Month: July 2022

Hi everyone, here are our recommended reads for the week.

Format Note: Under each book title you’ll find a list of all the different formats that specific title is available in; including: Print Books, Large Print Books, CD Audiobooks, eBooks & Downloadable Audiobooks from the Digital Catalog (Libby app) and Hoopla eBooks & Hoopla Downloadable Audiobooks (Hoopla app).

*More information on the three catalogs is found at the end of the list of recommended reads*

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Weekly Suggested Reading postings are published on Tuesdays; unless I’m swamped and then, occasionally, they are published on Wednesday as is the case today!

And the next Suggested Reading posting will be published on Tuesday, July 19, 2022.

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20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook, Hoopla instant checkout eBook & audiobook)

Fully developed characters with complex emotional lives enhance the 14 horror stories in Hill’s extraordinary debut collection. In “Abraham’s Boys,” Count Dracula’s nemesis, Dr. Van Helsing, tries to teach his young sons his dispassionate methods of vampire slaying, but succeeds only in demonstrating his soullessness. “Voluntary Committal” tells of an idiot savant who applies his uncanny architectural skills to helping his adored older brother find a suggestively sinister way to remove problems from his life. Whether detailing relationships between children and parents or between teenage peers, Hill is flawless in his ability to articulate frailties that humanize his characters and make them vulnerable to intrusions of the strange. This is particularly noticeable in the title story, about a haunted cinema whose young female ghost seduces patrons with unfulfilled lives, and the surreal “My Father’s Mask,” which disturbs with subtle hints of taboo sexuality. There’s not a false note or disappointing effort in this book, which introduces one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror and dark fantasy to emerge in recent years. Starred Publishers Weekly Review

Reader’s Note: 20th Century Ghosts was Joe Hill’s first book and was originally published in 2005. So just know, if you like what you read – there are many more of his books to enjoy in 2022!

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American Royalty: A Novel by Tracey Livesay

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A concert in honor of the late Prince John seems like the perfect way to repair the tattered reputation of the British monarchy until Prince Jameson, a publicity-adverse professor of philosophy, discovers that his grandmother, Queen Marina, has appointed him to be the royal “face” at the event. American rapper Danielle “Duchess” Nelson is dealing with her own PR issues involving a fabricated feud with a scheming pop star that threatens the future of Dani’s successful skin-care line. Singing at a benefit would definitely help turn the tide of public opinion in Dani’s favor, so saying yes to Jameson’s invitation is easy. Until Dani and Jameson meet, and their immediate chemistry threatens to set off a whole different kind of PR storm. Livesay (Like Lovers Do, 2020) puts her own ingenious spin on the royal romance trope, and the result is a scorchingly sensual love story that is made all the more addictively readable by its beautifully nuanced protagonists and grit-and-glamour story line that deftly delves into the very real challenges women in the rap and hip-hop music business face. – Booklist Review

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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

(Available Formats: eBook)

In this thorny riff on The Island of Doctor Moreau, bestseller Moreno-Garcia (Mexican Gothic) interweaves several threads in 19th-century Mexico. Carlota, the naive daughter of a mad scientist bent on creating a race of hybrid animal-humans in remote Yaxaktun, strains against the boundaries of her life as she searches for love and connection beyond the world her father has engineered to contain her; Montgomery, a caretaker who self-medicates with alcohol in order to cope with a tragic past, pines for Carlota even as she explores her attraction to Eduardo, the spoiled aristocratic son of her father’s benefactor; and the hybrid creatures created by the eponymous doctor struggle to maintain their autonomy and personhood as the forces surrounding them attempt to subjugate their wills for their own ends. Moreno-Garcia’s world-building chops are on display as she creates a distinct, vibrant backdrop to her audacious retelling. The prose, however, exhibits a cold remove that occasionally makes it difficult to remain invested in the action, and though the characters’ arcs reach satisfying conclusions, wonky pacing makes the work of reaching them a challenge. The third act rights the ship, however, with an ending that will linger long in readers’ minds. Fans of cerebral, atmospheric historical horror won’t want to miss this. Publishers Weekly Review

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Death Along The Spirit Road by C. M. Wendelboe

(Available Formats: Print Book)

First in a new series featuring FBI agent Manny Tanno- a Native American returning to the reservation home he thought he left behind.

The body of local Native American land developer Jason Red Cloud is found on the site for his new resort on the Pine Ridge Reservation. A war club is lodged in his skull-appearing as if someone may have performed a ritual at the crime scene.

FBI Special Agent Manny Tanno arrives in Pine Ridge to find that not everything has changed since he left. His former rival, now in charge of the Tribal Police, is just as bitter as ever, and has no intention of making Manny’s life easy. And the spirit of Red Cloud haunting Manny’s dreams is not much help either, leaving him on his own in hunting down a cold-blooded killer-and one misstep could send him down the spirit road as well…

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Even The Darkest Night by Javier Cercas

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The shadow of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables looms large over the engrossing latest from Spanish writer Cercas (Outlaws). Hugo’s classic is the favorite of ex-con Melchor Marín, who read the book while serving time for his involvement with a Colombian drug cartel and who identifies with police inspector Javert, whom he thinks of as a “false bad guy.” Now a detective in the Spanish town of Terra Alta, Melchor begins to channel some of Javert’s implacable pursuit of justice in his investigation of the murder of a printing magnate and his wife. Though the businessman had many enemies, no evidence turns up to implicate anyone for the crime, prompting his department to close the case. That rankles Melchor, in part because it reminds him of the death of his mother, a sex worker whose murder was never solved. Melchor’s dogged determination to keep investigating the case behind the backs of his superiors eventually risks danger to himself and his loved ones. While Cercas resorts to lengthy swaths of exposition to relate the characters’ back stories, the narrative is generally well paced and suspenseful, and a surprise ending firmly roots the novel in Spain’s troubled 20th-century history and brings Melchor’s Javert fixation full circle. Fans of literary detective novels ought to take a look. – Publishers Weekly Review

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Floating Girls by Lo Patrick

(Available Formats: Print Book & Hoopla instant checkout eBook)

Both comic and heartrending, Patrick’s superb debut sets a bildungsroman and murder mystery in the wetlands of coastal Georgia. Brash and lonely Kay Whitaker, 12, is frustrated by her unemployed father, Clay; her emotionally absent mother, Sue-Bess; and her remote older sister, Sarah-Anne, whose favorite activity Kay describes as “standin’ in the yard like a twig in mud.” While exploring the wetlands beyond their isolated home, Kay meets Andy Webber, a handsome boy her age who lives with his crabber father, Nile. Clay orders her to avoid the Webbers but won’t explain why. Later, Kay discovers Nile was suspected in the drowning death of his wife a decade earlier. As Kay defies her father by jockeying for Andy’s attention, unidentified authorities her parents refer to only as “people from the state” routinely visit the Whitaker home. (Her parents also hide Sarah-Anne during the visits.) Then Sarah-Anne disappears, and secrets begin to surface. The crackling energy of Kay’s narration—a winning mixture of insight and naiveté, humor and pathos, vulnerability and strength—provides a welcome counterbalance to the oppressive setting and the pain the characters try to suppress. It’s a masterly achievement. Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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For The Wolf by Hannah Whitten

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

DEBUT Centuries ago in a vaguely European fantasy world, a bargain was struck: the First Daughter for the throne, the Second Daughter for the Wolf. Now Redarys, the Second Daughter of Valleyda, is approaching her 20th birthday, when she is to be sacrificed so that the Wolf of the Wilderwood releases the Five Kings, the imprisoned old gods of their world. Red agrees to render herself to the Wilderwood–not to secure the release of the old gods, but to protect everyone, especially her beloved twin sister, Neve. In the Wilderwood, Red learns that the legends are lies: the Wolf is just a man, and the Wilderwood holds at bay an evil that overshadows all the monster stories that have been told. It turns out that some in Red’s world feel that the Five Kings must return, however evil they have become. Only Red can pay the costs of the old gods’ return, if she accepts her power. Love will compel Red and others in her world to make difficult choices that might destroy everyone. VERDICT This hauntingly beautiful, fractured retelling of Little Red Riding Hood is dark, emotional, and filled with tense action. Whitten’s debut is epic and enthralling. Starred Library Journal Review

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The Girl In His Shadow by Audrey Blake

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook, downloadable audiobook and Hoopla instant checkout eBook & audiobook)

This is the current Libby Big Read title! You can think of the Big Read as an online book club where everyone has access to the eBook title at the same time – no holds required!

The girl of the title is Nora Beady, ward of Dr. Horace Croft, a brilliant and eccentric London surgeon. Nora is intelligent, independent, and possessed of a natural talent for medicine and medical illustration. Dr. Croft has trained her to work as his assistant, but her role must be kept secret; although the book’s setting, the mid-19th-century medical field, is in the process of evolving, it still has no role for women, except as nurses. If word were to get out about exactly what Nora did in his private clinic, Dr. Croft could face criminal charges and lose his medical credentials. When surgical resident Daniel Gibson arrives, Nora’s role in Dr. Croft’s practice is threatened, and she is forced to decide whether to stay in the background or claim her rightful place. Jaima Fixson and Regina Sirois, writing under the name “Audrey Blake,” have created a compelling story, set in a gritty, sometimes brutal 1840s London that is mostly white. Drawing on deep research, their description of medical practices and procedures is harrowing. VERDICT With its strong woman protagonist and authentic period detail, this is the best kind of historical fiction, transporting readers to a place and time peopled with memorable characters. Readers who enjoy medical drama will gravitate to this book. – Library Journal Review

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Giving The Devil His Due: Short Stories, edited by Rebecca Brewer

(Available Formats: Print Book)

“In Giving the Devil His Due, sixteen of speculative fiction’s brightest authors tell the unflinching stories of survivors, of their strength and courage, as well as a righteous castigation of gender-based violence and the patriarchal societies all too willing to remain silent. This stirring, vital anthology demands your attention as it demands justice and the end of violence of against women.” —Paul Tremblay, Bram Stoker award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts

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Nobody’s Sweetheart Now by Maggie Robinson

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Set in England in 1924, this promising series launch from romance writer Robinson (the Ladies Unlaced series) introduces Lady Adelaide, the recent widow of Maj. Rupert Compton. Theirs “was not a happy union, and there was no one in Britain more relieved than Addie when Rupert smashed up his Hispano-Suiza on a quiet Cotswold country road with Mademoiselle Claudette Labelle in the passenger seat.” Six months after the funeral, Addie is preparing for a dinner party at her country house, Compton Chase, when Rupert’s ghost appears in her dressing room, offering unasked-for criticism about her dress: “far too flimsy and sheer and short.” It seems that Rupert must do some good deeds in order to be allowed into heaven. How he will do this is a mystery to them both. Addie joins her guests downstairs, but the dinner is interrupted when a dead—and nude—body is found in her barn. Insp. Devenand Hunter investigates, aided by Addie and the meddlesome spirit of her dead husband. Suspects abound among her guests. This paranormal cozy is light, frothy fun. -Publishers Weekly Review

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Summer In The City of Roses by Michelle Ruiz Keil

(Available Formats: Print Book & Hoopla instant checkout audiobook)

Though no wicked stepmothers or Greek gods inhabit the world of this surreal, magical realist tale set in 1990s Portland, Ore., Keil (All of Us with Wings) steeps the narrative in fairy tale and myth. Following Greek and Mexican American siblings Iphigenia “Iph” Santos Velos, 17, and Orestes “Orr” Santos Velos, 15, the novel opens in the wake of their father’s decision to send sensitive Orr to Meadowbrook Rehabilitation Center for Boys—without notifying either sibling in advance. While Orr escapes, fleeing the toxic masculinity of “boot camp,” and finds refuge with all-girl punk band the Furies, aspiring actor Iph runs away from home to reunite with her brother, en route receiving assistance from a queer Robin Hood figure. With ample ’90s references and an empathic, feminist bent, Keil brings a past incarnation of Portland to life in vivid detail. Though several of the novel’s narrative threads take unusual turns that may frustrate some readers, Keil’s lush language (“Honey to tongue, throat to heart, and she is shrinking like Alice”) and endearing cast of free spirits enchant the whole way through. A nostalgic, heady read perfect for a summer day. – Publishers Weekly Review

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And on a final, FYI  note, NPR has regular posts on the subject of “What’s making us happy: A guide to your weekend reading, listening and viewing”

And here is a link to the one for last Friday, July 8; offering additional tips on reading, viewing and listening!

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110193410/what-to-watch-read-and-listen-to

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Have a great week!

Linda Reimer

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*Information on the Three Catalogs*

Digital Catalog: https://stls.overdrive.com/

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, digital magazines and a handful of streaming videos. The catalog, which allows one to download content to a PC, also has a companion app, Libby, which you can download to your mobile device; so you can enjoy eBooks and downloadable audiobooks on the go!

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 checkouts of eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV series. Patron check out limit is 6 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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Note: Book summaries are from the respective publishers unless otherwise specified.

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Have questions or want to request a book?

Feel free to call the library! Our telephone number is 607-936-3713.

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

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 Audiobook), 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 posts are published on Sundays and the next New York Times Bestseller list will be published to this blog on Sunday, July 17, 2022.

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FICTION

ALL YOUR PERFECTS by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

Quinn and Graham’s marriage depends on past promises.

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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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BOOK LOVERS by Emily Henry

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print & downloadable audiobook)

While on vacation in North Carolina, a literary agent keeps running into an editor.

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ESCAPE by James Patterson and David Ellis

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print & CD audiobook)

The third book in the Billy Harney thriller series. Detective Harney goes after a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist.

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EVERY SUMMER AFTER by Carley Fortune

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

The love story of Percy and Sam is told over the course of six summers and one weekend.

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THE HORSE by Geraldine Brooks

(Available Formats: Large Print, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

The story of a racehorse, an enslaved groom and an itinerant painter reverberates in three different eras.

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HOTEL NANTUCKET by Elin Hilderbrand

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook & eBook)

The new general manager of a hotel far from its Gilded Age heyday deals with the complicated pasts of her guests and staff.

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HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE by Riley Sager

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

An actress escaping bad press goes to a Vermont lake house and uncovers secrets within a neighboring couple’s marriage.

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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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LAPVONA by Ottessa Moshfegh

(Available Formats: Print Book)

When a motherless shepherd boy gets in violent proximity to a depraved lord’s family, occult forces upset the old order in a medieval fief.

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LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.

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LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.

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MALIBU RISING by Taylor Jenkins Reid

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

An epic party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings.

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MEANT TO BE by Emily Giffin

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Joe, the disappointing scion of a family considered American royalty, and Cate, a budding model seeking to escape her surroundings, find each other.

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MEASURE by Nikki Erlick

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

People around the world receive a small wooden box telling them the exact number of years they will live.

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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig

(Available Formats: Print Book, Libby eBook & 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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NOVEMBER 9 by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

Is Ben using his relationship with Fallon as fodder for his novel?

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THE PARIS APARTMENT by Lucy Foley

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

Jess has suspicions about her half-brother’s neighbors when he goes missing.

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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

Opposites Poppy and Alex meet to vacation together one more time in hopes of saving their relationship.

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RUN, ROSE, RUN by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook, eBook, downloadable audiobook & through Hoopla – Dolly Parton companion album also titled Run Rose Run.)

A singer-songwriter goes to Nashville seeking stardom but is followed by her dark past.

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THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print & Libby eBook & audiobook)

A movie icon recounts stories of her loves and career to a struggling magazine writer.

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SPARRING PARTNERS by John Grisham 

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

Three novellas “Homecoming,” “Strawberry Moon” and “Sparring Partners.”

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STAR WARS: SHADOW OF THE SITH by Adam Christopher

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Nearly two decades after the Battle of Endor, Lando Calrissian informs Luke Skywalker of a new Sith menace.

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SUSPECTS by Danielle Steel

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print & eBook)

A C.I.A. agent on a covert mission develops a relationship with a woman who is considered fashion royalty and has a tragic past.

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UGLY LOVE by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Tate Collins and Miles Archer, an airline pilot, think they can handle a no strings attached arrangement. But they can’t.

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VERITY by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Lowen Ashleigh is hired by the husband of an injured writer to complete her popular series and uncovers a horrifying truth.

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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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1619 PROJECT edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook & eBook)

Viewing America’s entanglement with slavery and its legacy, in essays adapted and expanded from The New York Times Magazine.

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AN IMMENSE WORLD by Ed Yong

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook

The Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer explains the sensory perceptions and ways of communication used by a variety of animals.

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BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN MIND by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

The “Fox & Friends Weekend” host makes his case for what he calls classical Christian education.

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CRYING IN H MART by Michelle Zauner

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

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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END OF THE WORLD IS JUST THE BEGINNING by Peter Zeihan

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

A look at potential changes in globalization.

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FINDING ME by Viola Davis

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

The multiple award-winning actress describes the difficulties she encountered before claiming her sense of self and achieving professional success.

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GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.

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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY by David Sedaris

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

The humorist portrays personal and public upheavals of his life in its seventh decade and the world in the time of a pandemic.

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I’D LIKE TO PLAY ALONE, PLEASE by Tom Segura

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

The stand-up comedian and podcaster shares stories of parenting and strange encounters

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JAMES PATTERSON by James Patterson

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook & eBook)

The author’s life, from growing up in small-town New York to working in the advertising industry to becoming a successful storyteller.

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KILLING THE KILLERS by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

The 11th book in the conservative commentator’s Killing series gives an account of the global war against terrorists.

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ROGUES by Patrick Radden Keefe

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A dozen articles, previously published in The New Yorker, which include profiles of a black-market arms merchant, a whistle-blower and the late Anthony Bourdain.

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ROUGH DRAFT by Katy Tur

(Available Formats: Print Book coming soon)

The MSNBC anchor describes growing up with her helicopter journalist parents and her own journey in covering.

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SCARS AND STRIPES by Tim Kennedy and Nick Palmisciano

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The Green Beret and former mixed martial arts fighter describes how his failures shaped who he is today.

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WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook, eBook, downloadable audiobook & Hoopla instant checkout audiobook)

An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.

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WHY WE DID IT by Tim Miller

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

The former Republican political operative assesses why some centrist conservatives fell under the sway of Donald Trump.

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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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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here is the latest edition of Library Connections, our weekly readers’, viewers’ and listeners’ advisory videocast.

The next Library Connections video will be posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2022.

Library Connections videos may also be accessed via the Southeast Steuben County Library’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SESTEUBENCOLIBRARY

Have a great week!
Linda Reimer, SSCL

Hi everyone, welcome to our Suggested Listening posting for this week!

Suggested Listening postings are published on Fridays; and our next Suggested Listening posting will be out on Friday, July 15, 2022.

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And here are the 10 recommended songs of the week!

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And The Clock Goes Around by Elton John (Genre: Classic Rock)

From The Album: Regimental Sgt. Zippo (196?/2022)

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Autumn Song by Laura Viers (Genre: Singer-Songwriter)

From The Album: Found Light (2022)

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Bleeker Street by Simon and Garfunkel (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. (1964)

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I Won’t Back Down by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (Genre: Rock)

From The Album: Full Moon Fever (1989)

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Royal Garden Blues by Bix Beiderbecke (Genre: Jazz)

From The Album: Vol. II: At The Jazz Band Ball (1990)

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Sam’s Place by Buck Owens (Genre: Country)

From The Album: Your Tender Loving Care (1967)

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Stealing Apples by Lionel Hampton and Benny Goodman (Genre: Big Band, Jazz)

From The Film: A Star Is Born (1948)

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Truckers and Troubadours by Mary Gauthier (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: Dark Enough To See The Stars (2022)

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West End Blues by King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band (Genre: Jazz)

From The Album: King Oliver and His Orchestra 1929-1930

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Whirlaway by Allen Toussaint (Genre: R&B, Blues, Instrumental)

From The Album: The Wild Sound of New Orleans (1958)

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Hoopla Recommend Album of the Week

Love Over Gold (1982) by Dire Straits (Genre: Rock)

And from the album the song

Telegraph Road

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Have a great weekend,

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Online Catalog Links:

StarCat

The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD, etc.

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The Digital Catalog, web version of Libby

The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.

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The Libby App

Libby is the companion app to the Digital Catalog and may be found in the Apple & Google app.

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Hoopla

A catalog of instant check out items, including eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, comic books, TV shows and movies for patrons of the Southeast Steuben County Library.

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here is the latest edition of Library Connections, our weekly readers’, viewers’ and listeners’ advisory videocast.

The next Library Connections video will be posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.

Library Connections videos may also be accessed via the Southeast Steuben County Library’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SESTEUBENCOLIBRARY

Have a great week!
Linda Reimer, SSCL

Hi everyone, here are our recommended reads for the week.

Format Note: Under each book title you’ll find a list of all the different formats that specific title is available in; including: Print Books, Large Print Books, CD Audiobooks, eBooks & Downloadable Audiobooks from the Digital Catalog (Libby app) and Hoopla eBooks & Hoopla Downloadable Audiobooks (Hoopla app).

*More information on the three catalogs is found at the end of the list of recommended reads*

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Weekly Suggested Reading postings are published on Tuesdays; unless Monday happens to be a holiday and then, sometimes, they are posted on Wednesdays as is the case this week!

And the next Suggested Reading posting will be published on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.

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The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Magic and music—here “one and the same”—bring to life a vibrant alternate New Orleans in Jennings’s stunning urban fantasy debut. When Perilous “Perry” Graves encounters the city’s famed undead pianist Doctor Professor, he knows something’s wrong. Nine of the powerful songs that “keep Nola humming” have been stolen, and the city starts to break down: its sky trolleys stop running, and the magic that maintains the city’s music fizzles. From there, the jazzy tale alternates timelines and perspectives between Perry; his younger sister, Brendy; his best friend, Peaches; and Casey Ravel, a trans man who’s moved back to town years after fleeing Hurricane Katrina. As Casey reconnects with his cousin, Jaylon, now a celebrated artist, they look back on their teenage graffiti and the uncanny ways their paintings have changed. And, after Perry and Brendy’s grandfather goes missing, it appears his disappearance may be linked to the music thief, leading the pair to offer to help Doctor Professor investigate. Jennings develops a rich, enveloping world brimming with mesmerizing art, music, and fantasy, and sets within it a rich discussion of community and culture. The unmistakable love for New Orleans that emanates from these pages will stick in readers’ heads—and hearts—like the catchiest of tunes. Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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The Do-Over by Bethany Turner

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Hoopla instant checkout eBook & audiobook)

Sometimes dreams come true. Other times, the best outcome begins with an epic fail.

Career-driven McKenna Keaton has devoted her life to attaining the senior partnership at her law firm. So asking a man on a date should be nothing. But the past four days have been the worst of her life and have called everything she thought she knew about herself into question. Besides, she can’t remember her last real date—one that didn’t involve using a blind date as an opportunity to get a stranger’s perspective on effective cross-examination techniques. (It’s like sharing fondue with a jury!)

But a real date? And with shy, nerdy Henry Blumenthal—McKenna’s high school rival for valedictorian who once took three hours to beat her at chess? Scratch that. He’s Hank Blume now, the famed documentarian, Durham’s darling son, who has attained all his dreams and more. He also happens to look like he stepped out of an Eddie Bauer catalog.

Whereas McKenna is a disgraced workaholic from New York on unpaid leave, accused of a white-collar crime she would never commit, succumbing to panic attacks, watching her dreams unravel. At age thirty-eight—and destined by the family curse to die before she turns forty, it appears—it’s absolutely the wrong time to have a major crush on a man. Especially one who treasures his memories of McKenna as the girl Most Likely to Succeed.

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A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories by Meron Hadero

(Available Formats: Print Book)

In this impressive debut collection, award-winning Ethiopian American writer Hadero showcases the lives of displaced people trying to create a space for themselves to call home in America and Ethiopia. In “The Suitcase,” Saba visits her relatives in Ethiopia and comes to realize that, though she lives in such a vastly different culture, kindness and family can bridge those differences. An Ethiopian boy new to the American Midwest connects with an older man due to their shared language, German, and refugee past in “”The Wall.”” Winner of the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, “”The Street Sweep”” introduces street cleaner Getu, who dresses up to attend the farewell party of a foreigner he befriended in hopes of obtaining a job that will save his Addis Ababa home and give him a fresh start. In “Mekonnen aka Mack aka Huey Freakin’ Newton,” teenage Huey joins an exclusive Brooklyn neighborhood clique and learns harsh lessons about racial divisions and what it means to have pride in who you are. Hadero’s powerful stories usher characters along their searches for belonging, often with nothing but hope and a sense of community pushing them forward. – Starred Booklist Review

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Grey Bees by Andrei Kukov

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Hoopla instant checkout eBook)

Written in 2018, this recently translated work from Kurkov (Death and the Penguin), one of Ukraine’s great writers, illuminates a world tragedy today. Sergey Sergeyich, a divorced disabled mine safety inspector and devoted beekeeper, lives in a small village in the grey zone, an area in the Donbas region that separates larger Ukraine from Russian-backed separatists. With no electricity, mail, or food, Sergey survives on rations from neighboring towns, candles from the destroyed church, and sheer resourcefulness. Visits from Pashka, a childhood frenemy, and Ukrainian soldier Petro relieve the boredom. Increased shelling and the approach of better weather motivate Sergey to find a more peaceful place for his bees to pollinate. He travels first to a Ukrainian village, but when townsfolk become suspicious and violent, he moves on to Russian-controlled Crimea. There he calls upon the Tartar beekeeper, Akhtem, only to find that he disappeared, and endures confrontations and interrogations from both Ukrainian and Russian authorities even as he befriends Akhtem’s family.

VERDICT Kurkov successfully portrays the tensions of living in a war zone in a story featuring a naive Everyman intent on surviving, while giving readers keen insight into Ukraine today. – Starred Library Journal Review

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The Lunar Housewife: A Novel by Caroline Woods

(Available Formats: Print Book)

This cleverly inventive yet authentic–feeling early Cold War thriller from Woods (Fräulein M.) takes on the New York publishing world from a woman’s perspective, while containing a novella-length American-Soviet space romance written by the protagonist with parallels to her own life. In 1953, Louise Leithauser has been pseudonymously writing about politics for a hot new literary magazine cofounded by her boyfriend, Joe Martin, and his charismatic partner, Harry Billings. The role brings her close to publishing celebrities who could be interested in the romance she’s working on, but also forces her into socializing with Harry and the woman he’s dating behind his wife’s back, a waitress who also knows the unglamorous secrets of Louise’s past.

Meanwhile, an overheard conversation leads Louise to investigate Joe’s connections to government censorship of literary expression. Real-life writers add spice, including a playfully frank Ernest Hemingway, whom Louise befriends during an interview for which he requests a female reporter. The suspense builds as Woods shifts between the main narrative and the space romance, which provides a window into Louise’s frustrated mindset about gender dynamics, politics, and power. This is a delightfully different variety of spy story. Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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Marrying The Ketchups: A Novel by Jennifer Close

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Within two weeks, Donald Trump was elected president, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, and Bud Sullivan died. The Sullivan family felt like the world itself had tipped on its axis, but JP Sullivan’s, the family restaurant, served as their emotional and physical anchor. The restaurant was Bud’s legacy, and the next generation of Sullivans had learned everything they knew about restaurant life from him.

Four Sullivan cousins, Teddy, Jane, Gretchen, and Riley, find themselves increasingly unsure about their individual futures but confident that walking into JP Sullivan’s will always feel like home. Close (The Hopefuls, 2016) drops readers smack into Oak Park, a leafy Chicago suburb, and lets them hear the hiss of fryers hitting hot oil and catch an ice-cold Old Style sliding across the bar. The Sullivans are a close-knit Catholic family full of guilt and love and long-standing grudges, but Close lets each character’s unique personality shine. Fans of Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans (2021) and Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Malibu Rising (2021) will fall in love with these maddening, loving, stubborn relatives. Setting nostalgia against progress, tradition against rebirth, Close outlines the cousins’ grief and personal growth as they work with, and against, one another. – Booklist Review

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My Name Is Yip: A Novel by Paddy Crewe

(Available Formats: Print Book, Hoopla instant checkout eBook)

Yip Tolroy is different: tiny, hairless, and mute. The inhabitants of Heron’s Creek, Georgia, learn to tolerate him, but his is a lonely existence. His father disappeared on the night of his birth, and relations are strained with his stoic mother. When gold is discovered near the small town, treachery and murder result. Teenaged Yip is thrown in with the wily but reckless Dud Carter, an alliance that alters the course of his life. The novel is billed as a western, in the sense that Georgia was on the frontier in the early part of the nineteenth century. But this can more accurately be described as essentially a British literary take on an American-style folk tale, presented from Yip’s perspective in a near stream-of-consciousness; his narration is an eccentric hodgepodge of faux backwoods grammar and Dickensian eloquence. Adventure, characterization, and illumination of the human condition are the standouts here, pathos misting over the tale like water on the gold-flecked stones of the town’s creek. This is Crewe’s debut, and with this distinctive offering, he’s proved himself to be an author to watch. – Booklist Review

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The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

“I am not Art Barbara,” declares the narrator of this ambitious, metafictional pseudo-vampire thriller set in 2007 from Tremblay (Survivor Song), but he adds he’ll be calling himself that throughout the memoir that follows. In 1988, Art began the Pallbearers Club in high school in Beverly, Mass., to serve as attendants at funerals that would otherwise be without mourners. One member of Art’s club is the pseudonymous Mercy Brown, named by Art after a late 19th-century New England vampire. Mercy contributes to the “manuscript” that is this book, sniping at Art’s characterizations of her and appending extended remarks to each chapter. Art, an unsuccessful musician who’s constantly doubting himself, comes to believe that Mercy is a vampire, subtly leeching life from him, and that he’s a vampire as well. Eventually, Art has recurring sightings and visions of jackets with faces draining the life from victims. Tremblay has a way with words (“Time is not linear but a deck of cards that is continuously shuffled”), and Mercy’s snarky commentary contrasts nicely with Art’s often maudlin narrative. This one will find a certain readership, but its overall oddness will keep it niche. Publishers Weekly Review

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A Trail of Crab Tracks: A Novel by Patrice Nganang

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Family dynamics and the siren song of a war-torn homeland play out in Nganang’s elegant, involving latest (after When the Plums Are Ripe). In 2013, Nithap moves to New Jersey to stay with his son, Tanou, and his family, after a long career as a doctor in his native Cameroon. Tanou struggles to connect with Nithap, who has his own trouble settling in, though he eventually finds kindred spirits in Tanou’s older married neighbors, a retired American poet and Frenchwoman. A road trip exploring monuments of the American Civil War only amplifies the bewilderment of “Old Papa.” Flashbacks involve Nithap’s travails in Cameroon under French rule, where he fought in the 1960 revolution that led to Cameroon’s independence. Then, Tanou returns alone to Cameroon after his mother dies, to retrace his father’s history. The story moves fluidly through time and location, providing juicy juxtapositions. Nganang’s genius is in his ability to express the personal and the panoramic with equal artistry. Both intimate and sweeping, this epic brings a satisfying and profound closure to historic events. Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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Vacationland: A Novel by Meg Mitchell Moore

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Moore (The Islanders) follows a family’s tribulations while summering in Maine in her delectable latest. NYU history professor Louisa McLean brings her three children to her parents’ summer home in Rockland without her husband, Steven, who stays behind and continues putting in long hours in chasing his dream of selling his podcast company. Louisa, resentful at having to deal with the kids herself, also hopes the time away will help her stop procrastinating on writing her book. Tensions mount as her mother reveals that paying to care for Louisa’s father, Martin, a judge who now has Alzheimer’s, might require them to sell the family house as soon as the following year. Then a young woman named Kristie Turner arrives by Greyhound after her mother’s death, determined for reasons that are only revealed later to gain an audience with Martin. She decides to stay a while, gets a job as a waitress, and worries about money after learning she’s pregnant. Kristie’s life is detailed in sharp contrast to Louisa’s leisurely days, as Louisa weighs a desire to help Kristie with her parents’ needs. Steven’s lack of understanding over how much the house means to Louisa, meanwhile, causes tensions to flare. Moore details the dicey situation with nuance and grace. Readers are in for a treat. – Publishers Weekly Review

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Have a great week!

Linda Reimer

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*Information on the Three Catalogs*

Digital Catalog: https://stls.overdrive.com/

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, digital magazines and a handful of streaming videos. The catalog, which allows one to download content to a PC, also has a companion app, Libby, which you can download to your mobile device; so you can enjoy eBooks and downloadable audiobooks on the go!

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 checkouts of eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV series. Patron check out limit is 6 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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Note: Book summaries are from the respective publishers unless otherwise specified.

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Have questions or want to request a book?

Feel free to call the library! Our telephone number is 607-936-3713.

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

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 Audiobook), 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 posts are published on Sundays and the next New York Times Bestseller list will be published to this blog on Monday, July 12, 2022.

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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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BOOK LOVERS by Emily Henry

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print & downloadable audiobook)

While on vacation in North Carolina, a literary agent keeps running into an editor.

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ESCAPE by James Patterson and David Ellis

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print & CD audiobook)

The third book in the Billy Harney thriller series. Detective Harney goes after a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist.

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EVERY SUMMER AFTER by Carley Fortune

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

The love story of Percy and Sam is told over the course of six summers and one weekend.

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THE HORSE by Geraldine Brooks

(Available Formats: Large Print, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

The story of a racehorse, an enslaved groom and an itinerant painter reverberates in three different eras.

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HOTEL NANTUCKET by Elin Hilderbrand

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook & eBook)

The new general manager of a hotel far from its Gilded Age heyday deals with the complicated pasts of her guests and staff.

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HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE by Riley Sager

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

An actress escaping bad press goes to a Vermont lake house and uncovers secrets within a neighboring couple’s marriage.

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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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LAPVONA by Ottessa Moshfegh

(Available Formats: Print Book)

When a motherless shepherd boy gets in violent proximity to a depraved lord’s family, occult forces upset the old order in a medieval fief.

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LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.

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LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.

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LIES I TELL by Julie Clark

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A woman hoping to take down a con artist finds that her assumptions about her begin to fall apart in the process.

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MALIBU RISING by Taylor Jenkins Reid

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

An epic party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings.

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MEANT TO BE by Emily Giffin

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Joe, the disappointing scion of a family considered American royalty, and Cate, a budding model seeking to escape her surroundings, find each other.

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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig

(Available Formats: Print Book, Libby eBook & 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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NIGHTWORK by Nora Roberts

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

Harry Booth, a master thief, breaks things off with Miranda when a dangerous contact might harm her.

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NOVEMBER 9 by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

Is Ben using his relationship with Fallon as fodder for his novel?

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THE PARIS APARTMENT by Lucy Foley

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

Jess has suspicions about her half-brother’s neighbors when he goes missing.

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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

Opposites Poppy and Alex meet to vacation together one more time in hopes of saving their relationship.

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RUN, ROSE, RUN by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook, eBook, downloadable audiobook & through Hoopla – Dolly Parton companion album also titled Run Rose Run.)

A singer-songwriter goes to Nashville seeking stardom but is followed by her dark past.

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THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print & Libby eBook & audiobook)

A movie icon recounts stories of her loves and career to a struggling magazine writer.

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SPARRING PARTNERS by John Grisham 

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD audiobook, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

Three novellas “Homecoming,” “Strawberry Moon” and “Sparring Partners.”

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TOM CLANCY: ZERO HOUR by Don Bentley

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

Jack Ryan Jr. appears to be the only person who can stop a second Korean war.

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UGLY LOVE by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Tate Collins and Miles Archer, an airline pilot, think they can handle a no strings attached arrangement. But they can’t.

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VERITY by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Lowen Ashleigh is hired by the husband of an injured writer to complete her popular series and uncovers a horrifying truth.

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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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1619 PROJECT edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook & eBook)

Viewing America’s entanglement with slavery and its legacy, in essays adapted and expanded from The New York Times Magazine.

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AN IMMENSE WORLD by Ed Yong

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook

The Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer explains the sensory perceptions and ways of communication used by a variety of animals.

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BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN MIND by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

The “Fox & Friends Weekend” host makes his case for what he calls classical Christian education.

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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook, eBook & Downloadable Audiobook)

How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.

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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook, eBook, downloadable audiobook, Hoopla instant checkout eBook & audiobook)

A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.

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CRYING IN H MART by Michelle Zauner

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

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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EDUCATED by Tara Westover

(Available Format: Print Book, Large Print, eBook, downloadable audiobook & Large Print Book)

The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

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END OF THE WORLD IS JUST THE BEGINNING by Peter Zeihan

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

A look at potential changes in globalization.

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FINDING ME by Viola Davis

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

The multiple award-winning actress describes the difficulties she encountered before claiming her sense of self and achieving professional success.

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GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook, eBook & downloadable audiobook)

The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.

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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY by David Sedaris

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

The humorist portrays personal and public upheavals of his life in its seventh decade and the world in the time of a pandemic.

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I’D LIKE TO PLAY ALONE, PLEASE by Tom Segura

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

The stand-up comedian and podcaster shares stories of parenting and strange encounters

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JAMES PATTERSON by James Patterson

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook & eBook)

The author’s life, from growing up in small-town New York to working in the advertising industry to becoming a successful storyteller.

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KILLING THE KILLERS by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

The 11th book in the conservative commentator’s Killing series gives an account of the global war against terrorists.

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RIVER OF THE GODS by Candice Millard 

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The story of the hardships encountered during 19th-century expeditions in Africa, and the complicated partnerships behind them.

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ROUGH DRAFT by Katy Tur

(Available Formats: Print Book coming soon)

The MSNBC anchor describes growing up with her helicopter journalist parents and her own journey in covering.

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SCARS AND STRIPES by Tim Kennedy and Nick Palmisciano

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The Green Beret and former mixed martial arts fighter describes how his failures shaped who he is today.

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WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD audiobook, eBook, downloadable audiobook & Hoopla instant checkout 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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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, welcome to our Suggested Listening posting for this week!

Suggested Listening postings are published on Fridays; and our next Suggested Listening posting will be out on Friday, July 8, 2022.

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And here are the 14 recommended songs of the week!

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76 Trombones (Full Scene) – The Music Man (1962) (Humor and music, what could be better?!)

From The Film: The Music Man (1962)

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1776 – ‘Reading the Declaration & The Egg’, from the 1972 American musical film by Peter H. Hunt (Genre: Musical)

From The Original Broadway Cast Recording: 1776 (1971)

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Back In The U.S.A. by Chuck Berry (Genre: Rock)

From The Album: The Great Twenty-Eight (Chess, 1982)

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Band On The Run by Paul McCartney & Wings (Genre: Rock)

From The Albums: Band On The Run (1973) and Wings Over America (1976)

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Barbara Ann by The Regents (Genre: Classic Rock)

From The Album: 41 Original Hits from the Soundtrack of American Graffiti (1973)

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Chatanooga Choo Choo by Glenn Miller (Genre: Swing, Jazz)

From The Album: The Essential Glenn Miller (2005)

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One O’clock Jump by Count Basie & His Orchestra (Genre: Jazz, Swing, Instrumental)

From The Album: One O’Clock Jump – The Very Best Of Count Basie (2006)

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Pastures of Plenty by Woody Guthrie (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 (1999)

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Ragged Old Flag by Johnny Cash (Genre: Country)

From The Album: Ragged Old Flag (1974)

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Rock Around The Clock by Bill Hailey and his Comets (Genre: Classic Rock)

From The Album: 41 Original Hits from the Soundtrack of American Graffiti (1873)

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Sparks by The Who (Genre: Rock)

From The Album: Tommy (1969)

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This Land Is Your Land Pete Seeger & Bruce Springsteen (Genre: Singer/Songwriter, Rock)

Recorded live during President Obama’s first inauguration concert January 18, 2009.

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The Star Spangled Banner by Marvin Gaye (Genre: Vocal)

Recorded live at the 33rd National Basketball Association All-Star Game was played on February 13, 1983.

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Yankee Doodle Medley (Give My Regards To Broadway & Yankee Doodle Dandy) by James Cagney (Genre: Musical)

From The Film: Yankee Doodle Dandy
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And as a bonus, as it is a long holiday weekend, capped by the July 4 holiday; here is the:

1776 Overture as heard in the musical/film 1776 with fife and drums!

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Hoopla Recommend Album of the Week

America The Dream Goes On by The Boston Pops, John Williams conducting (1985/2014)

And from the album the song

Copland: Rodeo – Hoe-Down

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Have a great weekend,

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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REFERENCES:

Online References

50 Best Patriotic Songs Worth Adding to Your 4th of July Playlist by Erin Cavoto, May 24, 2022, https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/holidays-celebrations/g32142591/patriotic-songs/

Print References

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn

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Online Catalog Links:

StarCat

The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD, etc.

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The Digital Catalog, web version of Libby

The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.

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The Libby App

Libby is the companion app to the Digital Catalog and may be found in the Apple & Google app.

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Hoopla

A catalog of instant check out items, including eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, comic books, TV shows and movies for patrons of the Southeast Steuben County Library.

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.