Tech & Book Talk at 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, June 23, 2023.

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And here are the 10 recommended songs of the week!

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Just this week I have realized that this year, in fact this past March 22 to be exact, marks the 60th anniversary of the release of The Beatles very first album – Please Please Me (1963)

In belated honor of this anniversary, here are some cool Merseybeat/British Invasion songs from the era, for your weekend listening pleasure.

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All of Me by Ian and the Zodiacs

From The Album: From The Album: Just Listen To Ian and the Zodiacs (1965/2011) (Note: This album is out of print)

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Bad To Me by Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas

From The Album: Little Children (1964)

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Ferry Cross The Mersey by Gerry and the Pacemakers

From The Album: Best of Gerry and the Pacemakers (1965)

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The House of the Rising Sun by The Animals

From The Album: The Animals (1964/2013)

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Last Night by The Merseybeats

From The Album: Let’s Stomp! Merseybeat & Beyond 1962-1969 by Various Artists

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Look Through Any Window by The Hollies

From The Album: The Hollies Greatest Hits (1973)

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Love Me Do by The Beatles

From The Album: Please Please Me (1963)

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Not Fade Away by The Rolling Stones

From The Album: The Rolling Stones (England’s Newest Hitmakers)

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Over And Over by The Dave Clark Five

From The Album: The History of the Dave Clark Five (1993)

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A Summer Song by Peter & Gordon

From The Album: Yesterday’s Gone (1964)

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A Well Respected Man by The Kinks

From The Album: Kinda Kinks (1965)

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Hoopla Recommend Album of the Week

The Best Of Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection by Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders

And from the album the song:

The Game of Love by Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders

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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 are our recommended reads for the week!

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

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Weekly Suggested Reading postings are now published on Wednesdays.

And the next Suggested Reading posting will be published on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.

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Against The Currant by Olivia Matthews

(Available Formats: Print Book & Hoopla Instant Checkout Audiobook)

In Olivia Matthews’s Against the Currant, the first Spice Isle Bakery Mystery, investigating a murder was never supposed to be on the menu…

Little Caribbean, Brooklyn, New York: Lyndsay Murray is opening Spice Isle Bakery with her family, and it’s everything she’s ever wanted. The West Indian bakery is her way to give back to the community she loves, stay connected to her Grenadian roots, and work side-by-side with her family. The only thing getting a rise out of Lyndsay is Claudio Fabrizi, a disgruntled fellow bakery owner who does not want any competition.
On opening day, he comes into the bakery threatening to shut them down.

Fed up, Lyndsay takes him to task in front of what seems to be the whole neighborhood. So when Claudio turns up dead a day later—murdered—Lyndsay is unfortunately the prime suspect. To get the scent of suspicion off her and her bakery, Lyndsay has to prove she’s innocent—under the watchful eyes of her overprotective brother, anxious parents, and meddlesome extended family—what could go wrong?

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Bear with Me Now by Katie Shepard

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Shepard’s wonderful debut romance features characters who are so beautifully depicted, they become real. Teagan, who lives an elite life of wealth and privilege and runs a foundation to bring art to children, would seem to have little in common with navy veteran Darcy, whose learning challenges have kept her from the successes she has worked toward in college and as a forest ranger. They meet when Teagan takes a walk in the woods and runs into a bear while he and his sister are at a rehab-spa in Montana. Teagan is recovering from a stint in a psych ward following a panic attack so severe he thought he was dying and now nearly becomes a bear snack. He is rescued by Darcy, who was hired as the wilderness therapy instructor but has been doing all the maintenance for the new-agey resort. Darcy focuses on helping Teagan, however off-track she is about his issues, and insists on accompanying him to New York when his foundation is threatened. Shepard seamlessly incorporates Teagan’s mental-health struggles and Darcy’s learning differences as they help each other fight their personal demons. This exquisite combination of issues, humor, and hot sex make Shepard a writer to watch. – Booklist Review

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Best Men by Sidney Karger

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Who does Chasten Benchley think he is?

Max Moody has been Paige Greendale’s BFF for more than 30 years, and if anyone is going to be at her side during her upcoming wedding to Chasten’s brother, Austin, it is going to be Max. Setting aside their awkward (to say the least) one-time hookup, if Chasten thinks he can become Paige’s go-to guy for all things nuptial by showing Max up with his superior fashion sense and amazing bachelorette-party planning skills, well, he can just think again. Max is Paige’s man of honor, and Chasten is Austin’s best man. It shouldn’t be a competition between them. But if it is, then it is one Max is definitely going to win. With a spoton gift for writing dryly witty banter and a deliciously acerbic sense of humor in the Nora Ephron mode, Karger, an award-winning screenwriter and television contributor (including Saturday Night Live), makes his fiction debut. A fun and flirty rom-com that is the perfect addition to beach bags and suitcases. – Booklist Review

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Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

(Available Formats: Print Book)

In a conversational style, Grammy Award winner Williams takes readers through the ups and downs of her family life and musical career. She weaves a narrative that feels relatable and extraordinary. Having inherited her musical talent from her mother and her way with words from her father, Williams considers how her childhood and family shaped her music and life. When the author was a child (she was born in 1953 in Louisiana), her mother was diagnosed with manic depression with paranoid schizophrenic tendencies, which left Williams and her two siblings in the care of their poet father, a professor at the University of Arkansas who read a poem at Bill Clinton’s second presidential inauguration. The author ponders her long journey toward achieving her dream in her forties, decades after being stuck in the hard-to-sell category between country and rock. Williams tells her story candidly, sharing the inspiration for her songs along with the trials and tribulations that made her the artist she is today. The book includes a chronology of the many places where the author lived from childhood through the 2020s.

VERDICT Honest and raw, this book serves a slice of an inspiring life that reminds readers to keep trying. Williams’s story will likely appeal to readers interested in music, poetry, literature, or mental health. – Library Journal Review

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Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Long-kept family secrets and tested loyalties complicate the lives of the characters of this exceptional debut novel from an award-winning short-story author. Esther and Joanna are estranged sisters driven apart by secrets surrounding the magical books their late father collected and that Joanna now safeguards in their magically hidden family home in Vermont.

Nicholas, the heir to a magical library patronized by the rich and powerful, is the only known scribe in the world, with the ability to write new spells using ink created from his blood. When Esther and Nicholas discover that they are the intended victims of a deadly plot originating at the library, Nicholas and his brooding bodyguard, Collins, must team up with Esther and Joanna and unearth secrets long held by their families to prevent a malevolent spell from claiming their lives. But can they truly trust one another?

All four must set aside old hurts and decide where their loyalties lie before it is too late. This suspenseful dark fantasy, full of family drama, is perfect for readers of Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House (2019), Holly Black’s Book of Night (2022), and Peng Shepherd’s The Cartographers (2022). – Booklist

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Murder on Mustang Beach by Alicia Bessette

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Murder disrupts a bookseller’s love life while complicating her deepening reconnection to her childhood home on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. After waiting nearly a year for Toby Dodge to complete his self-imposed experiment in abstinence, Calista “Callie” Padget is eager for what she calls “the most epic first date ever” with the handsome martial arts teacher she’s been patiently wooing for the past 11 months. She can’t believe it when on the morning of that date, she and Toby find a body gazing lifelessly at the ceiling of his dojo, Cattail Family Martial Arts. More than their relationship is at stake, since families rush to pull out of the dojo’s programs once they learn that Seth Goodnow, the bridegroom in a Cattail Island destination wedding, met his end there shortly after saying his vows. So Callie summons the detective skills she discovered in Smile Beach Murder (2022) to prove that Seth’s death had nothing to do with Toby’s business. When she interviews members of the wedding party, including Seth’s brand-new widow, she learns that she isn’t the only one captivated by the magic of Cattail Island. Despite their grief, none of them are willing to leave the gentle pace of the island and its wild natural beauty. Just as Callie struggles with learning that, thanks to the boom in tourism, her meager salary at MotherVine Bookshop won’t begin to cover her rent at the tiny Hyde Road cottage where she grew up, the wedding guests confide their difficulty reconciling their horror at Seth’s murder with their growing attachment to Cattail. All good things must end, and with grief for some, as Callie’s sleuthing skills once again crack a case that baffles the police. A worthy successor to Bessette’s Outer Banks debut. – Kirkus Review

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Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride: A Novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Nonna Maria, the distinctive protagonist of this gentle standalone from bestseller Carcaterra (the Tank Rizzo series), seldom travels from her home on the Italian island of Ischia, though she has a vast network of friends who come to her “with issues that should be brought to the attention of the local carabinieri and not a widow with a bad right leg.” She, in turn, depends on her buddies, including a Camorra crime boss and a priest, to help her resolve any problems that can’t be cleared up by common sense alone. One such is the plight of a reluctant bride-to-be, who has impetuously agreed to marry a handsome stranger and is now afraid to break things off for fear of what he might do to her family. Meanwhile, Nonna Maria uses her encyclopedic knowledge of the island and its inhabitants to help a carabinieri captain investigate the death of an 85-year-old tour boat captain. All the nice people involved are rewarded with happy endings. Italophiles wishing for a brief vacation in charming and clever company will revel in this love letter to Ischia. – Publishers Weekly Review

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Once More With Feeling by Elissa Sussman

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Kathleen Rosenberg once sold out arenas as pop star Katee Rose, until her very public breakup with her fiancé, boybander Ryan. Years later, her best friend, Harriet, has written a musical, Riveted!, about Rosie the Riveter, and she wants Kathleen to star. She also wants Ryan’s former bandmate Calvin Tyler Kirby to direct. But Kathleen hasn’t spoken to Calvin since she and Ryan broke up–in fact, he’s the reason they split. But her past with Calvin goes deeper, back to their teenage years at theater camp in Rhode Island. Kathleen and Calvin agree to work together, and it’s tense at first, but things slowly begin to thaw as the show comes together, going into previews at their old theater in Rhode Island. Harriet sees that the chemistry is still there, but Kathleen promises nothing will happen, until it does, making everything even messier. Sussman’s latest (after Funny You Should Ask, 2022) explores romance in the public eye while offering satisfyingly specific details about the process of mounting a Broadway show. Theater nerds, pop culture fanatics, and hopeless romantics will dig this one. – Booklist Review

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The Only One Left by Riley Sager

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

The author of Home before Dark (2020) and Survive the Night (2021) goes full-on Gothic in this tale of an in-home nurse who’s hired to take care of a wheelchair-bound woman. But this is no typical patient: the woman is Lenora Hope, who, according to public opinion, slaughtered her family six decades ago. Her new caregiver, Kit McDeere, also believes her client is guilty until Lenora begins to reveal secrets she’s kept nearly all her life. After a slight misstep with last year’s The House across the Lake, in which the supernatural elements didn’t quite work, Sager is back on form here. The writing is compelling, the story captivating, and the characters nicely rendered. The novel is set in the early 1980s, but it has a timeless feel: it could have taken place a century ago, or it could be happening today. Claustrophobic and haunting, this is Sager at the top of his game. – Booklist Review

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Vacation Wars by Meghan Quinn

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Tessa is thrilled to be spending the weeks before her twin sister’s wedding on the Greek island of Santorini. Then her sister decides it’s time for Tessa to find some love herself: they made a deal back in high school, after all! Trying to avoid her sister’s matchmaking attempts, Tessa finds an ally in her childhood crush, Myles, who works at the resort and is dealing with some family conflict of his own. Together they navigate their way through their families’ antics– and begin to realize that past feelings may have a future.

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Have a great day!

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.

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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).

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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 are our recommended reads for the week!

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

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Weekly Suggested Reading postings are now published on Wednesdays.

And the next Suggested Reading posting will be published on Wednesday, June 14, 2023.

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Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time by Samantha Friedman

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A revelatory new volume on the American modernist’s lesser-known works on paper, reuniting many serial works for the first time

Recalling a charcoal she made in 1916, Georgia O’Keeffe later wrote, “I have made this drawing several times―never remembering that I had made it before―and not knowing where the idea came from.” These drawings, and the majority of O’Keeffe’s works in charcoal, watercolor, pastel and graphite, belong to series in which she develops and transforms motifs that lie between observation and abstraction. In the formative years of 1915 to 1918, she made as many works on paper as she would in the next 40 years, producing sequences in watercolor of abstract lines, organic landscapes and nudes, along with charcoal drawings she would group according to the designation “specials.” While her practice turned increasingly toward canvas in subsequent decades, important series on paper reappeared―including charcoal flowers of the 1930s, portraits of the 1940s and aerial views of the 1950s.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, this richly illustrated volume highlights the drawings of an artist better known as a painter, and reunites individual sheets with their contextual series to illuminate O’Keeffe’s persistently sequential practice.

Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) first received critical attention when her breakthrough charcoal drawings were exhibited in New York in 1916. Two years later, she moved to the city to work full time on her art. Beginning in 1929, O’Keeffe spent summers in New Mexico, where she would relocate in 1949. The most famous female artist of her age, she thought of herself not as “the best woman painter” but as “one of the best painters.”

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Lie Maker by Linwood Barclay

(Available Format: Print Book)

Barclay (Look Both Ways) nails this riveting standalone thriller about a washed-up writer’s search for his long-lost parent. In a wrenching prologue, nine-year-old Jack Givins is separated from his father, who enters witness protection with blunt parting words: “Your dad’s not a good person. Your dad killed people, son.” In the present, Givins is a broke novelist hungry for whatever writing work he can get. After an offer to edit advertorial magazines falls through, he gets an even more lucrative opportunity when he’s approached by the U.S. Marshals Service to create fictional backstories for individuals in the federal Witness Security Program. The position gives Givins the idea to seek out his father’s whereabouts after decades of silence between the two. His efforts coincide with some high-profile disappearances, and he soon discovers the authorities have lost track of his father, sending Givins blindly on his trail. Barclay expertly knits the strands together and constructs a fully realized everyman in Givins. Crafty plotting and rich characters make this a winner. Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Jalaluddin’s delightful latest (after Hana Khan Carries On) puts a rom-com spin on Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Nada Syed works hard to launch the “Ask Apa” app, designed to offer sisterly advice to Toronto’s Muslim community, but a dishonest business partner undermines her efforts, forcing her to return to an engineering job she hates. As she approaches her 30th birthday, Nada is grappling both with this professional disappointment and with mounting parental pressure to find a spouse. To lift her spirits, Nada’s best friend, Haleema, takes her to Deen&Dunya, an annual Muslim convention (“like Comic-Con, except with hijabs”), for the weekend. There, Nada will finally meet Haleema’s fiancé, Zayn, and grudgingly participate in a speed-dating event. Upon arriving, however, Nada’s shocked to learn that Zayn’s brother is Baz Haq, whom she’s known since grade school and with whom she had an intense on-and-off relationship in college. As Nada navigates the convention, she and Baz try to conceal their romantic history from their loved ones while grappling with their unresolved emotions and simmering sexual tension. Jalaluddin makes their rekindling romance positively swoonworthy, and interfering family members and rich cultural detail add to this romance’s power. Austenite or not, readers will be swept away. Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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Sam Thayer’s Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: of Eastern and Central North America by Sam Thayer

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Eastern North America is one of the richest foraging landscapes in the world, with a wild abundance of fruits, berries, nuts, roots, tubers, shoots, flowers, seeds, and leafy greens. This guide is the key to unlocking the nutritional and culinary secrets of the natural bounty around us. As the most comprehensive regional guide ever written, it contains detailed descriptions, range maps, and sharp color photos of 700 edible species as well as some of our most troublesome toxic plants. Sam Thayer’s Field Guide pioneers a novel identification system using everyday language accessible to beginning and advanced foragers alike, designed to stand alone or work with phone-based identification apps to confirm positive ID before a plant is eaten. Readers will also learn about the plant’s habitat, conservation, edible parts, seasons of harvest, and methods of preparation. Destined to become the new standard in foraging field guides.

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Sing Her Down: A Novel by Ivy Pochoda

(Available Formats: Print Book)

This devastating thriller from Pochoda (These Women) examines the brutal politics inside an Arizona women’s penitentiary and the bleak mid-Covid landscape outside it. The first section focuses on three inmates: Kace, who is haunted by voices of the dead; Florida, a wealthy young white woman who was an accessory to murder, driving the getaway car while high; and Dios, Florida’s former cellmate, who’s determined to make Florida admit she’s no better than anyone else in their situation. Due to the strain of the pandemic, Florida and Dios are released from their sentences early and flee parole on a bus to Los Angeles. On the way, the pair makes one bad decision after another, garnering the attention of Lobos, a detective who wrestles with her own guilt and rage after surviving domestic violence; their explosive interplay takes up the back half of the action. In muscular prose, Pochoda plumbs the psychological depths of her fascinating characters and extracts high drama from their shifting allegiances. This searing, accomplished page-turner deserves a wide audience. Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Ballingrud, author of the short story collection Wounds (2019) and winner of two Shirley Jackson awards, sets his debut novel on Mars in 1931, where a fledgling human colony struggles to survive on the stark Martian terrain after losing touch with Earth a year prior. Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp’s mother returned to Earth to care for her dying mother just before communication was lost, leaving Anabelle and her father, Sam, with just a recorded cylinder of her voice to cling to while they continue to run their family diner. Anabelle’s world is turned upside down when thieves attack the diner, taking with them the precious cylinder among other loot. Things go from bad to worse when another incident at the diner leaves a man dead and Anabelle’s father in prison. Anabelle sets off on her own, with only the family’s robot helper, Watson, to find the thieves, recover the cylinder, and take her revenge. Rife with literary references, from True Grit (1968) to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Ray Bradbury, Ballingrud’s tale offers a visceral portrait of the haunting Martian landscape and of the unflinching pioneers who populate it in a gorgeously textured sf western full of action, danger, and heartbreak.  – Booklist Review

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The Survivor by Iris Johansen

(Available Formats: Print Book & Large Print)

Eve Duncan and Riley Smith must solve their most exciting puzzle since A Face to Die For when asked to uncover the mysterious secret hidden on a remote island.

When archeologist Riley Smith comes to ask Eve Duncan for help, Eve has to say no. Traveling halfway around the world on a dangerous quest is not her expertise as a forensic sculptor. But Eve is intrigued by the prospect of an isolated island that holds a secret locked in time.

Traveling to Southeast Asia, Riley is aware of the threat from treasure hunters who are already searching and have no qualms about killing to get what they want. When she successfully evades them and finds the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior, it is just what she needs to entice Eve to help unlock the mystery.

As these two strong women seek answers about this extraordinary past life, Riley makes a living, breathing discovery that will change history. If she can escape the island and survive long enough to share it with the world.

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That Summer Feeling by Bridget Morrissey

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Garland Moore is running late for her honeymoon when she meets a man named Mason at the airport and has a vision of them together in the future. Cut to a few years (and an unexpected divorce) later, when she runs into Mason again at a summer camp for adults that she’s attending with her sister. Then she also runs into Mason’s sister Stevie–literally. Garland is left trying to figure out what the signs all mean, and if she cares what the universe is trying to tell her anymore. While she attempts to navigate her love life, Garland also takes part in a number of traditional summer-camp activities and builds friendships with a strong cast of supporting characters. VERDICT If readers don’t mind the instalove timeframe or singular first-person narrative, they’ll find a lot to like in the latest from Morrissey (A Thousand Miles). It tells a story of emotional healing and an adult’s discovery of her bisexuality; there are also strong sibling connections and a fun camp setting. – Library Journal Review

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The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi

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

A biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling’s rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his own personal Twilight Zone.

We recognize him as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the “Angry Young Man” of Television. Before he became the revered master of science fiction, Rod Serling was a just a writer who had to fight to make his voice heard. He vehemently challenged the networks and viewership alike to expand their minds and standards—rejecting notions of censorship, racism and war. But it wasn’t until he began to write about real world enemies in the guise of aliens and monsters that people lent their ears. In doing so, he pushed the television industry to the edge of glory, and himself to the edge of sanity. Rod operated in a dimension beyond that of contemporary society, making him both a revolutionary and an outsider.

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Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The three adult Linwood children lived in Sir Lawrence Linwood’s shadow, and their father always challenged them. More challenges await them when they return home to Linwood Hall in 1921 for his funeral. They learn Linwood was bludgeoned to death beyond recognition. Each of them had been promised the estate. Instead, the will reads they are to split the estate, unless one of them can find Linwood’s killer, to the satisfaction of the police. The child who can identify the killer will inherit everything. Detective Inspector Clarence Mowbray is not happy that the Linwoods are poking into his investigation. But Alan, Roger, and Caroline, with the help of Roger’s girlfriend Iris, are the only ones who can piece together the truth about their pasts and their father. It’s a puzzle that’s been in the works for a quarter of a century. VERDICT Like Huang’s A Gentleman’s Murder, his latest mystery is a puzzle worthy of Golden Age detective fiction. Fans of historical mysteries and 1920s novels will welcome this twisted, complex story. – Starred Library Journal 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.

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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).

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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 blog post will be published Sunday, June 18, 2023.

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FICTION

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23RD MIDNIGHT by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

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

The 23rd book in the Women’s Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer tracks a copycat killer.

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THE COVENANT OF WATER by Abraham Verghese

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook, Downloadable Audiobook & Hoopla instant check out Audiobook)

Three generations of a family living on South India’s Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning.

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DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audibook, eBook, Downloadable Audiobook, Hoopla instant check out eBook & Audiobook)

Winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A reimagining of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.

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DROWNING by T.J. Newman

(Available Format: eBook)

When a jetliner crashes into the Pacific Ocean, a professional diver must save her daughter and the man she is about to divorce, who are among the passengers on board.

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FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros

(Available Formats: Print Book, Downloadable Audiobook & Hoopla instant check out eBook)

Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.

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GOOD NIGHT, IRENE by Luis Alberto Urrea

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Irene Woodward enlists with the Red Cross and serves in Europe during World War II.

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HAPPY PLACE by Emily Henry

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

A former couple pretend to be together for the sake of their friends during their annual getaway in Maine.

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HELLO BEAUTIFUL by Ann Napolitano

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

In a homage to Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” a young man’s dark past resurfaces as he gets to the know the family of his college sweetheart.

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THE HILL WE CLIMB by Amanda Gorman

(Available Formats: Print Book & Downloadable Audiobook)

The poem read on President Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem.

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ICEBREAKER by Hannah Grace

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

Anastasia might need the help of the captain of a college hockey team to get on the Olympic figure skating team.

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IDENTITY by Nora Roberts

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD Audiobook)

After her roommate is killed by a con artist, a former Army brat builds a new life at her mother’s home in Vermont.

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IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover

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

A battered wife raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse.

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IT STARTS WITH US by Colleen Hoover

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

In the sequel to “It Ends With Us,” Lily deals with her jealous ex-husband as she reconnects with her first boyfriend.

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KILLING MOON by Jo Nesbo

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The 13th book in the Harry Hole series. When a woman who once saved his life becomes imperiled, Harry returns to Oslo to track a murderer.

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THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, 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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MEET ME AT THE LAKE by Carley Fortune

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

A decade after a one-day adventure, Will appears again in Fern’s life at her mother’s lakeside resort.

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THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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SIMPLY LIES by David Baldacci

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

A former detective becomes the prime suspect in a murder case involving a man with mob ties who was in witness protection.

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TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin

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

Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.

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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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YELLOWFACE by R.F. Kuang

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

June Hayward, a struggling writer, must conceal the fact that she stole Athena Liu’s just-finished masterpiece after Liu’s sudden death.

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NON-FICTION:

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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk

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

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

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THE BOOK OF CHARLIE by David Von Drehle

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

The Washington Post columnist shares stories and wisdom he learned from a neighbor who was more than a century old.

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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, eBook, Downloadable Audiobook, Hoopla instant check out 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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DADDY DIARIES by Andy Cohen

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The host and executive producer of “Watch What Happens Live” juggles fatherhood and his career.

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EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE by Steph Catudal

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

As she tends to her husband during his battle with cancer, Catudal examines events during and after her father’s death.

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FORGOTTEN GIRLS by Monica Potts

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

The choices that sent two women who grew up as part of the working-class poor in the foothills of the Ozarks in different directions.

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GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY by David Sedaris

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy

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

The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.

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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann

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

The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil.

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KING: A LIFE by Jonathan Eig

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

A biography of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., which includes new archival material and reflections from some who worked, lived and fought with him.

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THE LIGHT WE CARRY by Michelle Obama

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

The former first lady shares personal stories and the tools she uses to deal with difficult situations.

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LOOK FOR ME THERE by Luke Russert

(Available Formats:Print Book, Hoopla instant check out eBook & Audiobook)

The Emmy Award–winning journalist details how he grieved for his late father and sought to make his own way.

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ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR by Elise Loehnen

(Available Formats: Not yet in any catalog)

An examination of the seven deadly sins and their influence over the lives of women today.

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OUTLIVE by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford

(Available Formats: Print Book & Downloadable Audiobook)

A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.

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QUIETLY HOSTILE by Samantha Irby

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

A new collection of essays detailing personal and professional experiences by the author of “Wow, No Thank You.”

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SPARE  by Prince Harry

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

The Duke of Sussex details his struggles with the royal family, loss of his mother, service in the British Army and marriage to Meghan Markle.

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STORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN by Katy Hessel

(Available Formats: Hoopla instant checkout Audiobook)

An overview of more than 300 works of art from the Renaissance to the present day by women artists.

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THE WAGER by David Grann

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Downloadable Audiobooks)

The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events.

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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.

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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, June 16, 2023.

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And here are the baker’s 10 recommended songs of the week!

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By The Light of the Moon by Dave Simonett (Genre: Folk)

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From The Album: Red Tail (2020)

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Down In The Willow Garden by Rufus Wainwright with Brandi Carlile (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: Folkocracy (2023)

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The Girl From Ipanema by Stan Getz & João Gilberto with Astrud Gilberto on vocals (Genre: Vocal, Jazz)

From The Album: Getz/Gilberto (1964)

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Here Comes Summer by Jerry Keller (Genre: Vocal/Pop)

From The Album: Here Comes Summer (1959)

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In The Mood by Bette Midler (Genre: Vocal)

From The Album: Bette Midler (1973)

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Lovely Day by Bill Withers (Genre: Vocal, R&B)

From The Album: Menagerie (1977)

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Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett (Genre: Pop/Rock)

From The Album: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (1977)

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One Time One Night by Los Lobos (Genre: Folk/Rock)

From The Album: By The Light of the Moon (1987)

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Riders On The Storm by George Winston (Genre: Piano)

From The Album: Night Divides The Day (2002)

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Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan (Genre: Folk/Rock)

From The Album: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

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To The Mountains by Lizzy McAlpine (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: Give Me A Minute (2020)

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Hoopla Recommend Album of the Week

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies [Music from the Paramount+ Original Series] (2023) (Genre: Classic Pop/Rock/Soundtrack)

And from the album the song:

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies

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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.

–

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here are our streaming recommendations for the month ahead of us – just a little bit late, as I was swamped last week – sorry about that!

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The next streaming recommendation post will be out the first Saturday in July – July 1, 2023.

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June 1

Another 48 Hours (1990) (Paramount+)

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June 7

Arnold (2023) (Netflix)

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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) (Disney+ and Max)

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June 9

Brooklyn 45 (2023) (Shudder)

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Flamin’ Hot (Hulu and Disney+)

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June 14

The Full Monty (2023) (Hulu)

(25 years later!)

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June 15

Black Mirror, Season 6 (2023) (Netflix)

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 2 (2023) (Paramount+)

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June 16

Outlander, Season 7 (Stars)

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June 30

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Season 4 (Amazon Prime)

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Hoopla Streaming Pick of the Month

Manhattan: Season 1 (2014)

Have a great week,

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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 blog post will be published Sunday, June 11, 2023.

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FICTION

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23RD MIDNIGHT by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

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

The 23rd book in the Women’s Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer tracks a copycat killer.

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THE COVENANT OF WATER by Abraham Verghese

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook, Downloadable Audiobook & Hoopla instant check out Audiobook)

Three generations of a family living on South India’s Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning.

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DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, CD Audibook, eBook, Downloadable Audiobook, Hoopla instant check out eBook & Audiobook)

Winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A reimagining of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.

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FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros

(Available Formats: Print Book, Downloadable Audiobook & Hoopla instant check out eBook)

Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.

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HAPPY PLACE by Emily Henry

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

A former couple pretend to be together for the sake of their friends during their annual getaway in Maine.

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HELLO BEAUTIFUL by Ann Napolitano

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

In a homage to Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” a young man’s dark past resurfaces as he gets to the know the family of his college sweetheart.

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THE HOUSEMAID by Freida McFadden

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Troubles surface when a woman looking to make a fresh start takes a job in the home of the Winchesters.

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ICEBREAKER by Hannah Grace

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

Anastasia might need the help of the captain of a college hockey team to get on the Olympic figure skating team.

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IDENTITY by Nora Roberts

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD Audiobook)

After her roommate is killed by a con artist, a former Army brat builds a new life at her mother’s home in Vermont.

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IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover

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

A battered wife raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse.

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IT STARTS WITH US by Colleen Hoover

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

In the sequel to “It Ends With Us,” Lily deals with her jealous ex-husband as she reconnects with her first boyfriend.

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THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, 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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THE MAKING OF ANOTHER MAJOR MOTION PICTURE MASTERPIECE by Tom Hanks

(Available Formats: Print Book & Large Print)

A World War II soldier’s experiences inspire a comic book, which gets adapted into a superhero movie.

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MEET ME AT THE LAKE by Carley Fortune

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

A decade after a one-day adventure, Will appears again in Fern’s life at her mother’s lakeside resort.

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ONLY THE DEAD by Jack Carr

(Available Format: Print Book)

The sixth book in the Terminal List series. The killing of a freshman congressman reverberates for decades and James Reece faces a global conspiracy.

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ROGUE JUSTICE by Stacey Abrams

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD Audiobook)

The second book in the Avery Keene series. The Supreme Court clerk suspects something sinister inside the nation’s third branch of government.

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THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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SIMPLY LIES by David Baldacci

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

A former detective becomes the prime suspect in a murder case involving a man with mob ties who was in witness protection.

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TOM CLANCY: FLASH POINT by Don Bentley 

(Available Formats: Print Book & Downloadable Audiobook)

When aircraft from rival nations have a midair collision and the Campus is attacked, Jack Ryan Jr. tries to avert a war.

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TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin

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

Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.

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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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YELLOWFACE by R.F. Kuang

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

June Hayward, a struggling writer, must conceal the fact that she stole Athena Liu’s just-finished masterpiece after Liu’s sudden death.

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NON-FICTION:

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ALL ABOUT LOVE by bell hooks

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & Hoopla Instant Checkout Audiobook)

The late feminist icon explores the causes of a polarized society and the meaning of love.

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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk

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

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

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THE BOOK OF CHARLIE by David Von Drehle

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

The Washington Post columnist shares stories and wisdom he learned from a neighbor who was more than a century old.

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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer

(Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print, eBook, Downloadable Audiobook, Hoopla instant check out 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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DADDY DIARIES by Andy Cohen

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The host and executive producer of “Watch What Happens Live” juggles fatherhood and his career.

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THE ESCAPE ARTIST by Jonathan Freedl

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook, Hoopla Instant Checkout eBook & Audiobook)

Rudolf Vrba, who became one of the first Jews to escape from Auschwitz, warned others about the death camp.

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GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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HOLDING THE NOTE by David Remnick

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

A collection of profiles of popular musicians, including Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples and Patti Smith, from the editor of The New Yorker.

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I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy

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

The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.

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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann

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

The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil.

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KING: A LIFE by Jonathan Eig

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

A biography of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., which includes new archival material and reflections from some who worked, lived and fought with him.

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THE LIGHT WE CARRY by Michelle Obama

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

The former first lady shares personal stories and the tools she uses to deal with difficult situations.

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LOOK FOR ME THERE by Luke Russert

(Available Formats:Print Book, Hoopla instant check out eBook & Audiobook)

The Emmy Award–winning journalist details how he grieved for his late father and sought to make his own way.

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ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR by Elise Loehnen

(Available Formats: Not yet in any catalog)

An examination of the seven deadly sins and their influence over the lives of women today.

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OUTLIVE by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford

(Available Formats: Print Book & Downloadable Audiobook)

A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.

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POVERTY, BY AMERICA by Matthew Desmond

(Available Formats: Print Book & Downloadable Audiobook)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted” examines the ways in which affluent Americans keep poor people poor.

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RAW DOG by Jamie Loftus

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The comedian and Emmy-nominated TV writer explains the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs.

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THE SHADOW DOCKET by Stephen Vladeck

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The legal scholar examines the Supreme Court’s authority to issue emergency rulings and the potential consequences of doing so.

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SPARE  by Prince Harry

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

The Duke of Sussex details his struggles with the royal family, loss of his mother, service in the British Army and marriage to Meghan Markle.

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THE WAGER by David Grann

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events.

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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.

–

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,

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And here are the 10 recommended songs of the week!

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Around And Around by The Rolling Stones (Genre: Classic Rock)

From The Album: 12 x 5 (1964)

And as a bonus, just for fun – here is Chuck Berry with the original version!

Around And Around by Chuck Berry (Genre: Classic Rock)

From The Album: Chuck Berry Is on Top (1959)

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Baby Please Don’t Go by Willie and the Poor Boys (Genre: Classic Rock)

From The Album: Willie and the Poor Boys (1985)

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Bluebird by The Charlie Watts Quintet (Genre: Jazz)

From The Album: From One Charlie (1991)

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Dear Mister Fantasy by Traffic (Genre: Classic Rock)

From The Album: Mr. Fantasy (1967)

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How Mable Get Sable Cha Cha Cha by David Carbonara (Genre: Easy Listening/Cocktail)

From The Album: Mad Men: After Hours (2014)

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Koto Song by Dave Brubeck (Genre: Jazz)

From The Album: Dave Brubeck in Berlin (1964)

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Summertime by The Tornadoes (Genre: Classic Rock, Surf)

From The Album: Bustin’ Surfboards (1963)

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Take Me To The River by Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton and others (from the 1983 A.R.M.S. concert)

From the ARMS concerts to benefit Ronnie Lane’s MS charity in 1983 (no album currently available)

Studio Version by Steve Winwood – From The Album: Talking Back to the Night (1982)

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Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats (Genre: Classic Rock, Swing)

From The Album: Blues Got Me Again: Singles 1951-1962

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That’s Alright Mama Medley by Carl Perkins with George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Rosanne Cash, David Edmunds, Lee Rocker and others

Recorded Live: 9/9/1985 – Capitol Theatre – Passaic, NJ

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I’ve run out of week here so you can access great albums from the Hoopla catalog via this link: https://www.hoopladigital.com/browse/music

And I’ll recommend two albums from the Hoopla collection next week!

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.

–

The Digital Catalog, web version of Libby

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

–

The Libby App

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

–

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.

–

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here is the latest edition of Library Connections, our monthly new book alert videocast.

The next Library Connections video will be posted on July 1, 2023.

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!

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

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Weekly Suggested Reading postings are now published on Wednesdays.

And the next Suggested Reading posting will be published on Wednesday, June 7, 2023.

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The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra

(Available Formats: Print Book, CD Audiobook, eBook, Hoopla instant check out eBook & Audiobook)

Nagendra (Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities) makes her fiction debut with an exceptional series launch. In 1921, 19-year-old Kaveri Murthy, who has a passion for advanced mathematics, lives just outside the sprawling city of Bangalore. While Kaveri and her physician husband, Ramu, are attending a reception at the prestigious Century Club, the body of a pimp is found murdered in the garden. When the deputy inspector of the local police force arrives to investigate, Kaveri confides that she saw the dead man in the garden with his hands around the throat of a beautiful woman. Kaveri’s desire to see justice done takes her from the bastions of British wealth to humble mud-floored shacks. By placing her intelligent and clear-eyed protagonists in the multilayered and multicultural milieu of colonial India, Nagendra, a university professor in Bangalore, imbues this mystery with a rich, edifying, and authentic feel. She rounds out the volume with easy-to-follow recipes for dishes like spiced rice with lentils, a welcome change from the sugary fare that culinary cozy recipes typically offer. Readers will hope Kaveri and Ramu will be back soon. Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Presidential families historian Anthony returns to Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, the subject of one of his previous books, As We Remember Her. This time, he focuses on the years 1949 to 1953, beginning with her arrival in Paris with a new Leica camera for a junior year at Smith College’s study-abroad program. The book notes she longed for independence from her “privileged, but also traumatic” past after the bitter divorce of her parents, which left her determined to resist getting married herself. After winning—and declining—Vogue’s prestigious Prix de Paris award (a year-long junior editorship with the magazine) because her mother didn’t want her to leave the country at that time, Jackie became the Washington Times-Herald’s “Inquiring Camera Girl” until forced to give up the job after becoming engaged to John F. Kennedy. Anthony mines her articles with aplomb, using the questions she posed to people on the streets of Washington, DC, as a window into her psyche. The book ends with her much-publicized marriage to Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy.

VERDICT Whether she’s avoiding a traffic ticket after speeding in her car named Zelda, or translating books for Kennedy’s report on the history of France in Indochina, this portrait of young Jackie Bouvier shines with wit and intelligence. – Starred Library Journal Review

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A Death at the Party: A Novel by Amy Stuart

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Virginia Woolf meets Agatha Christie in this taut psychological thriller from Stuart (Still Here). Around midnight in a basement bathroom, Nadine Walsh, who’s hosting a birthday party upstairs for her 60-year-old mother, a bestselling thriller writer, checks the pulse of an unidentified dying man. After he dies, Nadine, who lives in “Winngrove, an affluent-but-liberal village within a city,” returns to the party without being spotted leaving the basement. Flashbacks starting early that morning follow Nadine as she prepares for more than a hundred guests that evening. Her lawyer husband doesn’t help much, nor do their two self-absorbed teenage children. She feels judged by her 24-year-old niece, who has lived with the Walshes since Nadine fell down the stairs and broke her hip six months before. She also contends with her unresolved feelings for her rags to riches mother and the lingering trauma of a family tragedy that occurred exactly 30 years earlier. Stuart’s complex lead immediately grabs the reader’s sympathy, even if she is a killer. Fans of Mrs. Dalloway, which provides the book’s epigraph, will want to check this one out. – Publishers Weekly

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The Family Bones by Elle Marr

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Olivia Eriksen, the protagonist of this mesmerizing psychological thriller from Marr (Strangers We Know), is working on her dissertation in psychology at U.C. Davis after gaining notoriety through her social media videos about her family’s extensive history of psychiatric disorders, including her great-uncle’s murder of her great-grandfather. Because her dissertation focuses on whether psychopathy is revealed at birth, Olivia decides to attend an upcoming Ericksen family reunion at a remote Oregon resort, where she’ll be able to use her relatives as primary sources. Oliva’s boyfriend, Howard Ngo, an administrator at U.C. Davis, agrees to go along in the hope that Olivia will announce their engagement to her family. After a storm rolls through Oregon that isolates Olivia, Howard, and her relatives, a family member dies and Olivia tries to discover the culprit. Meanwhile, amateur detective and podcaster Birdie Tan is investigating the cold case disappearance of Li Ming Na, last seen 10 years earlier in Eugene, Ore., who left a small child and an on-again, off-again boyfriend behind. Marr expertly builds tension by alternating between the two narratives, which eventually merge and build to an explosive conclusion. Readers will be captivated from the very first page. – Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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I’m Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World by Milan Kordestani

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A straightforward look at the history and the art of maintaining courteous communication in an increasingly divided world.

Have you ever been in a conversation that, after volleying back and forth, ended with the words, “I’m just saying . . .”? Usually, this signals frustration, that the discussion has reached a dead end, that you haven’t made your point, and may even leave you feeling that your relationship with the other person has changed for the worse. Digital interactions, devoid of nuance and understanding, further complicate discussion. We may believe that we are superior because our opinions are the “right” ones, and in the future avoid conversations with those whose opinions differ from ours, sending us into a never-ending echo chamber.

In I’m Just Saying, author Milan Kordestani shows us that although challenging conversations can be unpleasant, they can also help us grow. Sometimes, people inspire us to change how we speak, making us better communicators in the process as we search to find common ground with those with whom we disagree. Kordestani uses contemporary case studies and personal experience to teach readers how to have constructive conversations by engaging in civil discourse—the idea that good-faith actors can reach consensus on any opinion-based disagreement. He discusses influential leaders and reflects on his successes and failures in creating The Doe, an online publication focused on civil discourse. He addresses the challenges that digital media consumption presents when seeking common ground—especially when people are only digitally connected.

Civil discourse, an essential part of democracy, is becoming rare in today’s digital age. I’m Just Saying examines discourse’s successes and the ways to rebuild it. Drawing from history, popular culture, and personal anecdotes, the book promotes effective civil discourse by providing practical advice and strategies for respect. Through story, I’m Just Saying offers insight and tools for politeness in a divided world.

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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Imperial nostalgia and miscalculation precipitated the war in Ukraine, according to this wide-ranging study. Harvard historian Plokhy (Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front) spends the book’s first half on the historical background of the 2022 Russian invasion, surveying Russia’s domination of Ukraine from the Middle Ages through the Soviet era, recent wranglings over Ukraine’s bids to join NATO and the European Union, and the course of the low-level war that followed Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and its support of Russian separatist militias in the Ukrainian Donbas. The book’s second half recaps the present conflict from the initial attack on Kiev to Ukraine’s counteroffensives in Kharkiv and Kherson, covering major battles; the killings of civilians by Russian occupiers; the charismatic leadership of Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenski; Putin’s poor military planning and delusional expectations, and more. Plokhy’s narrative is lucid, well-crafted, and judicious—he’s especially good on the complexities of the failed Minsk accords that sought to end the war in the Donbas—and vividly conveys the war’s destruction through Ukrainians’ firsthand experiences. (“It seems to be flying straight for your head,” one woman recalls of an attacking Russian warplane; “not even into your head but right through it.”) The result is an essential account of the conflict that manages to make sense of its obscure and tangled origins. – Publishers Weekly Review

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The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World by Bruce Feiler

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Americans are fed narrow, outdated notions of what work means—9 to 5 days, climbing the corporate ladder, dreams of bigger offices and higher salaries—argues TV personality Feiler (Life Is in the Transitions) in this energetic challenge to status quo notions of success. After taking in the disruptions wrought on work culture by the pandemic, Feiler embarked on a “Work Story Project” in which he interviewed people across the country to discover what makes jobs meaningful. He found that most people reported having more than one job, and that definitions of success are highly individual and based on a “work narrative” rooted in personal beliefs, experiences, and lessons. Since people can be unaware of their work narrative, he suggests conducting a “meaning audit”—surveying past, present, and future priorities and perspectives—in order to assume control of the story. As well, Feiler discusses harnessing “workquakes,” or moments of professional disruption, to initiate soul-searching, and the importance of allowing oneself permission to enact a life change; he supports his arguments with examples of those who overcame difficulties to find fulfilling careers. While the abundance of anecdotes sometimes crowds out Feiler’s advice, his down-to-earth delivery and emphasis on individual agency will resonate with readers seeking direction. Those at professional crossroads will benefit. – Publishers Weekly Review

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Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

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

Who’s responsible for the disappearance of members of Louisiana’s Takoda tribe? That question, inspired by the real-life epidemic of disappearances of Native Americans in both the U.S. and Canada, drives the plot of Medina’s pulse-pounding debut. Anna Horn, one of the few from the Takoda reservation to attend high school in the nearby town, is routinely subject to bullying and harassment. Anna is also troubled by the disappearance several months earlier of 19-year-old best friends Erica Landry and Amber Bloom, who also lived on the reservation. She’s skeptical that the teens just ran off, and fears their fate is linked to an older mystery: 10 years earlier, Shelby Mire, “the last of the Takoda tribe’s official singers and Legend Keepers,” was murdered, an unsolved crime that still haunts the surviving tribe members. Then, after someone else close to Anna vanishes, she searches frantically for answers, unsure whether the disappearances are linked to a new casino that the police suspected would attract riffraff or if something supernatural is at play. Medina resolves the plot well and gracefully weaves real-life concerns about disappearing Native people into the whodunit plot. This author is off to a strong start. – Publishers Weekly Review

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Someone Else’s Life by Lyn Liao Butler

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Annie Lin, the protagonist of this unsettling thriller from Butler (The Red Thread of Fate), has recently moved from New York to Kauai, Hawaii, with her husband, Brody, and their four-year-old son, Finn. She hopes the change of scene will provide comfort and stability for Finn, who suffered a traumatic accident six months earlier, and shore up her shaky marriage. But most of all, Annie hopes to regain some semblance of normalcy after personal and professional failures, including the bankruptcy of her dance studio, have left her depressed, resentful, and difficult to be around. She’s even started to doubt her own sanity. As the family adjusts to a fragile happiness, severe weather rocks the island, and a strange woman appears at their door seeking shelter. What happens next forces Annie to question everything in her life as she wonders whether this stranger is friend or foe. Well-developed characters and plenty of local color add to the slowly simmering plot, which builds to a strong and unexpected climax. Alfred Hitchcock fans will be satisfied. – Publishers Weekly Review

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The Spite House by Johnny Compton

(Available Formats: Print Books)

Compton’s chilling debut is horror with heart that puts a refreshingly modern spin on the haunted house story. On the run and in hiding from a mysterious family curse, Eric Ross and his daughters, Dess and Stacy, are desperate to find ways to make ends meet. Eunice Houghton, a wealthy eccentric, is willing to pay a substantial sum for anyone willing to stay in the Masson House, one of Texas’s most haunted buildings, and record their encounters with the supernatural. Eager to provide a better life for his daughters, Eric takes the job and is determined to see it through to the massive payday at the end. But as staying in Masson House becomes increasingly dangerous, Eric realizes that no one is telling him the entire truth about the house and its history. By changing perspectives between Eric, Dess, Stacy, and Eunice, this tense work of gothic horror provides a complex and multidimensional look at how anger, grief, and trauma can strengthen bonds of familial love. The tale’s simmering tension builds to an inevitable but thoroughly satisfying conclusion that, like the ghosts of the spite house, lingers. Even the most jaded horror fans will be wowed. – Starred 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.

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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).

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

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