New York Times Bestsellers October 18, 2020

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:

 

ANXIOUS PEOPLE by Fredrik Backman (eBook)

A failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at an apartment open house.

 

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BATTLE GROUND by Jim Butcher (eBook)

 

The 17th book in the Dresden Files series. Harry must save Chicago from destruction by the Last Titan.

 

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THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS by Jodi Picoult (eBook)

After surviving a plane crash, a death doula travels to Egypt to reconnect with an old flame who is an archaeologist.

 

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EVENING AND THE MORNING by Ken Follett (eBook)

In a prequel to “The Pillars of the Earth,” a boatbuilder, a Norman noblewoman and a monk live in England under attack by the Welsh and the Vikings.

 

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MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig (Downloadable Audiobook)

 

 

Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.

 

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ONE BY ONE by Ruth Ware (eBook)

An avalanche tests the bonds of coworkers from a London-based tech startup on a corporate retreat in the French Alps.

 

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RETURN by Nicholas Sparks (eBook)

 

A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life.

 

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TROUBLED BLOOD by Robert Galbraith (eBook)

The fifth book in the Cormoran Strike series. A decades-old cold case might be connected to a serial killer; by J.K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.

 

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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:

 

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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DISLOYAL by Michael Cohen (eBook)

An account of President Trump’s business empire, political campaign and presidential administration by his former personal attorney.

 

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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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KILLING CRAZY HORSE by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (eBook)

 

 

The ninth book in the conservative commentator’s Killing series focuses on conflicts with Native Americans.

 

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MY OWN WORDS by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams (eBook)

 

A collection of articles and speeches by the Supreme Court justice.

 

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RAGE by Bob Woodward (eBook)

Based on 17 on-the-record interviews with President Trump and other reporting, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist details the president’s perspective on multiple crises.

 

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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.

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

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