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Hot Picks Available Now on hoopla

Adult - What We're Reading | Published August 7, 2025

There’s no waiting for titles on hoopla! We’ve rounded up this month’s in-demand titles 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

  • Book cover of Mystic Tea

    Mystic Tea / Nolan Martin
    An unexpected story of six eccentric nuns and two novices, who live on a needy monastery that is not much more than a run-down farm. For fans of Call the Midwife.
    audio

  • Book cover of Do Not Disturb

    Do Not Disturb / Freida McFadden 
    A riveting story of psychological suspense set in a run-down motel. Can you survive the night?
    audio

  • Book cover of Quicksilver

    Quicksilver / Callie Hart 
    Book 1 of the Fae & Alchemy series is a highly addictive enemies-to-lovers romantasy with razor-sharp banter, heart-stopping action, and blistering hot romance.
    audio

  • Book cover of It Happened on the Lake

    It Happened on the Lake / Lisa Jackson 
    In an intense, twisty spin on Hitchcock’s Rear Window, a woman returns to the Oregon town where a nightmare unfolded 20 years ago—and is waiting to engulf her again. For fans of J.T. Ellison, Paula Hawkins, Karin Slaughter, and Riley Sager.
    ebook

  • Book cover of Parable of the Sower

    Parable of the Sower / Octavia E. Butler 
    Butler paints a stunning portrait of an all-too-believable near future, skillfully combining startlingly visionary and socially realistic concepts into a highly readable tale.
    audio

  • Book cover of Last Carolina Summer

    That Last Carolina Summer / Karen White 
    A novel about sisterhood, secrets and one woman’s reckoning with the past.
    audio

  • Book cover of The Ghostwriter

    The Ghostwriter / Julie Clark 
    Struggling ghostwriter Olivia Dumont returns home to pen her estranged father’s final book, only to discover he’s finally ready to reveal the truth about the night his siblings were murdered, forcing her to confront long-buried family secrets and the ghosts that still haunt them.
    ebook

  • Book cover of All Systems Red

    All Systems Red / Martha Wells 
    The first tense science-fiction adventure novella in The Murderbot Diaries series. For fans of Westworld and Ex Machina.
    audio

Nonfiction

  • Book cover of Why Marriages Succeed or Fail

    Why Marriages Succeed or Fail / John M. Gottman 
    How to recognize attitudes that doom a marriage—contempt, criticism, defensiveness, and stonewalling—and practical exercises, quizzes, tips, and techniques that to help you understand and make the most of your relationship.
    audio

  • Book cover of Autism, Sensory & Behavior

    Autism, Sensory and Behavior / Temple Grandin 
    The author draws on her own experience to deliver an essential guidebook for guiding and nurturing autistic individuals. She gets to the real issues of autistics—the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. Dr. Grandin sheds light on the best ways to adapt and thrive.
    ebook

  • Book cover of Black AF History

    Black AF History / Michael Harriot
    A columnist at TheGrio.com articulates moments in American history that center the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.
    ebook, audio


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