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, August 15, 2021.
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FICTION
BLACK ICE by Brad Thor
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print & CD Audiobook)
The 20th book in the Scot Harvath series. The American spy faces dangers in the Arctic Circle.
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THE CELLIST by Daniel Silva
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print & CD Audiobook)
The 21st book in the Gabriel Allon series. A private intelligence service plans an act of violence that will aid Russia and divide America.
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DEVIL IN DISGUISE by Lisa Kleypas
(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)
The seventh book in the Ravenels series. Lady Merritt Sterling falls for a Scottish whisky distiller who is in danger.
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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, eBook & Downloadable 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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NOT A HAPPY FAMILY by Shari Lapena
(Available Formats: Print Book & CD Audiobook)
Questions arise when a rich couple are murdered after an Easter dinner with their three adult children.
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THE PAPER PALACE by Miranda Cowley Heller
(Available Formats: Print Book)
After an extramarital dalliance, Elle must choose between her husband and her childhood love.
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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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PERSONAL LIBRARIAN by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
A Black woman who becomes one of the most powerful people in the art and book world is forced to hide her true identity.
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PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, 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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THE 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 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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A TIME FOR MERCY by John Grisham
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
The third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990.
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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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AMERICAN MARXISM by Mark R. Levin
(Available Formats: Print Book)
The Fox News host gives his take on the Green New Deal, critical race theory and social activism.
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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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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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I ALONE CAN FIX IT by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker
The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters examine Trump’s final year in office, with a focus on the key players around him.
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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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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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THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS by Michael Pollan
(Available Formats: Print Book)
A look at arbitrary beliefs surrounding opium, caffeine and mescaline, which are derived from plants.
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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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THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook & eBook)
An account of the Great Migration of 1915-70, in which nearly six million African-Americans abandoned the South.
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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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