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Hoopla allows unlimited simultaneous checkouts, which means no holds queue and no waiting to read popular titles. Check out up to 16 ebooks or audiobooks each month with your Bloomfield Township Public Library card. If you’re just getting started with this platform, view our guide.

My Brilliant Friend / Elena Ferrante
Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples,…

Book cover with a squirrel featured.

It has been an interesting couple of days with not just one but two different squirrels finding their way into the Library and hiding out in our Teen and Adult fiction collections. Here are a few fun fiction titles to pay tribute to these fluffy and sometimes elusive woodland creatures. The squirrels made it back into nature safely and hopefully none the worse for wear….

Perspectives from Appalachia over photo of house on side of hill at sunset.

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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America / Eliza Griswold
Prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.

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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
“The essays and creative work collected in [this book] provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed,…

new books for july with a stack of books on a blanket on the beach

These books and more will be arriving at the Library in July.

You can sign up to receive the new books directly to your email inbox each month as well as other email newsletters from the Library….

The text "beach nonfiction" repeated over an image of water.

While substantive in content, these lean toward the lighter side of things. You could even enjoy these books at the beach.

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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times / Jane Goodall

The Book of Hope is a deeply personal conversation with one of the most beloved figures in the world today….