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, September 26, 2021.
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FICTION
BILLY SUMMERS by Stephen King
(Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook & eBook)
A killer for hire who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one final job.
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FORGOTTEN IN DEATH by J.D. Robb
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook & eBook)
The 53rd book of the In Death series. The property where a decades-old crime occurred belongs to the homicide detective Eve Dallas’s husband.
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THE HERON’S CRY by Ann Cleeves
(Available Formats: Print Book & CD Audiobook)
The second book in the Two Rivers series. Detective Matthew Venn finds a staged murder at the home of a group of artists.
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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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L.A. WEATHER by María Amparo Escandón
(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)
Kelia decides to end her marriage to her weather-obsessed husband, Oscar, and their three daughters are caught off guard.
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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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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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MATRIX by Lauren Groff
(Available Formats: Print Book)
Seventeen-year-old Marie de France is cast out of the royal court and sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey.
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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 MADNESS OF CROWDS by Louise Penny
(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)
The 17th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Gamache is tasked with providing security for a statistics professor whose views are repulsive to him.
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MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig:
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, eBook & downloadable audiobook)
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 NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED by Lisa Jewell
(Available Formats: Print Book)
A writer discovers a possible clue near an English country estate of what caused a young couple to go missing.
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NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audiobook, eBook, Downloadable Audiobook & Hoopla instant check out audiobook)
A romance writer becomes fascinated by the owner and director of a health resort.
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THE NOISE by James Patterson and J. D. Barker
(Available Formats: Print Book & Large Print)
A strange vibration rises out of a forest near Mount Hood.
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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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ROCK PAPER SCISSORS by Alice Feeney
(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)
A couple celebrating an anniversary take a trip to Scotland that will make or break their marriage.
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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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A SLOW FIRE BURNING by Paula Hawkins
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print & downloadable audiobooks)
Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat.
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NON-FICTION:
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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BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY by Qian Julie Wang
(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)
A 7-year-old girl and her parents encounter difficulties in New York City when they leave China in the 1990s.
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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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BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah
(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, 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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COUNTDOWN BIN LADEN by Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss
(Available Formats: Print Book)
The intelligence gathering, security strategizing and military planning during the final eight months of the pursuit of Osama bin Laden.
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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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THE SISTERS OF AUSCHWITZ by Roxane van Iperen
(Available Formats: Print Book)
Janny and Lien Brilleslijper from Amsterdam were sent by train to Auschwitz when the Jewish safehouse they created in the woods was discovered.
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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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