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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
B ASHER Asher
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B ASHER Asher
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North County Branch - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
B ASHER Asher
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B ASHER Asher
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"Living in Brixton and awaiting the return of her husband and young son from Nigeria, Obiajulu Ejiofor received shattering news. There had been a fatal car crash, and one of them was dead. In Where the Children Take Us, Obiajulu's daughter, Zain Asher, tells the story of her family and her mother's deeply personal fight to protect her children from the daily pressures of poverty, crime, and racism in 1980s and '90s South London as a widowed emigrant....
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Bunnvale Library - Adult Fiction
SITTENFELD Curtis
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SITTENFELD Curtis
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Holland Free Public Library - Adult Fiction
SITTENFELD Curtis
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SITTENFELD Curtis
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South County Branch - Adult Fiction - New
SITTENFELD Curtis
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SITTENFELD Curtis
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Media
SITTENFELD Curtis
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SITTENFELD Curtis
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"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
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Keeper of the lost cities volume 1
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Holland Free Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
J MESSENGER Sharon
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J MESSENGER Sharon
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South County Branch - Juvenile Fiction
MESSENGER
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MESSENGER
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At age twelve, Sophie learns that the remarkable abilities that have always caused her to stand out identify her as an elf, and after being brought to Eternalia to hone her skills, discovers that she has secrets buried in her memory for which some would kill.
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Beartown volume 1
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction
BACKMAN
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BACKMAN
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South County Branch - Adult Fiction
BACKMAN
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BACKMAN
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Three Bridges Library - Adult Fiction
BACKMAN
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BACKMAN
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Media
BACKMAN
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BACKMAN
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North County Branch - Adult Media
BACKMAN
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BACKMAN
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Three Bridges Library - Adult Media
BACKMAN
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BACKMAN
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...
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Readington Township Library - Adult Fiction
HORNBY Gill
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HORNBY Gill
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A richly imagined novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family.
27) Gideon the ninth
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Ninth House volume 1
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Holland Free Public Library - Adult Fiction
MUIR
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MUIR
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction
MUIR
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MUIR
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The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis...
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Read with Jenna volume 2022
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Staying busy has helped Tova cope ever since her son disappeared decades ago. So when her husband dies, she takes a job at the aquarium, where she meets Marcellus, an octopus that deduces what happened to her son.
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began...
29) Finding me
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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 volume 2022
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North County Branch - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
B DAVIS Davis
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B DAVIS Davis
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Three Bridges Library - Adult Nonfiction - New
B DAVIS Davis
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B DAVIS Davis
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Media
B DAVIS Davis
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B DAVIS Davis
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"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote [this book], my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given...
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print
362.175 Gawande
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362.175 Gawande
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"From surgeon and bestselling author Atul Gawande, a book that has the potential to change medicine?and lives. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande...
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
B WILLIAMS
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B WILLIAMS
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North County Branch - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
B WILLIAMS
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B WILLIAMS
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"At the onset of World War II, [Billy] Williams formed Elephant Company and was instrumental in defeating the Japanese in Burma and saving refugees, including on his own 'Hannibal Trek,' [becoming] a media sensation during the war, telling reporters that the elephants did more for him than he was ever able to do for them"--
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Bunnvale Library - Adult Fiction
HARMEL
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HARMEL
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Readington Township Library - Adult Fiction
HARMEL
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HARMEL
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South County Branch - Adult Fiction
HARMEL
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HARMEL
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Media
HARMEL
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HARMEL
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"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
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Elements of cadence volume 1
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction
ROSS Rebecca
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ROSS Rebecca
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction
ROSS Rebecca
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ROSS Rebecca
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Jack Tamerlaine hasn't stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armor, and the smallest cut of a knife can instill fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind...
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Monk & robot volume 1
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Tewksbury Public Library - Adult Fiction
CHAMBERS
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CHAMBERS
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"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...
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First published in 1915, "The Song of the Lark" is a novel by American author Willa Cather and perhaps her most autobiographical work.
"The Song of the Lark" tells the story of Thea Kronborg, a young Scandinavian-American woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape,...
36) All systems red
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Murderbot diaries volume 1
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A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest...
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Bunnvale Library - Adult Fiction
STEVENSON Benjamin
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STEVENSON Benjamin
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction
STEVENSON Benjamin
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STEVENSON Benjamin
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Readington Township Library - Adult Fiction - New
STEVENSON Benjamin
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STEVENSON Benjamin
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let’s...
38) Weyward: a novel
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction - Large Print
HART
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HART
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"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder...
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Nonfiction
551.5246 Rappaport
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551.5246 Rappaport
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North County Branch - Adult Nonfiction
551.5246 Rappaport
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551.5246 Rappaport
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A professional captain of traditional sailing ships who has spent thirty years at sea offers a sailor's-eye-view of the moving parts of our atmosphere, unveiling the larger patterns it holds: global winds, storms, air masses, jet streams, and the longer arc of our climate.
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction
VERBLE
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VERBLE
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction
VERBLE
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VERBLE
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Tewksbury Public Library - Adult Fiction
VERBLE
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VERBLE
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"Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries"--