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.
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Fiction
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The Book Club for Troublesome Women / Marie Bostwick
Four dissatisfied sixties-era housewives form a book club turned sisterhood that will hold fast amid the turmoil of a rapidly changing world and alter the course of each of their lives.
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The Crown / Kiera Cass
The fifth and final book in The Selection series. Twenty years have passed since America Singer and Prince Maxon fell in love, and their daughter is the first princess to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn didn’t think she would find a real partner among the Selection’s thirty-five suitors, let alone true love. But sometimes the heart has a way of surprising you…and now she must make a choice that feels more difficult—and more important—than she ever expected.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes / Suzanne Collins
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.
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The Cinnamon Bun Book Store / Laurie Gilmore
Part 2 of the Dream Harbor series. When a secret message turns up hidden in a book in the Cinnamon Bun Bookstore, Hazel can’t understand it. As more secret codes appear between the pages, she decides to follow the trail of clues…she just need someone to help her out.
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The Murder Machine / Heather Graham
This state-of-the-art smart home has everything: a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner’s lifeless body, FBI agent Jude Mackenzie is faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home. How do you catch a murderer that doesn’t leave any fingerprints?
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Beach Vibes / Susan Mallery
While Beth is proud of her Malibu beach shop, Surf Sandwiches, she’s even prouder of her charismatic brother, Rick, who rose from foster care all the way through surgical residency. She makes subs, he saves lives. Things takes a turn for the happy after she finds out Rick is dating her new best friend, Jana. Then Jana’s handsome brother adds even more sparkle to Beth’s days…and nights.
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The Tenant / Freida McFadden
Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone he shares with his fiancée, he’s desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She’s exactly what Blake’s looking for. Or is she?
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The Amalfi Curse / Sarah Penner
A nautical archaeologist searching for sunken treasure unearths a centuries-old curse, powerful witchcraft and perilous love on the high seas in this spellbinding novel.
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The Queen of Sugar Hill / ReShonda Tate
A fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood’s most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars-and the first Black person ever to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy in the critically acclaimed film classic Gone With the Wind.
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The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley / Courtney Walsh
Isadora Bentley follows the rules, likes things just so, and believes that happiness is something that flat-out doesn’t exist in her life, and never will. But on her thirtieth birthday, she does something completely out of character—she makes an impulse purchase of a magazine featuring a silly article detailing “Thirty-One Ways to Be Happy.” Will it prove her long-held assumptions wrong?
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Nonfiction
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Is a River Alive? / Robert Macfarlane
The author of Underland explores flowing waters in Ecuador, India, and Canada.
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Autism Out Loud / Kate Swenson, Carrie Cariello and Adrian Wood
Three women from different backgrounds share their stories of raising a child with autism.
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Careless People / Sarah Wynn-Williams
A former Facebook executive gives an account of policies and leadership at the social media platform.
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