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 and the next New York Times Bestseller list will be published to this blog on Sunday, July 3, 2022.

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FICTION

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22 SECONDS by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

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

The 22nd book in the Women’s Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer returns as word gets around about a shipment of drugs and weapons.

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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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BEACH READ by Emily Henry

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

A relationship develops between a literary fiction author and a romance novelist as they both try to overcome writer’s block.

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BOOK LOVERS by Emily Henry

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

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

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DREAM TOWN by David Baldacci

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

he third book in the Archer series. Archer, Dash and Callahan search for a missing screenwriter who had a dead body turn up in her home.

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EVERY SUMMER AFTER by Carley Fortune

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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THE HORSE by Geraldine Brooks

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

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

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HOTEL NANTUCKET by Elin Hilderbrand

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

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

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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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LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave

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

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

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LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus

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

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

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MALIBU RISING by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

An epic party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings.

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MEANT TO BE by Emily Giffin

(Available Formats: Print Book)

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

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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig

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

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

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NIGHTWORK by Nora Roberts

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

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

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NOVEMBER 9 by Colleen Hoover

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

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

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ONE ITALIAN SUMMER by Rebecca Serle

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

During a summer trip in Italy, Katy’s late mother reappears as a 30-year-old woman.

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THE PARIS APARTMENT by Lucy Foley

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

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

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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry

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

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

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RUN, ROSE, RUN by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

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

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

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THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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SPARRING PARTNERS by John Grisham 

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

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

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SUMMER PLACE by Jennifer Weiner

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

A wedding between Ruby Danhauser and her pandemic boyfriend at a family beach house in Cape Cod brings to light family secrets.

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TOM CLANCY: ZERO HOUR by Don Bentley

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

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

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UGLY LOVE by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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VERITY by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens

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

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

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NON-FICTION:

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BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN MIND by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

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

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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk

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

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

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CRYING IN H MART by Michelle Zauner

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

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

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END OF THE WORLD IS JUST THE BEGINNING by Peter Zeihan

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

A look at potential changes in globalization.

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FINDING ME by Viola Davis

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

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

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GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY by David Sedaris

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

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

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HOW TO RAISE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X. Kendi

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The ways in which children at different ages experience race, and how racist structures might impact them.

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

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

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

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JAMES PATTERSON by James Patterson

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

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

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KILLING THE KILLERS by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

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

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THE PALACE PAPERS by Tina Brown

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

This follow-up to “The Diana Chronicles” details how the royal family reinvented itself after the death

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PHIL by Alan Shipnuck

(Available Formats: Print Book)

An unauthorized biography of the golf champion Phil Mickelson.

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RIVER OF THE GODS by Candice Millard 

(Available Formats: Print Book)

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

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ROUGH DRAFT by Katy Tur

(Available Formats: Print Book coming soon)

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

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SCARS AND STRIPES by Tim Kennedy and Nick Palmisciano

(Available Formats: Print Book)

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

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STORYTELLER by Dave Grohl

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

A memoir by the musician known for his work with Foo Fighters and Nirvana.

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UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN by Jon Krakauer

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

Two brothers who subscribed to a fundamentalist version of Mormonism killed a woman and her daughter; the basis of the TV series.

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Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSL

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*Information on the Three Catalogs*

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Also of Note: If a New York Times Bestseller isn’t yet available in any of the three catalogs; you can contact the library and request to be notified when it becomes available.

Southeast Steuben County Library Tel: 607-936-3713

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

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

Suggested Listening postings are published on Fridays; and our next Suggested Listening posting will be out on Friday, July 1, 2022.

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And, in celebration of the fact that summer is here!

Here are are songs that compliment the season!

Happy listening!

Barbeque Blues by John Hammond (Genre: Blues)

From The Album: Big City Blues (1964)

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Dancing In The Streets by Martha and the Vandellas (Genre: R&B, Pop)

From The Album: The Best of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas: Twentieth Century Masters Collection: The Millennium Collection (1999)

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Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys (Genre: Rock)

From The Album: Pet Sounds (1966)

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Hot Fun In The Sumertime by Sly and the Family Stone (Genre: R&B, Pop)

From The Album: Sly & The Family Stone Greatest Hits (1970)

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I’m Ready by Muddy Waters (Genre: Blues)

From The Album: The Best of Muddy Waters (1958)

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Joy To The World by Three Dog Night (Genre: Pop/Rock)

From The Album: Naturally (1970) & The Best of Three Dog Night: Twentieth Century Masters: The Millennium Collection (1999)

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Jumping At The Woodside by Count Basie & His Orchestra (Genre: Jazz)

Studio Version From The Album: Sing Along With Basie (1958)

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Little Honda by The Hondells (Genre: Surf Rock)

From The Album: Go Little Honda (1964)

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Looking For The Summer by Chris Rea (Genre: Blues/Rock)

From The Album: Auberge (1991)

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Oh Boy! by Buddy Holly & The Crickets (Genre: Rock)

From The Album: The “Chirping” Crickets (1957)

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Rebel Rouser by Duane Eddy (Genre: Guitar, Rock)

From The Album: Have Twangy Guitar Will Travel (1958)

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Suddenly Last Summer by The Motels (Genre: Pop/Rock)

From The Album: Little Robbers (1983)

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Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts(Genre: Pop)

From The Album: Summer Breeze (1972)

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Summer In The City by The Lovin’ Spoonful (Genre: Singer-songwriter, Pop)

From The Album: Hums of the Lovin’ Spoonful (1966)

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Summer Nights by John Travolta & Olivia Newton John (Genre: Soundtrack)

From The Album: Grease Soundtrack (1978)

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Summertime by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (Genre: Jazz)

From The Album: Porgy & Bess (1958)

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Tighten Up, Part 1 by Archie Bell & The Dells (Genre: R&B, Pop)

From The Album: Tighten Up (1968)

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Under The Boardwalk by The Drifters (Genre: R&B)

From The Album: Under the Boardwalk (1964)

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Wild Summer Nights by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band (Genre: Rock)

From The Album: Eddie and the Cruisers Soundtrack (1983)

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You Made Lovining Fun by Fleetwood Mac (Genre: Pop/Rock)

And Happy Birthday wishes go out to Mick Fleetwood who turns 75 today, Friday, June 24, 2022!

From a great summer album: Rumours (1977)

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And just because it sounds good, the instrumental Forrest Gump Theme/Suite from the Forest Gump Soundtrack (1994) by Alan Silvestri (Genre: Instrumental)

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Hoopla Recommend Album of the Week

A Summer Night In Munich (1998) by Oscar Peterson (Genre: Jazz)

And from the album the song

When Summer Comes by Oscar Peterson

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Have a great weekend,

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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REFERENCES:

Print References

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn

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Online Catalog Links:

StarCat

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

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The Digital Catalog, web version of Libby

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

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The Libby App

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

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Hoopla

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

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

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

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

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

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Weekly Suggested Reading postings are published on Tuesdays, unless Linda is swamped, and then the come out on Wednesday as is the case today!

The next Suggested Reading posting will be published on Tuesday, June 28, 2022.

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Asylum by Madeleine Roux

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

Horror author Roux makes a strong YA debut with this creepy tale of a haunted asylum and the teenagers who are drawn to it. When Dan Crawford attends a summer program at New Hampshire College, he ends up housed in Brookline, a former asylum now being turned into a dorm. Along with fellow students Abby and Jordan, he starts exploring the basement of the dorm, where (conveniently) old records are stored. As they investigate, the students are plagued by horrifying dreams, and Dan starts to have blackouts, discovering strange unsent texts and emails and learning about conversations that he doesn’t remember. Students are being attacked in the dorms, and as Dan begins to unravel his own ties to the asylum, he wonders if he might be responsible for the crimes. Roux (aided by unsettling photo illustrations of abandoned asylums and tormented patients) creates an entertaining and occasionally brutal horror story that reveals the enduring impact of buried trauma and terror on a place. Open questions at the end invite a sequel, though there’s also a good sense of closure. Publishers Weekly Review

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Companion Piece: A Novel by Ali Smith

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Artist Sandy is forced out of her habitual, contented solitude when her father lands in the hospital with heart trouble during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have a prickly relationship; he’s never forgiven her for being gay or for being a painter who paints poems, but they’re all the family they have, except for his old dog. More intrusions occur when Martina, a forgotten college classmate, calls and recounts the first of the entrancing and mysterious tales that entwine to form Smith’s dialogue-driven, deeply imagined, hilarious, and affecting tale of unexpected companionship during a plague. Martina’s story involves an exquisitely constructed sixteenth-century lock and a disembodied voice saying, “Curlew or curfew. You choose.” She is certain that Sandy, who always “knew what things meant,” can make sense of this. Soon Martina’s distraught, bossy, grown twin daughters invade Sandy’s home, as does a strange, filthy teenage girl with a curlew, a now endangered bird once considered divine. Back in the bubonic plague era, a girl gifted in the metal arts is brutally ostracized. Returning to the present, witty and besieged Sandy is profoundly grateful to the valiant, caring hospital staff, and to the steadfast dog. Smith follows her award-winning Seasonal Quartet with a bristling yet tender, richly layered, brilliant, and dynamic novel of connections forged and love affirmed. – Booklist Review

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The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulfhart

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Travel writer Wulfhart (Off Menu) delivers a rousing history of how airline stewardesses in the 1960s and ’70s “harness the energy of the women’s movement to make radical change.” At the time, Wulfhart explains, female flight attendants were banned from marrying or getting pregnant and aged out of the job in their early 30s. They also made five times less than pilots, had no retirement benefits, and had strict weight limits. Wulfhart spotlights a trio of women who spearheaded the fight: stewardess Patt Gibbs led the movement to break away from the male-dominated Transport Workers Union and form the independent Association of Professional Flight Attendants; her colleague, Tommie Hutto, helped launch the feminist group Stewardesses for Women’s Rights. Sonia Pressman, a lawyer at the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, pushed the agency to find that the airlines were in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s prohibition on sex-based discrimination. Throughout, Wulfhart lucidly contextualizes the stewardesses’ campaign within the larger feminist movement, and shares striking anecdotes of the insults they endured and the dedication it took to reform “the most sexist workplace in America.” The result is an invigorating and inspiring story of women triumphing over discrimination. – Publishers Weekly Review

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Hatchet Island by Paul Doiron

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Edgar finalist Doiron’s exceptional 13th mystery featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch (after 2021’s Dead by Dawn) takes Bowditch and his significant other, biologist Stacey Stevens, to Baker Island after Stacey receives a request for help from her college roommate and former colleague, Kendra Ballard, who’s been working on the island as the project manager for the Maine Seabird Initiative’s restoration efforts there. Kendra is worried about her boss, Maeve McLeary, who hasn’t been heard from for several days. That disturbing silence comes shortly after Maeve incurred the wrath of local lobstermen by successfully backing a proposal to close part of the Gulf of Maine to their boats to protect endangered whales. The restoration project has since been receiving anonymous threats, and someone shot up its observation blinds. Kendra’s fears of violence prove justified as Bowditch soon has two murders on the island to solve, which may be connected to a young man’s recent death by suicide. The author is especially good at conveying the island’s creepy atmosphere, and the taut plot features numerous shocking twists while further developing an already complex lead. Doiron is writing at the top of his game. Publishers Weekly Review

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How To Fake It In Hollywood by Ava Wilder

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Don’t be fooled by the lighthearted title and fun cover. Wilder delivers an emotional punch in her debut novel. The story follows former teen soap-opera star, Grey Brooks, and reclusive megastar Ethan Atkins. Grey has been out of work since her show wrapped after a long run, and Ethan hasn’t worked in years in the aftermath of a tragic event. In short, they’re both just trying to stay afloat, albeit with very different back stories. Told in chapters alternating between her and him, this tale jumps right into the action in the first few pages when the two are recruited for a PR stunt by their mutual publicist. The premise sounds simple enough: two very different but waning celebrities enter a fake relationship to boost their visibility and status. However, there is much more depth to this romance as Wilder successfully tackles tough issues like alcoholism and grief. This strong debut is perfect for readers who enjoy romances with intense feelings, complex issues, and steamy love scenes. Booklist Review

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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

(Available Formats: Print Book)

An ingenious account of how living organisms perceive the world. In his 1974 essay, “What Is It Like To Be a Bat?” philosopher Thomas Nagel argued that other animals experience a world utterly foreign to us, one nearly impossible to describe. In this follow-up to I Contain Multitudes, Yong, a staff reporter for the Atlantic who won a Pulitzer in 2021 for his reporting on Covid-19, mostly follows the traditional popular science format (travel the world, interview experts), but he takes a different, realistic, and utterly fascinating approach, emphasizing that every organism perceives only a tiny slice of the world accessible to its senses. A tick searching for blood is exquisitely sensitive to body heat, the touch of hair, and the odor of butyric acid from skin. The tick doesn’t willfully ignore the surrounding plants and animals; it doesn’t know that they exist. This involves the zoological term umwelt, the German word for environment that refers to what an animal can sense: its perceptual world. The human umwelt includes excellent vision, tolerable hearing, mediocre smell (but better than dog enthusiasts claim), some chemical sensitivity (mostly in the nose and taste buds), a touch of echolocation, and no ability to detect electromagnetic fields. In a dozen chapters, Yong delivers entertaining accounts of how animals both common and exotic sense the world as well as the often bizarre organs that enable them to do so. “There are animals with eyes on their genitals, ears on their knees, noses on their limbs, and tongues all over their skin,” writes the author. “Starfish see with the tips of their arms, and sea urchins with their entire bodies. The star-nosed mole feels around with its nose, while the manatee uses its lips.” Building on Aristotle’s traditional five senses, Yong adds expert accounts of 20th-century discoveries of senses for echoes, electricity, and magnetism as well as perceptions we take for granted, including color, pain, and temperature. One of the year’s best popular natural histories. – Kirkus Review

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Island Time by Georgia Clark

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A woman’s plan to have her extended family meet her almost-fiancé on a tiny, secluded island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, goes spectacularly wrong in this fun, steamy rom-com about finding love in unexpected places from Clark (It Had to Be You). Amelia’s boyfriend, James, never makes it, and after a volcano erupts, Amelia; her parents; her older sister, Matty; Matty’s wife, Parker; and Parker’s parents all wind up stranded together on the beautiful but remote Mun’dai. With them are Liss Chambers, the island’s caretaker, and Jarrah, a local ranger. These nine individuals—all with distinct (and big) personalities—must live in close proximity for six weeks with a diminishing food supply, sparking new romances between Amelia and Liss, and Amelia’s mother, Jules, and Jarrah, and leading Matty and Parker to ponder their future. Clark’s vibrant descriptions of the fictional island create a great sense of place, and Amelia and Matty’s reckonings with family secrets and the challenges of career and maternity add some gravitas to the breezy proceedings. The result is a feel-good sapphic love story ideal for armchair travelers. – Publishers Weekly Review

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Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Wolfe debuts with the heartbreaking story of a young girl and her family during a summer of destruction and tragedy. It’s 1999 and the Chicago Housing Authority is tearing down the Robert Taylor Homes, where 12-year-old FeFe Stevens lives with her mother and older brother, Meechie. FeFe enjoys the summer double-dutching and running around with her friends Stacia Buchanan, part of the building’s ruling gang family, and Precious, a religious girl from FeFe’s church. After a new girl, Tonya, appears, FeFe invites her to play with them despite Stacia’s dislike of her. Wolfe’s richly realized characters endure racism, displacement, and violence, but also experience love. Short, evocative chapters build a foreboding sense of the inevitable while FeFe is forced to reckon with harsh realities around her, among them Tonya’s mother’s crack addiction, Stacia’s gang loyalty, Meechie’s struggle to resist gang life, and other ravages of life in the project. As the destruction of their building approaches, tensions and violence rise. By the traumatic end, FeFe is left lonely and scared, but her pain pushes her to escape. Wolfe’s arresting and atmospheric narrative comes fully realized. This is a gut punch. Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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The Omega Factor by Steve Berry

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

Berry has written a handful of stand-alones along with 16 novels starring Cotton Malone, the former Justice Department operative. It’s unclear at this point whether his latest is another stand-alone or the first in a new series. It introduces a new character, a UNESCO investigator named Nicholas Lee, who chances upon a clue to the location of a missing (and generally presumed lost) piece of fifteenth-century art–a panel from the famed Ghent Altarpiece. Soon he finds himself caught up in a two-millennia-old war between the Vatican and an ancient order determined to keep certain facts hidden from history. Although similar in theme and execution to the Malone novels, The Omega Factor feels different: the pace is a bit slower, the action is slightly less raucous, and Nick is younger and less experienced than Cotton. This ancient-mystery stuff is new to him, and that point of view makes the familiar theme seem fresh to the reader as well. Nick is a good character, with plenty of room to grow. Here’s one vote for Berry making a series out of Nick’s adventures. Booklist Review

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Keans Goodwin

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

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes.

Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the inspiration for the Oscar Award winning–film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Tony Kushner.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.

Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires.

It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war.

We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through.

This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln’s mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation’s history.

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Have a great week!

Linda Reimer

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*Information on the Three Catalogs*

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Have questions or want to request a book?

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

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here is the weekly list of New York Times Bestsellers.

Each title is followed by a listing of which formats it is available in for check out within the three catalogs: StarCat (Print, Large Print & CD Audiobook), The Digital Catalog (eBook & Downloadable Audiobook) and the Hoopla Catalog (Hoopla instant checkout eBook & Hoopla Audiobook).

For more information on the three catalogs skip to the section below the bestselling titles*

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New York Times Bestseller blog posts are published on Sundays and the next New York Times Bestseller list will be published to this blog on Sunday, June 26, 2022.

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FICTION

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22 SECONDS by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

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

The 22nd book in the Women’s Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer returns as word gets around about a shipment of drugs and weapons.

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BEACH READ by Emily Henry

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

A relationship develops between a literary fiction author and a romance novelist as they both try to overcome writer’s block.

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BOOK LOVERS by Emily Henry

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

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

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COUNTERFEIT by Kirstin Chen

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

As Ava Wong’s perfect life unravels, her old college roommate from China wants to enlist her help with a counterfeit scheme.

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DREAM TOWN by David Baldacci

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

he third book in the Archer series. Archer, Dash and Callahan search for a missing screenwriter who had a dead body turn up in her home.

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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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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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MEANT TO BE by Emily Giffin

(Available Formats: Print Book)

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

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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig

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

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

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NIGHTCRAWLING by Leila Mottley

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

A young, struggling Black woman is identified as a key witness in a scandal within the Oakland Police Department.

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NIGHTWORK by Nora Roberts

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

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

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NOVEMBER 9 by Colleen Hoover

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

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

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OMEGA FACTOR by Steve Berry

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

The UNESCO investigator Nick Lee winds up on the trail of a panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, which was stolen in 1934.

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ONE ITALIAN SUMMER by Rebecca Serle

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

During a summer trip in Italy, Katy’s late mother reappears as a 30-year-old woman.

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THE PARIS APARTMENT by Lucy Foley

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

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

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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry

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

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

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RUN, ROSE, RUN by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

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

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

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THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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SPARRING PARTNERS by John Grisham 

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

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

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SUMMER PLACE by Jennifer Weiner

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

A wedding between Ruby Danhauser and her pandemic boyfriend at a family beach house in Cape Cod brings to light family secrets.

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TOM CLANCY: ZERO HOUR by Don Bentley

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

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

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UGLY LOVE by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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VERITY by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens

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

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

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WICKED BEAUTY by Katee Robert

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

The third book in the Dark Olympus series. Achilles and Patroclus compete for power and Helen’s affection.

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NON-FICTION:

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BATTLING THE BIG LIE by Dan Pfeiffer

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The cohost of “Pod Save America” and former White House director of communications gives his take on the right-wing media apparatus.

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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk

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

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

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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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FACEMAKER by Lindsey Fitzharris

(Available Formats: Print Book)

How the modern era of plastic surgery was ushered in by the work of a surgeon repairing the faces of World War I soldiers.

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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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HERE’S THE DEAL by Kellyanne Conway

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The former senior counselor in President Trump’s White House gives her account of her time in politics.

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JAMES PATTERSON by James Patterson

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

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

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KILLING THE KILLERS by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

(Available Formats: Print Book & CD audiobook)

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

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THE OFFICE BFFS by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Two stars of “The Office” celebrate the comedy series and their friendship.

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THE PALACE PAPERS by Tina Brown

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

 

This follow-up to “The Diana Chronicles” details how the royal family reinvented itself after the death

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PHIL by Alan Shipnuck

(Available Formats: Print Book)

An unauthorized biography of the golf champion Phil Mickelson.

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POPE AT WAR by David I. Kertzer

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A depiction of Pope Pius XII’s actions during World War II and why he bent to the wills of Hitler and Mussolini.

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RIVER OF THE GODS by Candice Millard 

(Available Formats: Print Book)

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

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SCARS AND STRIPES by Tim Kennedy and Nick Palmisciano

(Available Formats: Print Book)

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

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UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN by Jon Krakauer

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

Two brothers who subscribed to a fundamentalist version of Mormonism killed a woman and her daughter; the basis of the TV series.

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Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSL

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*Information on the Three Catalogs*

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Also of Note: If a New York Times Bestseller isn’t yet available in any of the three catalogs; you can contact the library and request to be notified when it becomes available.

Southeast Steuben County Library Tel: 607-936-3713

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

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

Suggested Listening postings are published on Fridays; and our next Suggested Listening posting will be out on Friday, June 24, 2022.

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In honor & celebration of the life and works of Paul McCartney, on the occasion of his Eightieth birthday, on Saturday, June 18, 2022; all of our recommended listens for this week feature Paul McCartney on lead vocals – Happy Birthday Paul! (and wow, tempus fugit!)

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And I Love Her by The Beatles

From The Album: A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

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Help by The Beatles

From The Album: Help! (1965)

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Here, There And Everywhere by The Beatles

From The Album: Revolver (1966)

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I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles

From The Album: Meet The Beatles (1964)

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Lovely Rita by The Beatles

From The Album: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

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Penny Lane by The Beatles

From The Album: Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

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She Came In Through The Bathroom Window by The Beatles

From The Album: Abbey Road (1969)

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The Song We Were Singing by Paul McCartney

From The Album: Flaming Pie (1997)

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Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Paul & Linda McCartney

From The Album: Ram (1971)

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We Can Work It Out by The Beatles

From The Album: Yesterday & Today (1966)

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Hoopla Recommend Album of the Week

Ram (1971) by Paul & Linda McCartney

And from the album the song

Too Many People

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Have a great weekend,

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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REFERENCES:

Print References

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn

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Online Catalog Links:

StarCat

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

–

The Digital Catalog, web version of Libby

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

–

The Libby App

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

–

Hoopla

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

–

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Hi everyone, here is the 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*

–

New York Times Bestseller blog posts are published on Sundays and the next New York Times Bestseller list will be published to this blog on Sunday, June 12, 2022.

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FICTION

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22 SECONDS by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

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

The 22nd book in the Women’s Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer returns as word gets around about a shipment of drugs and weapons.

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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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BEACH READ by Emily Henry

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

A relationship develops between a literary fiction author and a romance novelist as they both try to overcome writer’s block.

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BOARDWALK BOOKSHOP by Susan Mallery

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

Three strangers who open a business that is part bookstore, bakery and gift shop develop a friendship.

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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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BOOK OF NIGHT by Holly Black:

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

A bartender working at a Berkshires dive bar deals with doppelgängers, billionaires and magicians seeking a vast and terrible power.

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DREAM TOWN by David Baldacci

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

he third book in the Archer series. Archer, Dash and Callahan search for a missing screenwriter who had a dead body turn up in her home.

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HOMEWRECKERS by Mary Kay Andrews

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A widow starring in a beach house renovation reality show gets caught up in competing love interests and an old missing persons case.

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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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LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave

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

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

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LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus

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

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

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MALIBU RISING by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

An epic party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings.

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MEANT TO BE by Emily Giffin

(Available Formats: Print Book)

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

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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig

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

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

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NIGHTWORK by Nora Roberts

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

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

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NOVEMBER 9 by Colleen Hoover

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

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

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ONE ITALIAN SUMMER by Rebecca Serle

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

During a summer trip in Italy, Katy’s late mother reappears as a 30-year-old woman.

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THE PARIS APARTMENT by Lucy Foley

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

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

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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry

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

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

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RUN, ROSE, RUN by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

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

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

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THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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SPARRING PARTNERS by John Grisham 

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

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

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SUMMER PLACE by Jennifer Weiner

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

A wedding between Ruby Danhauser and her pandemic boyfriend at a family beach house in Cape Cod brings to light family secrets.

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THIS TIME TOMORROW by Emma Straub

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

A 40-year-old woman finds new meaning in past events when she goes back in time and relives her 16th birthday in 1996.

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UGLY LOVE by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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VERITY by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens

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

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

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NON-FICTION:

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

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

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

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ALL ABOUT LOVE by bell hooks

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

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

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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk

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

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

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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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

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

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CREATED EQUAL by Ben Carson with Candy Carson 

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

The former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development gives his analysis of race relations in America.

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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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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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FREEZING ORDER by Bill Browder

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The author of “Red Notice” tells his story of becoming Vladimir Putin’s enemy by uncovering a $230 million tax refund scheme.

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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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HERE’S THE DEAL by Kellyanne Conway

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The former senior counselor in President Trump’s White House gives her account of her time in politics.

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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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MAN WHO BROKE CAPITALISM by David Gelles

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

A reporter for The New York Times argues that Jack Welch, the late chief executive of General Electric, ushered in the cutthroat era of American capitalism.

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THE OFFICE BFFS by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Two stars of “The Office” celebrate the comedy series and their friendship.

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THE PALACE PAPERS by Tina Brown

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

This follow-up to “The Diana Chronicles” details how the royal family reinvented itself after the death

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PHIL by Alan Shipnuck

(Available Formats: Print Book)

An unauthorized biography of the golf champion Phil Mickelson.

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RIVER OF THE GODS by Candice Millard 

(Available Formats: Print Book)

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

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SECRET CITY by James Kirchick

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

How cultural and political anxiety over gay people affected presidential administrations during the 20th century and created a decades-long witch hunt.

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UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN by Jon Krakauer

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

Two brothers who subscribed to a fundamentalist version of Mormonism killed a woman and her daughter; the basis of the TV series.

–

Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSL

–

*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.

–

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.

–

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.

–

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

–

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

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

Suggested Listening postings are published on Fridays; and our next Suggested Listening posting will be out on Friday, June 17, 2022.

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

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1952 Black Vincent Lightning by Richard Thompson (Genre: Rock, Singer-Songwriter)

From The Album: Rumor And Sigh (1991)

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Beans And Cornbread by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five (Genre: Jazz, R&B)

From The Album: At The Swing Cat’s Ball (1949); and more recently found on the Malcom X Soundtrack (1992)

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Darkness, Darkness by The Youngbloods (Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Rock)

From The Album: Elephant Moon (1969)

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Happy Together by The Turtles (Genre: Pop/Rock)

From The Album: Happy Together (1967)

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I’m So Happy by Walter Beasley (Genre: Jazz)

From The Album: Meet Me at My Place (1987)

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Let The Good Times Roll by Louis Jordan (Genre: Jazz/Blues)

From The Album: The Best of Louis Jordan (1975)

And because it is a great song, here it is again performed by B. B. King & Bobby Blue Bland in 1976

Let The Good Times Roll by B. B. King & Bobby Blue Bland (Genre: Blues)

From The Album: Together Again …. Live (1976)

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Madman Across The Water by Elton John (Genre: Rock)

From The Album: Madman Across The Water

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Ninety-Eight Cents/King Porter’s Stomp by The Mills Brothers (Genre: Jazz, Vocal, R&B)

From The Album: These two songs seem to be out of print! Enjoy the YouTube offering —
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Oh, Lady Be Good by Ella Fitzgerald (Genre: Vocal, Jazz)

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959)

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She’ll Change by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway (Genre: Folk)

From The Album: Crooked Tree (2022)

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What A Little Moonlight Can Do by Billie Holiday (Genre: Vocal, Jazz, Blues)

From The Album: The Essential Billie Holiday: The Columbia Years (2010)

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Hoopla Recommend Album of the Week

Young, Gifted And Black (1972) by Aretha Franklin (Genre: Vocal, R&B)

And from the album the song

Day Dreaming by Aretha Franklin

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Have a great weekend,

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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REFERENCES:

Print References

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn

–

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat

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

–

The Digital Catalog, web version of Libby

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

–

The Libby App

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

–

Hoopla

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

–

Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

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

The next Library Connections video will be posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2022.

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

Have a great week!
Linda Reimer, SSCL

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

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

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

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Weekly Suggested Reading postings are published on Tuesdays.

And the next Suggested Reading posting will be published on Tuesday, June 14, 2022.

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21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19 by Ben S. Bernanke

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Bernanke, former chair of the Federal Reserve of the U.S., sets out to help readers understand how that institution has arrived at where it is today and what the future may look like. He presents a historical view of monetary policy starting in the twentieth century, when the Federal Reserve was created in 1913. The intention was that it would oversee and stabilize America’s lightly regulated and often-dysfunctional banking system and would be responsible for tasks such as setting short- and long-term interest rates. This time period was wrought with inflation fluctuations and also the impact of President Franklin Roosevelt breaking the link between the dollar and gold and mandating that banks be solvent. As Bernanke moves into the twenty-first century, he tackles topics like the global financial crisis, the great recession, the most current presidential influences, COVID, unemployment rates, and how the future of monetary policy could evolve. In a world where $2.15 trillion is floating in the U.S. economy, readers will be intrigued by the history and predictions Bernanke shares. This impressive and accessible book will appeal to historians and educators as well as those who want to understand America’s finances from a historical perspective. HIGH DEMAND BACKSTORY: With the economy perpetually in the news, expect the media to call on Bernanke’s expert analysis. – Booklist Review

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The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw

(Available Formats: Print Book & Large Print)

On the early morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of ships of all types dotted the English Channel as far as the eye could see. Hundreds of landing craft plowed through white-capped waves along 60 miles of French beaches to land their cargo of men and materiel to begin the liberation of Nazi-held Europe. Hours earlier, several divisions of British and American paratroopers dropped from the inky darkness to begin the task of securing bridges and crossroads to hinder German responses and pave the way for the main landing forces heading toward the fortified beaches. Historian Kershaw (Avenue of Spies), basing his work on more than 20 years of extensive interviews and other firsthand accounts from D-Day veterans, deftly weaves these stories to put readers in the midst of the battle. The author captures all the mixed feelings of that day: fear, anticipation, excitement, and the selfless acts of courage and heroism encountered in every corner of the battlefield, here focusing on individual soldiers and their stories.

VERDICT Kershaw’s latest will appeal to readers interested in World War II and firsthand accounts of soldiers and their time in battle. – Library Journal

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Innocence of Murder on Steep Street: A Novel by Heda Marloius Kovaly

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Originally published in Czech in the 1980s under a pseudonym to protect her family, Kovaly’s novel is finally being released in English. She wrote this story in secret while working on Czech translations of Raymond Chandler and Philip Roth. Kovaly’s acclaimed memoir, Under a Cruel Star, details her time in Auschwitz and the communist purges and show trials in Czechoslovakia following the war. Set in Prague in the 1950s, the book takes place in and around a cinema, the perfect location for a missing-person story that quickly escalates into a murder mystery. The draw here isn’t the mystery of who killed the policeman investigating the first murder–even though everyone had a motive and everyone is hiding something–it is the tense atmosphere in which all are guilty of something and yet punished for a different crime. VERDICT Capturing the fear and oppression of living in a police state, this dark novel, reflective of its time and written by a writer who lived her material, will enthrall noir enthusiasts and readers of literary historical fiction. – Library Journal Review

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Haven by Kay Hooper

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Jessie Rayburn returns to her hometown of Baron Hollow, N.C., to excise the personal ghosts of her adolescence in Hooper’s 13th Special Crimes Unit paranormal investigation (after Blood Ties). She’s a psychic investigator with a “singular lack of imagination,” so she’s not particularly surprised to find some real ghosts. What does come as a surprise is that her sister, Emma, is developing her own latent psychic powers, and the locals are being stalked by a serial killer. Jessie’s fellow Haven employee, Nathan Navarro, is on the killer’s trail, as are a journalist and a group of ghost hunters, but they all act in isolation, increasing their risk and lessening their chances of success. The juxtaposition of the idyllic town and the sadistic sociopath makes the horrors of the crimes stand out, but the basic investigative errors made by just about all of the characters seem to come straight from a schlock horror film with the audience yelling, “Don’t go in there!”

Readers’ Note: If you’d like to binge read, starting with the first book in the Bishop/Special Crimes Unit series, check out book 1 Stealing Shadows.

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The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick

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

What if you had the chance to step into your favorite author’s shoes? That’s what happens to Liv–wife, mother, aspiring writer, and house cleaner. When the famous recluse and best-selling author Essie dies unexpectedly, Liv learns that Essie’s final wish was for Liv to finish her manuscript on her behalf, while keeping her death a secret. But to accomplish this, Liv must unravel Essie’s past to find a perfect ending for her characters. Liv quickly discovers that nothing pertaining to Essie is as it seems, while her journey shakes up her marriage and family life and calls into question who gets to do “real” writing. Fans of lively fiction will be instantly drawn into the world Patrick (The Secrets of Love Story Bridge, 2020) creates with her signature charming, breezy style which is further enlivened with nods to popular literature. The elusive Essie is part J. D. Salinger and part J. K. Rowling, the plot pairs The Devil Wears Prada with Weekend at Bernie’s, and Patrick imbues this novel about writing a novel with just the right touch of suspense. – Booklist Review

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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance: A Novel by Alison Espach

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

A young woman addresses her older sister, who died when they were teens, in Espach’s inventive and powerful latest (after The Adults). Sally Holt, now 28, continues to find her life shaped by sister Kathy’s absence, prompting her to recount her life story, here unfolded in second-person narration. As a child, Sally is the subject of family concern because of her shyness, while Kathy, three years older, is comfortable in the spotlight and praised for her beauty. Despite the sisters’ contrasting temperaments, they are each other’s closest confidantes as they grow up in 1990s small-town Connecticut. Of particular interest to them both is high school senior Billy Barnes—a dreamy basketball player and the son of the town florist—who is in the grade above Kathy. After Billy saves 13-year-old Sally from drowning at the public pool, he begins dating Kathy, to Sally’s fascination and envy. A car accident involving all three teenagers permanently shifts the Holt family dynamic (“To sue for reckless driving or not to sue? That was the question,” Sally narrates, describing the tension between her parents over what to do about Billy, who was behind the wheel). In the aftermath, Billy and Sally unite in their shared grief and guilt. Espach captures the minutiae of love and loss with unflinching clarity and profound compassion, and pulls off the second-person point of view unusually well. Readers will be deeply moved. – Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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Thank You, Goodnight: A Novel by Andy Abramowitz

(Available Formats: Print Book)

This very funny, deftly done debut follows Teddy Tremble, once a famous rock star, now a stodgy lawyer. When Teddy comes face-to-face with a less than flattering photo hanging in London’s Tate gallery, labeling him a has-been, he is suddenly overtaken by the old fire to write songs. Then legendary producer Sonny Rivers gives Teddy’s new music the green light, and Teddy decides to get the old band back together. His drummer is a devoted teacher and family man and must be cajoled into giving it one more try; the highly dysfunctional lead guitarist, who is living in his ex-wife’s basement, has been waiting for this moment for years. Meanwhile, the female bassist, Teddy’s long-lost love, who never had much use for the trappings of the rock-star lifestyle, just wants to play music. With a good deal of compassion and a great eye for the comic detail, Abramowitz delves a little deeper here than is typical of a rock ‘n’ roll novel. Teddy struggles to let go of the ambition and self-aggrandizement that led to the band’s implosion, and his rebirth is a pleasure to behold. – Booklist Review

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Victoria by Daisy Goodwin

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Drawing on Queen Victoria’s diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin—creator and writer of the new PBS Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter—brings the young nineteenth-century monarch, who would go on to reign for 63 years, richly to life in this magnificent novel.

Early one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the greatest nation in the world.

Despite her age, however, the young queen is no puppet. She has very definite ideas about the kind of queen she wants to be, and the first thing is to choose her name.

“I do not like the name Alexandrina,” she proclaims. “From now on I wish to be known only by my second name, Victoria.”

Next, people say she must choose a husband. Everyone keeps telling her she’s destined to marry her first cousin, Prince Albert, but Victoria found him dull and priggish when they met three years ago. She is quite happy being queen with the help of her prime minister, Lord Melbourne, who may be old enough to be her father but is the first person to take her seriously.

On June 19th, 1837, she was a teenager. On June 20th, 1837, she was a queen. Daisy Goodwin’s impeccably researched and vividly imagined new book brings readers Queen Victoria as they have never seen her before.

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When Women Were Dragons: A Novel by Kelly Barnhill

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Newbery winner Barnhill (The Girl Who Drank the Moon) makes her adult debut with a deeply felt exploration of feminism in an alternate fantastical history. Alex Green was a child in Wisconsin in 1955 when over 600,000 American women spontaneously turned into dragons, including her beloved Aunt Marla, and flew away. Alex’s mother brings Marla’s daughter Beatrice to live with them and, like the rest of American society, refuses to even discuss dragons. Alex grows up adoring her younger cousin, and their close friendship assuages the stress she feels from her mother’s pressure to succeed at school, as well as from her chauvinist father. After Alex’s mother dies of cancer, her father moves the girls into a tiny apartment where he offers meager financial support and forbids Alex from shopping at the grocery store, afraid people will think he can’t provide for them. Determined to get to college, Alex plows through high school with the help of a librarian; she also cautions Beatrice over her “dangerous” attraction to images of angry dragons. Meanwhile, flyers promising the truth about the “Great Dragoning” begin to appear around town, and scientists try to determine the cause of the women’s metamorphosis. Barnhill makes palpable Alex’s sense of loss as well as the strictures of mid-century American life. This allegory packs a punch. – Publishers Weekly Review

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You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories by Maggie Shipstead:

(Available Formats: Print Book)

From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times best-selling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range
A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the Olympic village. Mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old man’s deathbed in Paris, connecting disparate destinies. On the slopes of an unfinished ski resort, a young woman searches for her vanished lover. A couple’s Romanian honeymoon goes ominously awry, and, in the mesmerizing title story, a former child actress breaks with her life in a Hollywood cult.

In these and other stories, knockout after knockout, Maggie Shipstead delivers another “extraordinary” (New York Times) work of fiction and seals her reputation as a writer of “breathtaking range and skill” (Kirkus Reviews). Rich in imagination and dazzling in its shapeshifting style, You Have a Friend in 10A excavates the complexities of love, sex, and life in ways unsparing and hilarious, sharp-eyed and tender.

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Have a great week!

Linda Reimer

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*Information on the Three Catalogs*

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Have questions or want to request a book?

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

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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 and the next New York Times Bestseller list will be published to this blog on Sunday, June 5, 2022.

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FICTION

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22 SECONDS by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

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

The 22nd book in the Women’s Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer returns as word gets around about a shipment of drugs and weapons.

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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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BOOK OF NIGHT by Holly Black:

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

A bartender working at a Berkshires dive bar deals with doppelgängers, billionaires and magicians seeking a vast and terrible power.

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CLIVE CUSSLER’S DARK VECTOR by Graham Brown

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

The 19th book in the NUMA Files series. A search for lost treasure puts Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala in the middle of a cyber-war.

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DREAM TOWN by David Baldacci

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

he third book in the Archer series. Archer, Dash and Callahan search for a missing screenwriter who had a dead body turn up in her home.

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EITHER/OR by Elif Batuman

(Available Formats: Print Book)

During her sophomore year at Harvard in 1996, Selin tries to figure out people and events related to her elusive crush.

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HOMEWRECKERS by Mary Kay Andrews

(Available Formats: Print Book)

A widow starring in a beach house renovation reality show gets caught up in competing love interests and an old missing persons case.

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IN THE BLOOD by Jack Carr

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The fifth book in the Terminal List series. James Reece goes after the killer of a Mossad operative attached to the C.I.A.

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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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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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MALIBU RISING by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

An epic party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings.

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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig

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

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

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NIGHTWORK by Nora Roberts

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

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

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NOVEMBER 9 by Colleen Hoover

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

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

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THE PARIS APARTMENT by Lucy Foley

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

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

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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry

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

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

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RUN, ROSE, RUN by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

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

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

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THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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SUMMER PLACE by Jennifer Weiner

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

A wedding between Ruby Danhauser and her pandemic boyfriend at a family beach house in Cape Cod brings to light family secrets.

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THIS TIME TOMORROW by Emma Straub

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

A 40-year-old woman finds new meaning in past events when she goes back in time and relives her 16th birthday in 1996.

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TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON by Chris Pavone

(Available Formats: Print Book & downloadable audiobook)

Questions arise when Ariel Pryce’s new husband goes missing.

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UGLY LOVE by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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VERITY by Colleen Hoover

(Available Formats: Print Book & eBook)

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

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens

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

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

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NON-FICTION:

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ALL ABOUT LOVE by bell hooks

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

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

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THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk

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

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

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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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

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

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CRYING IN H MART by Michelle Zauner

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

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

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EDUCATED by Tara Westover 

(Available 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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HERE’S THE DEAL by Kellyanne Conway

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The former senior counselor in President Trump’s White House gives her account of her time in politics.

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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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MEAN BABY by Selma Blair

(Available Formats: Print Book)

The actress and model describes dark times and the salvation she found in her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.

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THE OFFICE BFFS by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

(Available Formats: Print Book)

Two stars of “The Office” celebrate the comedy series and their friendship.

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THE PALACE PAPERS by Tina Brown

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

This follow-up to “The Diana Chronicles” details how the royal family reinvented itself after the death

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PHIL by Alan Shipnuck

(Available Formats: Print Book)

An unauthorized biography of the golf champion Phil Mickelson.

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RIVER OF THE GODS by Candice Millard 

(Available Formats: Print Book)

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

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STORYTELLER by Dave Grohl

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

A memoir by the musician known for his work with Foo Fighters and Nirvana.

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SWING AND A HIT by Paul O’Neill and Jack Curry

(Available Formats: Not yet available in any catalog)

The five-time World Series champion and five-time All-Star shares stories of his time in professional baseball.

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THINK AGAIN by Adam Grant

(Available Formats: Print Book, eBook & 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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UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN by Jon Krakauer

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

Two brothers who subscribed to a fundamentalist version of Mormonism killed a woman and her daughter; the basis of the TV series.

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UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle

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

The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.

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

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

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

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Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSL

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*Information on the Three Catalogs*

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Also of Note: If a New York Times Bestseller isn’t yet available in any of the three catalogs; you can contact the library and request to be notified when it becomes available.

Southeast Steuben County Library Tel: 607-936-3713

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.