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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ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE by Louise Penny (Downloadable Audiobook):
The 16th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. When his billionaire godfather is attacked, Gamache uncovers secrets hidden throughout Paris.
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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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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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LYING LIFE OF ADULTS (eBook) by Elena FerranteIn:
This coming-of-age story, Giovanna seeks her true reflection in two kindred cities.
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MEXICAN GOTHIC by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Downloadable Audiobook)
1950s Mexico, a debutante travels to a distant mansion where family secrets of a faded mining empire have been kept hidden.
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ROYAL by Danielle Steel (eBook):
In 1943, the 17-year-old Princess Charlotte assumes a new identity in the country and falls in love.
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SQUEEZE ME by Carl Hiaasen (eBook):
A dead dowager, hungry pythons and occupants of the winter White House shake up the Palm Beach charity ball season.
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THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell (eBook):
Ten years after her daughter disappears, a woman tries to get her life in order but remains haunted by unanswered questions.
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THICK AS THIEVES by Sandra Brown (eBook):
Arden Maxwell returns home to uncover the truth about her father’s involvement in a heist that went wrong 20 years ago.
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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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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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BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah (eBooks):
A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”
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CASTE by Isabel Wilkerson (Downloadable Audiobook):
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
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HOAX by Brian Stelter (Downloadable Audiobook):
The CNN anchor and chief media correspondent examines the inner workings of Fox News and its relationship with President Trump.
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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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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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MELANIA AND ME by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff (eBook):
The former director of special events at Vogue describes parting ways with the First Lady after being made the scapegoat for inauguration finance irregularities.
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TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH by Mary L. Trump (eBook):
The clinical psychologist gives her assessment of events and patterns inside her family and how they shaped President Trump.
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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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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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