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Read with Jenna volume 2022
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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"--
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old...
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Good Morning America Book Club volume 2022
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Frenchtown Library - Adult Fiction - New
GARMUS Bonnie
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GARMUS Bonnie
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Media - New
GARMUS Bonnie
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GARMUS Bonnie
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"Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all things--her mind. True chemistry results. Like science,...
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 1
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Media
ROSENFELT
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ROSENFELT
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Whether dueling with new forensics or the local old boys’ network, irreverent defense attorney Andy Carpenter always leaves them awed with his biting wit and winning fourth-quarter game plan. But the fun stops the day Andy’s dad, Paterson, New Jersey’s legendary ex-D.A., drops dead in front of him at a game in Yankee Stadium. The shocks pile on as he discovers his dad left him with two unexpected legacies: a fortune of $22 million that Andy...
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Slammed novels volume 1
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Following the unexpected death of her father, eighteen-year-old Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and her younger brother. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she's losing hope. One young man brings change to all of this. After moving across the country, Layken meets her attractive twenty-one-year-old neighbor who has an intriguing passion for slams. Within days of their introduction, Will and Layken form...
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Read with Jenna volume 2020
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Holland Free Public Library - Adult Fiction
MORRISON
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MORRISON
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction
MORRISON
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MORRISON
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Pecola Breedlove, a young eleven-year-old black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dreams grow more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity.--from...
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Bunnvale Library - Teen/YA Fiction
THOMAS
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THOMAS
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Holland Free Public Library - Teen/YA Fiction
THOMAS
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THOMAS
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THOMAS
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THOMAS
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Holland Free Public Library - Teen/YA Media - Audiobooks
THOMAS
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THOMAS
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THOMAS
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THOMAS
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North County Branch - Teen/YA Media
THOMAS
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THOMAS
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
7) Cinder
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Lunar chronicles volume Book 1
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As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction - Large Print
SAGER
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SAGER
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"Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to--a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Now, Quincy is doing well--maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists...
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Throne of glass novels volume 1
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After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
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Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 1
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Bunnvale Library - Adult Fiction
LARSSON
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LARSSON
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Holland Free Public Library - Adult Fiction
LARSSON
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LARSSON
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction
LARSSON
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LARSSON
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Bunnvale Library - Adult Media
LARSSON
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LARSSON
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Tewksbury Public Library - Adult Media
LARSSON
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LARSSON
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Three Bridges Library - Adult Media
LARSSON
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LARSSON
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"Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family - the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate, but when he links Harriet's disappearance to a string of gruesome murders from forty years ago,...
11) The notebook
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Bunnvale Library - Adult Fiction
SPARKS
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SPARKS
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Holland Free Public Library - Adult Fiction
SPARKS
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SPARKS
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction
SPARKS
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SPARKS
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In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him.
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Hitchhiker series volume 1
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction
ADAMS
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ADAMS
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Readington Township Library - Adult Fiction
ADAMS
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ADAMS
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Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent.
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Bunnvale Library - Adult Fiction
MORGENSTERN
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MORGENSTERN
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction
MORGENSTERN
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MORGENSTERN
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Readington Township Library - Adult Fiction
MORGENSTERN
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MORGENSTERN
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Holland Free Public Library - Adult Media
MORGENSTERN
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MORGENSTERN
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Three Bridges Library - Adult Media
MORGENSTERN
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MORGENSTERN
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Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Teen/YA Fiction
YA TRAN Trang Thanh
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YA TRAN Trang Thanh
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North County Branch - Teen/YA Fiction
YA TRAN Trang Thanh
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YA TRAN Trang Thanh
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South County Branch - Teen/YA Fiction
YA TRAN Trang Thanh
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YA TRAN Trang Thanh
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Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyen is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction
HEISEY Monica
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HEISEY Monica
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction
HEISEY Monica
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HEISEY Monica
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South County Branch - Adult Fiction - New
HEISEY Monica
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HEISEY Monica
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Three Bridges Library - Adult Media
HEISEY Monica
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HEISEY Monica
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Determined to embrace her new life as a "Surprisingly Young Divorcee," twenty-nine-year-old Maggie, with the help of her tough-loving academic advisor, her newly divorced friend Amy, and her group chat, barrels through her first year of singledom, searching for what truly makes her happy.
16) Maame
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Bunnvale Library - Adult Fiction
GEORGE Jessica
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GEORGE Jessica
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction
GEORGE Jessica
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GEORGE Jessica
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Tewksbury Public Library - Adult Fiction
GEORGE Jessica
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GEORGE Jessica
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction - Large Print
GEORGE
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GEORGE
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""An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life." --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a little bit heartbreaking and, most of all, unforgettable." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means...
17) The kite runner
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Bunnvale Library - Adult Fiction
HOSSEINI
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HOSSEINI
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Readington Township Library - Adult Fiction
HOSSEINI
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HOSSEINI
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South County Branch - Adult Fiction
HOSSEINI
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HOSSEINI
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Tewksbury Public Library - Adult Media
HOSSEINI
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HOSSEINI
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Three Bridges Library - Adult Media
HOSSEINI
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HOSSEINI
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Holland Free Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
HOSSEINI
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HOSSEINI
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction - Large Print
HOSSEINI
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HOSSEINI
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An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of...
18) Carrie
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A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
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Bunnvale Library - Adult Fiction
TOLKIEN
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TOLKIEN
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Bunnvale Library - Juvenile Fiction
TOLKIEN
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TOLKIEN
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Bunnvale Library - Teen/YA Fiction
TOLKIEN
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TOLKIEN
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Bunnvale Library - Adult Media
TOLKIEN J. R. R.
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TOLKIEN J. R. R.
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TOLKIEN
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TOLKIEN
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North County Branch - Teen/YA Media
TOLKIEN
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TOLKIEN
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A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous...
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction
SHEARER Eleanor
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SHEARER Eleanor
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction
SHEARER Eleanor
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SHEARER Eleanor
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Tewksbury Public Library - Adult Fiction
SHEARER Eleanor
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SHEARER Eleanor
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North County Branch - Adult Fiction - Large Print
SHEARER
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SHEARER
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"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...