Month: October 2024

All titles can be requested/checked out through the library.

If you’d like to go the traditional route to request a title on this list and drop by, or call, the library – please do!

Our telephone number is: 607-936-3713

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New York Times Bestseller lists are shared via blog post on Sundays. And the next NYT blog post will be posted on Sunday, October 13, 2024.

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THE BESTSELLERS

FICTION

1. COUNTING MIRACLES by Nicholas Sparks: A man in search of the father he never knew encounters a single mom and rumors circulate of the nearby appearance of a white deer.

2. INTERMEZZO by Sally Rooney: After the passing of their father, seemingly different brothers engage in relationships and seek ways to cope.

3. FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros: Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.

4. IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover: A battered wife raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse; the basis of the film.

5. THE WOMEN by Kristin Hannah: In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America.

6. A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES by Sarah J. Maas: After killing a wolf in the woods, Feyre is taken from her home and placed inside the world of the Fae.

7. GOLDFINCH by Raven Kennedy: The sixth book in the Plated Prisoner series. Inner turmoil escalates as a war reaches its peak.

8. HERE ONE MOMENT by Liane Moriarty: Passengers on a short and seemingly unremarkable flight learn how and when they are going to die.

9. THE HOUSEMAID by Freida McFadden: Troubles surface when a woman looking to make a fresh start takes a job in the home of the Winchesters.

10. IRON FLAME by Rebecca Yarros: The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training might require her to betray the man she loves.

11. IT STARTS WITH US by Colleen Hoover: In the sequel to “It Ends With Us,” Lily deals with her jealous ex-husband as she reconnects with her first boyfriend.

12. PLAYGROUND by Richard Powers: Residents of an island in French Polynesia must vote on whether to send floating cities out onto the open sea.

13. A COURT OF MIST AND FURY by Sarah J. Maas: The second book in the Court of Thorns and Roses series. Feyre gains the powers of the High Fae and a greater evil emerges.

14. DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver: Winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A reimagining of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.

15. TELL ME EVERYTHING by Elizabeth Strout: As a murder casts a pall on a town in Maine, Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge and Bob Burgess share stories and seek meaning.

NON-FICTION

1. THE SMALL AND THE MIGHTY by Sharon McMahon: A former high school government and law teacher profiles lesser-known Americans who made an impact.

2. TRUTHS by Vivek Ramaswamy: The entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate shares his opinions on a variety of issues.

3. CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard: The conservative commentator evaluates the legacies of American presidents.

4. TARGETED: BEIRUT by Jack Carr and James M. Scott: An account of the attack of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983.

5. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION by Jonathan Haidt: A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health impacts that a phone-based life has on children.

6. SOMETHING LOST, SOMETHING GAINED by Hillary Rodham Clinton: The former secretary of state reflects on private and public moments from her life.

7. THE BARN by Wright Thompson: The author of “The Cost of These Dreams” and “Pappyland” gives an account of the murder of Emmett Till.

8. NEXUS by Yuval Noah HarariThe author of “Sapiens” delves into how societies and political systems have used information and gives a warning about artificial intelligence.

9. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk: How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.

10. THE THIRD GILMORE GIRL by Kelly Bishop with Lindsay Harrison: The dancer and actress, who appeared in “A Chorus Line,” “Dirty Dancing” and “Gilmore Girls,” imparts insights on career longevity.

11. LOVELY ONE by Ketanji Brown Jackson: The first Black woman ever confirmed to the Supreme Court traces her family’s history and her personal ascent.

12. LUCKY LOSER by Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig: The New York Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters detail the fortunes and failures behind Donald Trump’s wealth.

13. HILLBILLY ELEGY by J.D. Vance: The Yale Law School graduate and 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood.

14. GHOSTS OF HONOLULU by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr.: The story of a Japanese American naval intelligence agent, a Japanese spy and events in Hawaii before the start of World War II.

15. THE DEMON OF UNREST by Erik Larson: The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” portrays the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War.

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ABOUT THE CATALOGS:

There are currently three catalogs available to Southeast Steuben County Library patrons online, that you can access to search for and request New York Times Bestsellers, and other popular books and materials in a variety of formats, i.e. print books, eBooks, streaming videos.

All you need is a library card to get started!

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THE CATALOGS:

Catalog 1: StarCat

StarCat is the catalog of physical materials including print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. StarCat is available to all patrons of all public libraries in the Southern Tier Library System*

Starcat can be found online at: https://starcat.stls.org/

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Catalog 2: The Digital Catalog

The Digital Catalog (and its companion app Libby) offers all Southern Tier Library System member library patrons access to eBooks, eAudiobooks & eMagazines via a lending model known in Library-ese as “one copy/one user;” that library speak means that eBooks & eAudiobooks found in The Digital Catalog/Libby are like print books found on library shelves, only one patron can check out a copy of a title at a time.

Exception: Magazines found in the digital catalog are available via a different lending model known as simultaneous access. And that fancy library speak means that magazines are available for all patrons to check out at the same time, i.e. if you and all your family and friends wish to read the latest digital edition of Newsweek, all of you can check out the e version of the magazine and read it at the same time.

The Digital Catalog/Libby checkout limit is 5 titles a time.

The Digital Catalog is found online at: https://stls.overdrive.com/

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Catalog 3: Hoopla

The Hoopla Digital Catalog (and its companion app, also called Hoopla) offers Southeast Steuben County Library patrons access to a second digital catalog with an on-demand lending model. In library speak, this lending model, like The Digital Catalog/Libby’s magazine lending model, is known as “simultaneous access.” The difference is, the Hoopla catalog offers access to more formats: eBooks, eAudiobooks, eComics, digital albums, TV shows & movies – and all items, in all those formats, are available  for patrons to checkout immediately. The Hoopla check out limit is ten titles per month.

Hoopla Formats: All Hoopla content can be accessed on a computer or mobile device, and TV shows and movies can be accessed on computers, mobile devices, smart TVs and media streaming players, i.e. Roku or  Apple TV.

The Hoopla Catalog is found online at: https://www.hoopladigital.com/

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*The Southern Tier Library System includes the public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler & Allegheny counties.

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, October 11, 2024.

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And here are the 10 recommended songs of the week!

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As The Years Go Passing By by Albert King 

 

From The Album: Born Under A Bad Sign (1967) 

 

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Confessin’ The Blues by The Rolling Stones 

 

From The Album: 12 x 5 (1964) 

 

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Eloise by William Bell 

 

From The Album: Soul Of A Bell (1967) 

 

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I Put A Spell On You by Creedence Clearwater Revival  

 

From The Album: Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968) 

 

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Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan  

 

From The Album: Highway 61 Revisited (1965) 

 

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Shake by Otis Redding 

 

From The Album: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965) 

 

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Soul Finger by The Bar Kays 

 

From The Album: Soul Finger (1967) 

 

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Tighten Up, Pt. 1 by Archie Bell & The Drells 

 

 From The Album:  Tightening Up: Best of Archie Bell & The Drells (2006) 

 

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We Get By by Mavis Staples featuring Ben Harper  

 

From The Album: We Get By (2019) 

 

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The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix  

 

From The Album: Are You Experienced (1967) 

 

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Hoopla “Album” of The Week: 

This week the Hoopla “album” I’m recommending is actually the multi-album set, The Studio Album collection by  Otis Redding!

And here it is!

The Complete Studio Albums Collection (2015) by Otis Redding:

 

And from the collection, the song  

These Arms of Mine  by Otis Redding

 

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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.

This blog post includes all the new titles that have been ordered by the library for October 2024.

Some of these titles have arrived and can be requested through StarCat; other titles are not yet published and/or are not yet ready to circulate (and thus are not yet found in StarCat). 

So, if you see a book you’d love to read, but don’t find it listed in StarCat, send me an email and let me know which title you’d like to read; and I will place it on hold for you, when it is ready to circulate. 

My email address is: reimerl@stls.org 

And here is the list the list of New Books Coming Your Way for this month! 

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Have a great day!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

Hi everyone, here are our five suggested reads of the week!

Weekly Suggested Reading Five postings are usually published on Wednesdays, unless Monday is a holiday and then they are published later in the week.

And the next Suggested Reading posting will be published on Wednesday, October 9, 2024.

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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

Coates presents three blazing essays on race, moral complicity, and a storyteller’s responsibility to the truth. Coates evokes his father’s struggle with the wretched narrative legacy of Jim Crow. He travels to South Carolina, where school districts seek to ban his work for suggesting that America was “fundamentally racist,” or any other “divisive concept.” Coates concludes that “it is neither ‘anguish’ nor ‘discomfort’ that these people were trying to prohibit. It was enlightenment.” Finally, he connects the dots between the self-justifying narratives of European and American racism and Palestinian oppression in Israel. Going to Palestine is like time traveling back to Jim Crow: IDF soldiers with “sun glinting off their shades like Georgia sheriffs” harass Palestinians at checkpoints, proving that “as sure as my ancestors were born into a country where none of them was the equal of any white man, Israel was revealing itself to be a country where no Palestinian is ever the equal of any Jewish person anywhere.” Dehumanization is essential to exploitation, whether the targets are serfs in medieval Europe, African slaves and their descendants in America, or Palestinians on the West Bank. Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing. Brilliant and timely. – Starred Booklist Review  

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Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz 

The aptly titled follow-up to The Plot (2021) focuses on Anna Williams Bonner, now the widow of the much-lauded author, Jacob Finch Bonner. Anna decides to pen her own novel, largely based on the story she shared with the world about how Jacob died, which she works on at writing retreats described in cringe-inducing and hilarious detail. The Afterword manages to be both critically acclaimed and a best-seller, but mysterious excerpts of the novel cribbed by her late husband and originally penned by her late brother, start to arrive in her mail, hinting that she has left a loose end somewhere and that her many lies, deceptions, and crimes will perhaps be exposed. While Anna is a deeply unsympathetic antihero, Korelitz so expertly depicts how Anna is convinced of her own righteousness and that her being deeply wronged justifies heinous acts that Anna’s flimsy justifications are almost convincing. Korelitz presents a compelling and worthy sequel, another rip-roaring thriller full of very amusing scenes of delusional writers and their awful prose and many twists and turns. – Booklist Review  

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See Me Rolling: On Disability, Equality and Ten-Point Turns by Lottie Jackson 

Disability activist Jackson uses her debut book (BISAC’ed as memoir, though it could also fit in social sciences) to illustrate ways society devalues, undervalues, or marginalizes people with disabilities. The book combines personal experience, blunt honesty, and occasional humor with research from primary sources like Disability News Service, New York Times, Financial Times, The Nation, the CDC, and the BBC. The topics of the book’s eight stand-alone essays range from the practical (visiting a department store that turns out to be scooter-inaccessible) to philosophical (removing ableism from the bedroom), and they redefine terms such as “recovery.” This book thoroughly discusses the various ways the public perceives visible and invisible disabilities. Jackson demonstrates what it means to be disabled, and she pushes for changes in public attitudes and access. The book includes eye-opening statistics, as well as quotes about disability from Margaret Atwood, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Immanuel Kant (all fully identified in the endnotes). VERDICT This gripping title will appeal to readers interested in how the lives of people with disabilities are impacted by architecture, access, clothing, employment, transportation, and mobility. It will also interest people working with or providing services as caregivers, social workers, think tanks, and more. – Starred Library Journal Review  

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Triangle by Danielle Steel  

A Paris gallery owner finds herself in danger when a mysterious man begins leaving her messages, in #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel’s thrilling new novel. 

As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate blond beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in the City of Light. The only child of a French businessman and an American model, both now deceased, Amanda lives well and adores her dog, Lulu, but so far the love of her life has eluded her. 

Then she meets Olivier Saint Albin, a dashing publisher. At the same time, she reconnects with Tom Quinlan, an old boyfriend from her days at NYU twenty years ago, now a lawyer on sabbatical who has come to Paris to devote himself to writing a thriller. 

Charming Olivier is a master at the art of flirtation, but as Amanda feels herself falling for him, she learns he is married. Providing counsel and support is her friend and co-owner of the gallery, fun-loving bachelor Pascal Leblanc. When Amanda begins to receive threatening phone calls late at night, it is Pascal she turns to. Then someone breaks into her apartment on the Left Bank, and it’s all too clear she is in real danger. But from whom? An old love, a new love, or a stranger? As love enters her life, so does terror. . . . 

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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker by Amy Reading

 

Readers enamored of the New Yorker and its history will recognize White as a legendary editor yet know little about her. Reading fills in the blanks, explaining precisely why, from the moment White arrived in 1925 to her retirement in 1961, she was essential to the magazine’s identity and success. Reading recounts White’s demanding life, from her mostly motherless New England girlhood as a “promiscuous reader” to her literary adventures at Bryn Mawr and her marriage to lawyer Ernest Angell, which brought two children and endless heartaches. She helped her second husband, writer E. B. White, contend with debilitating disorders so that he could create the works that made him famous as they had a son and lived in New York and Maine. White performed phenomenal amounts of exacting editorial work, cajoling and advising writers in discursive “personal-editorial letters,” battling with fellow editors, and fine-tuning the magazine’s mission, appeal, and significance, even while gravely ill. Reading’s fine-tuned chronicling of White’s work with writers such as Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, Mary McCarthy, John Cheever, and Vladimir Nabokov illuminates the diligence, brilliance, and vision of this “magnificent editor,” whose son, Roger Angell, also became a New Yorker fiction editor. With profound understanding of and appreciation for the full extent of White’s achievements, Reading’s in-depth, ardently and expertly written biography is a literary landmark. – Starred Booklist Review  

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Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Note: Book summaries are from the respective publishers unless otherwise specified.

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Information on the three library catalogs

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

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks 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 on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron check out limit is 10 items per month.

Hoopla is a Southeast Steuben County Library service available to all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders.

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, 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.

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Have questions about how to access Internet based content (i.e. eBooks, eAudios)? Feel free to drop by the Reference Desk or call the library and we will assist you! The library’s telephone number is: 607-936-3713.

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Tech & Book Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.