Tech & Book Talk at 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. The next New York Times Bestseller list will be published to this blog on Sunday, September 11, 2022.

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FICTION

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6:20 MAN by David Baldacci

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

When his ex-girlfriend turns up dead in his office building, an entry-level investment analyst delves into the halls of economic power.

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ALL GOOD PEOPLE HERE by Ashley Flowers with Alex Kiester

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A journalist who returns to her hometown vows to find a missing girl and solve a 20-year-old cold case.

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BABEL by R.F. Kuang

(Available Formats: Print Book)

In 1828, Robin Swift studies at Oxford University’s Royal Institute of Translation and faces a choice when Britain pursues a war with China.

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CHALLENGE by Danielle Steel

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

Parents of children who have gone missing on a dangerous peak in Montana form a search-and-rescue mission.

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FIRE AND BLOOD by George R.R. Martin

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

Set 300 years before the events of “A Game of Thrones,” this is the first volume of the two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros.

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FOX CREEK by William Kent Krueger

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

The 19th book in the Cork O’Connor mystery series. Cork uses his skills as a hunter to track mercenaries and confronts his own self-doubt.

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GIRL, FORGOTTEN by Karin Slaughter

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

U.S. Marshal Andrea Oliver goes to Longbill Beach to protect a judge and winds up investigating a cold case from 1982.

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HOTEL NANTUCKET by Elin Hilderbrand

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

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

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IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

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

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IT GIRL by Ruth Ware

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

A decade after her first year at Oxford, an expectant mother looks into the mystery of her former best friend’s death.

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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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LOVE ON THE BRAIN by Ali Hazelwood

(Avaialble Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Heartbeats quicken and neurons fire when a pair of antagonistic scientists work together on a project.

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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig

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

Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.

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NOVEMBER 9 by Colleen Hoover

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

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

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OVERKILL by Sandra Brown

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

A former football star falls for a state prosecutor at the same time he must decide whether to kill his ex-wife, who is on life support, to ensnare her attacker.

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PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN by Daniel Silva

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

The 22nd book in the Gabriel Allon series. Allon becomes an art forger to uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud.

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RUBY FEVER by Ilona Andrews

(Available Formats:

The sixth book in the Hidden Legacy series.

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THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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SOUL TAKEN by Patricia Briggs

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

The 13th book in the Mercy Thompson series. The disappearance of the vampire Wulfe and others might indicate the return of the Harvester.

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SPARRING PARTNERS by John Grisham 

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

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

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UGLY LOVE by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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VERITY by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens

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

In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

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WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME by Gillian McAllister

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A mother who witnesses her son murder a stranger finds her days are going in reverse and seeks to use that to alter events.

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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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BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN MIND by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

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

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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk

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

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

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BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah

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

A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”

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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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

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

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BREAKING HISTORY by Jared Kushner

(Available Formats: Print Book)

An account of time spent in the Trump White House by the former president’s son-in-law and senior adviser.

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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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DIANA, WILLIAM, AND HARRY by James Patterson and Chris Mooney

(Available Formats: Print Book & Large Print)

A biography of the late Princess of Wales and her sons.

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EDUCATED by Tara Westover

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

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

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FINDING ME by Viola Davis

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

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

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GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

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

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JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson

(Available Formats:

A law professor and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.

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LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI by Rinker Buck

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The author of “The Oregon Trail” recounts his adventures on a wooden flatboat and challenges the myths of American expansion.

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PATH LIT BY LIGHTNING by David Maraniss

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The life story of the Olympic athlete, All-American football player and Major League Baseball player Jim Thorpe.

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SCENES FROM MY LIFE by Michael K. Williams with Jon Sternfeld

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

The late actor’s memoir gives details about his childhood in East Flatbush, struggles with addiction and work with social justice organizations.

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THINK AGAIN by Adam Grant

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

An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

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VACUUMING IN THE NUDE by Peggy Rowe

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

Stories of vacation mishaps, writers’ conferences and a cancer support group.

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

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

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

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WHAT WE OWE THE FUTURE by William MacAskill

(Available Formats:

A philosopher shares his perspective on what we should do now to ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed.

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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, here are our streaming recommendations for September.

Streaming recommendations are posted on the first Saturday of the month. And the next streaming recommendations post will be published on Saturday, October 1.

Andor (September 21) (Disney Plus)

The final Star Wars Disney Plus series of the year is Andor, which already feels like a great excuse to go rewatch the excellent Rogue One. This series starts off five years before that movie, and will give us more insight into how Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) became the man who helped steal the Death Star plans. But it’s about more than just his personal story, as Andor is also telling the story of the rise of the rebellion. Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) plays a key role in all of this, and it looks like we’ll see a younger version of Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker) and possibly learn about how he got those robotic legs. Stellan Skarsgård and Fiona Shaw also co-star. – HTC, Tom’s Guide Overview

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Blondie (September 28) (Netflix)

One of the most talked about films of the year is finally making its debut on Netflix this month. Adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 novel of the same name, Blonde is a historical psychological drama film that offers a fictionalized account of the inner life of 1950s and 1960s icon Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas). The NC-17 rated film gives viewers a unique look at Monroe, taking us from her early traumatic years growing up as Norma Jeane Mortensen to changing her name and image as she made her move to Hollywood and the silver screen, to all of the exploitation, substance issues, and romantic drama she experienced through it all behind the scenes in her personal life. Fans of Monroe, Old Hollywood, and film in general need to make it their mission to see Blonde as soon as it drops towards the end of September, only on Netflix.- Decider Review

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Elvis (September 2) (HBO Max)

To describe Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis as simply another biopic would not do it justice. This movie is a deep-fried, over-the-top ice cream sundae, and the movie leans into it. Everything about this film is too much—and it rocks.

The story follows the life of Elvis Presley, played with overwhelming stamina of Austin Butler, from the star’s impoverished birth to unglamorous death. It’s a story of addiction on many levels, namely Elvis’s endless need for the public’s love and adoration. It’s a big movie, one that suits a movie theater experience, but you can check it out in your own home right at the top of the month with HBO Max. – Lifehacker Review

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Hocus Pocus Two (Disney Plus) (September 30)

The Sanderson witches are back! And it only took nearly 30 years this time, not 300. A sequel to the 1993 comedy/horror movie Hocus Pocus seems completely unnecessary yet also totally welcome by its now grown-up fans (who likely have tweens of their own). Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy look like they’re having a blast in returning as the sisters who first terrorized girls in Salem in 1693, then again in 1993. In the modern day, they appear once more when the Black Flame Candle is lit by unsuspecting high schoolers. They must work together to stop the witches before they cause complete chaos. – KW, Tom’s Guide Review

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon Prime Video) (September 2) *

It’s been a long time coming, but the prequel series that delves into the story of how those coveted rings were forged, distributed and ultimately destroyed hits Prime Video this month. Sure, there’s no Gandalf or Gollum to invest in when we return to Middle Earth, but at least we’ll see a few familiar elven faces as the episodes unroll. Spy Review

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Los Spooky, Season Two (HBO Max) (September 16)

If you like What We Do In The Shadows, then you should get caught up on the absurd, critically-acclaimed Los Espookys. In the first season of this dark comedy we were introduced to a zany group of friends who are in the business of creating spooky, horror-inspired experiences for their clients. The new season finds Los Espookys leader and gore enthusiast Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco) haunted by the ghost of a murdered beauty pageant queen. Created by and starring Fred Armisen, Ana Fábrega and Julio Torres, season two is a long time coming due to a three-year pandemic delay. Plus, the series is bilingual (with subtitles) and features a predominantly Latino cast. – Lifehacker Review

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Pantheon (AMC+) (September 1)

AMC’s first animated series drops this weekend to make us all think twice about the concept of artificial intelligence. The show revolves around a young woman who receives messages from an unknown number claiming to be her dead dad. But when she pursues the truth, a more sinister story emerges. Paul Dano, William Hurt, Taylor Schilling, Lara Pulver and Maude Apatow voice the series. Spy Overview

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Reboot (Hulu) (September 20)

We’re suckers for meta Hollywood projects, and this comedy is as meta as it gets. Reboot revolves around a dysfunctional cast that’s forced back together to reboot (okay, technically revive) their comedy years after it originally aired. Of course, none of them have grown since their time in the limelight — they’ve backtracked, and now they need to learn to get along. Judy Greer, Keegan-Michael Key, Johnny Knoxville, Paul Reiser and Rachel Bloom star. Spy Overview

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Severance, Season One (2022) (Apple TV+)

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs. – Radio Times)

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The U.S. And The Holocaust (PBS) (September 18)

The U.S. and the Holocaust is a three-part, six hour series that examines America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a “nation of immigrants,” but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolded in Europe, the United States proved unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people seeking refuge. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured persecution, violence and flight as their families tried to escape Hitler, this series delves deeply into the tragic human consequences of public indifference, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive quota laws in America. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? This is a history to be reckoned with. – PBS

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Hoopla Streaming Recommendation of the Month

This new adaptation of the classic novel “The Darling Buds of May” by H.E. Bates follows the warmhearted, wheeler-dealer adventures of the Larkin family in the idyllic Kent countryside of the 1950s. Joanna Scanlan (No Offence) and Bradley Walsh (Law & Order: UK) star in a show capturing the warmth, optimism, and escapism of the Larkins for a modern generation.

Larkins, Season One Trailer

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Have a great weekend everyone,

Linda

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*If you’re watching The Ring Of Power this weekend and would like to read or listen to more of Tolkien’s Middle Earth volumes, especially the ones that feature stories set the Second Age that is covered in the TV series, like the Silmarillion; checkout all the Tolkien eBooks and audiobooks available for instant checkout through Hoopla!

All you need is your library card!

Here is the link to the catalog online: https://www.hoopladigital.com/search?artistName=Tolkien&page=1

And of course you can download the Hoopla app to your smart TV or mobile device.

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References

Casale, M. (2022, September 1). New On Netflix September 2022, Plus What’s Coming Next. Decider. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://decider.com/article/new-on-netflix/

Dietz, M. (2022, August 31). 12 of the Best New Things to Stream in September 2022. Lifehacker. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://lifehacker.com/12-of-the-best-new-things-to-stream-in-september-2022-1849476519/slides/2

Staff, R. T. (2022, July 22). Best TV shows on Apple TV+. Radio Times. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/best-tv-shows-on-apple-tv/

U.S. and the Holocaust. (n.d.). PBS. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-and-the-holocaust/

Dowling, A. (2022, September 1). What to Watch in September: The 31 Best New Streaming Releases on HBO Max, Disney+ and Netflix. SPY. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://spy.com/feature/new-streaming-releases-1202830372/

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, September 9, 2022.

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And here are the 10 recommended songs of the week!

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9 to 5 by Dolly Parton (Genre: Country/Pop)

From The Album: Ultimate Dolly Parton (2003)

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Allentown by Billy Joel (Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Rock)

From The Album: The Nylon Curtain (1982)

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Blow The Man Down by The Almanac Singers (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: Complete General Recordings (2007)

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Casey Jones by Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: Classic Labor Songs by Smithsonian Folkways (2006)

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Joe Hill by Joan Baez (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: The Best of Joan Baez (1997)

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John Henry by Pete Seeger (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1 (2002)

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Rain On The Scarecrow by John Mellencamp (Genre: Rock)

From The Album: Scarecrow (1985)

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She Works Hard For The Money by Donna Summers (Genre: Vocal, Pop, R&B)

From The Album: She Works Hard For The Money (1983)

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We Shall Not Be Moved/Roll The Union On by Joe Glazer (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: Classic Labor Songs by Smithsonian Folkways (2006)

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Working Man’s Ph.D by Aaron Tippin (Genre: Country)

From The Album: Greatest Hits (1997)

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Hoopla Recommend Album of the Week

Labor Day Moods by Various Artists

And from the album the Copeland classic:

Fanfare For The Common Man by Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens

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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 published on Tuesdays.

And the next Suggested Reading posting will be published on Tuesday, September 6, 2022.

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Be The Serpent by Seanan McGuire

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

At long last, Toby has actually managed to get married. True to form, what that means is that she’s well-rested for the chaos to come: and there is going to be so much chaos. McGuire packs a lot into this one, both story and history. As soon as the matter of Rayseline Torquill has been resolved, events start to spiral. Toby, sent to her childhood friend’s home by the court seers, isn’t quite fast enough to avert tragedy. She can ride the blood, though, and find out who is responsible. At least, that’s how it should work. From there, the horrible mess that Oberon made by abdicating after Maeve’s Ride was broken and Titania disappeared starts to unravel. McGuire’s ability to pack cascading disasters into a single book is showcased here, with a satisfying number of threads picked up from earlier in the series (most recently, When Sorrows Come, 2021) and woven into something both inevitable and surprising. Fortunately, McGuire has proven again and again that she can follow up a cliffhanger ending with spectacular payoffs, and fans will find the path to the cliff well worth the effort. – Booklist Review

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Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery by Casey Parks

(Available Formats: Print Book)

In this tantalizing blend of personal history and reportage, Washington Post reporter Parks seeks out the story of an enigmatic small-town country singer to reckon with her own fraught past. When, in 2002, Parks’s grandmother shared that she’d once been neighbors in the 1950s with “a woman who lived as a man” named Roy Hudgins, Parks pledged to find out what happened to him. As a college freshman in the South who’d recently faced rejection after coming out to her family—a confession met by a plea from her pastor for “God to kill me”—Parks writes, “I couldn’t believe there was a place where you could be different, and people would love and accept you.” Seven years later, she set off on a series of trips through rural Louisiana to interview people who had known Roy. As Parks uncovers the mystery surrounding Roy’s life and death, she attempts to reconcile her sexuality with the specters of the home she left behind, as well as her complicated relationship with her mother, an opioid addict who was “bright and joyous when she was off the nose spray, vacant and mean when she was on.” Out of this comes a brilliantly rendered and complex portrait of Southern life alongside a tender exploration of queer belonging. Parks’s writing is a marvel to witness. – Publishers Weekly Review

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Hell And Back by Craig Johnson

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook coming soon)

Nightmare, out-of-body experience, time travel, and mental illness are all possibilities for a man who awakens knowing neither his name nor where he is. Sheriff Walt Longmire of Absaroka County, Wyoming, wakes up in a heavy snowstorm frozen to the street. At first his only reality is snow, the sound of bells, and two silver dollars in his lap. Then he sees a sign for the Fort Pratt Industrial Indian Boarding School. His period of hell on earth starts with a visit to a restaurant staffed by a stunning blond woman who looks familiar. She tells him his name, which is written in his hat’s sweatband, and identifies their locale as Fort Pratt, Montana. His next interaction is with an enormous man whom the waitress can’t see, a man dressed in the clothes of a Mountain Crow, who departs with an enigmatic comment. The two meet again while Walt, who’s looking for a policeman, discovers a woman in a movie theater who again seems familiar and a priest who claims to be researching a book on the Indian boarding school where 31 children reportedly perished in a fire. In the meantime, Walt’s best friend, Henry Standing Bear, and his deputy, Vic Moretti, come looking for him. Just like Walt, they keep running into the same people whose lives make no sense in a town where the time is always 8:17 p.m. After Walt manages to save the children from that fire, which took place many years before the time he seems to be living in, he gets locked in a desperate battle with a shape-shifting monster whose name just might be death. A mystical thriller that offers a wild ride through a thoroughly altered reality. Kirkus Review

On Readers’ Note: Hell And Back is the eighteenth book in the Walt Longmire Mystery Series. If you’d like to start reading from the beginning checkout book one, The Cold Dish.

On A Listeners’ Note: The audiobook versions of all eighteen books in the Longmire series to-date are outstanding – they are narrated by perfect narrator – George Guidall.

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The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case.

When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity.

Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.

Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits – and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . .

A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.

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The Rising Tide: A Vera Stanhope Novel by Ann Cleeves

(Available Formats: Print Book)

In bestseller Cleeves’s melancholy 10th Vera Stanhope novel (after 2020’s The Darkest Evening), sexagenarians Rick Kelsall, Annie Laidler, and two other old friends reunite at the tidal island convent-turned-guesthouse where they met as teens during a school retreat. When Annie finds Rick’s body hanging from a rafter, Det. Insp. Stanhope and her Northumbria Police colleagues cross the island’s causeway to investigate. Rick may have lost his BBC hosting gig over sexual misconduct allegations, but he recently signed a lucrative book deal and didn’t leave a suicide note. After an autopsy reveals someone smothered Rick before stringing him up, Vera and company uncover myriad viable suspects; not only was Rick’s BBC departure more contentious than reported, but he was writing a roman à clef in which he planned to expose his oldest pals’ darkest secrets. Cleeves crafts a clever central puzzle, then confers remarkable emotional complexity using her keenly drawn characters’ advancing age, wistful nostalgia, and thorny shared history. A pinwheeling third-person narrative drives the pace, while Vera’s candor tempers the plot’s darker elements. Fair-play mystery fans will delight. – Publishers Weekly Review

Readers’ Note: If you’d like to start reading the Vera series from the beginning, check out book one The Crow Trap.

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Scenes from My Life: A Memoir by Michael K. Williams

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The late Emmy-nominated actor recounts his endeavor to overcome poverty, abuse, and addiction in this immensely inspiring and candid debut. Born in Brooklyn in 1966, Williams endured a difficult childhood marked by an absentee father, a suffocating and abusive mother, bullying friends, and molestation, before turning to drugs as a way of “letting me disappear from myself.” Employing the arts as a “form of rebellion,” Williams became a backup dancer and began appearing in music videos, where he started to unlearn “macho code” of suppressing his feelings: “If you push something down, it’ll find its way out,” he writes in one of the book’s many raw and moving scenes. “Jay-Z says we can’t heal what we never reveal. And it’s true.” A couple years later, Tupac Shakur spotted Williams’s headshot and launched his acting career in the mid 1990s, leading Williams to land his breakout role nearly a decade later as Omar on The Wire. While the intensity of his performances often reawakened Williams’s addiction struggles, he recounts how he used his hardships as inspiration “to bring others up” via organizations—such as his own nonprofit, Making Kids Win—that were dedicated to ending cycles of violence and poverty in marginalized communities. This bittersweet and poignant work will leave readers in awe. Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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Small Town, Big Magic by Hazel Beck

(Available Formats: Print Book)

This spellbinding magic-infused rom-com from Nicole Helm (the North Star series) and Megan Crane (the Alaska Force series), writing as Beck, brings modern witchcraft away from the typical New England setting, with quirky protagonists, stoic love interests, and fanciful interpretations of history in tow. Emerson Wilde has backup plans for her backup plans, and she’s determined to see her beloved hometown of St. Cyprian, Mo., thrive. But there’s more to St. Cyprian than meets the eye—as Emerson learns when a vicious attack by magical beasts awakens her innate magical power and her best friends let her in on a secret: they’re all witches. A decade ago, Emerson’s magical memory was wiped after she failed to show enough potential during a magical aptitude test. Unused to being unprepared, Emerson struggles to make sense of this new world order, control her abilities, solve the mystery of her power’s resurgence—and reckon with the chemistry that’s reignited between her and Jacob, a member of her coven. Beck delivers a wonderfully realized heroine with a voice so clear readers will feel like one of her friends. This is sure to be a hit with any fan of paranormal romance. – Publishers Weekly Review

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A Song of Comfortable Chairs: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

(Available Formats: Print)

McCall Smith choreographs an ingenious “trickster tricked” plot here, centered on a swarm of cutthroat businesspeople and one surly teenager. Precious Ramotswe, founder of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Botswana’s only private-investigations business run by women, is on the case in this twenty-third adventure in the series. First on the agenda is a plot that might destroy the Double Comfort Furniture Store, the life’s work of Phuti, the husband of Precious’ friend and colleague, Grace Makutsi. A rival business, specializing in minimalist “Twenty-first Century Chairs,” is slashing prices and using the alluring, ever-scheming Violet Sephotho (sworn enemy of Grace Makutsi) in its advertising. Then there’s the surly teenager and his role in derailing the happiness of Grace’s childhood friend, a woman who was forced, as a teen herself, to bear a child after being raped. Precious and Grace join forces in an elaborate sting operation designed to expose these agents of mayhem. Their plot includes concocting an ad campaign of their own and hiring an actor to play a domestic scene. As they would sink into one of Phuti’s large, overstuffed, extremely comfortable armchairs, so will readers delightedly immerse themselves in descriptions of the Botswana landscape; in Precious and Grace’s conversations over mugs of red bush tea; and in the doings of the rest of the cast of comic characters. Another delight from the prolific McCall Smith. – Booklist Review

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Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

A new threat comes to Washington State’s Tri-Cities in Briggs’s solid 13th Mercy Thompson urban fantasy (after Smoke Bitten). Secrets come out and tensions rise among the Columbia Basin shape-shifter pack when it is implicated in the disappearance of Wulfe, the vampire who has been stalking shape-shifter mechanic Mercy. Marsilia, the mistress of the local vampire seethe, threatens to end the alliance between vampires and werewolves if the pack can’t prove its innocence by finding and returning Wulfe to her. Complication arises when a series of dead bodies turn up throughout the Tri-Cities in murders that mimic the killings featured in a new horror movie and appear to be magic in origin. With the pack in danger and Mercy herself targeted by the murderer, she and her allies race to uncover who—or what—is doing the killings. As they peel back the layers of the mystery, they find themselves enmeshed in a more complex and much older supernatural plot. Briggs does a good job integrating exposition into her story, offering fans a refresher course on the characters and their backstories and even allowing new readers to jump in fairly easily. This keeps the series going strong.

Readers’ Note: Soul Taken is the thirteen book in the Mercy Thompson series. If you’d like to start reading the series from the beginning, checkout book one Moon Called.

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The Very Secret Society Of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

(Available Formats: Print Book)

DEBUT Mika Moon lives a very lonely life most of the time. Orphaned at a young age, Mika was raised by a series of nannies and tutors. Other than infrequent meetings with her fellow witches, Mika doesn’t get to share her love of magic with others, so she starts a YouTube channel where she plays a fake witch. She never expected anyone to realize she was a real witch, but to her surprise, she gets a message asking her to tutor three young witches. Mika knows she shouldn’t take this job, but the idea of sharing her passion for potions and spells with the young witches is hard to resist. Before long, she finds herself a welcome part of their little found family–by all except the cute, grumpy librarian named Jamie. Mika and her new family shine with a glow all their own. This book is like a warm welcome home and is sure to find itself being a comfort read for many. VERDICT Mandanna’s (Kiki Kallira Conquers a Curse) first adult novel is a positively adorable romantic fantasy and a must-buy for all public libraries. – 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.

The StarCat app is called Bookmyne and is available for Apple and Android devices.

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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 latest edition of Library Connections, our weekly readers’ and listeners’ advisory videocast.

The next Library Connections video will be posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2022.

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

Have a great week!
Linda Reimer, SSCL

Hi everyone, here 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. The next New York Times Bestseller list will be published to this blog on Sunday, September 4, 2022.

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FICTION

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6:20 MAN by David Baldacci

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

When his ex-girlfriend turns up dead in his office building, an entry-level investment analyst delves into the halls of economic power.

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ALL GOOD PEOPLE HERE by Ashley Flowers with Alex Kiester

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A journalist who returns to her hometown vows to find a missing girl and solve a 20-year-old cold case.

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ALL YOUR PERFECTS by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

Quinn and Graham’s marriage depends on past promises.

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BOOK LOVERS by Emily Henry

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

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

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CHALLENGE by Danielle Steel

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

Parents of children who have gone missing on a dangerous peak in Montana form a search-and-rescue mission.

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CONFESS by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

A young woman finds herself attracted to an artist with a secret.

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HEAT 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner

(Available Formats: Print Book)

New adversaries confront returning characters in situations set before and after the events of the film “Heat.”

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HOTEL NANTUCKET by Elin Hilderbrand

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

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

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IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

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

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IT GIRL by Ruth Ware

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

A decade after her first year at Oxford, an expectant mother looks into the mystery of her former best friend’s death.

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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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MAYBE SOMEDAY by Colleen Hoover

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

Sydney, a college student, is fascinated by her mysterious next-door neighbor, Ridge.

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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig

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

Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.

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NOVEMBER 9 by Colleen Hoover

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

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

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OVERKILL by Sandra Brown

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

A former football star falls for a state prosecutor at the same time he must decide whether to kill his ex-wife, who is on life support, to ensnare her attacker.

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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry

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

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

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PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN by Daniel Silva

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

The 22nd book in the Gabriel Allon series. Allon becomes an art forger to uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud.

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THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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SHATTERED by James Patterson and James O. Born

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

he 14th book in the Michael Bennett series. When an F.B.I. abduction specialist disappears, Bennett goes outside his jurisdiction.

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SPARRING PARTNERS by John Grisham 

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

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

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STAR WARS: THE PRINCESS AND THE SCOUNDREL by Beth Revis

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Princess Leia and Han Solo get married and continue to fight what remains of the Imperial forces.

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TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin

(Available Formats: Print Book)

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

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UGLY LOVE by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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VERITY by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens

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

In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

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WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME by Gillian McAllister

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A mother who witnesses her son murder a stranger finds her days are going in reverse and seeks to use that to alter events.

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NON-FICTION:

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AMERICA, A REDEMPTION STORY by Tim Scott with Joel N. Clark

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

The Republican senator from South Carolina shares stories from his life and the lives of other Americans.

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BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN MIND by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

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

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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk

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

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

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BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah

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

A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”

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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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

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

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CRYING IN H MART by Michelle Zauner

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

The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.

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THE DESTRUCTIONISTS by Dana Milbank

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

The Washington Post columnist describes Republican actions between the signing of the Contract With America and the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson

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

How an architect and a serial killer were linked by the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.

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EDUCATED by Tara Westover

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

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

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EXISTENTIAL PHYSICS by Sabine Hossenfelder

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

The physicist and creator of the YouTube series “Science Without the Gobbledygook” takes on some of the biggest questions in life and physics.

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FINDING ME by Viola Davis

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

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

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GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY by David Sedaris

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

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

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I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

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

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KILLING THE KILLERS by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

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

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LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI by Rinker Buck

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The author of “The Oregon Trail” recounts his adventures on a wooden flatboat and challenges the myths of American expansion.

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PATH LIT BY LIGHTNING by David Maraniss

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The life story of the Olympic athlete, All-American football player and Major League Baseball player Jim Thorpe.

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SHY by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green

(Available Formats: Not yet available; publication date 8/30)

The memoirs of the late composer, author and screenwriter, written with the chief theater critic at The New York Times.

 

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THINK AGAIN by Adam Grant

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

An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

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THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS by Michael Pollan

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

A look at arbitrary beliefs surrounding opium, caffeine and mescaline, which are derived from plants.

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

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

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

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Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSL

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*Information on the Three Catalogs*

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

The Digital Catalog has two companion apps, Libby & OverDrive. Libby is the app for newer devices and the OverDrive app should be used for older devices and Amazon tablets.

All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog.

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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/

The Hoopla Catalog features instant check outs of eBooks, downloadable audiobook, comic books, albums and streaming videos. Patron check out limit is 4 items per month.

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

The Hoopla App is available for Android or Apple devices and most smart TVs & media streaming players.

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StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org

Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System.

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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, September 2, 2022.

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And here are the 10 recommended songs of the week!

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Autumn Serenade by John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman (Genre: Jazz)

From The Album: The Essential John Coltrane On Impulse! (2021)

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Black Velvet by Alannah Myles (Genre: Vocal, Pop-Rock)

From The Album: Alannah Myles (1998)

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The Lady of Shalott by Loreena McKennitt (Genre: Vocal, Pop, Ethereal)

Recorded live at the Juno Awards in 1992

Studio Version From The Album: The Visit (1991)

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No Expectations by The Cowboy Junkies (Genre: Vocal, Folk-Rock)

From The Album: Songs of Recollection (2022)

And as a bonus, here is the original version:

No Expectations by The Rolling Stones (Genre: Rock)

From The Album: Beggars Banquet (1968)

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Shake ‘Em Down by Mississippi Fred McDowell Annie Mae McDowell (Genre: Blues)

From The Album: Shake Em On Down / Alan Lomax Recordings (2019)

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Satisfaction by Justine Bateman & The Mystery (Genre: Soundtrack)

From The Album: Satisfaction Soundtrack (1990)

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Satisfied by Florence Stamp (Genre: Blues)

The Land Where The Blues Began – The Alan Lomax Collection by Various Artists (2002)

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Sunday Girl by Blondie (Genre: New Wave, Rock)

From The Collection: Parallel Lines (1978) & Best of Blondie (1981, Chrysalis)

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Thank You For… by Bridget St. John (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: A Pocketful of Starlight: The Best of Bridget St. John (2013)

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Thing Called Love by Bonnie Raitt (Genre: Blues-Rock)

From The Album: Luck of the Draw (1991)

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Hoopla Recommend Album of the Week

Even In The Quietest Moments (1977) by Supertramp

And from the album the song

Give A Little Bit by Supertramp (Genre: Pop-Rock)

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Have a great weekend,

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Online Catalog Links:

StarCat

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

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The Digital Catalog, web version of Libby

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

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The Libby App

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

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Hoopla

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

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

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

The next Library Connections video will be posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2022.

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

Have a great week!
Linda Reimer, SSCL

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

*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 published on Tuesdays.

And the next Suggested Reading posting will be published on Tuesday, August 30, 2022.

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Banned Books: The World’s Most Controversial Books, Past and Present by DK Books

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Immerse yourself in the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published!

Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed “acceptable” in published works have shifted over the centuries, and from culture to culture.

Banned Books explores why some of the world’s most important literary classics and seminal non-fiction titles were once deemed too controversial for the public to read – whether for challenging racial or sexual norms, satirizing public figures, or simply being deemed unfit for young readers. From the banning of All Quiet on the Western Front and the repeated suppression of On the Origin of the Species, to 1984, Fahrenheit 45, Catcher in the Rye and Huckleberry Fin, this must-have volume examines the astonishing role that some banned books have played in changing history.

Packed with eye-opening insights into the history of the written word, and the political and social climate during the period of suppression or censorship, this is a must-read for anyone interested in literature, creative writing, politics, history, or the law.

Delve into this compelling collection of the world’s most controversial books to discover:

– Covers a broad range of genres and subject areas in fiction and non-fiction, ranging from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Spycatcher

– Offers informative insights into society, politics, law, and religious beliefs, in different countries around the world

– Features images of first editions and specially commissioned illustrations of the books’ authors

– Includes extracts from the banned books along with key quotations about them

– Completely global in scope

A must-have volume for avid readers and literary scholars alike, alongside those with an interest in the law, politics and censorship, Banned Books profiles a selection of the most infamous, intriguing and controversial books ever written, whilst offering a unique perspective on the history of the written word, with insights into the often surprising reasons books have been banned throughout history and across the world.

Whether as a gift or self-purchase, this brilliant book is a must-have addition to the library of curious thinkers, borrowers and lifelong learners. If you enjoy Banned Books, then why not try Great Loves – the first title in DK’s quirky new hardback series, full of insightful and intriguing topics.

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Dark Music by David Lagercrantz

(Available Formats: Print Book)

In Stockholm, soccer referee Jamal Kabir is murdered shortly after a confrontation with hot-headed soccer dad Giuseppe Costa. Officer Micaela Vargas, newly assigned to homicide, was raised in the same rough neighborhood as Costa, and new colleagues hope that this connection will draw out a confession. Instead, a consultation with renowned interrogation expert Hans Rekke lends support to Micaela’s growing conviction that Costa’s volatility doesn’t fit the scene’s evidence, which suggests a well-planned murder. Micaela manages to clear Costa but is booted from the case. Redemption comes later, when a chance meeting with Rekke grows into an off-the-books investigation of Kabir’s murder, which reaches back to the persecution of Soviet-trained musicians in Taliban-controlled Kabul and the Swedish government’s well-concealed role in CIA counter-terrorism operations.

Former journalist Lagercrantz, applauded by many for his novels continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, has created a complex, Holmes-and-Watson alliance here that’s enhanced by brooding Scandinavian atmosphere, nuanced internal conflicts, and sharp-edged cultural divides. A well-constructed series starter, offering more to come. In Stockholm, soccer referee Jamal Kabir is murdered shortly after a confrontation with hot-headed soccer dad Giuseppe Costa. Officer Micaela Vargas, newly assigned to homicide, was raised in the same rough neighborhood as Costa, and new colleagues hope that this connection will draw out a confession. Instead, a consultation with renowned interrogation expert Hans Rekke lends support to Micaela’s growing conviction that Costa’s volatility doesn’t fit the scene’s evidence, which suggests a well-planned murder. Micaela manages to clear Costa but is booted from the case. Redemption comes later, when a chance meeting with Rekke grows into an off-the-books investigation of Kabir’s murder, which reaches back to the persecution of Soviet-trained musicians in Taliban-controlled Kabul and the Swedish government’s well-concealed role in CIA counter-terrorism operations. Former journalist Lagercrantz, applauded by many for his novels continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, has created a complex, Holmes-and-Watson alliance here that’s enhanced by brooding Scandinavian atmosphere, nuanced internal conflicts, and sharp-edged cultural divides. A well-constructed series starter, offering more to come. Booklist Review

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Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America by Peter Wohlleben

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

Forester Wohlleben and editor Billinghurst reconvene for this enlightening look at the power of forests (after The Hidden Life of Trees). Being in the woods can force one to slow down and offers an opportunity to hone senses, the authors write, and they offer a guide to navigating woodland areas. This includes tips for seasonal walks, wildlife spotting, foraging, and outdoor attire, and they suggest some activities for children, too, such as painting with mud on a tree trunk and learning to play the beech leaf, which makes a squeaking sound when blown. Along the way, Wohlleben and Billinghurst provide insight into how forests operate: “Thrifty red spruces,” for example, “engineer an ecosystem” in soil that lacks nutrients, and even dead trees serve as homes for wildlife and provide nutrients to the earth. Trees “shape the soil, the climate, the frequency of fire, and the path taken by water in the surrounding landscape.” The survey is poetic and full of marvels, and readers will be encouraged by the authors’ insistence that a simple walk is all one needs to find adventure. This beautifully written homage will have readers ready to get outside. – Starred Publishers Weekly Review
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Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger

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

In Edgar winner Krueger’s outstanding 19th mystery featuring PI Cork O’Connor of Minnesota’s Tamarack County (after 2021’s Lightning Strike), Cork is tending the grill at his burger joint when he’s approached by a stranger who introduces himself as Louis Morriseau. Louis wants the PI to find his wife, Dolores, who he believes is having an affair with Henry Meloux. Cork immediately knows something is wrong, because his friend Henry, an Ojibwe healer, is more than 100 years old. Henry is indeed with Dolores, who’s having a cleansing sweat under the guidance of Cork’s wife, Rainy, who’s also Henry’s great-niece. Dolores later confirms that the stranger is not her husband, Louis, who has been missing. Henry uses his highly developed sense of mysticism to lead Dolores and Rainy deep into the Boundary Waters wilderness to escape two killers pursuing the women. Meanwhile, Cork and Dolores’s brother-in-law, Anton, a tribal cop, follows the killers. Krueger skillfully blends an evocative look at nature’s beauty and peril with Native American lore. Not just regional mystery fans will be enthralled. – Starred Publishers Weekly Review
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The Lost Ticket by Freya Sampson

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Frank Weiss met a red-haired artist on the 88 bus in London in 1962, and promptly lost her number. Sixty years later and in the early stages of dementia, he rides the 88 route, hoping to run into her again. Red-haired Libby is fresh off a breakup with nothing to do but babysit her nephew. One day on the bus, she sketches a punk with a mohawk hairdo, who promptly turns around and yells at her. When Libby meets Frank, she feels compelled to find his lost (potential) love, and Frank insists she enlist the help of his carer–who turns out to be the punk. Dylan thinks Libby’s idea to plaster the route with missed-connection signs is a bad one, but he helps anyway. As they work, they meet people whose lives Frank has touched, while Frank faces the fact that he may not be able to live independently anymore. As she did in The Last Chance Library (2021), Sampson corrals a cast of misfits for a common cause, resulting in a funny, sweet, tearjerker of a tale. – Booklist Review

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Murder in Westminster by Vanessa Riley

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Multipublished, multigenre author Riley’s (A Duke, the Spy, an Artist, and a Lie; Sister Mother Warrior) new historical mystery series is set in Regency-era England and introduces Lady Abigail Worthing. Lady Worthing has an ongoing feud with her next-door neighbor, Stapleton Henderson, over boundary issues and disruptions. From her side, it’s her dog Teacup who causes problems, and from Henderson’s, his estranged wife Juliet. The battling neighbors are forced to become uneasy allies when Juliet is found murdered at the border between their properties and his alibi includes Abigail. Abigail fears suspicion could fall upon her because of her racial background, and Henderson likely worries that Juliet’s profligate behavior will make him a likely suspect. Each has reasons to maintain the fake alibi but conclude that the best way to make it all go away is to unmask the true murderer. VERDICT Riley’s introduction to Lady Worthing is a bit overstuffed with plot and subplots, but fans of Regency-era historical mysteries featuring intelligent heroines (such as Andrea Penrose’s Lady Arianna or Tasha Alexander’s Lady Emily) will find this series a welcome addition to the genre. – Library Journal Review

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One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America
by Nick Seabrook

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Seabrook, a professor of political science and public administration at the University of North Florida and an expert on election law, gives readers an illuminating look into the history of gerrymandering. Although the term has varying definitions, it is, broadly speaking, “a concerted effort to make the votes of certain groups of people matter more than the votes of others.” Beginning with examples of gerrymandering in the Middle Ages, Seabrook moves quickly to the American colonies, profiling George Burrington, governor of the province of North Carolina. His ostentatious personality and equally brash election meddling is an early example of disturbing practices that continue to this day. Originating from the actions of Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry, the word gerrymandering is now commonly used in conjunction with redistricting litigation, district line redrawing, and continual failures of the court systems to address brazen injustices, including voter disenfranchisement, that are baked into efforts to win at all costs. With elections on the horizon, One Person One Vote is a timely and trustworthy review of legislative manipulations that reinforce entrenched powers that be and further undermine disadvantaged constituencies. – Booklist Review
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Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

In Allen’s charming latest (after First Frost), a motley cast inhabit a condo building on a South Carolina island. Recent high school graduate Zoey Hennessey leaves behind her father and stepmother in Tulsa, Okla., to spend the summer in her deceased mother’s apartment in the Dellawisp, named after the birds who stalk the residents. There, Zoey is disappointed to find little in the way of clues about the life of her late Cuban immigrant mother, Paloma Fernandez Hennessey, but she does encounter a cast of intriguing and quirky neighbors, including Charlotte, a henna artist raised in a cult who is at first reluctant to become Zoey’s friend and hides a major secret. Lizbeth Lime, a hoarder killed by a falling bookshelf on Zoey’s first night at the condo, providing an impetus for the plot as Zoey is hired by the manager to clear out Lizbeth’s apartment, then gets help from Charlotte. Allen skillfully weaves the various threads, as vignettes narrated by ghosts of former building residents provide further context as the plot unfurls, shedding light on the mysterious birds and absent figures such as Lizbeth’s estranged son and her reclusive sister. This will move readers. – Publishers Weekly Review

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Peg and Rose Solve a Murder: A Charming and Humorous Cozy Mystery by Laurien Berenson

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Murder, She Wrote meets The Golden Girls in the award-winning author’s brand-new series! Two cantankerous septuagenarians, opposites in every way, put aside their differences to stop a killer… if they don’t throttle each other first!

Rose Donovan looks for the good in everyone. With her sister-in-law, Peg, that sometimes requires a lot of searching. Even a sixty-something former nun like Rose has her limits, and gruff Peg Turnbull sure knows how to push them. But after forty years of bickering, they’re attempting to start over, partnering up to join the local bridge club.

Peg and Rose barely have a chance to celebrate their first win before one of the club’s most accomplished players is killed in his home. As the newest members, the sisters-in-law come under scrutiny and decide to start some digging of their own. Bridge is typically seen as a wholesome pastime, yet this group of senior citizens harbors a wealth of vices, including gambling, cheating, and adultery . . .

By comparison, Peg and Rose’s fractious relationship is starting to feel almost functional. But as their suspect list narrows, they’re unaware that their logic has a dangerous flaw. And they’ll have to hope that their teamwork holds steady when they’re confronted by a killer who’s through with playing games . . .

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The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Jimenez (The Vanished Birds) crafts an elusive, layered epic that thoroughly rewards its demands. In an outpost of an unnamed country ruled by a ruthless emperor and his three sons, the Terrors, commander Uhi Araya convinces Keema of the Daware Tribe, a one-armed mercenary, to swear an oath to deliver a spear to someone near the capital. Shortly thereafter, the outpost is sacked and Keema flees with Jun, an elite guard, and the goddess Jun has freed from her prison. Together with a disabled, telepathic tortoise and the dying deity, they crisscross the country with a plot to find allies among the increasingly discontented people and end the cruel reign of the Terrors. Jimenez interweaves this sprawling journey with flash-forwards following an unnamed character whose family possesses the spear generations later as they watch their grandmother’s stories of these heroes unfold via the dream-accessed Inverted Theater. The rapidly shifting perspectives and slippery plot make for a steep barrier to entry, but the beautiful prose and inventive worldbuilding pay dividends. Though this won’t be for everyone, committed readers who enjoy piecing together stories will be blown away. – Publishers Weekly Review

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Have a great week!

Linda Reimer

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*Information on the Three Catalogs*

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

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

All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog.

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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/

The Hoopla Catalog features instant checkouts of eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV series. Patron check out limit is 6 items per month.

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

The Hoopla App is available for Android or Apple devices and most smart TVs & media streaming players.

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StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org

Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System.

The StarCat app is called Bookmyne and is available for Apple and Android devices.

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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?

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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. The next New York Times Bestseller list will be published to this blog on Sunday, August 28, 2022.

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FICTION

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6:20 MAN by David Baldacci

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

When his ex-girlfriend turns up dead in his office building, an entry-level investment analyst delves into the halls of economic power.

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ALL YOUR PERFECTS by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

Quinn and Graham’s marriage depends on past promises.

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BOOK LOVERS by Emily Henry

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

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

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EVERY SUMMER AFTER by Carley Fortune

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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FAMILY REMAINS by Lisa Jewell

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

Mysteries involving a decades-old cold case, a murder in France and a woman’s return to London are connected.

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HEAT 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner

(Available Formats: Print Book)

New adversaries confront returning characters in situations set before and after the events of the film “Heat.”

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HORSE by Geraldine Brooks

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

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

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HOTEL NANTUCKET by Elin Hilderbrand

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

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

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IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

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

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IT GIRL by Ruth Ware

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

A decade after her first year at Oxford, an expectant mother looks into the mystery of her former best friend’s death.

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LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave

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

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

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LAST WHITE MAN by Mohsin Hamid

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

Anders is one of many people who wake up with a different appearance and skin color.

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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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MAYBE SOMEDAY by Colleen Hoover

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

Sydney, a college student, is fascinated by her mysterious next-door neighbor, Ridge.

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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig

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

Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.

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NOVEMBER 9 by Colleen Hoover

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

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

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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry

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

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

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PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN by Daniel Silva

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

The 22nd book in the Gabriel Allon series. Allon becomes an art forger to uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud.

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THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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SHATTERED by James Patterson and James O. Born

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

he 14th book in the Michael Bennett series. When an F.B.I. abduction specialist disappears, Bennett goes outside his jurisdiction.

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SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides

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

Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.

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SPARRING PARTNERS by John Grisham 

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

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

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TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin

(Available Formats: Print Book)

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

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UGLY LOVE by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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VERITY by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens

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

In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

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WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME by Gillian McAllister

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A mother who witnesses her son murder a stranger finds her days are going in reverse and seeks to use that to alter events.

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NON-FICTION:

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AMERICA, A REDEMPTION STORY by Tim Scott with Joel N. Clark

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

The Republican senator from South Carolina shares stories from his life and the lives of other Americans.

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BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN MIND by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

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

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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk

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

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

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BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah

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

A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”

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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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

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

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CRYING IN H MART by Michelle Zauner

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

The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.

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THE DESTRUCTIONISTS by Dana Milbank

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

 

The Washington Post columnist describes Republican actions between the signing of the Contract With America and the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson

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

How an architect and a serial killer were linked by the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.

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EDUCATED by Tara Westover

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

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

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FINDING ME by Viola Davis

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

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

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GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY by David Sedaris

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

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

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KILLING THE KILLERS by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

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

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LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI by Rinker Buck

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The author of “The Oregon Trail” recounts his adventures on a wooden flatboat and challenges the myths of American expansion.

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PATH LIT BY LIGHTNING by David Maraniss

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The life story of the Olympic athlete, All-American football player and Major League Baseball player Jim Thorpe.

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SHY by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green

(Available Formats: Not yet available; publication date 8/30)

The memoirs of the late composer, author and screenwriter, written with the chief theater critic at The New York Times.

 

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THINK AGAIN by Adam Grant

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

An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

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THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS by Michael Pollan

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

A look at arbitrary beliefs surrounding opium, caffeine and mescaline, which are derived from plants.

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

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

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

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Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSL

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*Information on the Three Catalogs*

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

The Digital Catalog has two companion apps, Libby & OverDrive. Libby is the app for newer devices and the OverDrive app should be used for older devices and Amazon tablets.

All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog.

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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/

The Hoopla Catalog features instant check outs of eBooks, downloadable audiobook, comic books, albums and streaming videos. Patron check out limit is 4 items per month.

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

The Hoopla App is available for Android or Apple devices and most smart TVs & media streaming players.

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StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org

Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System.

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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.