Hoopla allows unlimited simultaneous checkouts, which means no holds queue and no waiting to read popular books! Not all hoopla titles show up in the library catalog, so when you’re looking for an ebook or audiobook, be sure to also search the hoopla app or website.
Check out up to 16 hoopla titles each month with your Bloomfield Township Public Library card. If you’re getting started with this platform, view our guide.
Fiction
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Iron Gold / Pierce Brown
Honor and betrayal fuel a caste-shattering revolution in the action-packed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Rising Trilogy. Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes emerge from the shadows to threaten the imperfect victory Darrow and his friends have earned.
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One Puzzling Afternoon / Emily Critchley
One of People Magazine’s must-read books! Booklist calls this “a clever, keep-’em-guessing murder mystery, an empathetic yet realistic portrayal of the toll dementia takes, and a meditation on how the brain can bury the most tragic memories…outstanding.”
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The Measure / Nikki Erlick
Told through multiple perspectives, The Measure introduces an unforgettable cast of characters whose lives weave and interlock with one another one spring day when small wooden boxes arrive for every person, all over the world, from suburban doorsteps to desert tents. All the boxes feature the same inscription, “The measure of your life lies within,” and vary in only two ways: the name of the recipient and the length of the single string inside. Instantly, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy, first to ascertain their origin and meaning, and then to confront the truth of the strings.
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The Paris Apartment / Lucy Foley
Arriving in Paris to stay with her brother, a young woman learns that he has gone missing, and to find him, she starts digging into his life. She soon realizes that even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape her past, it’s his future hanging in the balance.
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Down a small alleyway in the heart of Tokyo, there’s an underground café that’s been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than a hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers its customers something besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. The rules, however, are far from simple: the visitor must sit in one particular seat, cannot venture outside the café, cannot change the present, and only has the time it takes to drink a hot cup of coffee—or risks getting stuck forever.
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Shatter Me / Tahereh Mafi
The gripping first installment in New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill. No one knows why she has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could never bear. But The Reestablishment sees it as a gift, and sees her as an opportunity—an opportunity for a deadly weapon.
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Wicked / Gregor Maguire
This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Maguire’s breathtaking New York Times bestseller views the land of Oz through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature—the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who wasn’t nearly as wicked as we imagined.
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One Big Happy Family / Susan Mallery
Julie Parker’s kids are her greatest gift. Still, she’s not exactly heartbroken when they ask to skip a big Christmas. Her son, Nick, is taking a belated honeymoon with his bride, Blair, while her daughter, Dana, will purge every reminder of the guy who dumped her. Again. Julie feels practically giddy for one-on-one holiday time with Heath, the (much) younger man she’s secretly dating. But her plans go from cozy to chaotic when Nick and Dana plead for Christmas at the family cabin in memory of their late father, Julie’s ex.
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The Alice Network / Kate Quinn
It’s 1947 and American college student Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She’s also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin, Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie’s family banishes her to Europe to have her “little problem” take care of, she breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.
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Pretty Girls / Karin Slaughter
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that’s cruelly ripped open when Claire’s husband is killed.
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All Systems Red / Martha Wells
Part 1 of the Murderbot Diaries science fiction action and adventure series tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics.
Audiobook (dramatized adaptation)
Nonfiction
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Better Small Talk / Patrick King
From hello to goodbye, with strangers or old friends, you’ll learn how to go deeper. King explains what to say and when to say it to be likable, connect, and make a memorable impression. Actionable and applicable verbal maneuvers for just about every phase of conversation.
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Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist / Richard Munson
Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and plants. But today, Franklin is remembered more for his political prowess and diplomatic achievements than his scientific creativity. Franklin was a shrewd experimenter, clever innovator, and visionary physicist whose fame opened doors to negotiate French support and funding for American independence. Munson argues that Franklin’s political life cannot be understood without giving proper credit to his scientific accomplishments.
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Don’t Believe Everything You Think / Joseph Nguyen
Nguyen, a spiritual thought leader on a mission to help others realize their purpose, argues that although pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. In this international bestseller, he describes tactics for overcoming anxiety, self-doubt, and self-sabotage without relying on motivation or willpower.
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The Light Eaters / Zoë Schlanger
A deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Schlanger takes readers across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close.
Ebook
RN: 6 December 2024
