Hi everyone, this new weekly post will combine and replace our Suggested Listening and Suggested Viewing posts, into one entertainment post, published on Fridays, just in time for the weekend.
The new posts, which were briefly called “Enjoy The Weekend,” will feature ten songs and two streaming video recommendations, one from a mainstream service and the other from Kanopy, the library’s free to access streaming service (all you need is a library card!).
First The Songs:
Come, Witches, To The Dance Land Isadora with Lord Pan
Found on the Album: The Witching Hour : 25th Anniversary Collection (2009)
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Graveyard Rock (1959) by Tarantula Ghoul and Her Gravediggers
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The Headless Horseman by Bing Crosby
From the Disney film The Adventures of Ichabod And Mr. Toad (1950)
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Nightmare by Artie Shaw
Found on the Album: The Essential Artie Shaw (2005)
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Skeleton Rag by The Hoosier Hot Shots
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St. James Infirmary Blues by Cab Calloway
Found on the Album: Hi De Ho Man (1974)
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That Old Black Magic by The Glenn Miller Orchestra with Skip Nelson & Modernaires, vocal
Found on the Album: The Complete Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (1938 – 1942) (1991)
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Werewolf by The Frantics
Found on the Album: The Complete Frantics on Dolton (2004)
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Second The Videos:
A new title available through one of the usual, mainstream U.S. streaming services, followed by a Kanopy title that you can check out with your library card and stream on-demand.
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It: Welcome to Derry’ Season 1 (HBO/Max) (2025)
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Kanopy Streaming Pick of the Week (A title available to library card holders)
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.
And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.
The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout 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.
Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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.
Hi everyone, here are our five suggested reads of the week!
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6:40 to Montreal: A Novel by Eva Jurczyk
Jurczyk’s new novel (after That Night in the Library) is an intense, claustrophobic nod to the Christie classic Murder on the Orient Express. Writer Agatha’s husband Teddy has bought her a ticket on the Toronto to Montreal train. The six-hour trip will take them through areas with limited satellite connection; Teddy hopes that this will offer Agatha uninterrupted time to work on her next novel. Agatha has been struggling to write due to health issues, and she isn’t sure that this will work, but she agrees to the trip for her own reasons. Her hope of a peaceful journey is soon dashed when she sees a woman who’s been stalking her in the car. Then, after just a couple hours of travel, the train stops abruptly. As Dorcas, the only staff person in the first-class car, tries to keep the passengers calm, they soon discover that they’re trapped, one of the passengers is dead, and that any of the rest of them could be the killer.
VERDICT The slow build, as each choice and event makes their situation more dire, gives the novel an intense pace that will keep readers turning pages. For readers of Gillian McAllister and Lisa Lutz.–Library Journal Review
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Black Wolf by Louise Penny
The 20th Chief Inspector Gamache novel picks up mere weeks after the events of The Grey Wolf (2024); Gamache and his team are still catching their breath after barely stopping a domestic terrorist attack in Montreal. The mastermind, a man Gamache had called the Black Wolf, is behind bars. But, as this excellent novel opens, Gamache is having second thoughts: what if the man in prison is not the Black Wolf? What if he’s still out there, planning something just as terrifying as what might have taken place in Montreal? Penny is one hell of a writer: her Gamache novels, and the political thriller she co-wrote with Hillary Clinton (State of Terror, 2021), are tightly plotted and beautifully written. This one’s a bit different, though; while normally a gentle, thoughtful man, Gamache appears to be under more internal pressure here than we’ve seen before, as though he’s demanding something of himself that he might not be able to deliver: absolution for letting the Black Wolf get away. An absolute must-read. –Booklist Review
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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon
Remembering the Mighty Fitz, half a century later. Bacon, author of The Great Halifax Explosion, offers a superb education in geography, seamanship, and history to tell the story of the gigantic Great Lakes ore carrier that sank in a 1975 storm, killing all 29 crew members. He opens with an overview of the Great Lakes, whose waves and currents turn out to be as nasty as those in salt water. Between 1875 and 1975, they claimed at least 6,000 ships and 30,000 sailors–averaging one shipwreck a week. As Bacon writes in arresting prose, “These freighters battled waves twenty feet or more, faced eighty-mile-per-hour winds, and crashed into lighthouses, ports, piers, bridges, shoals, jagged shores, and each other. They faced fires and explosions onboard, hundreds of tons of ice weighing their ships down, water flooding into their pilothouses and cargo holds, and fog, the one element that could make even the most seasoned mariner stop in his tracks, praying for luck.” Narrowing his focus, Bacon describes the mines of Minnesota and Wisconsin that required massive carriers to transport their ore south to refineries in Chicago and Buffalo and points in between. The carriers were designed primarily for profit (carrying the maximum load) and to pass through narrow locks leading from Lake Superior to Lake Huron. Designers paid less attention to their ability to handle the Great Lakes on bad days. Since no crewman survived, details of the disaster are spotty, but Bacon makes the most of them, delivering biographies of crewmen, their duties, descriptions of the storm, increasingly fraught messages from the Fitzgerald before they ceased, interviews with victims’ families, and a discussion of the lessons learned. The author makes theFitzgerald the centerpiece of a broad account of Great Lakes shipping, the careers and daily lives of the crews–and the industries, cities, and bars that feed them–and tales of other sinkings. A gripping account of a maritime disaster. –Kirkus Review
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The Haunting of Paynes Hollow by Kelley Armstrong
When Samantha Payne’s grandfather dies, she figures she won’t even get a mention in the will. After all, she hasn’t seen him in fourteen years, not since her father took his own life after being accused of murdering a child at their lakefront cottage. Her grandfather always insisted her father was innocent, despite Sam having caught him burying the child’s body, his clothing streaked with blood.
But when she does attend the reading of the will at the behest of her aunt, she discovers that her grandfather left her the very valuable lakefront property where the family cottage sits. There’s one catch: Sam needs to stay in the cottage for a month. To finally face the fact she was wrong and her father was innocent, in her grandfather’s words.
Traveling to Paynes Hollow, Sam is faced with the realities of her childhood and the secrets kept hidden in the shadows of her memories. When her aunt goes missing a couple days into their stay, Sam begins to question everything again. Plagued by nightmares and paranoia, she begins hearing sounds in the forest and seeing shapes crawling from the water as the rippling waves of the lake promise something unspeakably dark lurking just below their surface.
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Slowly Dying Cause by Elizabeth George
In her twenty-second Inspector Lynley book since the series began in 1988 (most recently, 2022’s Something to Hide), George again delivers a winner. At its heart, it’s a murder mystery, but there’s lots more here: family unity and disintegration, love, hatred, sex, lies, suspicion, guilt, and infidelity. Michael Lobb, owner of a tin-and-pewter business in Cornwall, is found stabbed to death in his workshop. The underresourced local cops have plenty of potential suspects–particularly Lobb’s much-younger current wife, his ex-wife, and his kids. But they quickly uncover damning evidence pointing to Goron Udy, a simple-minded young man who worked for Lobb. Udy is quick to confess, saying only that “it needed to be done.” Inspector Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are visiting Lynley’s Cornish estate and quickly find themselves involved in the investigation, turning up new evidence that lends an even more tragic note to the already heartrending case. This is vintage Lynley, the supremely clever detective whose gentle humanity is always quietly present. Despite the sheer number of characters, subplots, and twists and turns, this is George at her best; she delivers a stunning must-read for Lynley fans new and old. –Booklist
A Slowly Dying Cause is the twenty-second book in the Inspector Lynley Series. If you’d like to start reading the series from the beginning check out book one: A Great Deliverance.
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Happy reading!
Linda Reimer, SSCL
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Weekly Suggested Reading Five postings are usually published on Wednesdays, unless Monday is a holiday and then they are published later in the week.
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Note: Book summaries are from the respective publishers unless otherwise specified.
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.
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.
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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.
1. GONE BEFORE GOODBYE by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben: When a mysterious man disappears, the former combat surgeon giving him medical assistance goes on the lam.
2. REMAIN by Nicholas Sparks with M. Night Shyamalan: A New York architect moves to Cape Cod, where he enters a relationship that brings up a lot of questions.
3. MATE by Ali Hazelwood: To help stave off her enemies, Serena Paris, a Human-Were hybrid, forms a partnership with Koen Alexander.
4. THE SECRET OF SECRETS by Dan Brown: As he searches for the missing noetic scientist he has been seeing, Robert Langdon discovers something regarding a secret project.
5. ALCHEMISED by SenLinYu: After the war, an imprisoned alchemist is sent to a necromancer to recover her lost memories.
6. RED RISING by Pierce Brown: Darrow, a member of the lowest rung of a society on Mars in the future, mixes in with humanity’s overlords in the hopes of taking them down.
7. THE INTRUDER by Freida McFadden: During a rough storm, Casey puts herself in danger when she lets a girl, who is covered in blood, into her cabin.
8. LIGHTS OUT by Navessa Allen: As Aly and Josh live out their dark fantasies, someone with sinister intentions impinges on them.
9. MERRY CHRISTMAS, YOU FILTHY ANIMAL by Meghan Quinn: The second book in the How My Neighbor Stole Christmas series. Things get messy between a man and a woman running rival Christmas tree farms.
10. TWICE by Mitch Albom: Alfie Logan, who was gifted with the ability to live any moment a second time but must accept the outcomes, makes a risky love decision.
11. THE PICASSO HEIST by James Patterson and Howard Roughan: A recently discovered $100 million painting piques the interest of a variety of people.
12. 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.
13. BOLEYN TRAITOR by Philippa Gregory: Jane Boleyn employs multiple tactics to survive in the Tudor court.
14. THE ACADEMY by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham: Harmful rumors cause trouble for the students and staff at a New England boarding school.
15. 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.
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NON-FICTION
1. UNDER SIEGE by Eric Trump: The executive vice president of the Trump Organization shares his belief that attacks on his family are attacks on America.
2. 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin: The New York Times journalist and CNBC host looks at the fight between Washington and Wall Street that fueled a historic crash of the stock market.
3. HOW TO TEST NEGATIVE FOR STUPID by John Kennedy: The Republican senator from Louisiana shares stories about politics in Washington, D.C., and in his home state.
4. 107 DAYS by Kamala Harris: The former vice president recounts her abbreviated campaign to become president in 2024.
5. HOSTAGE by Eli Sharabi: Sharabi, who spent 491 days in Hamas captivity, recounts his story of survival.
6. POEMS & PRAYERS by Matthew McConaughey: The actor and author of “Greenlights” explores elements of belief and reason that make up our lives.
7. LAST RITES by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres: The late heavy metal icon charts his health difficulties and his return for the Back to the Beginning concert.
8. FUTURE BOY by Michael J. Fox and Nelle Fortenberry: The actor recalls simultaneously playing the roles of Alex P. Keaton in “Family Ties” and Marty McFly in “Back to the Future” in 1985.
9. VAGABOND by Tim Curry: The Tony Award-nominated actor gives insights into the creation of some of his roles on stage and screen.
10. SITTING WITH DOGS by Rocky Kanaka: The pet rescue advocate shares stories of dogs in need finding forever homes.
11. CONFRONTING EVIL by Bill O’Reilly and Josh Hammer: O’Reilly and Hammer profile some of history’s nefarious characters.
12. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk: How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
13. 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.
14. BORN LUCKY by Leland Vittert with Don Yaeger: The NewsNation host describes how his father helped him navigate living with autism.
15. THE GALES OF NOVEMBER by John U. Bacon: An account of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an American Great Lakes freighter, 50 years ago.
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Have a great Sunday!
Linda
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New York Times Bestseller lists are shared via blog post on Sundays.
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.
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.
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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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For more information on library materials and services, including how to get a library card call the library at 607-936-3713.
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*The Southern Tier Library System includes the public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler & Allegheny counties.
Hi everyone, this new weekly post will combine and replace our Suggested Listening and Suggested Viewing posts, into one entertainment post, published on Fridays, just in time for the weekend.
The new posts, which were briefly called “Enjoy The Weekend,” will feature ten songs and two streaming video recommendations, one from a mainstream service and the other from Kanopy, the library’s free to access streaming service (all you need is a library card!).
First the songs:
In Celebration of the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal, the interstate highway of its day, on October 26, 1825, here is a collection of historical folk songs celebrating life on the Erie Canal and the New York State in general, with a focus on areas west of Albany, in keeping with cities on both ends of the canal – Albany and Buffalo.
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First a bit of extra history, all five original versions of The Erie Canal song, written by Thomas S. Allen. You’ll notice the chorus evolved over time.
15 Years on The Erie Canal by Edward Meeker verses 1 – 4 (1913) & Vernon Delhar verse 5 (1929) compiled by Dave Ruch
And onto more contemporary folks songs that chronicle life in New York State in the days of yore.
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The Aged Pilot Man by The Golden Eagle String Band
Found on the Album: The Canaller’s Songbook (2007)
Note: From the poem by Mark Twain
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The Ballad of Big Moose Lodge
Found on the Album: Rooted In The Mountains (2001)
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Blue Mountain Lake by Pete Seeger
Found on the Album: Frontier Ballads (1954)
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The Brooklyn Strike by June Lazare
Found on the Album: Folk Songs of New York City (1966)
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Er-ie Canal by The Weavers
Found on the Album: Weaver Classics (1990)
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The Farmer Is the Man by Mike & Peggy Seeger
Found on the Album: Fly Down Little Bird (2011)
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The Jam on Gerry’s Rock by The Wakami Wailers
Found on the Album: The Last of the White Pine Loggers (1985)
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My Good Looking Man by Barbara Moncure
Found on the Album: Folk Songs of the Catskills (1963)
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The Raging Canal by The Golden Eagle String Band
Found on the Album: Grand Canal Ballads: History of the Erie Canal (1981)
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Once More A-Lumbering Go by Pete Seeger
Found on the Album: Champlain Valley Songs (1960)
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Red Iron Ore by Bob Gibson
Found on the Album: The Riverside Folklore Series, Volume 1 (1996)
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Seneca Canoe Song by Pete Seeger
Found on the Album: Champlain Valley Songs (1960)
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Bonus:
Saga of the Erie Canal Mini-Documentary
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Songs of New York State – a live concert with Dave Ruch
And on to our Suggested Viewing titles for this week
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Second The videos:
A new title available through one of the usual U.S. streaming services, followed by a Kanopy title that you can check out with your library card and stream on-demand.
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The Diplomat, Season 3 (2025) (Netflix)
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Kanopy Streaming Pick of the Week (A title available to library card holders)
The Women of World War II: The Untold Story (2025)
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.
And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.
The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout 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.
Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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.
Hi everyone, here are our five suggested reads of the week!
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Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum by Michael J. Fox
A poignant, heartfelt, and funny memoir about how, in 1985, Michael J. Fox brought to life two iconic roles simultaneously—Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties and Marty McFly in Back to the Future. An amazing true story as only Michael J. Fox can tell it
In early 1985, Michael J. Fox was one of the biggest stars on television. His world was about to get even bigger, but only if he could survive the kind of double duty unheard of in Hollywood. Fox’s days were already dedicated to rehearsing and taping the hit sitcom Family Ties, but then the chance of a lifetime came his way. Soon, he committed his nights to a new time-travel adventure film being directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg—Back to the Future. Sitcom during the day, movie at night—day after day, for months.
Fox’s nightly commute from a soundstage at Paramount to the back lot at Universal Studios, from one dream job to another, would become his own space-time continuum. It was in this time portal that Alex P. Keaton handed the baton to Marty McFly while Michael J. Fox tried to catch a few minutes of sleep. Alex’s bravado, Marty’s flair, and Fox’s comedic virtuosity all swirled together to create something truly special.
In Future Boy, Fox tells the remarkable story of playing two landmark roles at the same time—a slice of entertainment history that’s never been told. Using new interviews with the cast and crew of both projects, the result is a vividly drawn and eye-opening story of creative achievement by a beloved icon.
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King Sorrow by Joe Hill
Hill not only escapes the shadow of his famous father, Stephen King, but may even eclipse him with his first work of long-form fiction since 2016’s The Fireman. Bookish Arthur Oakes is enjoying his college studies, his best friends, and his job at the library, but a family of criminals have got Arthur under their thumb and are forcing him to steal books from said library. Out of options, Arthur and his friends perform a ritual to summon a hungry dragon named King Sorrow to protect themselves. As part of the bargain, they must spend the rest of their lives keeping King Sorrow fed. Spanning decades and exploring the inner and outer lives of this group of friends, Hill’s latest is as epic and touching a story as King’s It. Though nearly 900 pages, the book never feels long or overstuffed, since Hill deftly moves between characters’ viewpoints while rendering them vividly. VERDICT The novel evokes elements of the revenge plot, fantasy quests, and thrillers featuring shadowy organizations to tell an outstanding tale about how power corrupts. Hill’s fans will love it, as will those who like King’s more fantastical works, such as Fairy Tale.–Library Journal Review
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Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
Mickey Haller, called “The Lincoln Lawyer” because of his longstanding practice of conducting business from the back seat of a Lincoln Town Car, takes a sharp U-turn. After his searing experiences in the preceding novel, Resurrection Walk (2023), Haller has moved from criminal defense work to civil defense. What the reader will encounter here is every bit as terrifying as in any previous Lincoln Lawyer thriller, made more terrifying by the contemporary threat of AI. Haller defends the mother of a high-school girl who was slain at school by her boyfriend. The mother’s suit against an enormous tech company claims that one of their inventions, a chatbot, went rogue and urged a young man to murder her daughter. As is customary with Connelly thrillers, danger expands, this time with the surveillance powers of the tech company, and its minions, threatening key witnesses and experts. Connelly works in extensive (and never tedious) background on the perils of AI by having an investigative writer join forces with Haller. As always, it’s fun to watch Haller argue, manipulate, and wheedle his way from pre-trial through the explosive trial itself. One of the best yet from best-selling author Connelly. — Starred Booklist Review
Reader’s Note: Proving Ground is the eighth book in the Lincoln Lawyer (AKA Mickey Haller) Series. If you’d like to start reading the series from the beginning check out book one simply titled Lincoln Lawyer.
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Remain by Nicholas Sparks & M. Night Shyamalan
When New York architect Tate Donovan’s psychic sister Sylvia dies, he has a complete mental breakdown. After a stay in a psychiatric hospital, he agrees to travel to Cape Cod to design a summer home for his best friend, Oscar. Tate is in a fragile state. Staying in an old B&B, he begins to have troubled dreams and is soon haunted by the spirit of a young woman, Wren, who died in the upstairs bathroom two years before. He finds he can communicate with her as she drinks wine, does yoga, puts together puzzles, and interacts with Tate’s cat. At each sporadic appearance, Tate becomes more involved with Wren and her story. In recurring visions, Tate hears the tub fill and witnesses scenes leading up to her death. Although authorities have ruled it an accident, Tate is convinced that someone murdered Wren. He and Oscar decide to investigate. Wren and Tate are drawn together in poignant and sensuous scenes despite the inability of the two to physically touch. Told in chapters written from both Tate’s and Wren’s viewpoints, this is deeply involving. The blending of best-selling novelist Sparks’ signature romance with renowned film director Shyamalan’s supernatural touches is brilliant.
HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Given the immense popularity of Sparks and Shyamalan and with a film adaptation in the works, this mysterious and moving love story will attract legions of eager readers. — Booklist
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The Widow by John Grisham
After more than three decades of producing bestselling legal thrillers, Grisham tries his hand at a whodunit. Eleanor Barnett wants Simon Latch to write her a will. That’s pretty much his job description, since practicing law in Braxton, Virginia, for 18 years hasn’t given him much opportunity to spread his wings. But the case of Netty, as she insists he call her, is different. She’s an 85-year-old widow whose second husband, Harry Korsak, left her with something like $20 million in cash and securities. She has a pair of stepsons, Clyde and Jerry Korsak, she’s determined to disinherit. And she already has a will, a document Wally Thackerman drafted a few weeks ago that basically allowed him, as Simon soon discovers, to pillage her estate. So instead of following his usual procedure and asking his longtime secretary, Matilda Clark, to type out the will, Simon types it himself and has it witnessed without saying anything to her. Of course he’d never do what Wally Thackerman did, but given his poverty, his gambling addiction, and his estrangement from his wife, Paula, whose income is a lot more stable than his own, he wouldn’t mind drawing just a bit on Netty’s wealth. As it happens, his new client turns out to be more trouble than she’s worth, maybe even more trouble than she would’ve been worth to Wally. And when she ends up dying, her death is swiftly identified as murder, with every indication that Simon killed her himself. The whodunit is unremarkable, but Grisham handles the legal complexities of the case with professional finesse and adds a wonderfully poignant portrait of a nothingburger lawyer trying his best to keep things more or less legal. Everything you’d expect from Grisham, and this time something more. –Kirkus Review
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Happy reading!
Linda Reimer, SSCL
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Weekly Suggested Reading Five postings are usually published on Wednesdays, unless Monday is a holiday and then they are published later in the week.
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Note: Book summaries are from the respective publishers unless otherwise specified.
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.
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.
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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.
1. MATE by Ali Hazelwood: To help stave off her enemies, Serena Paris, a Human-Were hybrid, forms a partnership with Koen Alexander.
2. THE INTRUDER by Freida McFadden: During a rough storm, Casey puts herself in danger when she lets a girl, who is covered in blood, into her cabin.
3. THE SECRET OF SECRETS by Dan Brown: As he searches for the missing noetic scientist he has been seeing, Robert Langdon discovers something regarding a secret project.
4. CRY HAVOC by Jack Carr by Atria/Emily Bestler: During a time of war and civil unrest in 1968, the Navy SEAL Tom Reece is given an unofficial and dangerous mission.
5. TWICE by Mitch Albom: Alfie Logan, who was gifted with the ability to live any moment a second time but must accept the outcomes, makes a risky love decision.
6. ALCHEMISED by SenLinYu: After the war, an imprisoned alchemist is sent to a necromancer to recover her lost memories.
7. SHARP FORCE by Patricia Cornwell: The 29th book in the Kay Scarpetta series. A serial killer known as the Phantom Slasher invades homes in Northern Virginia.
8. MY BELOVED by Jan Karon: The 15th book in the Mitford series. As Christmas approaches, love and heartbreak are felt by people around town.
9. SHADOW TICKET by Thomas Pynchon: In 1932, the private eye Hicks McTaggart encounters a hodgepodge of characters as he pursues the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune.
10. ALCHEMY OF SECRETS by Stephanie Garber: Holland St. James must retrieve an ancient object called the Alchemical Heart by midnight tomorrow or perish.
11. 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.
12. FOR WHOM THE BELLE TOLLS by Jaysea Lynn: Lily gets a job assigning people to appropriate circles and becomes attracted to a demon general in Hell.
13. THE ACADEMY by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham: Harmful rumors cause trouble for the students and staff at a New England boarding school.
14. IRON FLAME by Rebecca Yarros: The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training under the new vice commandant might require her to betray the man she loves.
15. 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.
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NON-FICTION
1. HOW TO TEST NEGATIVE FOR STUPID by John Kennedy: The Republican senator from Louisiana shares stories about politics in Washington, D.C., and in his home state.
2. LAST RITES by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres: The late heavy metal icon charts his health difficulties and his return for the Back to the Beginning concert.
3. 107 DAYS by Kamala Harris: The former vice president recounts her abbreviated campaign to become president in 2024.
4. HOSTAGE by Eli Sharabi: Sharabi, who spent 491 days in Hamas captivity, recounts his story of survival.
5. POEMS & PRAYERS by Matthew McConaughey: The actor and author of “Greenlights” explores elements of belief and reason that make up our lives.
6. THE GALES OF NOVEMBER by John U. Bacon: An account of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an American Great Lakes freighter, 50 years ago.
7. TOLD YOU SO by Mayci Neeley: The star of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” describes how she grew up Mormon and challenges she faced as an adult.
8. DEAR NEW YORK by Brandon Stanton: The photographer and author of “Humans of New York” highlights people and places in the five boroughs of New York City.
9. CONFRONTING EVIL by Bill O’Reilly and Josh Hammer: O’Reilly and Hammer profile some of history’s nefarious characters.
10. 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.
11. MISUNDERSTOOD by Allen Iverson with Ray Beauchamp: The N.B.A. All-Star details his childhood, professional career and ways he impacted our culture.
12. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk: How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
13. IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM by Enes Kanter Freedom: The Turkish and American former professional basketball player describes his time on the court and advocating for human rights.
14. AWAKE by Jen Hatmaker: The host of the “For the Love” podcast describes major shifts in her life after her marriage of 26 years ended.
15. TRULY by Lionel Richie: The multiple award-winning musician shares moments from his early years, his time with the Commodores and other professional highlights.
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Have a great Sunday!
Linda
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New York Times Bestseller lists are shared via blog post on Sundays.
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.
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.
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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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For more information on library materials and services, including how to get a library card call the library at 607-936-3713.
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*The Southern Tier Library System includes the public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler & Allegheny counties.
Hi everyone, this new weekly post will combine and replace our Suggested Listening and Suggested Viewing posts, into one entertainment post, published on Fridays, just in time for the weekend.
The new posts, which were briefly called “Enjoy The Weekend,” will feature ten songs and two streaming video recommendations, one from a mainstream service and the other from Kanopy, the library’s free to access streaming service (all you need is a library card!).
First the songs:
This week we’re taking a listen through a small slice of history, by listening to some songs released in the first two decades of the twentieth century: 1900 – 1920s.
Ballin’ The Jack by Prince’s Band
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Broadway Blues by Nora Bayes
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By The Light of the Silvery Moon by Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet
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Dardanella by Ben Selvin’s Novelty Orchestra
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Maple Leaf Rag composed by Scott Joplin; recorded by the U.S Marine Band (1906)
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In the Good Old Summertime by Harry Macdonough
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It’s A Long Way To Tipperary by John McCormack
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Henry Burr and the Peerless Quartet
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St Louis Blues by Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Edward Meeker
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Second The Streaming Videos:
A new title available through one of the usual, general U.S. streaming services, followed by a Kanopy title that you can check out with your library card and stream on-demand.
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General Streaming Suggestion of the Week
The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) (Netflix)
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Beyond Paradise: S3 (2025)
Kanopy Streaming Pick of the Week (A title available to library card holders)
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.
And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.
The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout 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.
Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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.
Hi everyone, here are our five suggested reads of the week!
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Bog Queen by Anna North
North’s latest, following Outlawed (2021), is a remarkably crafted tale that asks important questions about the imprint we leave on our loved ones, our culture, and our land. Agnes is an American forensic anthropologist working to identify a body found buried in the moss of an English bog. Early assumptions are that it belongs to a 1960s murder victim, and that the woman’s niece wants answers about her mysterious death. But the immaculately preserved body is, in fact, much older by about two millennia. North manages to write captivatingly detailed explanations of body-preservation-by-moss and to craft singular characters. We not only learn about the introverted Agnes, but her narrative alternates with that of an unnamed woman from pre-Christian England. Like Agnes, she is driven by her calling. A druid whose healing and mystical knowledge was passed down by her mother, she travels to a distant village at a time when the Roman Empire threatens northern expansion. Both women are tenacious, but hampered by self-doubt. They must overcome uncertainty about friends and family to find a balance between change and preservation. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Readers will be watching for the latest from this Reese’s Book Club author. –Booklist Review
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Dying Cry by Margaret Mizushima
Deputy Mattie Walker and her K-9 partner Robo are on a snowshoe hike at a Colorado resort with her husband and stepdaughters when they hear a scream from up ahead. Mattie and Robo go to investigate and spot a body at the base of a cliff, right before it is buried by an avalanche. When she and her colleagues dig out the body, they realize it’s the manager of the local bank and he has been murdered. An added complication is that the victim’s wife works for Mattie’s husband at his veterinary clinic, and animal tranquilizers have been found in the victim’s system. There are a multitude of suspects between the resort, the clinic, and the bank, and Mattie and Robo work to untangle all the threads of this mysterious death before there are any more murders.
VERDICT In Mizushima’s 10th volume in the series (after Gathering Mist), woman and dog work together smoothly, and readers get a complex mystery with some surprising twists, as well as a picturesque setting in the Colorado high country and a vivid depiction of the bond between human and canine. –Library Journal Review
Reader’s Note: As mentioned, Drying Cry is the tenth book in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series. If you’d like to start reading the series from the begining check out book one Killing Trail.
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The Girl from Devil’s Lake by J. A. Jance
Sheriff Joanna Brady is looking forward to the holidays with her busy family, and to celebrating her daughter Jenny’s graduation from the police academy. But the family is interrupted when a body is discovered beneath a flooded bridge in the Arizona desert, and Joanna is called onto the case. A young boy was murdered, and the details of the crime scene tell Joanna two things: This was not the killer’s first murder. And it’s only a matter of time before he kills again.
As Joanna digs deeper into the case, she begins to understand this murder is just one piece of a much, much bigger puzzle. She uncovers unlikely connections between cases of mysterious deaths and missing persons, having long since gone cold, that extend far beyond the confines of her small town and include the discovery of a body near Devil’s Lake, North Dakota. To get justice for the victims and to save the town of Bisbee from a predator, Joanna must chase down every dangerous lead.
Meanwhile, as a dogged journalist is circling the case and privileged information is leaked, Joanna can’t be sure who to trust. Could a prolific killer be hiding in plain sight? And how far will that person go to keep his many crimes hidden?
Reader’s Note: The Girl from Devil’s Lake is the twenty-first book in the Joanna Brady Mystery Series. If you’d like to start reading the series from the beginning, check out book one Desert Heat.
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Gone Before Goodbye by Harlen Coben & Reese Witherspoon
Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan … until it wasn’t.
Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion.
Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and cutting-edge technology, one of the world’s most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the agreement. But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself—or she will be the next one who is … Gone Before Goodbye
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In A Distant Valley by Shannon Bowring
A rural town in northern Maine finds its way forward after a young woman’s sudden death. For her third and final novel about the “picturesque, neighborly, silent town” of Dalton, Bowring picks up her story in 1995, shortly after the conclusion ofWhere the Forest Meets the River (2024). Single dad Nate Theroux, back to work as a police officer, still feels “every part of him vibrant with grief” since his wife, Bridget, took her own life more than five years ago. Yet he’s finally feeling open to “the potential of what his life could open up to become.” He’s slowly falling for Rose Douglas, a single mother of two, but her alcoholic ex, Tommy Merchant, is ever-present, insisting he can be a good dad to their sons. This budding romance, threatened by violence from Tommy, yields some of the novel’s most gorgeous moments, as Rose and Nate navigate each other’s emotional defenses. College kid Greg Fortin, who is bisexual, finds himself suddenly drawn to a high school friend, Angela Muse. Bowring gives Angela, previously a minor character, a full backstory, including trauma she’s hidden from her family. To her ever-lively, assured prose, Bowring adds small moments of the otherworldly, to show Bridget’s lingering presence, and some jarring crassness at times, but there’s still plenty of humor, wisdom, and ethical complexity. At one point, Nate recalls Bridget saying, “the damage doesn’t end once the last bruise has faded.” Which could be a coda for all we’ve learned about Dalton. These linked, layered relationships have yielded deep pain and grief, along with many forms of complex love. It’s greatly fulfilling to see in these characters’ lives that if you keep going, you might actually find not just one, but many loves in a lifetime. A fine, satisfying end to the Dalton cycle of novels. – Kirkus Review
Reader’s Note: In A Distant Valley, which follows the books The Road to Dalton & Where the Forest Meets the River, is the third and final book in the Dalton Series.
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Happy reading!
Linda Reimer, SSCL
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Weekly Suggested Reading Five postings are usually published on Wednesdays, unless Monday is a holiday and then they are published later in the week.
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Note: Book summaries are from the respective publishers unless otherwise specified.
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.
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.
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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.
1. THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE by Richard Osman: The fifth book in the Thursday Murder Club series. The gang look into the disappearance of a guest Elizabeth met at a wedding.
2. THE SECRET OF SECRETS by Dan Brown: As he searches for the missing noetic scientist he has been seeing, Robert Langdon discovers something regarding a secret project.
3. ALCHEMISED by SenLinYu: After the war, an imprisoned alchemist is sent to a necromancer to recover her lost memories.
4. 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.
5. VINCE FLYNN: DENIED ACCESS by Don Bentley: The 24th book in the Mitch Rapp series. Rapp, now an assassin in the Orion program, must counter threats to his girlfriend and the C.I.A.
6. IRON FLAME by Rebecca Yarros: The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training under the new vice commandant might require her to betray the man she loves.
7. THE PORTRAIT by Danielle Steel: Unfulfilled longing is released between an entrepreneur stuck in a loveless marriage and a widowed portrait artist.
8. SOUL SEARCHING by Lyla Sage: Ghosts bring together an unemployed woman, who returns to Wyoming to help her parents, and an upholsterer, who rents a room to her.
9. THE ACADEMY by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham: Harmful rumors cause trouble for the students and staff at a New England boarding school.
10. BURNING DAYLIGHT by Emily McIntire: A forbidden love grows between Juliette Calloway and Roman Montgomery in a retelling of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
11. THE KILLING STONES by Ann Cleeves: Detective Jimmy Perez investigates the murder of his friend, who appears to have been killed with an artifact taken from a nearby museum.
12. 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.
13. CIRCLE OF DAYS by Ken Follett: A priestess envisions a great stone circle put together by divided tribes, but drought and violence may impede its creation.
14. THE GIRL FROM DEVIL’S LAKE by J.A. Jance: The 21st book in the Joanna Brady mystery series.
15. TOURIST SEASON by Brynne Weaver: When a true crime investigator comes to Cape Carnage in search of a serial killer, a local gardener and a handsome tourist pause their deadly ways.
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NON-FICTION
1. 107 DAYS by Kamala Harris: The former vice president recounts her abbreviated campaign to become president in 2024.
2. POEMS & PRAYERS by Matthew McConaughey: The actor and author of “Greenlights” explores elements of belief and reason that make up our lives.
3. TRULY by Lionel Richie: The multiple award-winning musician shares moments from his early years, his time with the Commodores and other professional highlights.
4. BORN LUCKY by Leland Vittert with Don Yaeger: The NewsNation host describes how his father helped him navigate living with autism.
5. CONFRONTING EVIL by Bill O’Reilly and Josh Hammer: O’Reilly and Hammer profile some of history’s nefarious characters.
6. AWAKE by Jen Hatmaker: The host of the “For the Love” podcast describes major shifts in her life after her marriage of 26 years ended.
7. WE THE PEOPLE by Jill Lepore: The author of “These Truths” examines the history of the U.S. Constitution and challenges its interpretation by the Supreme Court and the theory of originalism.
8. 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.
9. CHASING EVIL by John Edward and Robert Hilland with Natasha Stoynoff: A psychic medium and a former F.B.I. agent portray their partnership.
10. ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER by Elizabeth Gilbert: The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” depicts her journey through a cycle involving self-destructive tendencies.
11. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk: How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
12. ASSATA by Assata Shakur: A memoir by the late American political activist, who was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover.
13. THE BOOK OF SHEEN by Charlie Sheen: The actor, known for his roles in “Platoon” and “Two and a Half Men,” shares stories about his life in Hollywood.
14. HISTORY MATTERS by David McCullough: A posthumous collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author on history’s impact on our present and our future; edited by Dorie McCullough Lawson and Michael Hill.
15. NEVER STOP by Dan Hurley and Ian O’Connor: The head coach of the UConn Huskies details facets of leadership through his own experiences.
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Have a great Sunday!
Linda
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New York Times Bestseller lists are shared via blog post on Sundays.
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.
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.
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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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For more information on library materials and services, including how to get a library card call the library at 607-936-3713.
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*The Southern Tier Library System includes the public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler & Allegheny counties.
Hi everyone, this new weekly post will combine and replace our Suggested Listening and Suggested Viewing posts, into one entertainment post, published on Fridays, just in time for the weekend.
The new posts, which were briefly called “Enjoy The Weekend,” will feature ten songs and two streaming video recommendations, one from a mainstream service and the other from Kanopy, the library’s free to access streaming service (all you need is a library card!).
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First the songs:
In celebration of Indigenous People’s Day, which falls on Monday, October 13; our suggested listening collection this week features songs by Native American artists to enjoy this weekend.
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Above The Mother Earth by Mary Youngblood
Found on the Album: Beneath The Raven Moon (2002)
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Etsi Shon (The Grandfather Song) by Jerry Alfred & Medicine Beat
Found on the Album: Etsi Shon (The Grandfather Song) (1994)
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Mystical Warrior by Verdell Primeaux
Found on the Album: Mystical Warrior (2002)
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Now That The Buffalo Are Gone by Buffy Saint-Marie
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.
And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.
The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout 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.
Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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.
Tech & Book Talk at SSCL 