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Daily Print & Digital Suggested Reads: Thursday, May 4, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our suggested daily recommended titles in print or media and digital formats.

Our digital suggestion for today is the e-book:

The Burial Hour: Lincoln Rhyme Series, Book 13 by Jeffery Deaver:

Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeffrey Deaver’s New York Times bestselling series.

A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight. A miniature hangman’s noose left at the scene. A nine-year-old girl, the only witness to the crime. With a crime scene this puzzling, forensic expertise of the highest order is absolutely essential. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate.

Soon the case takes a stranger turn: a recording surfaces of the victim being slowly hanged, his desperate gasps the backdrop to an eerie piece of music. The video is marked as the work of The Composer…

Despite their best efforts, the suspect gets away. So when a similar kidnapping occurs on a dusty road outside Naples, Italy, Rhyme and Sachs don’t hesitate to rejoin the hunt.

But the search is now a complex case of international cooperation–and not all those involved may be who they seem. Sachs and Rhyme find themselves playing a dangerous game, with lives all across the globe hanging in the balance.

Here’s a link to the checkout page in the Digital Catalog:

https://stls.overdrive.com/media/2904252

And our physical format suggestion for today is the book:

The Constitution of the United States of America

Inscribed & Illustrated by Sam Fink:

In 1787. . .

We were given the right to practice the religion of our choice.

We were given the right to say what we wanted without persecution.

It was written that our house and property were secure from unreasonable
search and seizure. We were given the right to a public trial.

Fifty-five men we will never know sat in a sweltering room and fought for us.
We were given our rights as citizens of the United States.

Every second fall, as we return again to the ballot box to decide the course of our country’s leadership, every voter must find their way back to that room in Philadelphia.

The Constitution of the United States of America, inscribed and illustrated by the master calligrapher, Sam Fink, brings to life the issues underlying the triumphs of this abiding document.

Originally published in pen and ink for Random House in 1987, Mr. Fink has gone back to his original black-and-white art and painted it anew, created a full-color masterpiece. The result is glorious. Each amendment, each article, each word so thoughtfully placed in The Constitution has been given Mr. Fink’s profound touch. With a powerful intelligence and a wonderful sense of humor, he has provided us with an entry point into this complex document, allowing us to read it with greater ease and understanding.

In 1787, we were entrusted with our most important living document, The Constitution of the United States of America. Have we kept it safe? To answer this, we must begin by reading it, each and every one of us—so that we may claim our own intimate knowledge of its content; so that we may never forget its tenets; so that we may remember the kind of world we want to live in. This, Sam Fink, in his direct and unadorned way, respectful and loving, helps us do.

Here’s a link to request the book:

https://goo.gl/cbXMmJ

You can also request items by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat: The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. http://starcat.stls.org/

The Digital Catalog: The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos: https://stls.overdrive.com/

Freegal Music Service: This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

Zinio: Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available: https://www.rbdigital.com/stlschemungcony

About Library Mobile Apps:

You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist you.

Daily Print & Digital Suggested Reads: Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our suggested daily recommended titles in print or media and digital formats.

Our digital suggestion for today is the e-book:

Bella Poldark by Winston Graham:

The story of the Poldarks draws to a close in the 12th and final installment of this much–admired historical saga.

Cornwall 1818. We continue the tale of Ross and Demelza; of the wayward Valentine Warleggan, whose existence keeps open the old wounds of the feud between Ross and George; of Bella, the Poldark’s youngest daughter, whose precocious talent as a singer is encouraged by her old flame, Christopher Havergal, and by a distinguished French conductor, who has more in mind than Bella’s music; of Clowance, the Poldark’s widowed daughter, who considers remarriage to one of two rival suitors; and of a murderer who stalks the villages of west Cornwall.

‘From the very first lines we tingle with the sense that we are in good hands, transported by Graham’s atmospheric prose back to 1818 and the treacherous coast of craggy Cornwall’ Daily Mail

For your convenience, here is a list of all the books in The Poldark Series:

1. Ross Poldark
2. Demelza
3. Jeremy Poldark
4. Warleggan
5. Black moon
6. Four swans
7. Angry tide
8. Stranger from the sea
9. Miller’s dance
10. Loving cup
11. Twisted sword
12. Bella Poldark

Here’s a link to the checkout page in the Digital Catalog:

https://stls.overdrive.com/media/325972

And the physical item for today the print book:

Ominous by Lisa Jackson & Rosalind Noonan:

New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, and Rosalind Noonan join together in a gripping novel of suspense, as a long-guarded secret plunges three friends into a new nightmare. NO WARNING In the photograph, three teenaged girls splash in the lake on a sweltering summer evening. Shiloh, Kat, and Ruth are unaware of the man who spies on them from the woods. They have no idea how their lives will be changed by the brutal violence that follows–and the vow of secrecy they take. CAN PREPARE YOU Fifteen years later, Ruth and Shiloh have both returned to Prairie Creek, Wyoming, where Kat is deputy sheriff. Though they’ve tried to leave their shared past behind, each has the feeling that someone is lurking in the shadows. When a local girl vanishes, Kat is convinced there’s a connection to that long ago night. But as the friends unite to find the missing teenager, a killer sends a chilling message. FOR A KILLER’S VENGEANCE He’s still there. And he hasn’t forgotten. For so long he’s made do with other victims, but they can’t compare to the ones who got away. The ones who keep searching for him, blind to the terrifying truth that they are not the hunters, but his prey…

Here’s a link to request the book:

https://goo.gl/cVRr9m

You can also request items by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat: The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. http://starcat.stls.org/

The Digital Catalog: The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos: https://stls.overdrive.com/

Freegal Music Service: This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

Zinio: Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available: https://www.rbdigital.com/stlschemungcony

About Library Mobile Apps:

You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist you.

Daily Print & Digital Suggested Reads: Monday, May 1, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our suggested daily recommended titles in print or media and digital formats.

Our digital suggestion for today is the e-book:

The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

by David McCullough:

A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles.

Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, at a time of self-reflection in America following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a brief volume designed to identify important principles and characteristics that are particularly American. The American Spirit reminds us of core American values to which we all subscribe, regardless of which region we live in, which political party we identify with, or our ethnic background. This is a book about America for all Americans that reminds us who we are and helps to guide us as we find our way forward.

Here’s are links to the checkout pages in the Digital Catalog:

For the e-book:
https://stls.overdrive.com/media/3117680

For the downloadable audiobook, read by the author: https://stls.overdrive.com/media/3206033

And our suggested print read for today is the book:

Ginny Moon: A Novel by Benjamin Ludwig:

See the world differently.

Meet Ginny Moon. She’s mostly your average teenager—she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class.

But Ginny is autistic. And so what’s important to her might seem a bit…different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape.

After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and moved around to different homes, Ginny has finally found her “forever home”—a safe place with parents who will love and nurture her. This is exactly what all foster kids are hoping for, right?

But Ginny has other plans. She’ll steal and lie and exploit the good intentions of those who love her—anything it takes to get back what’s missing in her life. She’ll even try to get herself kidnapped.

Told in an extraordinary and wholly original voice, Ginny Moon is at once quirky, charming, heartbreaking, and poignant. It’s a story about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and about making sense of a world that just doesn’t seem to add up. Taking you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character, Benjamin Ludwig’s novel affirms that fiction has the power to change the way we see the world.

Here’s a link to request the book in StarCat:

https://goo.gl/r3sWzE

Or by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat: The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. http://starcat.stls.org/

The Digital Catalog: The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos: https://stls.overdrive.com/

Freegal Music Service: This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

Zinio: Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available: https://www.rbdigital.com/stlschemungcony

About Library Mobile Apps:

You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist you.

Newly Added E-Books, Digital Audiobooks & Streaming Videos

Linda Reimer

Happy Friday everyone!

Here is a list of the new e-books, digital audiobooks (AKA downloadable audiobooks) and streaming videos just added to the Digital Catalog!

For more information click on the PDF link at the end of the list.

Audiobooks:

Title

Before I Fall

House of Shattered Wings: Dominion of the Fallen Series, Book 1

In Bed with a Highlander: Highlander Series, Book 1

Luna: New Moon: Luna Series, Book 1

Royally Screwed: Royals Trilogy, Book 1

The American Spirit

The Hope Chest

E-Books:

Accidentally on Purpose: A Heartbreaker Bay Novel

Against the Tide of Years: Emberverse: Island in the Sea of Time Series, Book 2

Bella Poldark: Poldark Series, Book 12

Carniepunk: Parlor Tricks

Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam

Disobedience: A Novel

First Rider’s Call: Green Rider Series, Book 2

Food Freedom Forever: Letting Go of Bad Habits, Guilt, and Anxiety Around Food by the Co-Creator of the Whole30

Glow of Death: Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series, Book 11

Midnight Taxi Tango–A Bone Street Rumba Novel: Bone Street Rumba Series, Book 2

Off Rock

On the Oceans of Eternity: Emberverse: Island in the Sea of Time Series, Book 3

One Christmas Wish: Heart of the Rockies Series, Book 3

Parable of the Sower: Parable Series, Book 1

Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life

Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America

Rocky Mountain Wedding: Heart of the Rockies Series, Book 5

Seduced

Six Impossible Things

Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America

Snared

Song of the Lion: Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito Series, Book 3

Spider’s Bite: Elemental Assassin Series, Book 1

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent

The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

The Angry Tide: Poldark Series, Book 7

The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

The Bones of Paradise: A Novel

The Book of Harlan

The Burial Hour: Lincoln Rhyme Series, Book 13

The Calling

The Chemist

The Choosing: Seer Series, Book 1

The Chosen: Black Dagger Brotherhood Series, Book 15

The Law of Attraction

The Loving Cup: Poldark Series, Book 10

The Miller’s Dance: Poldark Series, Book 9

The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child

The Progeny: A Novel

The Psychology of Democracy

The Psychology of Dictatorship

The Relic Master: A Novel

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

The Returning: Seer Series, Book 3

The Seven Realms: The Complete Series: The Demon King; The Exiled Queen…

The Stranger from the Sea: Poldark Series, Book 8

The Twisted Sword: Poldark Series, Book 11

Web of Lies: Elemental Assassin Series, Book 2

What Angels Fear: Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Series, Book 1

When Gods Die: Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Series, Book 2

Where Serpents Sleep: Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Series, Book 4

Where Shadows Dance: Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Series, Book 6

Why Mermaids Sing: Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Series, Book 3

Streaming Videos:

Friends: Presented in American Sign Language

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Invasion, U.S.A.

New OverDrive Titles April 28, 2017

 

Daily Print & Digital Suggested Reads: Friday, April 28, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our suggested daily recommended titles in print or media and digital formats.

Our digital suggestion for today is the e-book:

Eileen: A Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh:

Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour.

So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back.

This is the story of how I disappeared.

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.

Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature.

Here’s a link to the checkout page in the Digital Catalog:

https://stls.overdrive.com/media/2015703

And our physical format suggestion for today is print book:

The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

by Marcus du Sautoy:

“Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting.” —Bill Bryson

A captivating journey to the outer reaches of human knowledge

Ever since the dawn of civilization we have been driven by a desire to know. But are there limits to human knowledge? Are some things beyond the predictive powers of science and the capacities of the human brain? Or are those challenges the next big discovery waiting to happen?

In The Great Unknown, one of the world’s most brilliant mathematicians takes us into the minds of science’s greatest innovators as he probes the many mysteries we have yet to solve. From the very large to the very small, from the distant future to the deep past, from the complexities of the human brain to the infinities of mathematics, Marcus du Sautoy invites us to join him on a journey to the seven frontiers of knowledge, the outer edges where scientists are actively grappling with the unknown. Can we locate consciousness in the brain? What is dark energy made of? Can we speak of time before the Big Bang? Is it possible to predict the future?

At once exhilarating and mind bending, The Great Unknown will challenge you to think in new ways about every aspect of the known world. Du Sautoy reminds us that major breakthroughs were often ridiculed at the time of their discovery and invites us to consider big questions—about who we are and the nature of God—that even the most creative scientists have yet to answer definitively.

You can request the book by clicking on the following link to StarCat:

https://goo.gl/aB5gza

Or by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat: The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. http://starcat.stls.org/

The Digital Catalog: The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos: https://stls.overdrive.com/

Freegal Music Service: This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

Zinio: Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available: https://www.rbdigital.com/stlschemungcony

About Library Mobile Apps:

You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist you.

Daily Print & Digital Suggested Reads: Thursday, April 27, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our suggested daily recommended titles in print or media and digital formats.

Our digital suggestion for today is the downloadable audiobook:

The House of Shattered Wings, Dominion of the Fallen Series, Book 1,

written by Aliette de Bodard, narrated by Peter Kenny:

Multi-award-winning author Aliette de Bodard brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy.

In the late twentieth century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins. The Great Magicians’ War left a trail of devastation in its wake. The grands magasins have been reduced to piles of debris, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine has turned black with ashes and rubble and the remnants of the spells that tore the city apart. But those that survived still retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and the great houses still vie for dominion over France’s once-grand capital.

Once the most powerful and formidable, House Silverspires now lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls.

Within the house, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful fallen angel, an alchemist with a self-destructive addiction, and a resentful young man wielding spells of unknown origin. They may be Silverspires’ salvation—or the architects of its last, irreversible fall. And if Silverspires falls, so may the city itself.

Here’s a link to the checkout page in the Digital Catalog:

https://stls.overdrive.com/media/2264836

And our physical format suggestion for today is the book:

Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River

by David Owen:

A downstream adventure into the heart of one of America’s most important water systems examining where our water comes from and where it all goes

The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry.

Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on.

The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert, and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.

Here’s a link to StarCat to request the book:

https://goo.gl/qPbTMq

Or by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat: The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. http://starcat.stls.org/

The Digital Catalog: The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos: https://stls.overdrive.com/

Freegal Music Service: This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

Zinio: Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available: https://www.rbdigital.com/stlschemungcony

About Library Mobile Apps:

You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist you.

Daily Print & Digital Suggested Reads: Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our suggested daily recommended titles in print or media and digital formats.

Our digital suggestion for today is the e-book:

House of Earth: A Novel by Woody Guthrie:

Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is legendary folk singer and American icon Woody Guthrie’s only finished novel. A powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, it’s the story of an ordinary couple’s dreams of a better life and their search for love and meaning in a corrupt world.

Tike and Ella May Hamlin are struggling to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a five-cent government pamphlet, Tike has the know-how to build a simple adobe dwelling, a structure made from the land itself—fireproof, windproof, Dust Bowl-proof. A house of earth.

A story of rural realism and progressive activism, and in many ways a companion piece to Guthrie’s folk anthem “This Land Is Your Land,” House of Earth is a searing portrait of hardship and hope set against a ravaged landscape. Combining the moral urgency and narrative drive of John Steinbeck with the erotic frankness of D. H. Lawrence, here is a powerful tale of America from one of our greatest artists.

An essay by bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp introduce House of Earth, the inaugural title in Depp’s imprint at HarperCollins, Infinitum Nihil.

Here’s a link to the checkout page in the Digital Catalog:

https://stls.overdrive.com/media/1042581

And the physical item for today is the print book:

Arnie: The Life of Arnold Palmer by Tom Callahan:

In this definitive biography, veteran sportswriter Tom Callahan shines a spotlight on one of the greatest golfers ever to play the game, Arnold Palmer.

The winner of more than ninety championships, including four Masters Tournaments, Arnold Palmer was a legend in twentieth century sports: a supremely gifted competitor beloved for his powerful hitting, his nerve on the greens, and his great rapport with fans. Perhaps above all others, Palmer was the reason golf’s popularity exploded, as the King of the links helped define golf’s golden age along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player.

In addition to his talent on the golf course, Palmer was a brilliant entrepreneur off it, and one of the first sportsmen to create his own successful marketing brand. Forging an alliance with sports agent Mark McCormick, Palmer parlayed his popularity into lucrative deals, and helped pave the way for the multi-million-dollar contracts that have become standard for stars across all sports. But beyond his business acumen, Palmer was always a larger-than-life character, and Arnie recounts a host of unforgettable anecdotes from a long life in the spotlight.

Tom Callahan knew Palmer well for many years, and now pays tribute to this golfing icon. Filled with great stories from the key people in Palmer’s life, Arnie is an entertaining and illuminating portrait of a remarkable man and his extraordinary legacy.

Here’s a link to the StarCat request page for the book:

https://goo.gl/99rtOJ

You can also requests books simply by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat: The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. http://starcat.stls.org/

The Digital Catalog: The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos: https://stls.overdrive.com/

Freegal Music Service: This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

Zinio: Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available: https://www.rbdigital.com/stlschemungcony

About Library Mobile Apps:

You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist you.

Daily Print & Digital Suggested Reads: Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our suggested daily recommended titles in print or media and digital formats.

Our digital suggestion for today is the downloadable e-book:

What Happened on Beale Street: Secrets of the South Mysteries by Mary Ellis:

What Happened on Beale Street is an exciting addition to the Secrets of the South Mysteries from bestselling author Mary Ellis. These standalone, complex crime dramas follow a private investigator’s quest to make the world a better place…solving one case at a time. A cryptic plea for help from a childhood friend sends cousins Nate and Nicki Price from New Orleans to Memphis, the home of scrumptious barbecue and soulful blues music. When they arrive at Danny Andre’s last known address, they discover signs of a struggle and a lifestyle not in keeping with the former choirboy they fondly remember. Danny’s sister, Isabelle, reluctantly accepts their help. She and Nate aren’t on the best of terms due to a complicated past, yet they will have to get beyond that if they want to save Danny. On top of Danny’s alarming disappearance and his troubled relationship with Isabelle, Nate also has to rein in his favorite cousin’s overzealousness as a new and eager PI. Confronted with a possible murder, mystery, and mayhem in the land of the Delta blues, Nate must rely on his faith and investigative experience to keep one or more of them from getting killed.

Here’s a link to the checkout page in the Digital Catalog:

https://stls.overdrive.com/media/2640620

And the physical item for today the print book:

Marlena: A Novel by Steve Barry:

The story of two girls and the wild year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades

Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat is quickly drawn into Marlena’s orbit and as she catalogues a litany of firsts―first drink, first cigarette, first kiss, first pill―Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try again to move on, even as the memory of Marlena calls her back.

Told in a haunting dialogue between past and present, Marlena is an unforgettable story of the friendships that shape us beyond reason and the ways it might be possible to pull oneself back from the brink.

Here’s a link to the request page in StarCat:

https://goo.gl/E3wPC6

Or by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat: The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. http://starcat.stls.org/

The Digital Catalog: The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos: https://stls.overdrive.com/

Freegal Music Service: This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

Zinio: Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available: https://www.rbdigital.com/stlschemungcony

About Library Mobile Apps:

You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist you.

Daily Print & Digital Suggested Reads: Monday, April 24, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our suggested daily recommended titles in print or media and digital formats.

Our digital suggestion for today is the e-book:

The Glow of Death, Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series, Book 11

by Jane K. Cleland:

As a warm ocean breeze ruffles the tall grass along Rocky Point’s sandy dunes, Josie Prescott visits the house of a wealthy local couple, Edwin and Ava Belcher. She’s been called in to appraise their Tiffany lamp, which everyone is delighted to find is genuine.

Josie’s good friend, Police Chief Ellis Hunter, is helping prepare for her annual Fourth of July barbeque when he gets a call that Ava has been murdered. Unable to reach Edwin, Ellis asks Josie to identify the body. Josie is stunned to discover that the dead woman lying on the Belcher kitchen floor is not the woman she knew as Ava. Astonishment turns to shock when Josie discovers that everything she thought she knew about the Tiffany lamp and the Belchers has been built on lies.

Readers will delight in spending time in Rocky Point as these much-loved characters come together to solve a dastardly crime in the Glow of Death, a masterful addition to Jane Cleland’s Josie Prescott series. In this cunning and twisty tale of envy, greed, and revenge, Josie uses her knowledge of antiques to learn the truth about the priceless Tiffany lamp—and to discover Ava’s killer.

Here’s a link to the checkout page in the Digital Catalog:

https://stls.overdrive.com/media/2704117

And the physical item for today is the print book:

The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard:

The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen saga as Paris endures the aftermath of a devastating arcane war….

As the city rebuilds from the onslaught of sorcery that nearly destroyed it, the great Houses of Paris, ruled by Fallen angels, still contest one another for control over the capital.

House Silverspires was once the most powerful, but just as it sought to rise again, an ancient evil brought it low. Phillippe, an immortal who escaped the carnage, has a singular goal—to resurrect someone he lost. But the cost of such magic might be more than he can bear.

In House Hawthorn, Madeleine the alchemist has had her addiction to angel essence savagely broken. Struggling to live on, she is forced on a perilous diplomatic mission to the underwater dragon kingdom—and finds herself in the midst of intrigues that have already caused one previous emissary to mysteriously disappear….

As the Houses seek a peace more devastating than war, those caught between new fears and old hatreds must find strength—or fall prey to a magic that seeks to bind all to its will.
Here’s a link to request the book in StarCat:

https://goo.gl/M2bKvB

Or by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat: The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. http://starcat.stls.org/

The Digital Catalog: The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos: https://stls.overdrive.com/

Freegal Music Service: This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

Zinio: Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available: https://www.rbdigital.com/stlschemungcony

About Library Mobile Apps:

You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist you.

Weekly Recommended Listens: April 2017: Week 3: Sixties Rock: Soul Music Continued

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, this week we’re continuing our month-long look at Early Sixties Soul music this week focusing on the music of Gary U. S. Bonds, The Impressions & Jerry Butler.

Just as a reminder, each weekly recommended music posting features the following sections:

I. Brief Artist Bios

II. Freegal Music Recommendations

III. CD Music Recommendations Of The Week

IV. Videos Of This Weeks’ Artists/Groups

V. Wild Recommendations of the Week

VI. References

And on to our Soul artists of the week!

I. Brief Artist Bios:

Gary U.S. Bonds: Gary U.S. Bonds was born Gary Anderson in Jacksonville, Florida in 1939 and grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. Gary sang Gospel as a child, started singing professionally in his teens and was signed to Legrand Records by Producer Frank Guida when he was only nineteen. And Guida is the one who suggested to the young Gary Anderson that he use the professional name Gary U. S. Bonds, figuring that radio DJs would mistake Bond’s music for public service announcements and play more of his songs on the radio. The strategy worked and Bond’s career caught fire! His first hit was the classic song New Orleans. Bond’s music has that upbeat youthful vibe to it which reminds you of fun summer vacations during high school – no matter what year you graduated! And his music, which features the early classic rock instruments of guitar, bass, drums and horns, can be thought of as both early Classic Rock and Soul and is perfect for parties – especially in the summer when you can get out on the patio, with your Bluetooth speaker, and dance! Bond hits include the previously mentioned New Orleans, Quarter To Three, School Is Out, Dear Lady Twist and Twist, Twist Senior.

Today Gary U.S. Bonds lives on Long Island continue to perform and record.

The Impressions: The Impressions were the premier soul group of the early sixties. The band launched the career of three great soul artists who all became even better known in the seventies as solo artists: singer-songwriter Jerry Butler, singer-songwriter/guitarist Curtis Mayfield and singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Leroy Hutson. The Impressions formed in 1958, had the peak of their success in the late fifties and early sixties and disbanded in 1975. The group had seventeen singles hit the top ten on the R&B charts during their career. And their sound really epitomizes the sound of Soul Music as it was forming and evolving – the sound of their singing was light and airy and featured something that was unusual in popular music at that time – three singers trading lead vocals within the same song. The band was also known as being very socially conscious – something that Curtis Mayfield became even better known for in the nineteen seventies.

The Impressions hits include: It’s All Right, Amen, Keep On Pushing, Talking About My Baby, We’re A Winner, People Get Ready, I’m So Proud, Gypsy Woman, Fool For You, and Woman’s Got Soul.

The Impressions After The Impressions:

Curtis Mayfield left The Impressions in 1970. And in his post-Impressions career Mayfield music was a bit rougher and veneered off onto the path of seventies Funk Music. His solo hits of the period include: the classic Superfly, (Don’t Worry) If There’s A Hell Bellow We’re All Gonna Go, Billy Jack and Freddie’s Dead.

Mayfield continued to perform and record until 1990 when he was injured in a freak accident which ended his career, when a lighting rig fell on him at a concert in Brooklyn, New York. The accident left Mayfield paralyzed from the neck down and he never recovered from his paralysis. Mayfield died in 1999.

Leroy Hutson took over singing the main lead vocals for The Impressions when Mayfield left the group in 1970 and continued to do so until he left the band himself in 1973. During the seventies Hutson released a number of popular solo albums and worked behind the scene at Curtom Records writings songs and producing albums for other artists. His seventies solo albums include: Love Oh, Love, The Man!, Hutson, Feel The Spirit and Hutson II.

Although Hutson no longer records, he continues to perform and is scheduled to appear at the annual Blackpool Soul Festival, being held in Blackpool, England, U.K. June 16-18, 2017.

And as Jerry Butler was both a member of The Impressions, and is featured as our third Soul artist/group for this week, here’s a single posting on the great artist Jerry Butler.

Jerry Butler first met Curtis Mayfield when both youths were singing in the same church choir. Butler was an original member of The Impressions and wrote their first hit Your Precious Love; Butler was also the first member of the group to leave and launch a solo career which he did in 1958. Butler recorded numerous hit singles in the sixties and seventies including: Lost, He Will Break Your Heart, Find Another Girl, I’m a Telling You, Never Give You Up, and Hey, Western Union Man.

In the nineties, Butler launched a new career when he ran for and won a seat on the Chicago City Council – a position he still holds today.

II. Freegal Music Recommendations:

Gary U.S. Bonds:

Dance ‘Til Quarter to Three + Twist up Calypso:

This collection features Bond’s two sixties albums and offers a great collection of early sixties rocking soul songs! Songs in the collection include: Quarter To Three, A Trip To The Moon, That’s All Right, New Orleans and School Is Out.

Here’s a link to stream the Dance ‘Til Quarter to Three album:
https://goo.gl/XmXRiA

The Impressions:

The Impressions Debut Album (feat. Curtis Mayfield):

This album, from 1963, features six of their highest charting hits: It’s All Right, Gypsy Woman, Little Young Lover, Minstrel And Queen, Grow Closer Together and I’m The One Who Loves You and other great, fun songs including the Doo-Wop-centric Never Let Me Go and the swinging Twist & Limbo. This album is a sixties soul classic!

Here’s a link to stream The Impressions Debut Album:
https://goo.gl/fK2xdG

Jerry Butler:

He Will Break Your Heart + Jerry Butler, Esq.:  This classic collection contains Butler’s first two albums: Jerry Butler, Esq. and He Will Break Your Heart. The two album set contains more than 25 songs including: The Gift of Love, Sweet Was The Wine, Have A Good Time and Come Back My Love.

Here is a link to stream the Butler double album:
https://goo.gl/f3aX5z

III. CD Music Recommendations Of The Week

The Impressions:

The Impressions Debut Album:
This is the exact same classic sixties soul album I recommended you stream through The Freegal Music catalog – this time in CD format!

Here’s a link to request the The Impressions Debut Album on CD:
https://goo.gl/G9WHnt

Gary U. S. Bonds:

The Very Best Of Gary U.S. Bonds by Gary U. S. Bonds:
This album features Bond’s best songs, recorded between 1960 – 1966. The Songs include: New Orleans, School is Out, Quarter To Three, Dear Lady Twist, Seven Day Weekend and more.

Here’s a link to request the Bond’s album on CD:
https://goo.gl/tgQw4w

Jerry Butler:

He Will Break Your Heart: 

This album is actually a greatest hits collection and not the second album released by Butler in 1960. The album features his greatest songs including: Aware of Love, Find Another Girl, He Will Break Your Heart, For Your Precious Love, Where Do I Turn, Let It Be Me and A Lonely Soldier.

Here’s a link to request the Butler CD through StarCat:
https://goo.gl/R0xPQL

IV. Videos Of This Weeks’ Artists/Groups:

Gary U. S. Bonds:

Quarter to Three 

https://goo.gl/iYn0LN

This Little Girl
And here is a second Gary U. S. Bonds video I couldn’t resist sharing, even though it falls outside our sixties time-frame. It features Bond and Bruce Springing singing, This Little Girl, a song Springsteen wrote for Bond’s 1981 album Dedication. The video recorded at the MetLife Stadium in 2012.

Here’s the link to the video This Little Girl:

https://goo.gl/PrqT3j

The Impressions:

It’s All Right recorded from a 1965 television broadcast

of Hollywood A Go-Go:

https://goo.gl/EzUi22

Curtis Mayfield:

Superfly

https://goo.gl/pVs5ea

Jerry Butler:

Hey, Western Union Man

https://goo.gl/hKxV3T

V. Wild Card Recommendations of the Week:

This section includes three suggestions of music items found in the library’s collection that you might enjoy – that fall outside our monthly musical category.

Freegal Streaming Recommendation:

Joshua Bell – The Best of Joshua Bell:

Violinist Joshua Bell is from Bloomington, Indiana and plays classical and easy listening music.

Here’s a link to stream Bell’s Best of album via Freegal:
https://goo.gl/wdDGE7

DVD Recommendation:

Pete Seeger: The Power Of Song:

This documentary was released in 2007 and chronicles the life and music of the great American folk singer/songwriter and human rights activist Pete Seeger (1919-2014). Some of Seeger’s best known songs include: If I Had A Hammer, Where Have All The Flowers Gone and Turn, Turn, Turn. Guest musicians who discuss Seeger’s impact on their music include: Bob Dylan, Brice Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie and Peter, Paul & Mary.

Here’s a link to request The Power of Song DVD:
https://goo.gl/XnBvrE

And speaking of music and concert DVDs – did you know…

The library has a whole bunch of music DVDs?

Including concerts, documentaries and instructional videos for those wanting to learn how to play an instrument?

We do!

The music DVDs are actually shelved by that sneaky culprit of confusion, The Dewey Decimal System!

Most books that focus on music are found in the library under Dewey numbers in the 780s. And so are most of the library’s music DVDs…

In other words, if you’re just browsing through the library’s collection of movies and TV shows, which are arraigned alphabetically by title, you’re missing seeing our non-fiction DVDs including all our cool music related DVDs!

So the next time you’re in the library looking for DVDs – ask the staff to show you where the music DVDs are!

Print Book Recommendation:

Change of Seasons: A Memoir by John Oates: 

This is indeed the John Oates of the popular seventies and eights duo Hall and Oates. Change of Seasons is his brand new memoir!

You can request Change of Seasons click on the following link:
https://goo.gl/mtkuLo

VI. General References & Artist Specific References:

General References:

All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide To R&B And Soul. (Backbeat Books. Fresno. 2003.)

12 Best Springsteen Albums (Not Made by Bruce)
https://goo.gl/S7DZzc

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn (Billboard Books. New York. 2009.)

The Blackpool Soul Festival
http://www.blackpoolsoulfestival.co.uk/

Sixties Rock: A Listener’s Guide by Robert Santelli (Contemporary Books. Chicago. 1985.)

Recommended Artists Specific References:

Curtis Mayfield Biography by Richie Unterberger
https://goo.gl/po8EtR

Curtis Mayfield, Conscience-Driven Soul Singer, Dies at 57 By NEIL STRAUSS. DEC. 27, 1999. Accessed April 15, 2017.
https://goo.gl/4li5BX

DANCING ALL OVER THE ROOM: GARY U.S. BONDS AT SEVENTY-FIVE By Sarah Larson. June 11, 2014. Accessed April 17, 2017.
https://goo.gl/M0NRGc

Gary US Bonds (Official Website)
http://www.garyusbonds.com/

Gary “U.S.” Bonds Biography by Cub Koda
https://goo.gl/E59wa3

The Impressions Biography by Steve Huey
https://goo.gl/MeOMbQ

The Impressions – Chart History
https://goo.gl/SXwo3Y

Jerry Butler Biography by Craig Lytle
https://goo.gl/D2ApUz
Jerry Butler
County Board Commissioner, 3rd District
https://www.cookcountyil.gov/person/jerry-butler

Leroy Hutson Biography by Rob Theakston
https://goo.gl/rzb3DG

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

P.S. If you have any questions about how to download or stream free music through the Freegal Music service to a desktop or laptop computer or how to download and use the Freegal Music app let us know! Drop by the library or give us a call at: 607-936-3713

*You must have a library card at a Southern Tier Library System member library to enjoy the Freegal Music Service. Your card can be from any library in the system, and the system includes all public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler and Allegheny Counties and including our own Southeast Steuben Count Library in Corning, New York. Library cards are free and at our library you can obtain one by visiting the Circulation Desk and presenting staff with a form of ID that features both your name and your current address.