Judy Sebastian

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book. In her first novel, Burke renders a car wreck of protagonist whom readers won’t be able to look away from, even as she crashes through barriers and leaves bodies in her wake. She is influencer Natalie Heller Mills, who lives on a custom-built farm in the Idaho mountains, not far from where she grew up.

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine; LJ starred review) is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book. Once again, Reid (Carrie Soto Is Back) shows that her prose has the power to launch. She takes the 1980s NASA space shuttle program to new heights in a novel that explores feminism, sexual identity, and humans’ innate desire to find a world bigger than themselves.

Recently, three Midwestern grain cooperatives experienced a breach within their digitized systems that impacted the flow of operations and the security of their customers’ private data. This series of cyber-attacks occurred after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a notice asking institutions to secure their automated systems and eliminate the potential weak links within their digitized operations.