Simmons Krackenberry. Lenore may be a lot of fun for other people, but is, for the most part, an overbearing presence for her daughter. Then one day, quite by accident, Sookie discovers a secret about her mother’s past that knocks her for a loop and suddenly calls into question everything she ever thought she knew about herself, her family, and her future.

Sookie begins a search for answers that takes her to California, the Midwest, and back in time, to the 1940s, when an irrepressible woman named Fritzi takes on the job of running her family’s filling station. Soon truck drivers are changing their routes to fill up at the All-Girl Filling Station. Then, Fritzi sees an opportunity for an even more groundbreaking adventure. As Sookie learns about the adventures of the girls at the All-Girl Filling Station, she finds herself with new inspiration for her own life.

Fabulous, fun-filled, spanning decades and generations, and centered on a little-known aspect of America’s twentieth-century story, The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion is another irresistible novel by the remarkable Fannie Flagg.

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon (Format: eBook)

The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series

“It’s absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World

Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize

A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939.

A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink.

Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America’s finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age.

Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award

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I Remember Nothing written and read by Nora Ephron (Format: Audiobook)

Nora Ephron returns with her first audiobook since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a cool, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.

Ephron writes about falling hard for a way of life (“Journalism: A Love Story”) and about breaking up even harder with the men in her life (“The D Word”); lists “Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again” (“There is no explaining the stock market but people try”; “Cary Grant was Jewish”; “Men cheat”); reveals the alarming evolution, a decade after she wrote and directed You’ve Got Mail, of her relationship with her in-box (“The Six Stages of E-Mail”); and asks the age-old question, which came first, the chicken soup or the cold? All the while, she gives candid, edgy voice to everything women who have reached a certain age have been thinking . . . but rarely acknowledging.

Filled with insights and observations that instantly ring true—and could have come only from Nora Ephron—I Remember Nothing is pure joy.

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I’m A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson (Format: eBook)

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, “it was clear my people needed me”). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item.

Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I’m a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man’s attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.

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Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog written and read by Dave Barry (Format: Audiobook)

In this “little gem” (Washington Independent Review of Books), Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and New York Timesbestselling author Dave Barry learns how to age happily from his old but joyful dog, Lucy.

As Dave Barry turns seventy—not happily—he realizes that his dog, Lucy, is dealing with old age far better than he is. She has more friends, fewer worries, and way more fun. So Dave decides to figure out how Lucy manages to stay so happy, to see if he can make his own life happier by doing the things she does (except for drinking from the toilet). He reconnects with old friends and tries to make new ones—which turns out to be a struggle, because Lucy likes people a lot more than he does. And he gets back in touch with two ridiculous but fun groups from his past: the Lawn Rangers, a group of guys who march in parades pushing lawnmowers and twirling brooms (alcohol is involved), and the Rock Bottom Remainders, the world’s oldest and least-talented all-author band. With each new lesson, Dave riffs hilariously on dogs, people, and life in general, while also pondering Deep Questions, such as when it’s okay to lie. (Answer: when scallops are involved.)

Lessons from Lucy shows readers a new side to Dave Barry that’s “touching and sentimental, but there’s still a laugh on every page” (Sacramento Bee). The master humorist has written a witty and affable guide to joyous living at any age.

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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Format: Audiobook)

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Can’t Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. “Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performances including a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing “I Wish I Were an Oscar Meyer Weiner” are unforgettable. Sedaris’s essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest he’s ever written. At last, someone even meaner than the French! The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child.” –Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever

“Sidesplitting…Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up; frequently I was helpless.” –The New York Times Book Review on Naked

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Naked Came The Florida Man by Tim Dorsey (Format: eBook)

Can it still be hurricane season? Must be, because here come Serge A. Storms and his perpetually stoned bro, Coleman, in Tim Dorsey’s gonzo crime caper.” –New York Times Book Review

The “compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny” (Boston Globe) Tim Dorsey returns with an insanely entertaining tale in which the inimitable Serge A. Storms sees dead people and investigates a creepy urban myth that may be all too real.

Though another devastating hurricane is raking Florida, its awesome power can’t stop the Sunshine State’s most loyal son, Serge A. Storms, from his latest scenic road trip: a cemetery tour. With his best bro Colman riding shotgun, Serge hits the highway in his ’69 gold Plymouth Satellite, putting pedal to the metal on a grand tour of the past. Beginning in Key West, the sunshine boys’ odyssey includes a forgotten mass grave in Palm Beach county holding the remains of African Americans killed by the Great Hurricane of 1928, and the resting place of one world-famous television dolphin (RIP Flipper) from the 1960s.

But one deadland—a haunted old sugar field—holds more than just the bones of those who’ve passed. For years, local children have whispered about a boogeyman hiding among the stalks. Could it be the same maniac known as Naked Florida man who’s been raising hell all over the place?

There are few things Serge loves more than solving a good mystery and bestowing justice on miscreants who sully his beloved home’s good name. With his partner bong boy, Florida’s psycho superhero will find the truth in this hilariously violent delight—packed with history, lore, and plenty of motel antics—from the insanely ingenious Tim Dorsey.

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One For The Money by Janet Evanovich (Format: Audiobook)

Discover where it all began—#1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich’s first “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” (USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and funny heroine who “comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air” (The Washington Post).

Meet Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie’s opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.

She’s a product of the “burg,” a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six.

Out of work and out of money, Stephanie blackmails her bail-bondsman cousin Vinnie into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. Stephanie knows zilch about the job requirements, but she figures her new pal, el-primo bounty hunter Ranger, can teach her what it takes to catch a crook. Her first assignment: nail Joe Morelli, a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one. Morelli’s the inamorato who charmed Stephanie out of her virginity at age sixteen. There’s still powerful chemistry between them, so the chase should be interesting…and could also be extremely dangerous.

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Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple (Format: eBook)

A brilliant novel from the author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.

Eleanor knows she’s a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won’t swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action-life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother’s company. It’s also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office-but not Eleanor-that he’s on vacation. Just when it seems like things can’t go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret.

TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.

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Toucan Keep A Secret by Donna Andrews (Format: eBook)

Toucan keep a secret, if one of them is dead.

Meg Langslow is at Trinity Episcopal Church locking up after an event and checking on the toucan her friend Rev. Robyn Smith is fostering in her office. When she investigates the sound of hammering in the columbarium (the underground crypt where cremated remains are buried), Meg finds the murdered body of an elderly parishioner. Several niches have been chiseled open; several urns knocked out; and amid the spilled ashes is a gold ring with a huge red stone.

The curmudgeonly victim had become disgruntled with the church and ranted all over town about taking back his wife’s ashes. Did someone who had it in for him follow him to the columbarium? Or was the motive grave robbery? Or did he see someone breaking in and investigate? Why was the ruby left behind?

While Chief Burke investigates the murder, Robyn recruits Meg to contact the families of the people whose ashes were disturbed. While doing so, Meg learns many secrets about Caerphilly’s history—and finds that the toucan may play a role in unmasking the killer. Clues and events indicate that a thief broke into the church to steal the toucan the night of the murder, so Meg decides to set a trap for the would-be toucan thief—who might also be the killer.

Toucan Keep a Secret is the twenty-third book in New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews’ hilarious Mag Langslow mystery series.

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Be well and happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Note: Book summaries are from the publisher unless otherwise specified.

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StarCat

The catalog of physical library materials, i.e. print books, audiobooks on CD, DVDs etc.

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You can access digital library content, i.e. eBooks & downloadable audiobooks, on PCs, Macs and mobile devices.

For mobile devices simply download the Libby (eBooks & downloadable audiobooks) or the RB Digital app (on-demand magazines), from your app store to get started. And if you’re using a PC or Mac simply click on the following link: https://stls.overdrive.com/

If you have questions call the library at 607-936-3713 and one of our tech coaches will be happy to assist you.

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, as regular blog visitors know, I usually post links to request the print versions of the New York Times Bestsellers on Sundays, so that patrons can request those (print) titles in StarCat (the catalog of physical library materials).

 

However, as all the libraries in the Southern Tier Library System are currently closed, you can’t place holds for physical materials, nor, of course, pick up holds.

 

So for the duration of the Corona Virus crisis, I’m going to post links to the New York Times Bestsellers, in eBook or downloadable audiobook form, that can be requested, or checked out, through the Digital Catalog.

 

If you have questions about how to access digital content you can write a comment and post it on the blog, or send me, SSCL Librarian Linda Reimer, questions via email: reimerl@stls.org

 

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And here are the New York Times Bestsellers that can be found in the Digital Catalog.

 

FICTION:

AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins (Format: eBook):

A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.

 

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THE BOOK OF LOST FRIENDS by Lisa Wingate (Format: Audiobook):

The stories of three women struggling to get from Louisiana to Texas during Reconstruction are discovered by a first-year teacher living a century later.

 

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THE BOY FROM THE WOODS by Harlan Coben (Format: eBook):

When a girl goes missing, a private investigator’s feral childhood becomes an asset in the search.

 

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THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett (Format: Audiobook):

A sibling relationship is impacted when the family goes from poverty to wealth and back again over the course of many decades.

 

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THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes (Format: Audiobook):

In Depression-era America, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books throughout the mountains of Kentucky.

 

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THE GLASS HOTEL by Emily St. John Mandel (Format: eBook):

Years after an international Ponzi scheme falls apart, one of its victims investigates the disappearance of a woman from a container ship.

 

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IN FIVE YEARS by Rebecca Serle (Format: Audiobook):

A Manhattan lawyer finds herself confronting a vision she had when elements of it come to life on schedule.

 

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LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng (Format eBook):

An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.

 

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MASKED PREY by John Sandford (Format: eBook):

The 30th book in the Prey series. Washington politicians ask Lucas Davenport to look into someone who is targeting their children.

 

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MIRROR & THE LIGHT by Hilary Mantel (Format: eBook):

The third book in the Wolf Hall trilogy. After Anne Boleyn’s execution, Thomas Cromwell’s enemies assemble.

 

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REDHEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD by Anne Tyler (Format: eBook):

Micah Mortimer’s orderly existence is thrown off kilter when his partner faces eviction and a teenager claims to be his son.

 

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THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides (Format: Audiobook):

Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.

 

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THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris (Format: eBook):

A concentration camp detainee tasked with permanently marking fellow prisoners falls in love with one of them.

 

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TEXAS OUTLAW by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle (Format: eBook):

A Texas Ranger goes to a small town to investigate whether an accidental death was actually a murder.

 

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VALENTINE by Elizabeth Wetmore (Format: Audiobook):

 

A Texas town on the verge of an oil boom in 1976 becomes divided when a teenage girl is brutally attacked.

 

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens (eBook):

In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

 

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WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn (Format: Audiobook):

A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.

 

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NON-FICTION:

BECOMING by Michelle Obama (eBook):

The former first lady describes her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House, and how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.

 

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BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah (Format: eBook):

A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”

 

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EDUCATED by Tara Westover (Format: eBook):

The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

 

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FRONT ROW AT THE TRUMP SHOW by Jonathan Karl (Format: Audiobook):

The ABC News chief White House correspondent gives his perspective on our current president and describes the shifts within their relationship.

 

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THE GREAT INFLUENZA by John M. Barry (Format: eBook):

An overview of the 1918 flu epidemic and cautionary tale for similar kinds of large-scale outbreaks.

 

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HELL AND OTHER DESTINATIONS by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward:

A memoir by America’s first female secretary of state detailing some of her accomplishments after leaving that post.

 

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HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD by Robert Kolker (Format: Audiobook):

From 1945 to 1965, a family in Colorado had 12 children, six of whom went on to develop schizophrenia.

 

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THE MAMBA MENTALITY by Kobe Bryant (Format: eBook):

Various skills and techniques used on the court by the Los Angeles Lakers player.

 

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MORE MYSELF by Alicia Keys with Michelle Burford (Format: Audiobook):

The Grammy Award-winning musician retraces her path to discovering her own worth.

 

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SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari (Format: Audiobook)

How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species.

 

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THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson (Format: Audiobook):

An examination of the leadership of the prime minister Winston Churchill.

 

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UNORTHODOX by Deborah Feldman (Format: eBook):

A woman breaks free of the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn in which she was raised.

 

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UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle (Format: eBook):

The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.

 

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Stay safe and read on!

Linda Reimer, SSL

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Note: this list contains all the New York Times fiction and non-fiction bestsellers for the week that are owned by libraries within the Southern Tier Library System.

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here is our bi-weekly recommended listening posting for Friday, April 24, 2020.

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Our listening suggestions today includes ten streaming albums, from the Freegal Music Catalog, and a selection of related music videos.

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 If you have questions about how to use the Freegal Music Service, please let me know! You can contact me by leaving a message on the blog.

Or, you can send an email to the following address reimerl@stls.org and I’ll get back to you!

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Freegal Streaming Suggestions:

1936-1940 Anthology by Lil Hardin Armstrong (Genre: Jazz)

Lil Hardin was a terrific jazz pianist in an era when it was hard for female performers to be taken seriously. She met Louis Armstrong in 1922, when they both were members of King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. She subsequently married Armstrong and worked with him as his manager and co-composer and arranger. After the couple split up in the early 1930s, she formed a big band of her own and later worked as a solo musician in Chicago.

And she recorded some great music!

This 26-song set includes the following tunes!
Just For A Thrill
Doin’ The Suzie-Q
Let’s Get Happy Together
Oriental Swing
Harlem On Saturday Night
You Shall Reap What You Sow
Born To Swing
Safely Locked Up In My Heart
You Mean So Much To Me

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Boogie Gals by Various Artists (Genre: Jazz, Swing)

Boogie Gals is a 48-song collection of tunes recorded by female artists during the Big Band Era. The set includes songs by singer & pianist Hadda Brooks, singer Mildred Anderson, singer and pianist Vivian Greene and pianist and singer Betty Hall Jones.

This is a cheerful collection of boogie woogie tunes!

The collection features the following songs:
Stompin’ the Boogie by Hadda Brooks
Doin’ the Boogie Woogie by Mildred Anderson
Red Light by Vivian Greene
Learn to Boogie by Betty Hall Jones
Joogie Boogie by Lil Armstorng
Elevator Boogie by Betty Jean Washington
Piney’s Boogie Woogie by Honey Lee
Player Piano Boogie by Martha Davis

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The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1 (1945 – 1946) by Cousin Joe (Genre: Blues)

Cousin Joe was born in Louisiana in 1907, and moved with his family to New Orleans when he was 12 years old. While growing up in New Orleans he heard the great mix of blues, jazz and creole music that the city is known for, he learned to play the guitar and ukulele and began a music career. He was a flamboyant singer and one of the early jazz & blues pioneers to record music; so take a trip back to the Jazz Age and enjoy listening to this collection!

Songs in the 21-song set include Broken Man Blues, Levee Blues, Bad Boy Blues, Saw Will Man Blues, Post War Future Blues, My Love Comes Tumblin’ Down & Desperate G.I. Blues.

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God Bless The Grass (1966) by Pete Seeger (Genre: Folk)

This album was actually released four years before the first Earth Day!

And the fiftieth Earth Day was this past Wednesday, April 22, so it seems like a good time to include an album that focuses on the beauty of the natural world, and promotes the idea that we should protect mother earth.

The album features 21 songs including The Power And The Glory, Pretty Saro, 70 Miles, The Faucets Are Dripping, God Bless The Grass, The Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood, Coal Creek March, The Girl I Left Behind, Coyote, My Little Brother, Preserven El Parque Elysian My Dirty Stream, America, the Beautiful & There’ll Come A Time

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No Place That Far (1998) by Sara Evans (Genre: Country)

No Place That Far is the critically acclaimed sophomore release by singer-songwriter Sara Evans, and features a strong, modern woman singing modern country songs.

Song List:
The Great Unknown
Cryin’ Game
No Place That Far
I Thought I’d See Your Face Again
Fool, I’m a Woman
Time Won’t Tell
The Knot Comes Untied
Love, Don’t Be a Stranger
These Days
Cupid
There’s Only One

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The Other Side of Desire (2015) by Rickie Lee Jones (Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Folk, Pop-Rock)

The Other Side of Desire features eleven bright, reflective songs by the inestimable singer songwriter; and her voices doesn’t seem to have changed a bit from the confident timbre it had on her first LP, 1979’s Rickie Lee Jones, released, unbelievable so – 41 years ago!

Song List:
Jimmy Choos
Valtz De Mon Pere (Lovers’ Waltz)
J’ai Connais Pas
Blinded by the Hunt
Infinity
I Wasn’t Here
Christmas in New Orleans
Feet on the Ground
Juliette
Finale: (A Spider in the Circus of the Falling Star)

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Rockin’ It With Eddie Cochran by Eddie Cochran (Genre: Rock, Traditional Rock)

Rockin’ It With Eddie Cochran features songs the skillful and tragedy fated guitarist recorded between 1954-1960. Cochran was a cool, swaggering, confident musician who died in a plane crash while on tour in the U.K. in 1960, just as his career was taking off. But fortunately, he left us some great music!

Songs in the 30-song set include Candy Kisses, Rockin’ and Flyin’, Tired and Sleepy, Chuck & Eddie’s Boogie, I’m Ready, Sittin’ in the Balcony, 20 Flight Rock & Summertime Blues.

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Roy Eldridge With The Gene Krupa Orchestra Featuring Anita O’Day (1941-1942) by Roy Eldridge with Gene Krupa & His Orchestra & Anita O’Day (Genre: Jazz, Swing)

Drummer and band leader Gene Krupa hired tqo great finds for his band in the early forties, trumpeter Roy Eldridge and singer Anita O’Day; and these two players made the swinging music even better!

The collection features 24-songs including Green Eyes, Let Me Off Uptown, After You’ve Gone, Rockin’ Chair, Stop! The Red Light’s On, Watch the Birdie, Skylark, The Walls Keep Talking & Why Fall In Love With A Stanger?

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Saginaw, Michigan (1964) by Lefty Frizzell (Genre: Country)

William Orville Frizzell was born in Texas in 1928, and acquired the nickname “Lefty” as a youth after winning a fight. He began singing professionally in his teens and became a successful, country singer and songwriter, with a honky tonk style, in the early fifties. Saginaw, Michigan is a terrific album Lefty made in 1964 – old style country music – enjoy!

Song List:
Saginaw, Michigan
Stranger
What Good Did You Get (Out of Breaking My Heart)
There’s No Food in This House
When It Rains the Blues
Hello to Him
James River
I’m Not the Man I’m Supposed To Be
Through the Eyes of a Fool
I Was Coming Home to You
Don’t Let Her See Me Cry
Lonely Heart

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The Very Best Classical New Year’s Eve by Various Artists (Genre: Light Classical)

I know, I know, we are not even close to New Years Eve!

However, this is an uplifting forty song collection of light classical music that does include one the seasonal favorite – Auld Lang Syne, and also includes:

Spring (Four Seasons) by Salzburg Baroque Orchestra
Flower Duet from Lakme by Cerise
Overture from Carmen by New Philharmonic Orchestra
Peer Gynt by London Philharmonic Orchestra
Concerto for Clarinet by London Festival Orchestra
Canon by Baroque Ensemble of Vienna
New World Symphony by London Festival Orchestra
Clair De Lune by Michael Simone
Brandenburg Concerto Baroque by Ensemble of Vienna

And we can imagine New Year’s Eve 2020, gathering with family and friends and good food, and the coming of a new, and most likely much better year arriving in 2021!

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Recommended Videos:

Lil Hardin Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra 1936-1940 Compilation

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The Pearls by Lil Hardin

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Stompin’ the Boogie by Hadda Brooks

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Elevator Boogie by Betty Jean Washington

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Everything Made of Wood Once Was a Tree (New Orleans 1984) by Cousin Joe

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Looking For My Baby by Cousin Joe

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God Bless The Grass by Pete Seeger

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The Power and the Glory by Pete Seeger

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Fool, I’m a Woman by Sara Evans

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The Great Unknown by Sara Evans

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Feet on the Ground by Rickie Lee Jones

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Jimmy Choos by Rickie Lee Jones

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Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran

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Twenty Flight Rock by Eddie Cochran

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Let Me Off Uptown by The Gene Krupa Orchestra featuring Roy Eldridge & Anita O’Day

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Thanks for the Boogie Ride by The Gene Krupa Orchestra featuring Roy Eldridge & Anita O’Day

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Saginaw, Michigan by Lefty Frizzell

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There’s No Food in This House by Lefty Frizell

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Flower Duet from Lakme by Cerise

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Pictures at an Exhibition by London Symphony Orchestra

Be well!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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REFERENCES:

Print References

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn

Online References

AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/

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10 Women in Jazz Who Never Got Their Due written by Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times, April 22, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/arts/music/women-jazz-musicians.html?referringSource=articleShare

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Eddie Cochran Rockin’ It with Eddie Cochran, review by Steve Leggett, AllMusic
https://www.allmusic.com/album/rockin-it-with-eddie-cochran-mw0001980317

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Uptown by Roy Eldridge Review by Cub Koda, AllMusic
https://www.allmusic.com/album/uptown-mw0000207323

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Digital Catalogs:

Note: There are apps for each catalog or, you can download digital content to a PC.

The Digital Catalog (OverDrive)

The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.

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Freegal Music

You can stream an unlimited amount of music for the duration of the Corona Crisis.

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RBDigital:

RBDigital offers on-demand magazines, so you can read til your heart’s content!

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here is our bi-weekly recommended listening posting for Monday, April 20, 2020.

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Our listening suggestions today includes ten streaming albums, from the Freegal Music Catalog, and a selection of related music videos.

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 If you have questions about how to use the Freegal Music Service, please let me know! You can contact me by leaving a message on the blog.

Or, you can send an email to the following address reimerl@stls.org and I’ll get back to you!

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Freegal Streaming Suggestions:

The Archies: Greatest Hits (1969) by The Archies (Ron Dante on vocals) (Genre: Pop/Soundtrack)

Cheerful bubble gum pop at its finest!

Song List:
Sugar, Sugar
Who’s Your Baby?
Get On the Line
Over and Over
Waldo P. Emerson Jones
Bang-Shang-a-Lang
Feelin’ So Good (S.K.O.O.B.Y.-D.O.O.)
Jingle Jangle
Sugar and Spice
Seventeen Ain’t Young
Everything’s Alright
Sunshine

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At the Swing Cats Ball (2011) by Don Redman and His Orchestra (Genre: Jazz, Swing, Big Band)

Born in West Virginia in 1900, clarinetist, oboist, composer and music arranger Don Redman graduated from Storer College with a degree in music in 1920. Redman went on to work in the jazz field, playing first with Billy Paige’s Broadway Syncopators and later with jazz great Fletcher Henderson’s orchestra, before embarking on a solo career in the 1930s. The songs on this LP were recorded in 1957 in New York City, and were intended to be used by broadcast stations (aka TV). In addition to Redman, the recording sessions featured Joe Wilder, Seldon Powell and Coleman Hawkins; and they offer a great fly-on-the-wall type of listening experience! You can close your eyes and pretend you are in the studio, while the boys in the band are recording their up-tempo tunes on the other side of the recording booth, a stones’ throw away!

Selected songs, from the 29-song set:
Park Avenue Patter
Good Boog Di Goodie
Black Velvet
Ballade De Ballet
My Confectionary Baby
My Girl Friday
Looney
The Blame’s on You
Penthouse Alley
Seedless Grapefruit
Last Night in Town
To the River
Ballad ‘n Bounce

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Cool Daddy-O – ’60s Beatnik Songs by Various Artists (Genre: Rock, Pop Culture) 

A 36-song collection of cool, hip music from the 1960s including songs by Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, who starred in the classic sixties TV series Sunset Strip, New Orleans music star Huey “Piano” Smith and even Herman Munster!

Selected song list:
Like, I Love You by Edd “Kookie” Byrnes
Beatnik by The Royal Jokers
The Beat Generation by Mamie Van Doren
Guy Lombardo’s Back In Town by The Hermit
Herman Munster Reads by Herman Munster
Enille by The Wild Man Of Wildsville
Line For Lyons by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop by Lionel Hampton
Real Crazy Cool Big Jay McNeely

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Falling Debris (2009) by David Kilgour & Sam Hunt (Genre: Folk, Pop/Rock)

New Zealand Singer-guitarist and former Clean band member David Kilgour incorporates the great New Zealand poet Sam Hunt’s words into the songs on this album – the result is a terrific, introspective album – check it out!

Song List:
Intro
Chord
Everytime It Rains Like This
I Throw You Flowers
First One Hit
Talking of the Weather
Friend to Many
They Are Clouds
River Plateau Song
Return to Rangitoto
A Summertime Blues for Tom
Reprise

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Five Guys Named Moe Original Broadway Cast Recording (1992) (Genre: Soundtracks/Musicals)

Five Guys Named Moe tells that tale of Nomax, a sad soul whose girlfriend had just dumped him. Normax is comforted by the swinging music issuing from his vintage radio – but really, the show is about the music which comes from the catalog of the great swing artist Louis Jordan. Jordan recorded a very early music video of the song in 1943, which can be found in the suggested videos section!

A selection of songs in the 27-song set:
Early in the Morning
Five Guys Named Moe
Beware, Brother, Beware
I Like ‘Em Fat Like That
Messy Bessy
Pettin’ and Pokin’
Life Is So Peculiar
I Know What I’ve Got
Azure Te
Safe, Sane and Single
Push Ka Pi Shi Pie
Saturday Night Fish Fry

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Live at Jazzhus Slukefter 1983 by Hank Jones (Genre: Jazz)

A classic album by Jazz pianist Hank Jones recorded live in Copenhagen in June 1983.

Song List:
Just Friends (Live)
Au Privave (Live)
Alone Together (Live)
Stablemates (Live)
It Could Happen to You (Live)
Scrapple from the Apple (Live)
Budo (Live)
Tangerine (Live)
What’s New (Live)

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Mountain Frolic: Rare Old Timey Classics (1925-1930) by Various Artists:

Here is a collection of vintage string-band songs and ballads-this is what the mountain folks would sing and swing to on Saturday night in the ’20s and ’30s. A Crockett Family medley and The Bulldog Down in Sunny Tennessee by Doc Walsh join tunes by the Buckle Busters, Carolina Nighthawks and Bradley Kincaid plus a bunch by the Carolina Tar Heels: Roll On, Boys; Back to Mexico; Got the Farm Land Blues , and more! – JSP Records

Selected songs from the 25-song set
Medley Of Old Time Dance Tunes by the Crockett Family
Green Backed Dollar by Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters
Chesapeake Bay by Walter Couch & Wilks Ramblers
Fate Of Santa Barbara by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
North Bound Train by Nelstone’s Hawaiians
Rabbit Chase by Charlie Parker
Sugar Hill by Dad Crockett
No Business Of Mine by Smoky Mountain Ramblers

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Shapeshifting (2020) by Joe Satriani (Genre: Rock)

Shapeshifting is the brand-new album by the modern rock guitar master Joe Satriani!

Song List:
Shapeshifting
Big Distortion
All for Love
Ali Farka, Dick Dale, an Alien and Me
Teardrops
Perfect Dust
Nineteen Eighty
All My Friends Are Here
Spirits, Ghosts and Outlaws
Falling Stars
Waiting
Here the Blue River
Yesterday’s Yesterday

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Soul of Country Music (1968) by Connie Smith (Genre: Country, Classic Country)

Soul of Country is a classic album by the classic county singer Connie Smith, and it harkens back to a time that seems simpler in retrospect, but in fairness it probably wasn’t!

Song List:
Don’t Keep Me Lonely Too Long
Surely
The Last Letter
Burning Bridges
I’m Your Woman
There Goes My Everything
It Only Hurts for a Little While
Family Bible
If Teardrops Were Silver
Walk Through This World With Me
It’s Such a Pretty World Today
Touch My Heart

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Sunwatcher (2011) by Jeff Lederer (Genre: Jazz)

Sunwatcher is Saxophonist Jeff Lederer first solo album. This is a great, modern inspirational LP, check it out!

Song List
Albert’s Sun
Cristo Redentor
Arnold Schoenberg’s Son
Snake in the Blackberry Patch
Albert’s Love Theme
Arshawsky
Break Bread Together
Turiyasangitananda

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Recommended Videos:

Over And Over by The Archies

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Sugar Sugar by The Archies

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At The Swing Cats Ball by Don Redman & His Orchestra featuring Coleman Hawkings

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My Girl Friday by Don Redman & His Orchestra featuring Coleman Hawkings

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Like, I Love You by Edd “Kookie” Byrnes

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Line For Lyons by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet

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Every Time It Rains Like This by David Kilgour & Sam Hunt

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I Throw You Flowers by David Kilgour & Sam Hunt

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Five Guys Named Moe by Louis Jordan & His Orchestra

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Early in The Morning from Five Guys Named Moe

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I Know What I’ve Got from Five Guys Named Moe

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Just Friends by Hank Jones

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Tangerine by Hank Jones

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Medley Of Old Time Dance Tunes by the Crockett Family

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Rabbit Chase by Charlie Parker

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Shapeshifting by Joe Satriani

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Nineteen Eighty by Joe Satriani

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Don’t Keep My Lonely Too Long by Connie Smith

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It’s Such a Pretty World Today by Connie Smith

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Arnold Schoenberg’s Son by Jeff Lederer

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Sunwatcher by Jeff Lederer

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Be well!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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REFERENCES:

Print References

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn

Online References

AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/

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Don Redman At the Swing Cats Ball – Feat. Coleman Hawkins, Fresh Sound Records, https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/don-redman-albums/4074-at-the-swing-cats-ball-featuring-coleman-hawkins.html

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Don Redman: The Little Giant of Jazz, https://www.nps.gov/hafe/learn/historyculture/don-redman-the-little-giant-of-jazz.htm

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Sam Hunt: We’ll be wiser, weaker folk by Colin Hogg for Newsroom, https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/04/07/1117315/sam-hunt-well-come-out-weaker-and-wiser

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Digital Catalogs:

Note: There are apps for each catalog or, you can download digital content to a PC.

The Digital Catalog (OverDrive)

The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.

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Freegal Music

You can stream an unlimited amount of music for the duration of the Corona Crisis.

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RBDigital:

RBDigital offers on-demand magazines, so you can read til your heart’s content!

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here are our recommended titles for the week, and while the library is closed the weekly recommendations will all be digital – eBooks & downloadable audiobooks available through the Digital Catalog.

Recommended Reads:

Afterlife by Julie Alverez (Format: eBook)

A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * The Washington Post *Vogue * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Ms. Magazine *The Millions * The Huffington Post * PopSugar * The Lily * Goodreads * Library Journal * LitHub * Electric Literature

The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

“A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X

Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves—lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack—but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words.

Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including—maybe especially—members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?

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After Sundown by Linda Howard & Linda Jones (Format: eBook)

Danger brings together two guarded hearts in a battle for survival in this irresistible story from New York Times bestselling authors Linda Howard and Linda Jones.

Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, finds safety in solitude. But if anyone can pierce her protective shell it’s the handsome, mysterious ex-military man living alone in the wilds of Cove Mountain. For two years, he’s kept his distance—until the day he appears to warn her that a catastrophic solar storm capable of taking down the power grid is coming. Now, Sela must find the courage to become the leader Wears Valley needs.

Bitter experience has taught Ben Jernigan it’s best to look out for number one. For two years the former soldier has lived in a self-imposed exile, using a top-notch security system to keep people away. But he had to let Sela know about the impending threat—and now the quiet and undeniably sexy woman is making it too easy for him to lower his guard.

As panic spreads, Sela and Ben discover that in the dark, cut off from the outside world, there’s no more playing it safe—in life or in love.

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Big Lies in a Small Town: A Novel by Diane Chamberlain (Format: eBook)

From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes a novel of chilling intrigue, a decades-old disappearance, and one woman’s quest to find the truth…

“A novel about arts and secrets…grippingly told…pulls readers toward a shocking conclusion.”—People magazine, Best New Books

North Carolina, 2018:
Morgan Christopher’s life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, her dream of a career in art is put on hold—until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will get her released from prison immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration, but desperate to be free, she accepts. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small town secrets.

North Carolina, 1940:
Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. Alone in the world and in great need of work, she accepts. But what she doesn’t expect is to find herself immersed in a town where prejudices run deep, where people are hiding secrets behind closed doors, and where the price of being different might just end in murder.

What happened to Anna Dale? Are the clues hidden in the decrepit mural? Can Morgan overcome her own demons to discover what exists beneath the layers of lies?

“Chamberlain, a master storyteller, keeps readers hooked, with a story line that leavens history and social commentary with romance and mystery.”—Lexington Dispatch

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The Blessing Way, Leaphorn & Chee Series, Book 1 by Tony Hillerman (Format: eBook)

“Brilliant…as fascinating as it is original.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, the first novel in his series featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn & Officer Jim Chee who encounter a bizarre case that borders between the supernatural and murder

Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high, lonely place—a corpse with a mouth full of sand—abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer.

There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn’s pursuit of a Wolf-Witch leads him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.

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Camino Winds by John Grisham (Format: eBook)

The publication date for Camino Winds is April 27, but you can place a hold on it now!

“The best thriller writer alive.” – Ken Follett

John Grisham, #1 bestselling author and master of the legal thriller, sweeps you away to paradise for a little sun, sand, mystery, and mayhem.

With Camino Winds, America’s favorite storyteller offers the perfect escape.

Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen—even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . .

Just as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida’s governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm.

The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce’s and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson’s injuries suggests that the storm wasn’t the cause of his death: He has suffered several suspicious blows to the head.

Who would want Nelson dead? The local police are overwhelmed in the aftermath of the storm and ill equipped to handle the case. Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson’s novels might be more real than fictional. And somewhere on Nelson’s computer is the manuscript of his new novel. Could the key to the case be right there—in black and white? As Bruce starts to investigate, what he discovers between the lines is more shocking than any of Nelson’s plot twists—and far more dangerous.

Camino Winds is an irresistible romp and a perfectly thrilling beach read—# 1 bestselling author John Grisham at his beguiling best.

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Code Name Hélène: A Novel (Format: eBook)

Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war, Code Name Hélène is a spellbinding and moving story of enduring love, remarkable sacrifice and unfaltering resolve that chronicles the true exploits of a woman who deserves to be a household name.

It is 1936 and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca. No sooner does Henri sweep Nancy off her feet and convince her to become Mrs. Fiocca than the Germans invade France and she takes yet another name: a code name.

As LUCIENNE CARLIER Nancy smuggles people and documents across the border. Her success and her remarkable ability to evade capture earns her the nickname THE WHITE MOUSE from the Gestapo. With a five million franc bounty on her head, Nancy is forced to escape France and leave Henri behind. When she enters training with the Special Operations Executives in Britain, her new comrades are instructed to call her HÉLÈNE. And finally, with mission in hand, Nancy is airdropped back into France as the deadly MADAM ANDRÉE, where she claims her place as one of the most powerful leaders in the French Resistance, armed with a ferocious wit, her signature red lipstick, and the ability to summon weapons straight from the Allied Forces.

But no one can protect Nancy if the enemy finds out these four women are one and the same, and the closer to liberation France gets, the more exposed she—and the people she loves—become.

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Find Your Path: Honor Your Body, Fuel Your Soul, and Get Strong with the Fit52 Life written & read by Carrie Underwood (Format: Audiobook)

“I want to be healthy and fit 52 weeks of the year, but that doesn’t mean I have to be perfect every day. This philosophy is a year-round common-sense approach to health and fitness that involves doing your best most of the time—and by that I don’t mean being naughty for three days and good for four. I mean doing your absolute best most of the time during every week, 52 weeks of the year.”—Carrie Underwood

Carrie Underwood believes that fitness is a lifelong journey. She wasn’t born with the toned arms and strong legs that fans know her for. Like all of us, she has to work hard every day to look the way that she does! In FIND YOUR PATH she shares her secrets with readers, with the ultimate goal of being the strongest version of themselves, and looking as good as they feel. Carrie’s book will share secrets for fitting diet and exercise into a packed routine—she’s not only a multi-Platinum singer, she’s a businesswoman and busy mom with two young children. Based on her own active lifestyle, diet, and workouts, FIND YOUR PATH is packed with meal plans, recipes, weekly workout programs, and guidelines for keeping a weekly food and workout journal. It also introduces readers to Carrie’s signature Fit52 workout, which involves a deck of cards and exercises that can be done at home—and it sets her fans on a path to sustainable health and fitness for life. Fit52 begins with embracing the “Pleasure Principle” in eating, making healthy swaps in your favorite recipes, and embracing a long view approach to health—so that a cheat a day won’t derail you.

Throughout the book, Carrie shares her personal journey towards optimal health, from her passion for sports as a kid, to the pressure to look perfect and fit the mold as she launched her career after winning American Idol, to eventually discovering the importance of balance and the meaning of true health. For Carrie, being fit isn’t about crash diets or a workout routine that you’re going to dread. It’s about healthy choices and simple meals that you can put together from the ingredients in your local grocery store, and making the time, every day, to move, to love your body, and to be the best version of yourself.

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If It Bleeds written by Stephen King & read by Will Paton (Format: Audiobook)

From #1 New York Times bestselling author, legendary storyteller, and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas—Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds—each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places.

The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand By Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption). Like Four Past Midnight, Different Seasons, and most recently Full Dark, No Stars, If It Bleeds is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer.

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Valentine: A Novel written by Elizabeth Wetmore & read by Cassandra Campbell (Format: Audiobook)

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.

Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .

It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow.

In the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences.

Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive.

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Walk The Wire written by David Baldacci & read by Kyf Brewer (Format: Audiobook)

Amos Decker — the FBI consultant with a perfect memory — returns to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town in the newest thriller in David Baldacci’s #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series.

When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving fracking town is ripe for trouble. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, and the community is growing faster than houses can be built. The sudden boom has also brought a slew of problems with it, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution — and now murder.

Decker and Jamison are ordered to investigate the death of a young woman named Irene Cramer, whose body was expertly autopsied and then dumped in the open — which is only the beginning of the oddities surrounding the case. As Decker and Jamison dig into Irene’s life, they are shocked to discover that the woman who walked the streets by night as a prostitute was a teacher for a local religious sect by day — a sect operating on land once owned by a mysterious government facility that looms over the entire community.

London is a town replete with ruthless business owners, shady government officials, and religious outsiders, all determined to keep their secrets from coming out. When other murders occur, Decker will need all of his extraordinary memory and detective skills, and the assistance of a surprising ally, to root out a killer and the forces behind Cramer’s death. . . before the boom town explodes.

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Be well and happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Note: Book summaries are from the publisher unless otherwise specified.

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StarCat

The catalog of physical library materials, i.e. print books, audiobooks on CD, DVDs etc.

ABOUT LIBRARY APPS:

You can access digital library content, i.e. eBooks & downloadable audiobooks, on PCs, Macs and mobile devices.

For mobile devices simply download the Libby (eBooks & downloadable audiobooks) or the RB Digital app (on-demand magazines), from your app store to get started. And if you’re using a PC or Mac simply click on the following link: https://stls.overdrive.com/

If you have questions call the library at 607-936-3713 and one of our tech coaches will be happy to assist you.

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, as regular blog visitors know, I usually post links to request the print versions of the New York Times Bestsellers on Sundays, so that patrons can request those (print) titles in StarCat (the catalog of physical library materials).

 

However, as all the libraries in the Southern Tier Library System are currently closed, you can’t place holds for physical materials, nor, of course, pick up holds.

 

So for the duration of the Corona Virus crisis, I’m going to post links to the New York Times Bestsellers, in eBook or downloadable audiobook form, that can be requested, or checked out, through the Digital Catalog.

 

If you have questions about how to access digital content you can write a comment and post it on the blog, or send me, SSCL Librarian Linda Reimer, questions via email: reimerl@stls.org

 

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And here are the New York Times Bestsellers that can be found in the Digital Catalog.

 

FICTION:

AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins (Format: eBook):

A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.

 

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THE BOOK OF LOST FRIENDS by Lisa Wingate (Format: Audiobook):

The stories of three women struggling to get from Louisiana to Texas during Reconstruction are discovered by a first-year teacher living a century later.

 

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THE BOY FROM THE WOODS by Harlan Coben (Format: eBook):

When a girl goes missing, a private investigator’s feral childhood becomes an asset in the search.

 

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THE CHOSEN ONES by Veronica Roth (Format: eBook):

A funeral reunites a group of teens who saved the world from an evil force a decade ago.

 

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THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett (Format: Audiobook):

A sibling relationship is impacted when the family goes from poverty to wealth and back again over the course of many decades.

 

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EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU by Celeste Ng (Format: eBook):

Lydia, bearing the hopes of a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio, ends up at the bottom of a lake.

 

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THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes (Format: Audiobook):

In Depression-era America, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books throughout the mountains of Kentucky.

 

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THE GLASS HOTEL by Emily St. John Mandel (Format: eBook):

Years after an international Ponzi scheme falls apart, one of its victims investigates the disappearance of a woman from a container ship.

 

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IN FIVE YEARS by Rebecca Serle (Format: Audiobook):

A Manhattan lawyer finds herself confronting a vision she had when elements of it come to life on schedule.

 

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LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng (Format eBook):

An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.

 

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MIRROR & THE LIGHT by Hilary Mantel (Format: eBook):

The third book in the Wolf Hall trilogy. After Anne Boleyn’s execution, Thomas Cromwell’s enemies assemble.

 

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REDHEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD by Anne Tyler (Format: eBook):

Micah Mortimer’s orderly existence is thrown off kilter when his partner faces eviction and a teenager claims to be his son.

 

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THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides (Format: Audiobook):

Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.

 

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SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES by Grady Hendrix (Format: eBook):

After being attacked by an elderly neighbor, Patricia Campbell suspects more trouble is at hand in the form of her attacker’s handsome nephew.

 

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TEXAS OUTLAW by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle (Format: eBook):

A Texas Ranger goes to a small town to investigate whether an accidental death was actually a murder.

 

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VALENTINE by Elizabeth Wetmore (Format: Audiobook):

 

A Texas town on the verge of an oil boom in 1976 becomes divided when a teenage girl is brutally attacked.

 

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens (eBook):

In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

 

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WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn (Format: Audiobook):

A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.

 

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NON-FICTION:

BECOMING by Michelle Obama (eBook):

The former first lady describes her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House, and how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.

 

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EDUCATED by Tara Westover (Format: eBook):

The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

 

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FRONT ROW AT THE TRUMP SHOW by Jonathan Karl (Format: Audiobook):

The ABC News chief White House correspondent gives his perspective on our current president and describes the shifts within their relationship.

 

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THE GIFT OF FORGIVENESS by Katherine Schwarzenegger (Format: eBook):

Pratt Stories, interviews and reflections on the act of letting go of resentment.

 

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THE GREAT INFLUENZA by John M. Barry (Format: eBook):

An overview of the 1918 flu epidemic and cautionary tale for similar kinds of large-scale outbreaks.

 

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HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD by Robert Kolker (Format: Audiobook):

From 1945 to 1965, a family in Colorado had 12 children, six of whom went on to develop schizophrenia.

 

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THE MAMBA MENTALITY by Kobe Bryant (Format: eBook):

Various skills and techniques used on the court by the Los Angeles Lakers player.

 

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MORE MYSELF by Alicia Keys with Michelle Burford (Format: Audiobook):

The Grammy Award-winning musician retraces her path to discovering her own worth.

 

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OPEN BOOK by Jessica Simpson with Kevin Carr O’Leary (Format: Audiobook):

The singer, actress and fashion designer discloses times of success, trauma and addiction.

 

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THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson (Format: Audiobook):

An examination of the leadership of the prime minister Winston Churchill.

 

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UNORTHODOX by Deborah Feldman (Format: eBook):

A woman breaks free of the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn in which she was raised.

 

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UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle (Format: eBook):

The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.

 

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Stay safe and read on!

Linda Reimer, SSL

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Note: this list contains all the New York Times fiction and non-fiction bestsellers for the week that are owned by libraries within the Southern Tier Library System.

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here is our bi-weekly recommended listening posting for Friday, April 17, 2020.

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Our listening suggestions today includes ten streaming albums, from the Freegal Music Catalog, and a selection of related music videos.

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 If you have questions about how to use the Freegal Music Service, please let me know! You can contact me by leaving a message on the blog.

Or, you can send an email to the following address reimerl@stls.org and I’ll get back to you!

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Freegal Streaming Suggestions:

Between The Lines (1975) by Janis Ian (Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Pop)

Between The Lines is a classic, and critically acclaimed, album by singer-songwriter Janis Ian. Ian’s thoughtful reflective songs shine on this LP, which include her biggest hit At Seventeen.

Song List:
When the Party’s Over
At Seventeen
From Me to You
Bright Lights and Promises
In the Winter
Watercolors
Between the Lines
The Come On
Light a Light
Tea and Sympathy
Lover’s Lullabye

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Essential Jazz Masters (1947-1955) Lee Konitz (Genre: Jazz)

A thirty-song collection of early classics by the late, great alto sax player Leo Konitz.

Songs include These Foolish Things, Bernie’s Tune, Subconscious Lee, Almost Like Being in Love, Indian Summer, Ice Cream Konitz, Ezz-Thetic, You Go To My Head and Sax Of A Kind.

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Essential, Vol. 1 Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra by Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra (Genre: Swing, Jazz)

This first volume, in a five-volume set, features a solid introduction to swing master Charlie Barnet’s music. The music is, well, swinging! All five volumes in this series are available through Freegal, so if you listen to the LP and love the music – there is more in the catalog!

Song List:
Afraid to Say Hello
All I Desire
Andy’s Boogie
Blue Juice
Charleston Alley
Cherokee
Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley
Cuban Boogie Woogie
Dark Bayou
Desert Sands
E Bob O Lee Bob

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From Cowboy to Country by Jimmy Wakely

This 24 song compilation features music that chronicles the transformation of Jimmy Wakely, from cowboy singing star to (old time) country star – steel guitars and organ sounds abound!

Songs include:
Between the Lines
Mine, All Mine
Oklahoma Hills
Moon Over Montana
Walking the Sidewalks of Shame
Slippin’ Around (feat. Margaret Whiting)
Wedding Bells (feat. Margaret Whiting)
I Love You So Much It Hurts
Silver Trails &
Roll Along Kentucky Moon

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Guitar Stylings (1966) by Hank Snow (Genre: Country)

A fun and sweet guitar-centric album by the great classic country musician Hank Snow!

Song List:
The Waltz You Saved for Me
Lay My Head Beneath a Rose
Among My Souvenirs
Whispering Hope
Lanai’s Farewell
The Whispering Tradewinds
Wabash Blues
Sentimental Journey
Am I Losing You
I Get the Blues When It Rains
Sweet Marie
Birth of the Blues

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Jugband Specials by Various Artists (Genre: Jugband, Folk, Country, Americanan)

Merriam Webster describes jug band music as music that features primitive & homemade instruments. This collection is strangely classified as jazz music! Jug band music can, of course, be played by jazz, blues, country and folk players; however, it is really best described as Americana – this collection sound more folk-country/Americana based than strictly jazz or blues – give it a listen and see what you think!

This vintage twenty-five song collection features music by Johnny Dodds & The Dixieland Jug Blowers, Clarence Williams & his Jug Band, Cannon’s Jug Stompers and Hattie Hart & The Memphis Jug Band.

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Living Voices Sing the Music from the Broadway Musical “George M!” (1968) by Living Voices (Genre: Showtunes)

This album features music from the 1968 Broadway musical George M!, that focused on the life and music of the great Broadway and film songwriter George M. Cohen. This album features a refreshing slice of old time, patriotic Americana performed by the cheerful Living Voices.

Song List:
You’re a Grand Old Flag, Mary’s a Grand Old Name/So Long Mary
My Town
Rose (A Ring to Name of Rose)
Give My Regards to Broadway
(I’m A) Yankee Doodle Dandy
Harrigan
Popularity
Nellie Kelly, I Love You
All Our Friends

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Monster (2018) by Hugh Cornwell (Genre: Indie, Pop-Rock)

Hugh Cornwell is best known as the former lead vocalist of the punk band the Stranglers. He kicked off a solo career in 1979, and left the Stranglers in 1990. Monster is his latest release from 2018. His music is classified as indie, but to me it sounds like energetic modern traditional rock, of the sort you hear on Richard Taylor’s Roots Rock Radio podcast.

Song List:
Pure Evel
La Grande Dame
The Most Beautiful Girl in Hollywood
Mosin’
Mr. Leather
Bilko
Robert
Monster
Attack of the Major Sevens
Duce Coochie Man
Outside Tokyo
Let Me Down Easy
Souls
Don’t Bring Harry
Goodbye Toulouse
Ships That Pass in the Night
Never Say Goodbye
No More Heroes
Big In America
Always the Sun

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The Ultimate Rock N’ Roll & Rhythm N’ Blues Collection by Various Artists (Genre: Rock n Roll, Traditional Rock, R&B, Traditional R&B)

This is a terrific 77 song collection of music from the early rock era including the songs/artists: Rock This Morning by Lowell Fulson, She Sets My Soul on Fire by Gladys Hampton’s Blues Boys, The Groove by Ike Turner, Take It Away by Jimmy Tyler & His Orchestra, My Girl Ivy by Jimmy Witherspoon, Rock ‘ Roll Deacon by Screamin’ Joe Neal, Shotgun Rider by Bo Diddley and Mumbles Blues by Bobby Lewis

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Unqualified Favourites (2009) by Michael Grey (Genre: Celtic, Folk)

Bright Celtic music by the folk musician Michael Grey.

Song List:
The Banker, Bird and Schoolmaster
The Nut Brown Maiden (feat. Jane Siberry)
Maple Leaf Lounge
Calm Before the Hum
Shimla Hum
Sergeant Malkie Bow’s Consternation
Doubled Over Happy
Annabel
Gerrard Street Hey Ride (feat. Farid Kahn)
Shambolica!
Massawippi
Oh Dro! (feat. Jane Siberry)
The Central
Two Crows Joy (feat. Iain MacIness)
The Sound of Skye

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Recommended Videos:

At Seventeen by Janis Ian

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Between the Lines by Janis Ian

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Just Friends by Oliver Nelson, Art Farmer & Lee Konitz, recorded live in 1966

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These Foolish Things by Lee Konitz

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Moon Over Montana by Jimmy Wakely

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Slipping Around by Jimmy Wakely and Margaret Whiting

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The Waltz You Saved for Me by Hank Snow

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The Whispering Tradewinds by Hank Snow

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Hen Party Blues by Johnny Dodd & Dixieland Jug Blowers

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Memphis Shakedown by the Memphis Jug Band

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(I’m A) Yankee Doodle Dandy by Living Voices

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You’re a Grand Old Flag by Living Voices

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La Grande Dame by Hugh Cornwell

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Let Me Down Easy by Hugh Cornwell

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The Chase by Paul Preston

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Don’t You Just Know It by the Titans

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Sergeant Malkie Bow’s Consternation by Michael Grey

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“Tam O’ Shanter Suite” by Michael Grey

Be well!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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REFERENCES:

Print References

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn

Online References

AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/

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Charlie Barnet, 77, Saxophonist And a Band Leader of Swing Era by The Associated Press, New York Times, Sept. 6, 1991, https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/06/arts/charlie-barnet-77-saxophonist-and-a-band-leader-of-swing-era.html

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George M. Cohan, American composer and dramatist, https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-M-Cohan

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Janis Ian Was More Than Just A Teenager, NPR, January 15, 20205:03 AM ET,https://www.npr.org/2020/01/15/795278931/janis-ian-was-more-than-just-a-teenager

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Lee Konitz, Jazz Saxophonist Who Blazed His Own Trail, Dies at 92, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/arts/music/lee-konitz-dead-coronavirus.html

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Whatever happened to . . . Hugh Cornwell?, The Irish Times, April 16, 2005, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/whatever-happened-to-hugh-cornwell-1.432697

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Digital Catalogs:

Note: There are apps for each catalog or, you can download digital content to a PC.

The Digital Catalog (OverDrive)

The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.

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Freegal Music

You can stream an unlimited amount of music for the duration of the Corona Crisis.

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RBDigital:

RBDigital offers on-demand magazines, so you can read til your heart’s content!

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here is our bi-weekly recommended listening posting for Monday, April 13, 2020.

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Our listening suggestions today includes ten streaming albums, from the Freegal Music Catalog, and a selection of related music videos.

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 If you have questions about how to use the Freegal Music Service, please let me know! You can contact me by leaving a message on the blog.

Or, you can send an email to the following address reimerl@stls.org and I’ll get back to you!

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Freegal Streaming Suggestions:

Archie and Lorene Tell it Like It Is (1968) Archie Campbell and Lorene Mann (Genre: Country)

Archie Campbell, of Hee Haw fame, is joined by singer Lorene Mann, for this warm and fuzzy collection of tunes.

Song List:
My Special Prayer
The Dark End of the Street
If That’s the Only Way
Warm and Tender Love
Pledging My Love
Nothing to Gain
Tell It Like It Is
You Send Me
What Am I Living For?
You’re the Reason I’m Living
You Were Worth the Wait
The Gettin’ Place

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The Call of Rome (2020) by The Sixteen & Harry Christophers (Genre: Classical)

The Call of Rome is he brand new, and critically acclaimed album, by the brilliant British vocal group with Harry Christophers conducting.

Song List:
De Lamentatione
Recessit pastor noster
Vos omnes
Ecc quomodo Moritur iustus
Astiterunt reges
Aestimatus sum
Sepulto Domino
Pater noster/Ave Maria
Litaniae Beatissimae Virginis Mariae
Gaude virgo mater Christi
Missa In lectulo meo: Gloria
Illibata Dei virgo
Misere – its evolution
Regina caeli laetare a8
Salve Regina a8

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Lionel Hampton’s Jazz Wizard by Various Artists (Genre: Jazz)

A collection of great jazz tunes by some top-notch artists!

Song List:
Birth of the Blues by Cab Calloway
AC-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive by Louis Armstrong
Eubie’s Boogie by Lionel Hampton
Ellington Medley by Gene Krupa
Ease on Down the Road by Buddy Rich
Basin Street Blues by Jack Teagarden
Hamp’s Blues by Charlie Mingus
Like Someone in Love by Stephanie Grappelli
You Stepped out of a Dream by Sarah Vaughn
You Stepped out of a Dream by Al Hirt
African Flute by Herbie Mann
Brown Eyed Woman by Stanley Turrentine

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Live at La Dame De Canton by Barry “The Fish” Melton & Jay and The Cooks (Genre: Rock, Classic Rock)

A neat live album, recorded in Paris, by classic rock guitarist Barry “The Fish” Melton accompanied by Jay and The Crooks – it sound sort of Grateful-Dead-ish!

Song List:
Jesse James
I’m Really Glad I Met Her
Poor Waygaring Stranger
Babylon
Maggie’s Farm
Mojo Navigator
Mountains in Dreamland
One and One Makes Three
In the Pines
Rollin and Tumblin’

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My Cup Runneth Over (1967) by Ed Ames (Genre: Country)

A classic solo album by Ed Ames, best known today as the youngest brother in the musical group The Ames Brothers, and as a player in the 1950s TV series Daniel Boone.

Song List:
My Cup Runneth Over
In the Arms of Love
Au Revoir
Don’t Blame Me
Watch What Happens
Melinda
Bon Soir Dame
There’s a Time for Everything
True Love
Our Love is A Living Thing
Edelweiss

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The New Abnormal (2020) by The Strokes (Genre: Pop/Rock)

The brand-new LP by the New York City based indie rockers.

Song List:
The Adults Are Talking
Selfless
Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus
Bad Decisions
Eternal Summer
At the Door
Why Are Sundays So Depressing
Not the Same Anymore
Ode to The Mets

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Pop Goez Immediate by Various Artists (Genre: Pop/Rock, Sixties Pop)

This thirty-song collection of pop, rock and blues-rock tunes, from the British Immediate Records company, takes us back to the sixties!

Songs on the LP include:
The Fool by Chris Farlowe
Down and Out by Joey Vine
Someday – Original by Jimmy Tarbuck
The Man with All the Toys by The Variations
Moondreams by Les Fleur-De-Lys
Fever by The McCoys
You’re So Good for Me by The Factotums
Baby, Don’t You Do It by The Poets
So Much in Love by Charles Dickens
Up and Down by The McCoys
Softly, Softly by The London Waits
You Baby by The Turtles
Treat Her Good by Chris Farlowe

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Perpetual Motion (2001) by Béla Fleck (Genre: Banjo, Folk, Classical)

A classical collection by the banjoist extraordinaire!

Song List:
Keyboard Sonata in C Major
Two-Part Invention No. 13
Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum for Children’s Corner
Mazurkas, Op. 59: No. 3 in F Sharp Minor
Prélude from Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin
Etude in C-sharp minor
Mazurka in F-sharp minor
Three-Part Invention No. 10
Melody in E-flat
Presto in G minor
Prelude from Suite for Unaccompanied Cello
Three Part Invention No. 15
Moto Perpetuo, Op. 11
Keyboard Sonata in D minor
Two-Part Invention No. 6
Adagio sostenuto from Piano Sonata No. 14
Seven Variations on “God Save The King”
Three Part Invention No. 7
Moto Perpetuo, Op. 11

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Tapestry: Live in Hyde Park (2017) by Carole King (Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Classic Rock, Vocal)

The great Carole King plays her Tapestry album, and a few other terrific songs, live!

Song List:
I Feel the Earth Move
So Far Away
It’s Too Late
Home Again
Beautiful
Way over Yonder
You’ve Got a Friend
Where You Lead
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Smackwater Jack
Tapestry
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Medley Intro
Goffin/King Medley
Hey Girl
Chains
Jazzman
Up on The Roof
Locomotion
I Feel the Earth Move (Reprise)
You’ve Got A Friend (Reprise)

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The Very Best of Uncle Dave Macon by Dave Mason (Genre: Country, Classic Country)

A forty song best of collection by the Grand Ol’ Opry star Dave Macon!

Songs on the LP include:
Over the Road I’m Bound to Go
Sourwood Mountain Medley
Go Along Mule
I’m A Goin’ Away in The Morn
Carve That Possum
Rabbit in The Pea Patch
Sail Away Ladies
The Cross-Eyed Butcher
For Goodness Sakes, Don’t Say I Didn’t Tell You So

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Recommended Videos:

Dark End of the Street by Archie Campbell & Lorene Mann

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Tell It Like It Is by Archie Campbell & Lorene Mann

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Miserere – its evolution

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O vos omnes by The Sixteen & Harry Christophers

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Birth of the Blues by Cab Calloway

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You Stepped Out of a Dream by Sarah Vaughn

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Summer of Love by Barry “The Fish” Melton

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Thing Called Love by Barry “The Fish” Melton

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My Cup Runneth Over by Ed Ames

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There’s A Time For Everything by Ed Ames

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The Adults Are Talking by The Strokes

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Ode to the Mets by The Strokes

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The Fool by Chris Farlowe

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Fever by The McCoys

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Two-Part Invention No. 13 by Bela Fleck

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Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum by Bela Fleck

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I Feel The Earth Move by Carole King

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So Far Away by Carole King

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Sail Away Ladies by Dave Macon

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Take Me Back To My Old Carolina Home by Dave Macon

Be well!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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REFERENCES:

Print References

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn

Online References

AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/

–

Digital Catalogs:

Note: There are apps for each catalog or, you can download digital content to a PC.

The Digital Catalog (OverDrive)

The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.

–

Freegal Music

You can stream an unlimited amount of music for the duration of the Corona Crisis.

–

RBDigital:

RBDigital offers on-demand magazines, so you can read til your heart’s content!

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here are our recommended titles for the week, and while the library is closed the weekly recommendations will all be digital – eBooks & downloadable audiobooks.

DIGITAL CATALOG RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Blood Curse by Emily Gee (Format: eBook)

A curse is ravaging the Seven Kingdoms. Fugitive Osgaardan prince Harkeld is the one person who can destroy it. Guarded by Sentinel mages, pursued by Fithian assassins, he begins the final—and most dangerous—stage of his quest: entering the cursed kingdom of Sault, where drinking even one drop of water means madness and death.

But the mages aren’t the only travelers heading east. Princess Brigitta, abducted by the Fithians, is also bound for Sault—unless she can escape. And in close pursuit is her loyal armsman, Karel.

Young orphan Jaumé is also headed for Sault—where he will be forced to make decisions that will change the fate of the Seven Kingdoms forever.

The Cursed Kingdom’s Trilogy
1. The Sentinel Mage
2. The Fire Prince
3. The Blood Curse

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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial written by Herman Wouk & read by David Selby (Format: Downloadable Audio)

This acclaimed WWII psychological courtroom drama was the sensation of 1954. The play portrays a mutiny of naval officers aboard the U.S.S. Caine whose suspicions concerning their captain’s sanity lead to their rebellion and a subsequent court martial.

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The Female Detective by Andrew Forrester (Format: ebook)

The Female Detective is the first novel in British fiction to feature a professional female detective.

Written by Andrew Forrester, it was originally published in 1864. The protagonist is Miss Gladden, or ‘G’ as she is also known – the precursor to Miss Marple, Mma Ramotswe and Lisbeth Salander. Miss Gladden’s deductive methods and energetic approach anticipate those of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, and she can be seen as beginning a powerful tradition of female detectives in these seven short stories. ‘G’ uses similar methods to her male counterparts – she enters scenes of crime incognito, tracking down killers while trying to conceal her own tracks and her identity from others. ‘G’, the first female detective, does much physical detective work, examining crime scenes, looking for clues and employing all manner of skill, subterfuge, observation and charm solve crimes. Like Holmes, ‘G’ regards the regular constabulary with disdain. For all the intrigue and interest of the stories, little is ever revealed about ‘G’ herself, and her personal circumstances remain a mystery throughout. But it is her ability to apply her considerable energy and intelligence to solve crimes that is her greatest appeal, and the reappearance of the original lady detective will be welcomed by fans of crime fiction.

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Joe Country by Mick Herron (Format: eBook)

In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced MI5 spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him an outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process.

Meanwhile, in Regent’s Park, Diana Taverner’s tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she’s going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil . . .

And with winter taking its grip, Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can’t ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible for killing a slow horse breaks cover at last, Lamb sends the slow horses out to even the score.

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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman’s Life by Anna Quindlen (Format: Downloadable Audio)

“[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise, commonsensical, irresistibly quotable take on life. . . . What Nora Ephron does for body image and Anne Lamott for spiritual neuroses, Quindlen achieves on the home front.”—NPR

Includes an exclusive conversation between Meryl Streep and Anna Quindlen!
In this irresistible memoir, Anna Quindlen writes about a woman’s life, from childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, using the events of her life to illuminate ours. Considering—and celebrating—everything from marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, parenting, faith, loss, to all the stuff in our closets, and more, Quindlen says for us here what we may wish we could have said ourselves. As she did in her beloved New York Times columns, and in A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen uses her past, present, and future to explore what matters most to women at different ages. Quindlen talks about

Marriage: “A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn’t believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.”

Girlfriends: “Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends. “

Our bodies: “I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come.”

Parenting: “Being a parent is not transactional. We do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: We are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.”

Candid, funny, and moving, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake is filled with the sharp insights and revealing observations that have long confirmed Quindlen’s status as America’s laureate of real life.

“Classic Quindlen, at times witty, at times wise, and always of her time.”—The Miami Herald

“[A] pithy, get-real memoir.”—Booklist

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New Life, No Instructions: A Memoir written and read by Gail Caldwell (Format: Downloadable Audio)

The Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home now gives us a stunning, exquisitely written memoir about a dramatic turning point in her life, which unexpectedly opened up a world of understanding, possibility, and connection. New Life, No Instructions is about the surprising way life can begin again, at any age.

“What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.

“Any change that matters, or takes, begins as immeasurably small. Then it accumulates, moss on stone, and after a few thousand years of not interfering, you have a glen, or a waterfall, or a field of hope where sorrow used to be.

“I suppose all of us consider our loved ones extraordinary; that is one of the elixirs of attachment. But over the months of pain and disrepair of that winter, I felt something that made the grimness tolerable: I felt blessed by the tribe I was part of. Here I was, supposedly solo, and the real truth was that I had a force field of connection surrounding me.

“Most of all I told this story because I wanted to say something about hope and the absence of it, and how we keep going anyway. About second chances, and how they’re sometimes buried amid the dross, even when you’re poised for the downhill grade. The narrative can always turn out to be a different story from what you expected.”

Praise for New Life, No Instructions

“Brimming with insights and wisdom . . . As far as I’m concerned, Caldwell can write about whatever she pleases. . . . Unabashed dispatches from lifelong single women are a fairly recent phenomenon. Caldwell has so much more to teach us.”—Kate Bolick, The New York Times Book Review

“Gail Caldwell offers the kind of wisdom and grace you’d wish a friend, sister, or mother might deliver. . . . Fans and new readers alike will find comfort in Caldwell’s voice.”—The Boston Globe

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Out of This World by Jill Shalvis (Format: eBook):

“Jill Shalvis is a total original! It doesn’t get any better.” —Suzanne Forster
“Shalvis breaks new ground with this sexy paranormal romance…told from both his and her perspectives.” —Booklist

I SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN BED
Three weeks ago I, Rachel Bond, inherited a bed-and-breakfast. In Alaska. Just this morning I was in my warm bed in LA but now here I am, up north—and this is, like, nosebleed north—sorting it all out. So:

PROS:
1. Bears and wolves and moose can’t be any worse than LA guys.
2. You’ve heard of “starving artists?” I’m about to faint. So it’s probably time for a change.
3. My good friend Kellan—you’ll like him, unlike me, he’s cool under pressure—suddenly has this animal sexiness I’ve never even seen before.

CONS:
1. ALASKA.
2. The house chef can’t cook, and the guide can’t read a map.
3. Kellan’s sudden hotness is getting very hard to ignore.
4. I just got hit by lightning.

And I’m not sure if this is a pro or a con just yet, but since that lightning bolt, I can see through everything. As in completely transparent. That was before things started to get really weird . . .

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The Sisters of the Winter Wood written by Rena Rossner and read by Ana Clements (Format: Downloadable Audio)

“With luscious and hypnotic prose, Rena Rossner tells a gripping, powerful story of family, sisterhood, and two young women trying to find their way in the world.” —Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe

An imaginative historical fantasy steeped in rich Jewish culture, Rena Rossner’s debut invites you to enter a world filled with magic, folklore, and the dangers of the woods.

In a remote village surrounded by vast forests on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have been raised on the honeyed scent of their Mami’s babka and the low rumble of their Tati’s prayers. But when a troupe of mysterious men arrives, Laya falls under their spell – despite their mother’s warning to be wary of strangers. And this is not the only danger lurking in the woods.

As dark forces close in on their village, Liba and Laya discover a family secret passed down through generations. Faced with a magical heritage they never knew existed, the sisters realize the old fairy tales are true…and could save them all.

Praise for The Sisters of the Winter Wood:

Publishers Weekly: Best Book of 2018: SF/Fantasy/Horror

BookPage: Best Book of 2018: Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Waking the Witch, Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power by Pam Grossman

A whip-smart and illuminating exploration of the world’s fascination with witches from podcast host and practicing witch Pam Grossman (The Witch Wave), who delves deeply into why witches have intrigued us for centuries and why they’re more relevant now than ever.

When you think of a witch, what do you picture? Pointy black hat, maybe a broomstick. But witches in various guises have been with us for millennia. In Waking the Witch, Pam Grossman explores the cultural and historical impact of the world’s most magical icon. From the idea of the femme fatale in league with the devil in early modern Europe and Salem, to the bewitching pop culture archetypes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Harry Potter; from the spooky ladies in fairy tales and horror films to the rise of feminist covens and contemporary witchcraft, witches reflect the power and potential of women.

In this fascinating read that is part cultural analysis, part memoir, Pam opens up about her own journey on the path to witchcraft, and how her personal embrace of the witch helped her find strength, self-empowerment, and a deeper purpose.

A comprehensive meditation on one of the most mysterious and captivating figures of all time, Waking the Witch celebrates witches past, present, and future, and reveals the critical role they have played—and will continue to play—in shaping the world as we know it.

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While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America by Eli Sanders (Format: eBook)

“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment Weekly

Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account of one young man’s path to murder—and a wake-up call for mental health care in America

On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly in love—Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who spent many years trying to find themselves and who eventually found each other—and a young man on a dangerous psychological descent: Isaiah Kalebu, age twenty-three, the son of a distant, authoritarian father and a mother with a family history of mental illness. All three paths forever altered by a violent crime, all three stories a wake-up call to the system that failed to see the signs.

In this riveting, probing, compassionate account of a murder in Seattle, Eli Sanders, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper coverage of the crime, offers a deeply reported portrait in microcosm of the state of mental health care in this country—as well as an inspiring story of love and forgiveness. Culminating in Kalebu’s dangerous slide toward violence—observed by family members, police, mental health workers, lawyers, and judges, but stopped by no one—While the City Slept is the story of a crime of opportunity and of the string of missed opportunities that made it possible. It shows what can happen when a disturbed member of society repeatedly falls through the cracks, and in the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, is an indelible, human-level story, brilliantly told, with the potential to inspire social change.

Stay safe and happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Note: Book summaries are from the publisher unless otherwise specified.

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