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Suggested Reading Five: November 11, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our five suggested reads of the week; we are still running with a books that complement fall season; so we’ve got five recommended reads that fall within that theme.

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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

In this latest work, best-selling author Isaacson (Steve Jobs) takes a close look at how scientific collaboration actually happens in the modern age, in particular the tension between academic institutions and industry. The author does an admirable job of explaining science in accessible terms and also focusing on the human side of the story. Throughout the work, he sketches quick portraits of the dozens of researchers, scientists, and business people involved with CRISPR from the beginning. Also, given Jennifer Doudna’s recent Nobel Prize win for CRISPR, readers will doubtless want to hear more about her life and the attribution controversy that often attends such awards. One person who reappears frequently is molecular biologist James Watson. Isaacson seems determined to create a connection between Doudna and Watson, but, although Dounda read The Double Helix as a child and met Watson several times, their personalities and attitudes toward genetic manipulation could not be more different. Color photographs of all the key players are extremely helpful and break up the text into bite-sized pieces.

VERDICT: Similar to his previous works, Isaacson’s latest is another absorbing story of scientific discovery. The final section on the use of CRISPR to combat COVID-19 will only widen the appeal. — Library Journal Review

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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their memories—some painful—which hold them together despite their differences.

Hardened by life’s disappointments, wealthy, charismatic Cody has turned cruel and envious. Thrice-married Jenny is errant and passionate. And Ezra, the flawed saint of the family, who stayed at home to look after his mother, runs a restaurant where he cooks what other people are homesick for, stubbornly yearning for the perfect family he never had.

Now gathered during a time of loss, they will reluctantly unlock the shared secrets of their past and discover if what binds them together is stronger than what tears them apart.

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The Eighth Detective by Alex Paves

This inventive debut sees editor Julia Hart visit a reclusive author, mathematician Grant McAllister, whose self-published work, The White Murders, she hopes to release. Grant is also the author of a mathematical paper in which he explains the rules of whodunits?there must be a victim or victims, one or more suspects, one or more detectives, etc. The seven stories in the book illustrate permutations made possible by changing the mix of these character types. There’s a problem, however: the stories include inconsistencies, and Hart begins to notice that they also feature allusions to an infamous real-life case called the White Murder. As the tales within a tale unfold, readers are treated to wonderful mini-mysteries that are interspersed with the author and editor’s conversations and followed by Hart’s ingenious sleuthing into Grant’s background and the truth behind The White Murders. Pavesi’s language immerses readers in mid-twentieth-century England and in the struggles, cruelties, and oddities of his multitude of carefully portrayed characters. Give this atmospheric puzzle to fans of short stories and of the American Mystery Classics series. –Booklist

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The Great Mistake: A Novel by Jonathan Lee

The ‘Father of Greater New York’ is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903. In the hour of his death, will the truth of his life finally break free?

Born to a struggling farming family in 1820, Andrew Haswell Green was a self-made man who reshaped Manhattan, built Central Park and turned New York into a modern metropolis. Now, at eighty-three, when he thought the world could hold no more surprises, he is murdered. As the detective assigned to the case traces his ghost across the city, other spectres appear: a wealthy courtesan; a broken-hearted man in a bowler hat; and an ambitious politician, Samuel, whose lifelong friendship was a source of joy and frustration

In a life of industry and restraint, where is the space for love?

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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award

A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother.

The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town “chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere.”

Ruth and Lucille’s struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transcience.

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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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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: November 6, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring one album or musical collection for your listening pleasure; one movie or TV show/season for your viewing pleasure and one recommendation for background viewing – perfect for having on while having dinner, reading or just hanging out at home. Enjoy! 

The week we’re focusing on upbeat and light hearted movies with a political bent; an upbeat album the celebrates America and a fall ambient video.

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First off the music, this week an album:

America, The Dream Goes On (1985) by The Boston Pops with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Williams conducting

The first song on the album is:

Fanfare for the Common Man

The other songs on the album are, in order of playback: America, The Dream Goes On, The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, This Land Is Your Land, America, The Beautiful, Rodeo: Hoe-Down, American Salute, American Medley, When The Saints Go Marchin’ In & Prayer Of Thanksgiving.

Available Formats: You can stream the album through the library app Hoopla.

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Moving on to our suggested viewing title of the week; this week, as mentioned, we’ve got two light hearted movies from the 1990s:

My Fellow Americans (1996) Trailer:

Available Formats: You can check out the DVD from the library or stream the movie from the usual online sources.

About The Movie: My Fellow Americans is a lighthearted film thatopens by introducing two political rivals Russell Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Matt Douglas (James Garner). The two men run against each other for president twice; Kramer wins the first time and at the end of his term is defeated by Douglas who serves his term and is then defeated by Kramer’s former vice president William Haney (Dan Aykroyd).

When a bribery scandal involving Haney and a defense contractor threatens to become public, Haney and his advisers attempt to shift the blame onto the two former presidents. Before Kramer and Douglas can defend themselves, they become targets of an assassination attempt and are forced to flee for their lives.

The two longtime rivals reluctantly join forces and embark on a cross-country journey to uncover evidence that will clear their names and expose the corruption within the current administration. Along the way, their misadventures bring them into contact with ordinary Americans, giving them an unexpected opportunity to see how their presidential policies have affected the people they once governed.

So, the movie really is a road trip film following Kramer and Douglas as the try and get out of the mess they are in! The film also starts Lauren Bacall and Wilford Brimley

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Dave (1993) Trailer

Available Formats: You can check out the DVD from the library or stream the movie from the usual online sources.

About The Movie: The film Dave is a light-hearted film, like My Fellow Americans. It stars Kevin Kline as Dave Kovic a man who runs a temp agency and also, by a fluke of fate, bears an uncanny resemblance to the current president of the United States – Bill Mitchell. Because of his resemblance to the president the White House hires him to occasionally impersonate the president at public events.

And then President Mitchell, who has been involved in an affair; has a stroke and his scheming chief of staff Bob Alexander (Frank Langella) asks Dave to impersonate the president while he recovers as a matter duty and doing what is best for the country – while really Alexander is scheming to expand his power – and Dave goes along with being instructed by Alexander for a little while and then decides to make his own decisions and do the presidential job as he sees fit much to Alexander’s chagrin (to say the least!)

In addition to Kline and Langella, the film stars Sigourney Weaver as the first lady and Ben Kingsley as Mitchell’s Vice President Gary Nance.

Background Viewing

(Perfect to have on while having dinner, reading etc.)

And this week I had a hard time picking just one ambient video – so here are three of them!

Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Information on the four library catalogs (content available 24/7!)

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. 

Have questions about any of the catalogs?

Give us a call!

You can reach us at 607-936-3713 or visit our website at https://ssclibrary.org/

Suggested Reading Five: November 4, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our five suggested reads of the week; this month our focus in on books that complement the Autumn reading season.

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The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

In this sweeping saga, Brown (Under a Flaming Sky; The Indifferent Stars Above) vividly relates how, in 1936, nine working-class rowers from the University of Washington captured gold at the Berlin Olympics. Mentored not just by their coach but by legendary boat-builder George Pocock, these athletes overcame the hopelessness common during the Great Depression by learning to trust themselves and one another, and by rowing with grace and power. The crew’s camaraderie and unmatched precision surpassed expectations, shocking the sporting world. Brown faithfully conveys rowing’s stoic persistence, passion, and pain. He captures how and why this team rowed in flawless harmony. The story’s depth comes from the memories that rower Joe Rantz shared with Brown shortly before his death as well as from Brown’s interviews with crewmates’ friends and family and their archives. In a brief epilog, Brown comments on the rowers’ post-Olympic accomplishments.

VERDICT Those who enjoy reading about Olympic history or amateur or collegiate sports will savor Brown’s superb book, much as they would enjoy David Halberstam’s The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal, which examined the 1984 single scull trials. –Starred Library Journal Review

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

Renkl’s book of 52 short essays written in the style of religious breviaries is designed to cover a year. She focuses largely on the flora and fauna around her Tennessee home, where she encounters an owl pellet, only to discover it is merely discarded vacuum fluff. At times, she casts back to the natural world of her Alabama childhood, when she picked berries amidst the rattlesnakes. While full of memories, her essays also fixate on the present–the COVID era, and the political landscape in particular. Renkl recalls feeling overwhelmed by child-rearing while she also mourns her currently empty nest, making for her assertion that one can “”want two contrary things at once.”” Sprinkled liberally throughout are “”praise songs””–little sub-essays–one of which describes spying exquisite mole hands in a mound of coyote scat. These little extras, just like the epigrams at the beginning of each essay, pack an extra punch into this tidy volume billed as a “”literary devotional.”” Indeed, readers can return to these pages often, through the seasons of their own lives. — Booklist Review

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The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

On his forty-second birthday, poet Gay (Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, 2015) began a yearlong project to write, every day, about something that delighted him. The 100 of these “essayettes” shared here in chronological order?and which are most delightfully read that way?consider things as contained as a high five from a stranger and concepts as vast as existence itself. The longhand in which Gay first wrote these (one of the project’s rules) seems to uncurl on the typed page, in winding meanders and meaningful digressions that share a life-spanning spectrum of emotions and experiences. Gay discovers that his delights begin to compound and embed in one another. Stacking delights, saving up several to write about another day, is technically against the rules, but he does it anyway; and occasionally blowing off the project is its own delight. While Gay’s delights embrace the darkness of racism and death, en masse they share a profound capacity for joy and belief in humankind. This stunning self-portrait of a gardener, a teacher, and a keen observer of life is sure to inspire. –Booklist Review

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The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves

CWA Diamond Dagger Award winner Cleeves’s superb ninth novel featuring astute, irascible Det. Insp. Vera Stanhope (after 2017’s The Seagull) finds Vera driving home late one night through rural Northumberland in a blizzard when she comes upon a car that’s slewed off the road. The driver is gone, but Vera discovers a toddler strapped into a car seat. Soon after she transfers the child to her own car, she realizes that she’s close to Brockburn, the once grand family home of the Stanhopes, and decides to go there. She last visited the place with her father when she was 15, and remembers that “the family had been unfailingly polite. That branch of the clan used politeness as a weapon of mass destruction.” At Brockburn, the abandoned car’s driver, a young woman, is found murdered behind the house. Vera assembles her loyal, if at times exasperated, homicide team to investigate, and comes to realize that the “whole case… was about families, about what held them together and what ripped them apart.” This fair-play mystery brims with fully developed suspects and motives that are hidden in plain sight. Skillful misdirection masks the killer’s identity. This page-turner is must reading for fans as well as newcomers. — Starred Publishers Weekly Review

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The Drift by C. J. Tudor

FINALIST FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARD • AN ESQUIRE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. After she was evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. They’ll need to work together to escape—with their sanity and secrets intact.

Meg awakens to a gentle rocking. She’s in a cable car stranded high above snowy mountains, with five strangers and no memory of how they got on board. They are heading to a place known only as “The Retreat,” but as the temperature drops and tensions mount, Meg realizes they may not all make it there alive.

Carter is gazing out the window of an isolated ski chalet that he and his companions call home. As their generator begins to waver in the storm, something hiding in the chalet’s depths threatens to escape, and their fragile bonds will be tested when the power finally fails—for good.

The imminent dangers faced by Hannah, Meg, and Carter are each one part of the puzzle. Lurking in their shadows is an even greater danger—one with the power to consume all of humanity.

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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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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: October 30, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring one album or musical collection for your listening pleasure; one movie or TV show/season for your viewing pleasure and one recommendation for background viewing – perfect for having on while having dinner, reading or just hanging out at home. Enjoy! 

First off the music, this week an album:

One Stormy Night (1966) by The Mystic Moods Orchestra

About The Album: One Stormy Night is the debut album by the easy listening group The Mystic Moods Orchestra. The album features ten songs with the sounds of a rain storm in the background. The group continued recording albums in this style in the sixties and seventies – so if you like this album – they have many more in a similar vein.

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Moving on to our suggested viewing titles of the week; this week our recommendation is actually a triple feature suggestion with three films to compliment the Halloween weekend!

And the movies are:

Arsenic & Old Lace (1944)

Available Formats: You can request Arsenic and Old Lace on DVD from the library or stream it from the usual online sources.

About The Movie: Arsenic and Old Lace is a black comedy from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Directed by Frank Capra, and set on Halloween, the movie tells the story of theater critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) who comes from an old Brooklyn Family and has just eloped with Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), a neighbor and daughter of a minister. Before Mortimer and Elanie leave on their honeymoon; they stop at the homes of their respective families to give them the good news.

While Mortimer is at his family home, where his aunts Abby & Martha and his younger brother, Teddy, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, live – he searches for some of his papers, which he had left there previously; and discovers a dead body in the window seat. At first Mortimer thinks Teddy may have killed the man whose body is in the window seat; and then his aunts confess that they have been luring old men to their home and killing them by serving them wine poisoned with arsenic and then having Teddy, who believes they are yellow fever victims, bury them in the basement – the body Mortimer found is number 13. And in this wacky, chaotic atmosphere Mortimer & Teddy’s elder brother Jonathan arrives on the scene. Jonathan, it transpires has a violent nature and looks like Boris Karloff – and so the film unfolds!

In addition to Cary Grant & Priscilla Lane, the movie stars Raymond Massey, Jack Carson & Peter Lorre.

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Bell, Book & Candle (1958)

Available Formats: You can request Bell, Book & Candle on DVD from the library or stream it from the usual online sources.

About The Movie: Bell, Book & Candle is a whimsical, magical film with a bit of humor, a dash of music, a pinch of magic and lots of heart in the center – and a cool cat named Pyewacket.

The film opens by introducing viewers to Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak), the bored owner of art store, who just happens to be a witch. Gillian takes an interest in her new neighbor Shep Henderson (Jimmy Stewart); and then on Christmas Eve Shep finds Gillian’s Aunt Queenie, who is also a witch, in his apartment and rather ungraciously escorts her out. Queenie is miffed and casts a spell on Shep’s phone, so it doesn’t work; Shep then goes downstairs to Gillian’s store an asks if he can use her phone and they chat – Gillian finds out Shep is engaged to a rival of hers and decides to make him fall in love with her instead. As the film unfolds, Gillian finds she is truly falling in love with Shep; which is a challenge because the Wiccan rules relayed in the film say a witch can’t fall in love or she loses her powers – so the question is will Gillian give up her magic to love and be loved by Shep or not? Watch the film to find out!

In addition to Stewart and Novak, the film stars Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Elsa Lanchester and Pyewacket.

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The Last Keepers (2013)

Available Formats: The movie is available to be checked out from the library on DVD and can be streamed from a variety of online sources including Amazon, Tubi & Pluto.

About The Movie: The Last Keepers tells the story of Rhea Carver and her family. Rhea is a high school student who discovers that she comes from a long line of nature-based witches. The movie really is a bildungsroman, that shows Rhea at first bulking at her emerging powers and how they impact her life; she desperately wants to live a normal life and fit in at high school, without her powers; and as the movie unfolds she slowly realizes that the person she is transitioning into as she is becoming an adult witch is the person she was always meant to be and she accepts her powers and her heritage as one of the Last Keepers.

The film stars Zosia Mamet as Rhea, Virginia Madsen as Abigail Carver, Aidan Quinn as John Carver, Olympia Dukakis as Rosemarie Carver and Sam Underwood as Oliver Sands

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Background Viewing

(Perfect to have on while having dinner, reading etc.)

Autumn Fireplace Jazz

Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Information on the four library catalogs (content available 24/7!)

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. 

Have questions about any of the catalogs?

Give us a call!

You can reach us at 607-936-3713 or visit our website at https://ssclibrary.org/

Suggested Listening & Viewing: October 23, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring one album or musical collection for your listening pleasure; one movie or TV show/season for your viewing pleasure and one recommendation for background viewing – perfect for having on while having dinner, reading or just hanging out at home. Enjoy! 

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First off the music, this week an album:

Trio (1987) by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris

The album starts off with the song:

Telling Lies

Note: This album is available for check out through Hoopla, one of the library’s digital catalogs, as part of the set “Trio: The Complete Collection.” The collections features both Trio albums by Parton, Ronstadt & Harris as well as outtakes for a total of 41 songs.

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Moving on to our suggested viewing title of the week; this week our recommendation is

The Straight Story (1999)

Available Formats: The Straight Story can be streamed from the usual online sources and is also available on DVD at the library.

About The Movie: The movie is based on the real-life experiences of Alvin Straight. As the movie opens, viewers meet 73-year-old Alvin; a retired laborer who is living in Laurens, Iowa and who cannot see well enough to drive a car. Alvin discovers that his brother Henry Straight, who is living in Blue River Wisconsin, has had a stroke. Alvin decides to go visit Henry; and as he can’t drive a car, the very determined Alvin loads up a trailer with supplies and hooks it up to his 1966 John Deere tractor to drive the 240 miles from his Iowa home to his brother’s home in Wisconsin.

During the trip, Alvin meets a variety of people who wish to help him, his tractor breaks down more than once and must be repaired; and at one point he even has to pause in his journey for a few days until his next social security check comes through so he has funds to continue his journey. It takes him six weeks but Alvin finally makes it to Laurens to see Henry.

The movie was directed by David Lynch and stars Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek and Harry Dean Stanton.

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Background Viewing

(Perfect to have on while having dinner, reading etc.)

Forest Walk in Skyrim | 4 Hours Music and Ambience

Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Information on the four library catalogs (content available 24/7!)

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. 

Have questions about any of the catalogs?

Give us a call!

You can reach us at 607-936-3713 or visit our website at https://ssclibrary.org/

Suggested Listening & Viewing: October 16, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring one album or musical collection for your listening pleasure; one movie or TV show/season for your viewing pleasure and one recommendation for background viewing – perfect for having on while having dinner, reading or just hanging out at home. Enjoy! 

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First off the music, this week the album:

Waltz for Debby (1962) by The Bill Evans Trio

The album opens with the song:

My Foolish Heart

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Moving on to our suggested viewing title of the week; this week our recommendation is the movie:

Hidden Figures (2016)

Available Formats: The movie is available from the library on DVD and may be streamed through the usual online streaming services, i.e. Apple, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube etc.

About The Movie: The movie is based on the book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly; and follows three female African American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan. The film opens in the late fifties, during the space race era, with the trio working at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Initially the women are seen as entry level human computers and assigned simply to do calculation without being told why. Eventually, overcoming racial discrimination, all three advance in their careers at NASA. Jackson goes on to become NASA’s first female African American engineer; Vaughan becomes NASA’s first female African American supervisor and Johnson works on the Apollo 11 and Space Shuttle missions.

The film stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst & Jim Parsons.

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Background Viewing

(Perfect to have on while having dinner, reading etc.)

You’re Sitting by a Lake Campfire

Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Information on the four library catalogs (content available 24/7!)

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. 

Have questions about any of the catalogs?

Give us a call!

You can reach us at 607-936-3713 or visit our website at https://ssclibrary.org/

Suggested Listening & Viewing: October 9, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring one album or musical collection for your listening pleasure; one movie or TV show/season for your viewing pleasure and one recommendation for background viewing – perfect for having on while having dinner, reading or just hanging out at home. Enjoy! 

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First off the music, this week, in honor of the man and his music on the 86th anniversary of John Lennon’s birth, our musical recommendation is the album: 

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles  

 

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Moving on to our suggested viewing title of the week; this week our recommendation is a movie that nicely complements the autumn season:

October Sky (1999) 

 

About the Movie: October Sky is set in the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia in 1957 and tells the story of high school student Homer H. Hickam Jr., the son of the local mine manager, who watches the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite and is inspired to design and launch his own rockets. He recruits three friends to his rocket making team, and they create and test a variety of rockets, getting better at building and launching them through research, trial and error and with the help of their teacher Miss Riley. After Homer’s father is injured in an accident at the mine; he temporarily quits school to work in the mine and help support his family. Eventually, Homer goes back to school, returns to making rockets, and his team enters a rocket in their high school science fair. 

The movie is based upon the life of the real Homer H. Hickam Jr. and if you want to know how the boys made out with their science fair entry you can watch the movie, or Google Homer Hickam Jr. 

The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen & Laura Dern. 

Available Formats: The movie can be checked out at the library on DVD; and streamed from the usual online streaming stores.  

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Background Viewing

(Perfect to have on while having dinner, reading etc.)

October Autumn Serenity  

 

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And as Halloween is this month and there are only so many evenings and weekends in the month for us to watch movies – here is a list of classic horror films that you might find entertaining – these are classic Universal and Hammer films with a few others included to spice up the mix – enjoy!

A Selection of Classic Horror Films of 1930s & 1940s

Dracula (1931) with Bela Lugosi

Frankenstein (1931) with Boris Karloff

The Mummy (1932) with Boris Karloff

The Old Dark House (1932) with Boris Karloff & Melvyn Douglas

Murder in the Rue Morgue (1932) with Bela Lugosi

The Invisible Man (1933) with Claude Rains

The Black Cat (1934) with Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) with Boris Karloff & Elsa Lanchester

Son of Frankenstein (1939) with Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi

The Wolf Man (1941) with Lon Chaney Jr.

The Uninvited (1944) with Ray Millan and Ruth Hussey

Dead of Night (1945) with Mervyn Johns & Michael Redgrave

A Selection of Classic Horror Films of the 1950s & 1960s with a few from the 1970s

House of Wax (1953) with Vincent Price

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) with Richard Carlson

The Curse of Frankenstein (1958) with Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee

Dracula (1958) (AKA The Horror of Dracula) with Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) with Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee

The Mummy (1959) with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) with Oliver Reed

The Innocents (1961) with Deborah Kerr

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) with Vincent Price

Carnival of Souls (1962) with Candace Hilligoss

The Birds (1963) with Rod Taylor & Jessica Tandy

The Haunting (1963) with Julie Harris

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

Horror Express (1972) with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee & Telly Savalas

Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Information on the four library catalogs (content available 24/7!)

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. 

Have questions about any of the catalogs?

Give us a call!

You can reach us at 607-936-3713 or visit our website at https://ssclibrary.org/

Suggested Reading Five: October 7, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, at the Southeast Steuben County Library we order books on a 10-month calendar, from January through October; and in October we pre-order upcoming releases by popular authors who have new books coming out during October, November & December and we do not place another book order until January.

With that in mind, the pre-ordered titles we’ll be receiving for you to check out this fall, are listed in the post New Books Coming Your Way for October 2026 – you can find that list on the blog.

And our Suggested Reading Five titles for the months of October, November & December will be themed collections; for October we’ve got books that complement the autumn season with falling leaves, personal reflections, colder weather, wool sweaters etc., and featuring stories that incorporate family sagas into the mix.  

Enjoy! 

Linda Reimer, SSCL  

P.S. I’ll let you know what the themes are for our Suggested Reading Five posts, for November & December, just as soon as I figure that out! 

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The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver  

Feisty Marietta Greer changes her name to “Taylor” when her car runs out of gas in Taylorville, Ill. By the time she reaches Oklahoma, this strong-willed young Kentucky native with a quick tongue and an open mind is catapulted into a surprising new life. Taylor leaves home in a beat-up ’55 Volkswagen bug, on her way to nowhere in particular, savoring her freedom. But when a forlorn Cherokee woman drops a baby in Taylor’s passenger seat and asks her to take it, she does. A first novel, The Bean Trees is an overwhelming delight, as random and unexpected as real life. The unmistakable voice of its irresistible heroine is whimsical, yet deeply insightful. Taylor playfully names her little foundling “Turtle,” because she clings with an unrelenting, reptilian grip; at the same time, Taylor aches at the thought of the silent, staring child’s past suffering. With Turtle in tow, Taylor lands in Tucson, Ariz., with two flat tires and decides to stay. The desert climate, landscape and vegetation are completely foreign to Taylor, and in learning to love Arizona, she also comes face to face with its rattlesnakes and tarantulas. Similarly, Taylor finds that motherhood, responsibility and independence are thorny, if welcome, gifts. This funny, inspiring book is a marvelous affirmation of risk-taking, commitment and everyday miracles. – Publishers Weekly Review  

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The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni 

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother’s devout faith, his father’s practical wisdom, and his two other misfit friends. 

Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls. 

Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design―especially not the tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown, and the life he’d always known. Running from the pain, eyes closed, served little purpose. Now, as he looks back on his life, Sam embarks on a journey that will take him halfway around the world. This time, his eyes are wide open―bringing into clear view what changed him, defined him, and made him so afraid, until he can finally see what truly matters. 

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The Help by Kathryn Stockett  

Set in Stockett’s native Jackson, MS, in the early 1960s, this first novel adopts the complicated theme of blacks and whites living in a segregated South. A century after the Emancipation Proclamation, black maids raised white children and ran households but were paid poorly, often had to use separate toilets from the family, and watched the children they cared for commit bigotry. In Stockett’s narrative, Miss Skeeter, a young white woman, is a naive, aspiring writer who wants to create a series of interviews with local black maids. Even if they’re published anonymously, the risk is great; still, Aibileen and Minny agree to participate. Tension pervades the novel as its events are told by these three memorable women. Is this an easy book to read? No, but it is surely worth reading. It may even stir things up as readers in Jackson and beyond question their own discrimination and intolerance in the past and present. – Starred Library Journal Review 

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Plainsong by Kent Haruf 

It’s a good thing young Ike and Bobby Guthrie are close, because they’re in for a spell of loss and radical change. Victoria Roubideaux, 17, is too, but she has no sibling to stand beside her during bouts of morning sickness, or when her mother throws her out of the house. Haruf, author of “The Tie That Binds” (1984), alternates between the Guthrie boys’ adventures and Vicky’s quest to find a safe place for herself and her baby, but the two story lines soon entwine because all lives converge in the small Colorado town of Holt, which he so adroitly portrays. The Guthrie boys are often on their own after their mother leaves, while their nearly overwhelmed father, Tom, a high-school teacher, is distracted by the threats of a violent student. Vicky goes to Maggie Jones, a colleague of Tom’s, for help. Unable to provide her with the sanctuary she needs, Maggie delivers Vicky to the elderly McPheron brothers, farmers as tightly connected as Tom’s sons. Vicky revolutionizes their staid lives, and they provide her with her first true home, and the resulting familial love seems to set the entire countryside aglow. Haruf’s narrative voice is spare and procedural, and his salt-of-the-earth characters are reticent almost to the point of mannerism until it becomes clear that their terseness is the result of profound shyness and an immensity of feeling. Haruf’s unforgettable tale is both emotionally complex and elemental, following, as it so gracefully does, the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. – Booklist Review  

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The Shipping News by Annie Proulx 

Proulx has followed Postcards , her story of a family and their farm, with an extraordinary second novel of another family and the sea. The fulcrum is Quoyle, a patient, self-deprecating, oversized hack writer who, following the deaths of nasty parents and a succubus of a wife, moves with his two daughters and straight-thinking aunt back to the ancestral manse in Killick-Claw, a Newfoundland harbor town of no great distinction. There, Quoyle finds a job writing about car crashes and the shipping news for The Gammy Bird , a local paper kept afloat largely by reports of sexual abuse cases and comical typographical errors. Killick-Claw may not be perfect, but it is a stable enough community for Quoyle and Co. to recover from the terrors of their past lives. But the novel is much more than Quoyle’s story: it is a moving evocation of a place and people buffeted by nature and change. Proulx routinely does without nouns and conjunctions–“Quoyle, grinning. Expected to hear they were having a kid. Already picked himself for godfather”–but her terse prose seems perfectly at home on the rocky Newfoundland coast. She is in her element both when creating haunting images (such as Quoyle’s inbred, mad and mean forbears pulling their house across the ice after being ostracized by more God-fearing folk) and when lyrically rendering a routine of gray, cold days filled with cold cheeks, squidburgers, fried bologna and the sea. –  Publishers Weekly 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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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: October 2, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring one album or musical collection for your listening pleasure; one movie or TV show/season for your viewing pleasure and one recommendation for background viewing – perfect for having on while having dinner, reading or just hanging out at home. Enjoy! 

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First off the music this week the album:

Astral Weeks (1968) by Van Morrison 

 

About The Album: Astral Weeks is singer-songwriter Van Morrison’s second album and blends elements of folk, jazz, classical music and rock and has an almost mystical quality to its eight songs – it is a mellow, reflective album and perfect listening for this first weekend in October.  

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Moving on to our suggested viewing title of the week; this week our recommendation is the movie:

Coherence (2013) 

 

Available Formats: Available for request as a standard DVD, also available to stream from the library via Kanopy or Hoopla, and may be streamed from the usual online sources.  

About The Movie: A small dinner party is being held in a typical neighborhood on a night when a comet flies close by the earth; during the festivities the power goes out, and cell phones stop working. One of the partygoers walks to a nearby house, the only one in the immediate vicinity that has lights on, to see if the people there have a working phone – only to see the members of the dinner party at the house he just left – having dinner in that house.  

As the film unfolds the people at the dinner party realize that the comet has impacted space time and created local alternate realities; the people from these realities, are the same people seen at the dinner party at the beginning of the film, but the alternate versions of the partygoers when they meet the initial partygoing group is different, sometimes subtlety so and sometimes more overtly so, because those people made different decisions earlier in the evening.  And one of the partygoers decides she’d like to replace herself in one of the other realities, one where the evening has gone well for her – thinking she’ll have a better life. She discovers towards the end of the film, which does have an opened-ended ending; meaning in this case, that not all the questions are answered –  she discovers that she may be wrong in thinking this new reality will be a good fit for her. 

This is one of those neat mind-bending “what if” films for those that like that style of film.  

And as a bonus, if you haven’t already seen it, I also recommend the series Dark which also features alternate realities and time travel; it is set in a small town, following four connected families and explores how the past, present and future are connected; it was super in its first two seasons, if a bit rushed to complete the story in its third.  

Here is the trailer for the TV series: 

Dark (2017 – 2020) 

 

Note: Dark is only available via Netflix & should have English dialogue although it was originally done with German dialogue and that version too was accessible on Netflix the last time I had a subscription.  

And as both those video recommendations are a bit on the dark side, I’m also going to recommend a screwball comedy from Hollywood’s Golden Age, for those looking for a humorous film this weekend: 

Bringing Up Baby (1938)  

Directed by Howard Hawkes and starring Kathryn Hepburn & Cary Grant 

 

Available Formats: You can request a copy of the DVD from the library or stream the movie via Kanopy. The movie is also available to stream through the usual online stores.  

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Background Viewing

(Perfect to have on while having dinner, reading etc.)

Crackling Fireplace ambient sounds 

 

And on a upcoming programs note, “upcoming” in this case meaning this afternoon! We’re showing a matinee of the comedy/mystery classic film:

Murder by Death (1976)

The film stars Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, James Coco, Truman Capote and Elsa Lancaster.

So if you’ve got nothing on deck this afternoon, join us for the matinee which starts at 2:00 p.m. and runs 94 minutes.

Everyone is welcome & snacks will be provided

Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Information on the four library catalogs (content available 24/7!)

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. 

Have questions about any of the catalogs?

Give us a call!

You can reach us at 607-936-3713 or visit our website at https://ssclibrary.org/

New Books Coming Your Way: October 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is a list of all the new print books and Libby eAudios & eBooks coming to the Southeast Steuben County Library in October, with a few print titles coming in November & December, as we’re at the end of our ordering year for print books.

New Books Coming Your Way: October (and November & December) 2026:

New Books Coming Your Way October 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.