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Suggested Reading Five: January 28, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our five suggested reads of the week!

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A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James 

Violet Esmie doesn’t want to go home again. Eighteen years ago, Violet’s youngest brother, Ben, disappeared. One minute Violet, her sister Dodie, and her brother Vail were playing hide-and-seek with Ben, and the next minute no trace of him could be found. Soon after this traumatic event, Violet, Dodie, and Vail all left their upstate New York hometown with no intention of ever coming back. However, all three Esmie siblings are now returning to Fell, and the reason is eerie. Ben’s ghost has written a message that says, “Come Home.” Adeptly alternating viewpoints between Violet, Dodie, and Vail, St. James (Murder Road, 2024) perfectly captures the mix of annoyed snarkiness, edgy rivalry, and unconditional love that can exist among siblings while simultaneously dialing up the supernatural spookiness that has infected each of their lives in different ways. From the book’s chillingly creepy setting, which previously appeared in The Sun Down Motel (2020), to a nerve-jangling plot that effectively borrows from a mix of genres to the writing itself, which shimmers with a dazzlingly sharp sense of wit, everything about St. James’ latest is done to perfection. – Starred Booklist Review 

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Catch Her If You Can by Tessa Bailey  

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back with an all-new marriage of convenience, friends-to-lovers sports romance about a baseball catcher and the burlesque club owner he can’t get out of his head. 

Madden Donahue, the newest catcher for the Yankees, has been in love with Eve Mitchell since high school, but for some mysterious reason, the burlesque club owner always turns him down. That never stopped him from being her self-appointed protector. Case in point, now that Eve’s sister has left Eve with her two children indefinitely, Madden steps in with a proposition—marry him for the much needed health benefits. 

Eve has secretly harbored feelings for Madden all along, but there’s one problem—her best friend Skylar called dibs on him when they were fourteen. Eve has always put their friendship above all else, and she’s not willing to risk losing Skylar over a man. Raised by the local strip club owner, Eve is woefully short on friends and treasures the ones she has. But with Skylar happily paired off, Eve finds herself accepting Madden’s proposal—on the condition that their marriage remains strictly private. She’s not about to let her unique profession and maligned reputation destroy Madden’s shiny new career. 

Madden won’t let Eve get away that easily, though. What starts as a marriage of convenience soon ignites into something much hotter, and now it’s up to Madden to convince Eve that their connection is far more than a business arrangement. As the passion builds, can their fake marriage become the real deal? 

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Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging by Angela Buchdahl 

In Heart of a Stranger, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on a life shaped by complexity, heritage, and faith. Born to a Korean Buddhist mother and a Jewish American father, she explores how two different family histories have been united through shared values of resilience, tradition, and hope. Her mother’s story, marked by war, stands alongside her father’s Jewish heritage, forming a foundation both rich and complex. The book blends personal narrative, historical reflection, and Jewish teachings. Each chapter pairs a family story with spiritual insight, drawing on Hebrew terms and the rhythm of sermon-like meditations. Buchdahl traces her path into the Jewish faith and the challenge of embracing multiple identities. From misadventures in keeping kosher to balancing motherhood with leading a major synagogue, she writes with clarity and purpose. She calls for unity within Jewish communities despite their differences, honors her Korean roots, and faces questions of race, identity, and belonging with honesty and humility. Her story shows the courage required to embrace complexity and hold difficult truths with compassion. – Booklist Review  

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My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney  

Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife. 

One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying. 

Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner called Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person’s date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel, and as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs. 

My Husband’s Wife is a tangled web of deception, obsession, and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass – if you dare – to experience a story where nothing is as it seems. 

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Twelve Months by Jim Butcher  

It has been three weeks since the devastating magical attack on Chicago (Battle Ground, 2020), leaving the city in complete disarray and wizard Harry Dresden’s life in shambles. He is mourning the loss of a loved one, has been banished from the White Council of Wizards–although he is not as upset about that–and has been forced by the ruthless Queen Mab into an engagement to the provocative leader of the White Vampires. Harry is grieving and exhausted but nevertheless providing food and shelter for neighbors left homeless by the battle. He is not sure how, or even if, he will recover. What he needs is time, but Mab has given him the impossible task of resolving a conflict with the sovereign of another magical nation, the same king who wants Harry’s brother dead. And an overzealous new White Council warden is out for Harry’s literal head. His friends and, oddly, his new fiancee are trying to help, offering support, a new apprentice, and a Valkyrie bodyguard, but the heartbreak and anguish may still be too much. Series fans will be intrigued by the new characters and changes in Harry’s life as Butcher deftly explores the impacts of loss and grief.  – Starred Booklist Review 

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Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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

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Weekly Suggested Reading Five postings are usually published on Wednesdays, unless Monday is a holiday and then they are published later in the week.

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Information on the four library catalogs

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go!

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

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

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron check out limit is 10 items per month.

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

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players.

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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).

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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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Have questions about how to access Internet based content (i.e. eBooks, eAudios)? Feel free to drop by the Reference Desk or call the library and we will assist you! The library’s telephone number is: 607-936-3713.

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Tech & Book Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Suggested Reading Five: January 21, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our five suggested reads of the week!

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Future Saints by Ashley Winstead 

Winstead (In My Dreams I Hold a Knife) focuses on the demise of a women-led rock band in her latest. Told through the perspective of the bandmates, manager, and fans, this emotionally charged novel opens as the Future Saints perform at a nearly empty venue. The members of the Future Saints are on the cusp of giving up on everything–the music, their fans, and themselves–when lead singer Hannah closes the show with a new song that sets the internet on fire with its grief and honesty. The Future Saints are rocketed to a level of popularity that flummoxes the bandmembers as well as their new manager, Theo. As poor choices are made, captured for social media, and regurgitated within the band itself, they begin writing new music that captures their changed situation as well as their sadness at the death of their former manager, Ginny, who was also Hannah’s sister. Hannah ultimately confronts her grief in a dramatic way, bringing the story full circle and allowing catharsis. The novel’s satisfying epilogue places each character in the future where they need to be. VERDICT Fans of Stephanie Clifford’s The Farewell Tour will enjoy. – Library Journal Review  

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George Falls Through Time: A Novel by Ryan Collett 

George’s life in present-day London keeps hitting new lows. He already lost his job and boyfriend, he’s about to lose his flat, and now, having taken a dog-walking gig, he has lost two of the six dogs that he was walking in the park. While a panicked George searches for the missing dogs, he observes the London he knows falling away. Somehow, he has traveled through time, and the only thing he can find out is that he’s in the 28th year of a King Edward’s reign (1300 CE). Time-travelling is brutally hard when you’re going backward: the language is foreign to George, and dragons, apparently, are known to exist in this world, which he can’t quite believe. He is thrown into prison, eventually escaping with the help of a man named Simon. Then George is brought before the king, who presents him with a plastic Coca-Cola bottle and demands an explanation. VERDICT Collett’s (The Disassembly of Doreen Durand) time-travel novel is a marvelously lovely queer retelling of the story of St. George and the dragon. Readers who loved Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time will enjoy this too. – Library Journal Review  

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Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson 

Thirty-five words. That’s the length of the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence, the one that begins with “We hold these truths to be self-evident” and ends with “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” In between, there is talk of equality and sacrosanct rights. It’s a lot to pack into a single sentence, but award-winning biographer Isaacson cogently honors the wisdom it took to create it. Its authors–Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams–struggled over concerns such as, who, precisely, should be included in “We” and whether “inalienable”” would be a better choice than “unalienable.” Glimpses into such behind-the-scenes polishing of the most important of our country’s foundational documents would be fascinating in and of itself, but as the Declaration’s 250th anniversary draws near, Isaacson’s granular analysis serves as a more potent lesson. Our nascent nation was freeing itself from Britain’s tyrannical rule, the facts of which are specifically enumerated in the body of the Declaration. Re-reading these grievances through the lens of today’s politically fraught atmosphere is a chilling but necessary exercise. In Isaacson’s expert hands, those 35 words, and the ones that come after them, gain a new level of clarity and relevance, and inspire deepened appreciation. – Booklist Review  

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The Infamous Gilberts: A Novel by Angela Tomaski  

DEBUT Margaret Gilbert has long lived with her three daughters and two sons in Thornwalk, a once-stately English manor, until, in 2002, the keys to the manor are about to be handed over to a new owner who plans to transform the estate into a luxury hotel. But first, Maximus, who lives in a cottage on the property, walks readers through a more than 60-year history of the Gilbert family and their home. Tomaski’s sad, sometimes funny debut novel thrives on its personalities. There’s Hugo, the eldest Gilbert son, who plans to take over the family’s failing business after their father dies; Jeremy, the wanderer who disappears for long stretches at a time; and the three Gilbert daughters dreaming of love, whose poor choices as they try to marry into wealth cloud and complicate the family’s fate. Tomaski offers strong characterization as each Gilbert reveals the weaknesses and gullibility that will ultimately contribute to the family’s downfall as they struggle with the implications of marrying for money versus clinging to the hope of regaining lost love.

VERDICT Readers of Tomaski’s immersive multigenerational saga will be pulled into the lives of the Gilbert family. Recommended for fans of big English novels about people who cannot help themselves. -Library Journal Review 

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No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done: A Novel by Sophie Hannah

 

The twistiest murder mystery you are ever likely to read? A story about a family that does the unthinkable? 

Both? Or something else altogether? 

You think it will never happen to you. 

The doorbell. The policeman. The words that turn your world inside out: I’m afraid there’s been an incident… 

For Sally Lambert, those words mean only one thing—danger. Not just for her family, but for Champ, their loyal and beloved dog. A single accusation, a neighbor’s grudge, and suddenly the Lamberts are trapped in a nightmare with no escape. 

Unless they make one. 

Most people would never run. Most people would never leave behind everything they know to protect an animal who can’t defend himself. But for Sally, Champ is more than a dog—he’s one of her children. And most people aren’t the Lamberts.  

No one has ever done this before. No one has ever gone this far. But the Lamberts have never been quite like any other family… 

New York Times bestselling author Sophie Hannah spins an unexpected tale of suspense in No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done, an unsettling reflection on how far we’ll go for those we love. 

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Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Weekly Suggested Reading Five postings are usually published on Wednesdays, unless Monday is a holiday and then they are published later in the week.

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

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Information on the four library catalogs

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go!

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

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

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron check out limit is 10 items per month.

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

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players.

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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).

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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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Have questions about how to access Internet based content (i.e. eBooks, eAudios)? Feel free to drop by the Reference Desk or call the library and we will assist you! The library’s telephone number is: 607-936-3713.

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Tech & Book Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Suggested Listening & Viewing: January 16, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring ten songs and two streaming video recommendations, one from a mainstream service and the other from Kanopy, the library’s free to access streaming service (all you need is a library card!).

First The Songs: 

Around The Clock by Jimmy Witherspoon

Found on the Album: Blues Around The Clock (1995)

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Delilah by Clifford Brown with Max Roach

Found on the Album: The Emarcy Master Takes (Vol. 1) (2009)

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Dust My Broom by Elmore James

Found on the Album: Shake Your Moneymaker: The Best of the Fire Sessions (2001)

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Make My Getaway by Big Bill Broozny

Found on the Album: Big Bill Broonzy Sings (1956)

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The Joint Is Jumpin’ by Fats Waller

Found on the Album: The Very Best of Fats Waller (2000)

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Match Box Blues by Blind Lemon Jefferson

Found on the Album: Legend (2018)

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Moonshine Blues by Ma Rainey

Found on the Album: Blues Greats (2009)

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Telephoning Blues by Victoria Spivey

Found on the Album: Victoria Spivey Vol. 3 1929-1936 (2005)

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What’s Your Story, Morning Glory? By Mary Lou Williams

Found on the Album: My Mama Pinned A Rose On Me (2005)

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Women Be Wise by Sippie Wallace

Found on the Album: Women Be Wise (1994)

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Second The Videos: 

Two recommendations a week; one title available through one of the usual U.S. streaming services, followed by a Kanopy title that you can check out with your library card and stream on-demand.

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Mainstream Stream

The Night Manager, Season 2 (2026) (Amazon Prime)

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Kanopy Stream

Metropolis (1927) 

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Metropolis Trailer

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Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Information on the four library catalogs 

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/ 

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go! 

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

And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.  

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

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout limit is 10 items per month. 

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

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players. 

Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.  

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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en 

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.  

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders! 

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV). 

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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. 

Suggested Reading Five: January 14, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our five suggested reads of the week!

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The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan 

Reader’s Note: The second book in the DS George Cross Mysteries Series, after The Dentist. 

DS George Cross has unique and unmatchable talents. He uses a combination of logic, determination and exacting precision to get answers where others have failed for families who have long given up hope. So when a ravaged body is found in a local demolition site, it’s up to Cross to piece together the truth from whatever fragments he can find. 

From the faint tan lines and strange scars on the victim’s forearms, Cross meticulously unravels the young man’s life, delving into the world of amateur cycling, an illicit supply of performance enhancing drugs, jealousy, ambition and a family tearing itself apart. 

Cross’s relentless pursuit of the truth and eccentric methods earn him few friends. But just as the police seem to be nearing a conclusion, he doubles back. Could it be the biggest mistake of his career? 

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Damaged People: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons by Joe McGinniss Jr. 

The son of a prominent writer contemplates difficult father-son relationships and the possibilities of healing. The author of political exposes (The Selling of a President 1968) as well as more sensationalistic works (the true-crime account Fatal Vision), McGinniss lived a “writer-as-rock-star” life, chasing stories, women, and fame. He was also cynical, depressive, an addict and alcoholic as well as an absent father allergic to anything that limited his freedom. His son, also named Joe McGinniss, builds the sober, intact household his father could not provide. But Jr., too, is a writer, and a keen observer of his own attachment-avoidant impulses. When his own son, Jayson, arrives, the younger McGinniss finds himself parenting in his father’s likeness: too stern, too angry, and more than a little scared of his own inadequacy. As the old man succumbs to late-life psychosis, his son must excavate his own trauma to halt the damage he has already started inflicting on teenage Jayson. The resulting memoir becomes an act of narrative therapy, as well as a raw and often poignant tribute to a difficult dad. 

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First Do No Harm: A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery by S J Rozan 

Reader’s Note: First Do No Harm is the sixteenth book in the Lydia Chin & Bill Smith Mystery Series. If you’d like to binge read the series from the beginning, check out book one: China Trade. 

About First Do No Harm: In the newest in the Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mystery series from S. J. Rozan since The Mayors of New York (2023), Dr. Elliott Chen asks his sister, private investigator Lydia, to investigate when Sophia Scott, a nurse helping to negotiate with management to prevent a nurses’ strike, is murdered. Lydia and her partner Bill find themselves in a maze of basement rooms in which it becomes evident that the institution is riddled with “scams and grifts . . . lying and covering up” and that there were many motives for the murder. Nurse Scott was definitely not a model employee. It’s a mad tangle and plays out in a brutally hot New York City August when air conditioning comes and goes at an annoying rate, reflecting the confounding case. Amidst the pervasive fragrance of legendary Manhattan curbside hot dogs, the two foodies find sanctuary in a few of the city’s amazing eateries. Throughout 16 books in a series that started in 1994, Rozan’s characters have bonded and grown, and readers are treated to a seemingly effortless flow of banter and deduction. They are in a class by themselves. – Starred Booklist Review  

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May Contain Murder by Orlando Murrin 

Reader’s Note: The second book, after Knife Skills for Beginners, in the Chef Paul Delamare Mystery Series. 

About May Contain Murder: For fans of Nita Prose, Benjamin Stevenson, and Jessa Maxwell, this delightfully witty and tightly-written new locked room culinary mystery from the MasterChef semi-finalist, cookbook writer, and bestselling author of Knife Skills for Beginners features a charming chef, delicious original recipes, and a killer cruise aboard a luxurious superyacht. 

“If it weren’t for all the terrible things that have been happening, I’d consider myself the luckiest man alive . . .” While his flooded house undergoes repairs, chef-turned-writer Paul Delamare has been offered an accommodation upgrade—an all-expenses-paid trip aboard a private superyacht in the company of Xéra, one of his dearest friends. Paul will help Xéra work on her memoirs as Maldemer glides its sumptuous way to the Caribbean. The scenery is stunning, the luxury is unparalleled, and the food…well, at least the dishes that Paul is roped into preparing are delicious. The hired chef, meanwhile, seems completely out of her depth. She’s not the only one. Much as Paul adores Xéra, a Parisian socialite who he was introduced to by his late lover, Marcus, he has little in common with the other guests, a motley crew consisting of Xéra’s new husband and his grasping family. When Xéra’s priceless new necklace goes missing, Paul falls under suspicion. But there’s far worse in store, as one of the passengers is found dead in mysterious and grisly circumstances. The stormy weather matches the threatening mood onboard, and as Maldemer veers off course, every semblance of order goes with it. Above and below deck there are secrets and dangerous alliances. And as he untangles the truth, it becomes clear that Paul’s sharing close quarters with a killer eager to make this his final voyage . . . 

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The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum by Valerie Wilson Wesley 

1926: Harriet Stone, a liberated, educated Black woman, and Lovey, the orphaned, biracial, 12-year-old she is bound to protect, are Harlem-bound, embarking on a new, hopefully less traumatic chapter in their lives. They have been invited to move from Connecticut by Harriet’s cousin, Junetta Plum, who runs a boarding house for independent-minded single women. 

 It’s a bold move, since Harriet has never met Junetta, but the fatalities of the Spanish flu and other tragedies have already forced her and Lovey to face their worst fears. Alone but for each other, they have little left to lose—or so it seems as they arrive at sophisticated Junetta’s impressive brownstone. 

 Her cousin has a sharp edge that makes Harriett slightly uncomfortable. Still, after retiring to her room for the night, she finally falls asleep—only to awaken to Junetta arguing with someone downstairs. In the morning, she makes a shocking discovery at the foot of the stairs. 

 What ensues will lead Harriet to question Junetta’s very identity—and to wonder if she and Lovey are in danger as well. It will also tie Harriet to five strangers. Among them, Harriet is sure someone knows something. What she doesn’t yet know is that one will play a crucial role in helping her investigate her cousin’s murder . . . that she will be tied to the others in ways she could never imagine . . . and that her life will take off in a startling new direction . . . 

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Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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

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Weekly Suggested Reading Five postings are usually published on Wednesdays, unless Monday is a holiday and then they are published later in the week.

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Information on the four library catalogs

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go!

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

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

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron check out limit is 10 items per month.

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

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players.

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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).

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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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Have questions about how to access Internet based content (i.e. eBooks, eAudios)? Feel free to drop by the Reference Desk or call the library and we will assist you! The library’s telephone number is: 607-936-3713.

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Tech & Book Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Suggested Listening & Viewing: January 9, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring ten songs and two streaming video recommendations, one from a mainstream service and the other from Kanopy, the library’s free to access streaming service (all you need is a library card!).

This week we’re offering ten pop/rock & blues classics from the early to mid twentieth century. Enjoy!

First the songs: 

No Particular Place to Go by Chuck Berry 

 

Found on the Album: 20th Century Masters: The Best Of Chuck Berry – The Millennium Collection (1999) 

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Today I Sing The Blues by Aretha Franklin 

 

Found on the Album: Aretha (1961) 

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Oh, Boy! by Buddy Holly  

 

Found on the Album: The Chirping Crickets (1957) 

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Bye Bye Love by The Everly Brothers  

 

Found on the Album: The Very Best Of The Everly Brothers (1964) 

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Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right by Bob Dylan 

 

Found on the Album: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963) 

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Ruby Baby by Dion 

 

Found on the Album: Ruby Ruby (1963) 

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Wild Is The Wind by Nina Simone  

 

Found on the Album: Wild Is The Wind (1966) 

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St. Louis Blues by Bessie Smith 

 

Found on the Album: Smith, Bessie: St. Louis Blues (1924-25) (2003) 

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Make Someone Happy by Dinah Washington 

 

Found on the Album: The Complete Roulette Collection (2011) 

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5-10-15 Hours by Ruth Brown 

 

Found on the Album: Rockin’ In Rhythm – The Best Of Ruth Brown (2005) 

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Second The videos: 

A new title available through one of the usual U.S. streaming services, followed by a Kanopy title that you can check out with your library card and stream on-demand, via the Kanopy app or through the Kanopy website found at https://www.kanopy.com/

Mainstream Streaming Pick of the Week 

The Pitt, Season 2 (2026) (HBO Max) 

 

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Kanopy Streaming Pick of the Week 

The Friend Trailer 

 

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Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Information on the four library catalogs 

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/ 

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go! 

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

And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.  

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

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout limit is 10 items per month. 

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

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players. 

Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.  

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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en 

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.  

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders! 

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV). 

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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. 

Suggested Reading Five: January 7, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our five suggested reads of the week!

An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole 

Ellory Morgan feels a bit isolated as an older-than-average freshman at the prestigious Warren University, arriving with a handful of community college credits and a Godwin Scholarship, which entails a full ride with high expectations and a work-study job. She immediately goes head-to-head with Hudson Graves, whose family donated the campus library, as the two of them are both brilliant Black students from vastly different backgrounds in a wealthy, white academic environment. Their paths continue to cross, with inexplicable incidents of both déjà vu and possibly magic drawing their analytical minds towards the puzzle of mysterious disappearances across the history of their campus. With their friends’ help, they use a cross-section of magical heritage and institutional knowledge to delve into the mysteries, drawing them into a seance with the library ghost and other strange occurrences. As the plot untangles, a surprising twist has Ellory making life-or-death decisions for her friends. Cole’s adult debut is an unusual dark academia tale that diverges from an obvious enemies-to-lovers conclusion to build a richer story. – Booklist Review 

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The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave 

Dave’s latest takes place five years after the events of The Last Thing He Told Me, in which Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter Bailey had to run for their lives after Hannah’s husband Owen disappeared. They’ve now settled into a new life, with Bailey a recent college graduate and Hannah a successful artist. They even both have a good relationship with Hannah’s grandfather, whom they have grown to love and trust. Then unexpected events cause Hannah and Bailey to flee once again for their safety. Twists and turns will keep readers guessing throughout the novel at how it will all end. Chapters jump back and forth between past and present, but with smooth transitions that flow with the story. The characters’ love and concern for each other show through their thoughts and actions, and even minor characters show their loyalty by keeping long-ago promises. VERDICT This sequel is sure to be a hit, with fans of the first novel or its Apple TV+ series adaptation lining up to read it. A definite buy for most collections. – Library Journal Review 

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Pride And Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution by Amanda Vaill 

Vaill  examines the lives of Angelica Schuyler Church and Elizabeth “”Eliza”” Schuyler Hamilton, the unconventional eldest daughters of the prominent Schuyler family. Following their wealthy childhoods in upstate New York, Angelica and Eliza socialized with prominent figures during the American Revolution. Eliza married Alexander Hamilton, and Vaill recounts their relationship and how Eliza helped Hamilton create several of the nation’s founding documents. Angelica married a businessman, moved to England, and became a witness to the wider effects of unrest in Europe. Vaill relates the main events of the Revolutionary War and other volatile events while interweaving Angelica and Eliza’s experiences. After Hamilton is killed in a duel, Eliza immersed herself in charity work and fought to preserve his legacy. Vaill speculates on the women’s feelings and motivations where sources are scarce as well as on the suspiciously close relationship between Angelica and Hamilton. A detailed and fascinating story of two strong women. – Booklist Review  

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The Shop On Hidden Lane by Jayne Ann Krentz 

For four generations, the Wells and the Harpers have feuded over the proper professional use of psychic powers. Eventually, a tenuous pact to agree to disagree was reached. Now Sophy Harper and Luke Wells are going to test that pact when Luke’s Uncle Deke disappears, and Luke hires Sophy to “read and clean” the scene of the crime. However, while doing so, Sophy discovers that not only did her beloved Aunt Bea disappear with Deke but all the rumors of “No-Talent” Luke’s lack of physic powers are untrue. Luke seems to have a few psychic tricks up his sleeve, and he is to be the one man who isn’t scared off by Sophy’s own unique talents. Krentz’s (It Takes a Psychic, 2025) latest paranormally imbued romantic-suspense novel, which stands on its own while simultaneously referencing other titles in the Jayneverse, delivers everything her readers crave including a super-cool librarian heroine with an intriguing side hustle, plenty of snappy dialogue, simmering sexual chemistry, and a clever canine who almost steals the show. – Starred Booklist Review  

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The Storm by Rachel Hawkins  

In 1984, Landon Fitzroy is found dead on the beach in St. Medard’s Bay after a hurricane has roared through town. His death is initially thought to be an accident, a horrible case of wrong place, wrong time. When Landon’s affair with local teen Lo Bailey is discovered, Lo is accused of murder and of using the storm to cover up her crime. After she is acquitted, Lo escapes the gossip and leaves town. Forty years later, Geneva Corliss is the current owner of her family’s struggling hotel, The Rosalie Inn. When August, a writer, reserves a room to work on a book about the Fitzroy case, Geneva thinks the publicity may help her save the inn. Unexpectedly accompanying August is Lo, and as another hurricane makes its way toward the town, the truth about what happened in 1984 will be uncovered. Hawkins uses her mastery of multiple time lines and characters to great effect in this quick and enjoyable read, and the pulpy nature of the story will appeal to fans of Sally Hepworth and Laura Dave. – Booklist  

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Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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

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Weekly Suggested Reading Five postings are usually published on Wednesdays, unless Monday is a holiday and then they are published later in the week.

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Information on the four library catalogs

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go!

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

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

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron check out limit is 10 items per month.

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

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players.

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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).

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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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Have questions about how to access Internet based content (i.e. eBooks, eAudios)? Feel free to drop by the Reference Desk or call the library and we will assist you! The library’s telephone number is: 607-936-3713.

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Tech & Book Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

New Books Coming Your Way: January 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is a list of all the new books, physical media items, eAudios & eBooks the library has ordered this month.

New Books Coming Your Way at the Southeast Steuben County Library

January 2026

New Books Coming Your Way January 2026Download

Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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P.S. Some of the print books & physical media items may not yet appear in StarCat. So, if you see any title you’d like to check out, but it isn’t in StarCat, send me an email or give me a call and I’ll put your name on the list for it, as soon as it has arrived.

P.S.S. The three digital catalogs are:

The Digital Catalog found online at https://stls.overdrive.com/ and its companion app Libby found in mobile app stores.

The Hoopla Catalog found online at: https://www.hoopladigital.com/ and its companion app, also called Hoopla and found in mobile app stores.

Kanopy: The streaming video catalog found online at https://www.kanopy.com/ and its companion app, also called Kanopy, found in mobile app stores.

Suggested Reading Five: December 31, 2025

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our five suggested reads of the week!

On another library note, the Southeast Steuben County Library is open abridged hours today, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Additionally, the library is closed tomorrow, January 1, 2026, due to the New Year’s holiday. We will re-open at our regular opening time of 9:00 a.m. on Friday, January 2, 2026. Happy New Year to everyone!

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This week we’re focusing on five of the best non-fiction titles of 2025, again as compiled from a number of “Best of 2025” book lists, links for which may be found at the end of this post.

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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao

A well-reported look at the frontiers of information technology as brought to the world courtesy of artificial intelligence. “I think this will be the most transformative and beneficial technology humanity has yet invented,” Silicon Valley tech tycoon Sam Altman once exalted of ChatGPT, the AI engine built on a vast corpus of words. Hao, a writer forThe Atlantic and other publications, takes a more measured view of the accomplishments of Altman and his OpenAI, a tech firm with significant transparency issues and a curious structure, part nonprofit, part for profit. Hao opens with Altman’s being fired in November 2023 at the hands of his board and his quick return to the company with few of those issues resolved, a drama that, Hao writes, “highlighted one of the most urgent questions of our generation: How do we govern artificial intelligence?” It’s an urgent question indeed, given that AI increasingly governs us in making decisions about judicial sentencings, college admissions, health insurance payouts, and so on. Moreover, Hao writes, AI development has become increasingly secretive, with the evolving product put to uses that “could amplify and exploit the fault lines in our society.” Against booster promises that AI will solve the climate crisis and discover a cure for cancer, Hao–who found employees blocked from speaking with her “beyond sanctioned conversations”–looks at some unhappy realities: For one, data centers consume huge amounts of energy, with one planned facility using nearly as much power as New York City; for another, most of the corpus of AI’s large language models overlooks the developing world, where, not coincidentally, a great deal of AI-related grunt work is happening for low wages in places like Kenya and Chile. A pointed account raises needed questions about how AI is to be regulated to do no–or at least less–harm. – Kirkus Review

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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families by Judith Giesberg 

 The Second Middle Passage, the transportation of enslaved people from one U.S. state to another, forcibly separated families, relocating siblings, parents, children, and spouses across multiple states. The arduous task of locating loved ones who had often not been seen for decades began after the defeat of the Confederacy. Ads placed in newspapers throughout the North and South urgently sought information about long-lost family members. Giesberg (history, Villanova Univ.; Sex and the Civil War) expertly utilizes an archive of thousands of such information-seeking ads published from the end of the Civil War through the 1920s. Many of the stories demonstrate how difficult it could be to locate family members, as searchers tried to remember names, dates, and places. In other instances, people discovered that in the intervening years, their spouses had remarried. While a few stories have endings where family members were reunited, the vast majority show how the horrors of enslavement and forced migration continued to affect Black families for years after emancipation. VERDICT Based on a unique set of sources, this heart-wrenching work should be read by all focused on enslavement studies as well as American and Civil War history. – Starred Library Journal Review

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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst

British journalist Elmhirst’s first book is the riveting tale of a quirky married couple who survived 117 days lost at sea in the 1970s. Maralyn and Maurice wanted to live a different life from their parents in England, so instead of settling down and buying a house, they got a boat. They spent four years building out their small yacht, the Auralyn. In June 1972, they set off on their planned around-the-world cruise, sailing to Spain, then across the Atlantic and through the Panama Canal. Occasionally, the couple would travel with like-minded couples, but mostly they sailed alone and, at Maurice’s insistence, without a radio transmitter on board. En route to the Galapagos Islands, a dying whale crashes into their hull, and the Auralyn sinks quickly. The couple find themselves alone in the ocean with only a dinghy, a life raft, and what they could salvage from the wreck. The story then follows the next 117 days at sea, as they find all their survival skills tested. Elmhirst reconstructs the tale from Maralyn’s diaries, books the couple wrote after their rescue, and news stories. VERDICT This compelling adventure story of two people sailing around the world without radios or electronics has emotional depth.—Library Journal Review

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Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy

 Roy’s mother Mary was formidable, her brilliance and determination yoked to her “rage and unpredictability.” So dominant and radical was Mary, Roy compares her childhood in Kerala, India, to growing up in a cult requiring “unquestioning obedience and frequently demonstrated adoration of the Mother-Guru,” demands the future writer failed to meet. In the wake of her mother’s death, Booker Prize-winner Roy recounts her unconventional life, beginning with her shocking their small Syrian Christian community by divorcing her husband, clashing with family over property rights, and running a thriving, progressive village school. Mary was also a fierce women’s rights activist even as her viciousness toward her daughter led to a long estrangement. Roy left home young, living hand-to-mouth, studying architecture, and finding her way to love and writing, first screenplays, then, eventually, the novel that made her famous, The God of Small Things (1997). She reconnected with her feckless father and impossible mother as the book’s success brought her controversy and wealth, which she generously shared. Never one to play it safe, Roy began writing daring essays about social and environmental crises, embarking on a “restless, unruly life as a seditious traitor-writer,” traveling across India and Kashmir while facing prosecution, “insults and outrage.” Roy’s stunning, dramatic, funny, far-ranging, and complexly illuminating chronicle portraying two strong-willed women fighting for justice and truth is incandescent in its fury, courage, and love. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Roy’s many avid admirers are eagerly awaiting her first memoir, certain that, as always, she will be astute, provocative, and bewitching. – Starred Booklist Review

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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone

Homelessness has long been a chronic problem in almost every large American city. However, the common assumption that the homeless are unemployed (and unemployable) is challenged in journalist Goldstone’s heartbreaking book. He does a deep dive into the history and circumstances of several family units in the Atlanta area who have been plagued by homelessness, despite having jobs. These families have found themselves without a home, sometimes because of personal problems but more often through adverse developments beyond their control. Some of them face eviction by a landlord intent on development, some have subsistence jobs that make them unable to afford move-in costs. Occasionally they have enough for a short stay in a cheap motel, sometimes they resort to shelters, sometimes they live in their cars. Learning of the harsh obstacles of daily life for these people will both distress and outrage any reader with an ounce of empathy. At the very least, the reader is made aware of the complexity and severity of the problems of those living on the edges of society. – Booklist Review

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Happy reading!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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

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Weekly Suggested Reading Five postings are usually published on Wednesdays, unless Monday is a holiday and then they are published later in the week.

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Information on the four library catalogs

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go!

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

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

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron check out limit is 10 items per month.

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

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players.

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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).

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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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Have questions about how to access Internet based content (i.e. eBooks, eAudios)? Feel free to drop by the Reference Desk or call the library and we will assist you! The library’s telephone number is: 607-936-3713.

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Tech & Book Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Suggested Listening & Viewing: December 26, 2025

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring ten songs and two streaming video recommendations, one from a mainstream service and the other from Kanopy, the library’s free to access streaming service (all you need is a library card!).

First the songs: 

Dynamite by Brenda Lee

Found on the Album: Anthology 1956-1980 (1991)

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Now That The Buffalo’s Gone by Buffy Saint Marie

Found on the Album: The Best of Buffy Saint Marie (1987)

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Keep On The Sunny Side by The Carter Family

Found on the Album: The Essential Carter Family (2013)

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The Erie Canal (aka Er-ie Canal) by Cisco Houston

Cisco Houston Sings Songs of the Open Road (1960)

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He Was A Friend Of Mine by Dave Van Ronk

Found on the Album: Folksinger (1962/1989)

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Walking The Floor Over You by Ernest Tubb

Found on the Album: Retrospective (Volume 2) (1987)

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Lovesick Blues by Hank Williams

Found on the Album: 40 Greatest Hits (1978)

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We Had All The Good Things Going by Jan Howard

Found on the Album: N/A

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Blowin’ In The Wind by Joan Baez

Found on the Album: Any Day Now (1968)

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Cry, Cry, Cry By Johnny Cash

Found on the Album: The Total Johnny Cash Sun Collection (2018)

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If I Had A Hammer by Pete Seeger

Found on the Album: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection (2019)

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Optimistic by Skeeter Davis

The Essential Skeeter Davis (2015)

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I Can’t Help But Wonder Where I Bound by Tom Paxton

Found on the Album: The Essential (2019)

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Rock Island Line by The Weavers

Found on the Album: The Best Of The Decca Years (1996)

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This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie

Found on the Album: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 (1997)

Second The Videos: 

A new title available through one of the usual U.S. streaming services, followed by a Kanopy title that you can check out with your library card and stream on-demand.

Mainstream Stream of the Week

Fallout, Season 2 (2025) (Prime)

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Kanopy Stream of the Week

Death in Paradise, Series 14 (2025)

Trailer

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Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Information on the four library catalogs 

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/ 

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go! 

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

And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.  

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

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout limit is 10 items per month. 

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

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players. 

Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.  

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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en 

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.  

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders! 

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV). 

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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. 

Library Closing Early Today 12.26.25

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, just a quick FYI on this snowy afternoon.

Due to the inclement weather, the library is closing today, Friday, December 26, at 3:00 p.m.

So unfortunately, we won’t be showing our December Monthly Matinee, Wicked (2024), today.

Our Monthly Matinees are shown the fourth Friday of each month, with a start time of 2:30 p.m.

An as we are finding that many patrons are inquiring if we will reschedule showing the movie Wicked – we have done so!

Wicked will now be our January Monthly Matinee, bumping the film The Wild Robot, which we may show at a later date. Wicked will be shown Friday, January 23, 2026 with a start time of 2:30 p.m.

And here is the current Monthly Matinee Schedule January – August 2026

As mentioned, Monthly Matinees are shown the fourth Friday of the Month, start time 2:30 p.m.

This list updated 12.26.25 LR

January 2026:

Wicked (2024)

February 2026:

In The Heights (2021)

March 2026:

The Courier (2020) with Benedict Cumberbatch

April 2026

News of the World (2020) with Tom Hanks

May 2026

42 (2013) with Chadwick Boseman & Harrison Ford

June 2026

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) with Ralph Fiennes & F. Murray Abraham

July 2026

1776 (1972) with William Daniels, Howard DaSilva & Ken Howard

August 2026:

Wicked for Good (2025)

Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL