There’s never any waiting for titles on hoopla! We’ve rounded up this month’s in-demand titles that are available for instant checkout as ebooks and/or audiobooks.
Check out up to 16 hoopla titles each month with your Bloomfield Township Public Library card. If you’re new to hoopla, which also offers videos and music, view the guide to get started. Note: 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!
Fiction
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The Secret War of Julia Child / Diana Chambers
Single, 6 foot 2, and 30 years old, Julia McWilliams took a job working for America’s first espionage agency—years before cooking or Paris entered the picture. This historical novel traces her transformation from ambitious Pasadena blue blood to Washington, D.C. file clerk, to head of General “Wild Bill” Donovan’s secret File Registry as part of the Office of Strategic Services.
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Flashpoint / Catherine Coulter
A year has passed since Elizabeth Palmer was nearly killed with hundreds more in the attempted bombing of St. Paul’s in London, believed to be a terrorist act until the police discovered it was a cover for something even more sinister. For Elizabeth, life is finally back to normal. She’s optimistic, her painting is getting accolades, when suddenly her world changes in a flash. With three new attempts on her life, and her connection to the terrorist attack, MI-5 gets involved to find out who is trying to kill her and why.
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Last Twilight in Paris / Pam Jenoff
A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival, from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff.
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Ordinary Grace / William Kent Krueger
New Bremen, Minnesota, summer 1961: The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Halderson’s Drug Store soda counter, and “Hot Stuff “comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. But when tragedy comes to call on 13-year-old Frank Drumm’s family, he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal.
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The Lost Book of Bonn / Brianna Labuskes
Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian, not a soldier. But that doesn’t stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis.
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Shred Sisters / Betsy Lerner
It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. This is wry and riveting novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sisters.
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Iron Flame / Rebecca Yarros
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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The Boyfriend / Freida McFadden
Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect—he is charming and handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet. Then the brutal murder of a young woman, the latest in a string of deaths across the coast, confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.
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Ward D / Freida McFadden
Medical student Amy Brenner has been dreading working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are specific reasons she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. And, as the hours tick by, she grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger.
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Evenings and Weekends / Oisín McKenna
London, 2019. It’s the hottest June on record, and a whale is stuck in the Thames River. In the streets of the city, four old acquaintances want more from life than they’ve been given. On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, their paths intersect at a party that will change their lives forever.
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A Talent for Murder / Peter Swanson
In this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel, a newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer.
Ebook and audiobook
Nonfiction
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ADHD Is Awesome / Penn Holderness
The must-have resource for anyone who lives with ADHD, either themself or an affected family member. Written to appeal to the ADHD brain, this is the engaging, uplifting antidote to traditional ADHD books (which, let’s be honest if you have ADHD you’d never read anyway).
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Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life / Bill Perkins
Imagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to: You worked hard, saved your money, and looked forward to financial freedom when you retired. The only thing you wasted along the way was…your life. This book presents a new and provocative philosophy as well as practical guide on how to get the most out of your money—and your life. It’s intended for readers who place lifelong memorable experiences far ahead of simply making and saving money for the so-called “golden years.”
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Melania / Melania Trump
A glimpse into the life of the first lady, a remarkable woman who has navigated many challenges.
Ebook
RN: 2/20/2025
