Greetings, salutations, and welcome back to another March induced madness
surviving, budget season stressing, biocentric universe believing, sun and
snow loving edition of the High Demand Hold Digest - your monthly source for
truth, good cheer, optimism, and definitely no sarcasm about the joys and
wonders of toiling in the fields of Library-land.
My apologies (to those who noticed) for the February list and missive being
unsent. Somehow February hit me like an attempt at playing a master-level
game of Jenga after being up for 48-hours straight and drinking five pots of
cheap coffee - which is to say the goal was clear, the tower was laid out
before me, and all efforts to play the game resulted in a chaotic mess of
blocks on the floor. So please accept my humble apologies.
Welcome to March of the magical number 23! March, to me, is the strangest
month of the twelve - if you choose to see and experience it with the right
eyes. It is a time of things long slumbering slowly coming back to life and
a time when the seeds planted last season break through the snow and ice to
give promise of the splendor and colors of the spring. But it is also a
time when the impossible happens more frequently than the highly unlikely,
when coincidences and synchronicities abound for those who take note of
those tiny cosmic jokes. It is a time of anticipation, of expectation, of
hope of the new and shuffling off the old, of light gaining strength against
darkness, and hope winning over despair. You may have to sink into the mud
or shovel out of another foot of fresh snow but trust me - hope will win in
the end.
As with many other things in my life, everything I have come to believe
about this wonderful little month had their genesis in a book (citation
available upon request). And if I step back from that thought, I realize
how much those ink smudges on dead trees have meant to me as a person
through every step of my life. The stories I read helped me imagine worlds
and dreams never conceived, and also to be told the stories that reminded me
of my own life and struggles while providing me the pathways and guidance I
needed to endure the moment. Books have always been and always will be
magic. And the fact that I somehow managed to make a living by lending them
out for free (along with stacks of movies, music CDs, vinyl records, video
games, audiobooks, and all the rest) always leaves me feeling blessed and in
debt to the very idea of a library.
We are the proof that people, overall, are trustworthy and pooling resources
for the common good is of benefit to everyone. All in all, not a bad way to
earn a paycheck.
But back to the point for the uninitiated - what you hold in your hands /
see on your screens / sense through your developing paranormal powers is the
High Demand Hold Digest - a monthly-ish list of the most highly requested
items in the Minerva consortium of libraries where there are at least twice
as many requests as there are items in the systems. It is published through
various Maine State library-related listservs. If by chance you received
this transmission through mysterious or obvious means and want more without
subscribing to the library listservs, please send me an email and I would be
happy to add you to a direct distribution list for as long as you wish.
All together now - forward we March. And if during the coming weeks you
find yourself buried under an insurmountable pile of snow, or sunk tire deep
in the mud, or the voices of book banners grow too loud, take comfort in the
raspy words of Mr. Tom Waits - you can never hold back spring.
Be well everyone. Keep up the good work, be strong and fearless, maintain
the faith, and I'll see ya in the stacks.
Best,
Josh
Joshua Tiffany, MLIS
Town of Gray - Director of Communications, Libraries, and Information
Technology
(207) 657-4110
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"Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate." - Aberjhani
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Fiction books
1. Lessons in Chemistry (Garmus) - 252 holds on 80 items
2. Demon Copperhead (Kingsolver) - 218 holds on 93 items
3. Storm Watch (Box) - 117 holds on 22 items
4. The Other Eden (Harding) - 110 holds on 38 items
5. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Zevin) - 109 holds on 54 items
6. I Have Some Questions for You (Makkai) - 95 holds on 26 items
7. The House in the Pines (Reyes) - 86 holds on 41 items
8. Lessons in Chemistry (Garmus) (Barnes & Noble edition) - 56 holds on
3 items
9. My Father's House (O'Connor) - 43 holds on 16 items
10. The House of Eve (Johnson) - 37 holds on 15 items
11. The Housemaid (McFadden) - 36 holds on 15 items
12. The Perfect Marriage (Rose) - 29 holds on 4 items
13. Worthy Opponents (Steel) - 27 holds on 9 items
14. Big Swiss (Beagin) - 23 holds on 8 items
15. The Sister Effect (Mallery) - 22 holds on 10 items
16. My Last Innocent Year (Florin) - 18 holds on 6 items
17. Down to the River (Pierce) - 17 holds on 5 items
18. Stolen (Laestadius) - 15 holds on 5 items
19. Scorched Grace (Douaihy) - 15 holds on 3 items
20. The Kind Worth Saving (Swanson) - 15 holds on 5 items
Non-fiction books
1. Spare (Prince Harry) - 227 holds on 88 items
2. Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952
(Pelletier) - 136 holds on 23 items
3. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
(Woo) - 43 holds on 16 items
4. The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Rubin) - 31 holds on 14 items
5. Mountain Girl: From Barefoot to the Boardroom (Rockefeller) - 25
holds on 3 items
6. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age (May) - 22 holds on
9 items
7. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
(Bringley) - 20 holds on 4 items
8. It's Ok to be Angry about Capitalism (Sanders) - 15 holds on 4 items
9. Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman's Daring
Year (Garber) - 10 holds on 2 items
10. People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account (Pomerantz) - 10 holds on
3 items
Pre-pub
1. The White Lady (Winspear) - 88 holds
2. I Will Find You (Coben) - 72 holds
3. Simply Lies (Baldacci) - 62 holds
4. Happy Place (Henry) - 47 holds
5. Dark Angel (Sandford) - 44 holds
6. So Shall You Reap (Leon) - 42 holds
7. Collateral Damage (Jance) - 42 holds
8. Countdown (Patterson) - 40 holds
9. The Last Remains (Griffiths) - 38 holds
10. Pineapple Street (Jackson) - 36 holds
Large Print
1. Lessons in Chemistry (Garmus) -72 holds on 19 items
2. Spare (Prince Harry) - 60 holds on 24 items
3. Someone Else's Shoes (Moyes) - 35 holds on 6 items
4. Storm Watch (Box) - 27 holds on 4 items
5. The House of Wolves (Patterson) - 27 holds on 9 items
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Zevin) - 21 holds on 7 items
7. Verity (Hoover) - 6 holds on 3 items
8. The Cloisters (Hays) - 4 holds on 2 items
9. Chiefs (Woods) -3 holds on 1 item
10. The Will and the Deed (Peters) - 2 holds on 1 item
Audiobooks
1. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Study on Happiness
(Waldinger) - 5 holds on 2 items
2. Loyalty (Scottoline) - 2 holds on 1 item
3. The Flames of Hope (Sutherland) - 2 holds on 1 item
4. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Stevenson) - 2 holds on 1
item
5. Aging Backwards (Esmonde-White) - 2 holds on 1 item
Graphic Novels
1. Everything is OK (Tung) - 4 holds on 2 items
2. Carmilla: The First Vampire (Chu) - 3 holds on 1 item
3. Adventure Time Comics vol 2 - 3 holds on 1 item
4. The Swamp Thing vol. 3 (V) - 2 holds on 1 item
5. The Adventure Zone 5: The Eleventh Hour (McElroy) - 2 holds on 1
item
Movies
1. The Fabelmans (DVD) - 64 holds on 20 items
2. God's Country (DVD) - 3 holds on 3 items
3. Bones and All (Blu-ray) - 6 holds on 3 items
4. The Fabelmans (Blu-ray + DVD combo) - 5 holds on 2 items
5. Tar (Blu-ray + DVD combo) - 4 holds on 2 items
6. Decision to Leave (Blu-ray) - 4 holds on 1 item
7. Savage Salvation (DVD) - 4 holds on 1 item
8. Spoiler Alert (Blu-ray) - 3 holds on 1 item
9. The Fabelmans (4K) - 3 holds on 1 item
10. Bergman Island (DVD) - 3 holds on 1 item
TV Series (all DVD)
1. My Life is Murder: Set 3 - 8 holds on 1 item
2. Party Down: Season 1 - 5 holds on 2 items
3. Fear the Walking Dead: Season 7 - 5 holds on 1 item
4. Detectorists: The Complete Collection - 3 holds on 1 item
5. Whitstable Pearl. Series 2 - 2 holds on 1 item
6. Traces - Series 2 - 2 holds on 1 item
7. Mrs' Brown's Boys - Season 3 - 2 holds on 1 item
8. Magnum PI: Season 1 - 2 holds on 1 item
9. Grace and Frankie: Season 6 - 2 holds on 1 item
10. Grace and Frankie: Season 7 - 2 holds on 1 item
Music CDs
1. Come Get Your Wife (King) - 3 holds on 1 item
2. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66-'86 - 2 holds on 1 item
3. Now That's What I Call 80s Hits and Remixes - 2 holds on 1 item
4. Linger Awhile (Joy) - 2 holds on 1 item
5. Every Loser (Pop) - 2 holds on 1 item
Videogames
1. Hogwarts Legacy (PS5) - 6 holds on 1 item
2. SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake (Switch) - 3 holds on 1 item
3. Fire Emblem: Engage (Switch) - 3 holds on 1 item
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