The Mid-Hudson Library System’s Most-Requested ebooks
Note: While all libraries in the Mid-Hudson Library System have closed the doors to their facilities in response to the public health crisis of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) your local library card still gives you access to eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, Online Courses, Language Learning and much more. To access the systemwide services listed above and to find out if your local library has even more to offer go to https://search. midhudsonlibraries.org.
The following is a list of the most-requested ebooks at your local libraries for the week ending June 21:
Most Requested eBooks Fiction
1. Daddy’s Girls —A Novel: Danielle Steel, Random House Publishing Group
2. The Last Days of a Rake, Donna Lea Simpson, Carina Press
3. The Day We Met — Four Short Meet Cute Love Stories: Cheryl Adnams, Vanda Vadas, Avril Tremayne, Sue-Ellen Pashley, Penguin Random House Australia
4. A Burning — A Novel: Megha Majumdar, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
5. Stranger in the Lake — A Novel, Kimberly Belle, Park Row Books
6. Dead Land — Warshawski Novels: Sara Paretsky, HarperCollins
7. Trouble Brewing — An Emerald Springs Legacy Sampler: Monica Tillery, Adams Media
8. Agatha Christie Collection, Volume 1 — The Mysterious Affair at Styles (with Hercule Poirot) and The Secret Adversary (with Tommy and Tuppence): Agatha Christie, e-artnow ebooks
9. Brief Encounter — An Erotic Short: Alice Gaines, HarperCollins
10. Casual Friday — A Short Story Prequel to The Intern’s Handbook: Shane Kuhn, Simon & Schuster
Most Requested eBooks Nonfiction
1. I’m Still Here — Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness: Austin Channing Brown, The Crown Publishing Group
2. The Color of Law — A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America: Richard Rothstein, Liveright
3. The New Jim Crow — Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness:
Michelle Alexander, The New Press
4. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? — And Other Conversations About Race: Beverly Daniel Tatum, Basic Books
5. Countdown 1945 — The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World: Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
6. Five Days — The Fiery Reckoning of an American City: Wes Moore, Erica L. Green, Random House Publishing Group
7. Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change, Angela J. Hattery, Earl Smith, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
8. This Stops Today — Eric Garner’s Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son: Gwen Carr, Dave Smitherman, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
9. The Art of Fiction — A Guide for Writers and Readers: Ayn Rand, Penguin Publishing Group
10. At the Dark End of the Street — Black Women, Rape, and Resistance — A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power: Danielle L. McGuire, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Mid-Hudson Library System’s “Most Requested” ebooks is comprised of information gathered from the system’s 66 member libraries in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Putnam and Ulster counties.