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 16, 2021.
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FICTION
DISTANT SHORE by Karen Kingsbury
(Available Formats: Print Book & CD Audiobook)
A secret agent with the F.B.I. and a young woman betrothed by her father to a drug lord pretend to be in love for a mission.
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FINDING ASHLEY by Danielle Steel
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook & eBook)
Two estranged sisters, one a former best-selling author, the other a nun, reconnect as one searches for the child the other gave up.
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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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FUGITIVE TELEMETRY by Martha Wells
(Available Formats: Print Book)
The sixth book in the Murderbot Diaries series. When a dead body turns up on Preservation Station, Murderbot must speak to humans.
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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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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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MEANT TO BE IMMORTAL by Lynsay Sands
(Available Formats: Print Book)
The 32nd book in the Argeneau series.
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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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REUNION BEACH by Elin Hilderbrand et al
(Available Formats: Print Book)
A collection of stories and other writing inspired by the work of the late author Dorothea Benton Frank.
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SENTINEL by Lee Child and Andrew Child
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
Jack Reacher intervenes on an ambush in Tennessee and uncovers a conspiracy.
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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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SOOLEY by John Grisham
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.
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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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WHEREABOUTS by Jhumpa Lahiri
(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)
A woman who feels lost in life finds solace in the city she calls home and gets a new outlook while visiting the sea.
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NON-FICTION:
ANTITRUST by Amy Klobuchar
(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)
The senior senator from Minnesota suggests ways to deal with monopolies, promote business competition and encourage innovation.
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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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BOMBER MAFIA by Malcolm Gladwell
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Hoopla instant checkout audiobook)
A look at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing during World War II.
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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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HOW Y’ALL DOING? by Leslie Jordan
(Available Formats: Print Book & Downloadable Audiobook)
A collection of essays by the Emmy-winning actor who became a viral sensation without knowing what that phrase meant at the time.
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NOMADLAND by Jessica Bruder
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook & eBook)
A look at an expanding low-cost labor pool, which largely consists of transient older adults, and what this might portend.
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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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OUT OF MANY, ONE by George W. Bush
(Available Formats: Print Book)
Forty-three portraits by the former president, of men and women who have immigrated to the United States.
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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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WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook & Downloadable Audiobook)
An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.
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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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