Hi everyone, here is the weekly list of New York Times Bestsellers available in the Digital Catalog.
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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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FICTION:
28 SUMMERS by Elin Hilderbrand (Downloadable Audiobooks):
A relationship that started in 1993 between Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud comes to light while she is on her deathbed and his wife runs for president.
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AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins (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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CAMINO WINDS by John Grisham (eBook):
The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead after a hurricane hits Camino Island.
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DADDY’S GIRLS by Danielle Steel (eBook):
After a California rancher‘s sudden death, his three daughters discover things they did not know about their father.
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DEACON KING KONG by James McBride (Downloadable Audiobook):
In 1969, secrets in a South Brooklyn neighborhood are uncovered when a church deacon known as Sportcoat shoots a drug dealer in public.
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DEVOLUTION by Max Brooks (Downloadable Audiobook):
In the aftermath of Mount Rainier erupting, Kate Holland’s newly discovered journals tell the tale of the creature known as Bigfoot.
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FAIR WARNING by Michael Connelly (Downloadable Audiobook):
The third book in the Jack McEvoy series. A reporter tracks a killer who uses genetic data to pick his victims.
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THE GUARDIANS by John Grisham (eBook):
Cullen Post, a lawyer and Episcopal minister, antagonizes some ruthless killers when he takes on a wrongful conviction case.
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THE GUEST LIST by Lucy Foley (Downloadable Audiobook):
A wedding between a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly.
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HIDEAWAY by Nora Roberts (Downloadable Audiobook):
A child star escapes her abductors, gathers herself in western Ireland and returns to Hollywood.
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IF IT BLEEDS by Stephen King (eBook):
Four novellas: “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,” “The Life of Chuck,” “Rat” and “If It Bleeds.”
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LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng (eBook):
An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.
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SUMMER HOUSE by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois (Downloadable Audiobook):
Jeremiah Cook, a veteran and former N.Y.P.D. cop, investigates a mass murder near a lake in Georgia.
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TOM CLANCY: FIRING POINT by Mike Maden (eBook):
When an old friend is killed during the bombing of a Barcelona cafe, Jack Ryan Jr. searches for those responsible.
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THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett (eBook)
The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity.
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WALK THE WIRE by David Baldacci (eBook):
The sixth book in the Memory Man series. Decker and Jamison investigate a murder in a North Dakota town in a fracking boom.
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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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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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BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates (eBook):
Winner of the 2015 National Book Award for nonfiction. A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story, framed as a letter to the author’s teenage son.
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THE COLOR OF LAW by Richard Rothstein (eBooks):
An examination of the ways in which the government caused residential segregation through racial zoning and other systemic practices.
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EDUCATED by Tara Westover (eBook):
The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
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FORTITUDE by Dan Crenshaw (eBook):
The Texas congressman and former Navy SEAL prescribes ways to overcome adversity.
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HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X. Kendi (eBook):
A primer for creating a more just and equitable society through identifying and opposing racism.
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I’M STILL HERE by Austin Channing Brown (Downloadable Audiobook):
A black woman who was given a white man’s name by her parents shares her journey to finding her own worth and what stands in the way of racial justice.
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JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson (Downloadable Audiobook):
: A law professor and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.
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THE MAMBA MENTALITY by Kobe Bryant (eBook):
Various skills and techniques used on the court by the Los Angeles Lakers player.
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ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY by Layla F. Saad (eBook):
Ways to understand and possibly counteract white privilege.
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THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander (eBook):
A law professor takes aim at the “war on drugs,” mass incarceration and their impact on black men.
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SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE by Ijeoma Oluo (Downloadable Audiobook)
A look at the contemporary racial landscape of the United States.
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SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson (eBook):
An examination of the leadership of the prime minister Winston Churchill.
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STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING by Ibram X. Kendi (Downloadable Audiobook):
Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction. A look at anti-black racist ideas and their effect on the course of American history.
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UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle (eBook):
The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.
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WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo (eBook):
Historical and cultural analyses on what causes defensive moves by white people and how this inhibits cross-racial dialogue.
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WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS SITTING TOGETHER IN THE CAFETERIA? by Beverly Tatum (eBook):
The president emerita of Spelman College examines whether self-segregation is a problem or a coping strategy.
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Be well 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.
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