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 30, 2021.
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FICTION
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21ST BIRTHDAY by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print & CD Audiobook; coming soon to the Digital Catalog!)
The 21st book in the Women’s Murder Club series. New evidence changes the investigation of a missing mother.
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THE DEVIL MAY DANCE by Jake Tapper
(Available Formats: Print Book)
The second book in the Charlie and Margaret Marder Mystery series. Attorney General Robert Kennedy asks the Marders to look into a threat, which brings them into contact with the Rat Pack and the Church of Scientology.
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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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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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THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave
(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)
Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.
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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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THE NEWCOMER by Mary Kay Andrews
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook & eBook)
After discovering her sister dead, Letty Carnahan drives away with her niece and finds potential trouble with a police detective at a Florida motel.
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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry
(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)
Opposites Poppy and Alex meet to vacation together one more time in hopes of saving their relationship.
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PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir
(Available Formats: Print Book)
Ryland Grace awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders.
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THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
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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 SUMMER OF LOST AND FOUND by Mary Alice Monroe
(Available Formats: Coming as a print book – soon!)
The seventh book in the Beach House series. A love triangle is complicated by Covid-19.
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THAT SUMMER by Jennifer Weiner
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook & Downloadable Audiobook)
Daisy Shoemaker receives emails intended for a woman leading a more glamorous life and finds there was more to this accident.
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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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WHILE JUSTICE SLEEPS by Stacey Abrams
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
When Justice Wynn slips into a coma, his law clerk, Avery Keene, must unravel the clues of a controversial case.
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NON-FICTION:
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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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BRAT by Andrew McCarthy
(Available Formats: Coming soon as a print book!)
The travel writer and television director describes coming of age in the New York area and starring in iconic 1980s movie roles.
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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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CRYING IN H MART by Michelle Zauner
(Available Formats: eBook)
The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer
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FACING THE MOUNTAIN by Daniel James Brown
(Available Formats: Print Book & CD Audiobook)
The story of four Japanese-American families, who faced bigotry, and their sons, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II.
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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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KILLING THE MOB by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
(Available Formats: Print Book)
The 10th book in the conservative commentator’s Killing series looks at organized crime in the United States during the 20th century.
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A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama offers personal reflections on his formative years and pivotal moments through his first term.
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THE PREMONITION by Michael Lewis
(Available Formats: Print Book)
Stories of skeptics who went against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of Covid-19.
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THINK AGAIN by Adam Grant
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
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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Happy reading!
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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Also of Note: If a New York Times Bestseller isn’t yet available in any of the three catalogs; you can contact the library and request to be notified when it becomes available.
Southeast Steuben County Library Tel: 607-936-3713
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