Hi everyone, here is the weekly list of New York Times Bestsellers.
Each title is followed by a listing of which formats it is available in for check out within the three catalogs: StarCat (Print, Large Print & CD Audiobooks), The Digital Catalog (eBook & Downloadable Audiobook) and the Hoopla Catalog (Hoopla instant checkout eBook & Hoopla Audiobook).
For more information on the three catalogs skip to the section below the bestselling titles*
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New York Times Bestseller blog postings are published on Sundays; and the next New York Times Bestselling blog posting will be published on Sunday, May 2, 2021.
UPDATE! The library was unexpectedly closed last Friday, due to electrical work in the building taking longer than expected; and staff was thus unexpectedly off on Friday, April 30.
So we’re skipping a week of posting the bestseller lists; as I can’t put the new bestseller list post together until Thursday, and the library building was closed, due to the same electrical work, as expected – last Thursday too. All of that is the long way around the barn of saying the next New York Times Bestseller posting will be published on Sunday, May 9, 2021 – Happy Mother’s Day to everyone! LR
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FICTION
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BOOK OF LONGINGS by Sue Monk Kidd
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
A scholarly young woman named Ana meets an 18-year-old Jesus and becomes caught up in a confluence of dangers.
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THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.
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A GAMBLING MAN by David Baldacci
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town.
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GOOD COMPANY by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
The foundation of a marriage between actors is shaken when they reunite with an old friend who is now a TV star.
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GOOD SISTER by Sally Hepworth
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
Past secrets come up when Fern decides to pay back her twin sister, Rose, by having a baby for her.
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THE HILL WE CLIMB by Amanda Gorman
(Available Formats: Print, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
The poem read on President Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem.
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THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE by V.E. Schwab
(Available Formats: Print Books, Large Print, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.
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KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro
(Available Formats: Print Book & Downloadable Audiobook)
An “Artificial Friend” named Klara is purchased to serve as a companion to an ailing 14-year-old girl.
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LATER by Stephen King
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook coming soon)
An N.Y.P.D. detective asks the son of a struggling single mother to use his unnatural ability to track a killer.
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LOVER UNVEILED by J.R. Ward
(Available Formats: Print Book)
The 19th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Sahvage and Mae fight against what she unleashed.
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LOST APOTHECARY by Sarah Penner
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook, Downloadable Audiobook & Hoopla instant checkout eBook)
An aspiring historian in London finds a clue that might put to rest unsolved apothecary murders from 200 years ago.
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MAN WHO LIVED UNDERGROUND by Richard Wright
(Available Formats: Print Book)
A previously unpublished novel by the author of “Native Son,” with an afterword by his grandson Malcolm Wright. A Black man named Fred Daniels is tortured by the police until he confesses to a crime he did not commit.
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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Downloadable Audiobooks)
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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OCEAN PREY by John Sandford
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook & eBook)
The 31st book in the Prey series. When federal officers are killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to investigate matters.
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THE RED BOOK by James Patterson and David Ellis
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook & eBook)
The second book in the Black Book thriller series. Chicago detective Billy Harney investigates his own past.
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THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook coming shortly)
As a post-World War II royal wedding approaches, an encrypted letter resurrects an alliance between three female code breakers.
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THE SONGS OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller
(Available Formats: Print Book & Hoopla instant checkout eBook & Audiobook)
A reimagining of Homer’s “Iliad” that is narrated by Achilles’ companion Patroclus.
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THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook, eBook & downloadable Audiobook)
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 but their fates intertwine.
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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
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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WIN by Harlan Coben
(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)
Windsor Horne Lockwood III might rectify cold cases connected to his family that have eluded the F.B.I. for decades.
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NON-FICTION:
BLOOD AND TREASURE by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
(Available Formats: Print Book)
A depiction of the frontiersman Daniel Boone.
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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook, Downloadable Audiobook & Hoopla Audiobook)
How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
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BROKEN by Jenny Lawson
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
The humorist maps out her mental and physical health journey.
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BROKEN HORSES by Brandi Carlile
(Available Formats: Print Book)
The Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter recounts difficulties during her formative years and her hard-won successes.
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CASTE by Isabel Wilkerson
(Available Formats: Print Book, Audiobook on CD, eBook & 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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THE CODE BREAKER by Walter Isaacson
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook coming shortly)
How the Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues invented CRISPR, a tool that can edit DNA.
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EMPIRE OF PAIN by Patrick Radden Keefe
(Available Formats: Print Book)
A portrait of the Sackler family, known for their philanthropy toward institutions around the world, and their involvement with Valium and OxyContin.
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GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey
(Available Formats: Print Book, Audiobook on CD & Downloadable Audiobook)
The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
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ON THE HOUSE by John Boehner
(Available Formats: Print Book; eBook coming shortly)
The former speaker of the House reflects on his time in Washington, key political figures and the current state of the Republican Party.
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THINK AGAIN by Adam Grant
(Available Formats: Print Book)
An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
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UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle
(Available Formats: Print Book, Audiobook on CD, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.
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Be well and read on!
Linda Reimer, SSL
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*Information on the Three Catalogs*
Digital Catalog: https://stls.overdrive.com/
The Digital Catalog has two companion apps, Libby & OverDrive. Libby is the app for newer devices and the OverDrive app should be used for older devices and Amazon tablets.
All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog.
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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/
The Hoopla Catalog features instant check outs of eBooks, downloadable audiobook, comic books, albums and streaming videos. Patron check out limit is 4 items per month.
Hoopla is a Southeast Steuben County Library service available to all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders.
The Hoopla App is available for Android or Apple devices and most smart TVs & media streaming players.
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StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org
Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System.
The StarCat app is called Bookmyne and is available for Apple and Android devices.
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