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, July 11, 2021.
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FICTION
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BEACH READ by Emily Henry
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
A relationship develops between a literary fiction author and a romance novelist as they both try to overcome writer’s block.
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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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GOLDEN GIRL by Elin Hilderbrand
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
A Nantucket novelist gets one final summer to watch what happens from the great beyond
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THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE by V.E. Schwab
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, eBook, Downloadable Audiobook & Hoopla instant checkout audiobook)
A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.
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IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover
(Available Formats: Print Book & Downloadable Audiobook)
A battered wife raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse.
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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 MAIDENS by Alex Michaelides
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
A therapist suspects a Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University of committing murder.
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MALIBU RISING by Taylor Jenkins Reid
(Available Formats: Print Book & Downloadable Audiobook)
Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of summer. But over the course of 24 hours, their lives will change forever.
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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 OTHER BLACK GIRL by Zakiya Dalila Harris
(Available Formats: Print Book)
Tension unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.
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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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PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audibook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
Matthew Keating, a past president and former Navy SEAL, goes on his own to find his abducted teenage daughter.
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PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir
(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)
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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SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, Downloadable Audiobook)
A movie icon recounts stories of her loves and career to a struggling magazine writer.
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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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THE SONG OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook; 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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SWEETNESS OF WATER by Nathan Harris
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
Two brothers freed by the Emancipation Proclamation hope to reunite with their mother while the forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers causes chaos.
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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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NON-FICTION:
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ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED by John Green
(Available Formats: Print Book)
A collection of personal essays that review different facets of the human-centered planet.
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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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BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook & eBook)
A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”
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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
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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: Print Book & 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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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 THE WORD IS PASSED by Clint Smith
(Available Formats: Print Book & Large Print)
A staff writer at The Atlantic explores the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history.
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HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X. Kendi
(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
A primer for creating a more just and equitable society through identifying and opposing racism.
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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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ON JUNETEENTH by Annette Gordon-Reed
(Available Formats: Print Book & Downloadable Audiobook)
The Pulitzer Prize winner weaves together American history with personal memoir to show the importance of events in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865.
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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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SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER by Ashley C. Ford
(Available Formats: Print Book)
A memoir about growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration
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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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