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eLibraryNJ Titles March 2024
This list of new titles that Cranbury Public Library has purchased for eLibraryNJ includes the latest Kristin Hannah, titled The Women, among many others. Enjoy browsing and reading! REMEMBER: When a member library buys a copy of a book, that library's patrons "go to the head of the line" if there is a reserve list. By requesting one of these books, your wait time will be minimized. |
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last eBook + eAudioby Xochitl GonzalezA first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.
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Funny Story eBookby Emily HenryAfter being dumped for her boyfriend's lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra's freshly heartbroken ex until she can figure things out, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Happy Place.
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Long Island : a Novel eBook + eAudioby Colm ToibinIn 1976 Lindenhurst, Long Island, Ellis Lacey, an Irishwoman in her 40s with no one to rely on in this still-new country, discovers her husband got a woman pregnant and the woman's husband refuses to raise it, forcing Ellis to decide what she will do and not do in this unexpected situation.
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Memory Piece eBook + eAudioby Lisa KoMoving from the predigital 1980s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, a novel of friendship, art and ambition follows three lifelong friends as they strive for meaningful lives in a world that turned out to be radically different from the one they were promised.
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Parasol Against the Axe eBook + eAudioby Helen OyeyemiIn Prague, a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting, on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie, Hero Tojosoa finds the lines between illusion and delusion, fact and interpretation blurring as tensions between the friends' different accounts of the past reach a new level.
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by Lottie Hazell
A new novel explores women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it all.
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Slow Dance eBook + eAudioby Rainbow RowellGrowing up on the wrong side of Omaha, all Shiloh could think about was getting away. At least she had Cary in the meantime. Cary to put up with her, Cary to make her laugh. Cary at sixteen, built like a stick of gum and driving his mom’s beat-up station wagon. He had it worse than Shiloh did. Only their friendship got Cary through high school and when Shiloh went off to college, he joined the Navy. When a high school friend invites Shiloh to his wedding, the last thing she wants is to catch up with the old gang. But she buys a new dress, puts on some makeup, and pins a silk flower over her heart, hoping—and also worrying— that she might see Cary, the boy she never realized she loved until he was lost.
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Until August eBook + eAudioby Gabriel Garcia MarquezIn a rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Ana Magdalena Bach has been happily married for 27 years, and yet, every August, she travels by ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
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Butcher eBookby Joyce Carol OatesA disgraced doctor's quest for surgical renown in 19th-century America leads him down a horrifying path of experimentation on marginalized women at a New Jersey asylum, until his obsession with a young Irish indentured servant brings about his ultimate destruction.
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The Storm We Made : a Novel eBookby Vanessa ChanIn 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.
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Wandering Stars eBookby Tommy Orange Tracing the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 to the aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting, Opal tries to hold her family together while Orvil becomes emotionally reliant on prescription medications, and his younger brother, suffering from PTSD, secretly enacts blood rituals to connect to his Cheyenne heritage.
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The Women eBook + eAudioby Kristin HannahIn 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words“Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
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The Angel of Indian Lake eBook + eAudioby Stephen Graham JonesJade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her.It is the thrilling conclusion to this trilogy of ghosts and monsters, both earthly and supernatural, and of secrets that must finally be brought to the fore.
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by RuNyx
After receiving an admission letter from a mysterious university in an old secluded castle on top of a mountain, Corvina Clemm gets tangled up in a chilling, century-old mystery as well as with a part-time professor.
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Mystery, Thriller and Suspense
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Crosshairs eBook + eAudioby James PattersonNYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer, in the 16th novel of the series following Obsessed.
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The Frozen River : a Novel eBook + eAudioby Ariel LawhonIn 1789 Maine, midwife and healer Martha Ballard, who is good at keeping secrets, investigates a shocking murder linked to an alleged rape that has shaken her small town, especially when her diary lands at the center of the scandal, threatening to tear both her family and her community apart.
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The Fury eBook + eAudioby Alex MichaelidesSpending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
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Murder at La Villette eBookby Cara BlackFramed for the murder of her daughter's father, a former homicide investigator, Parisian P.I. Aimee Leduc must quickly find the real killer and, cut off from her typical network and forced to operate undercover, goes deep into the underbelly of Paris' 19th arrondissement on her hunt for justice.
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Random in Death eBook + eAudioby J. D. RobbWhen a 16-year-old girl is murdered during a show at a New York club, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, with the lab results showing a toxic mix of substances and infectious agents in the victim's body, must find a madman consumed by hatred who's just another face in the crowd.
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory : American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta eBookAn award-winning journalist follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement in which he investigates the ways in which conservative Christians have pursued, exercised and often abused power in the name of securing this earthly kingdom.
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Knife : Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie eBook + eAudioThe internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.
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Oath and Honor : A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney eBook + eAudioThe House Republican leader who dared to take a stand against the January 6th insurrection, which she witnessed first-hand, and then helped lead the ensuing investigation, tells the story of this perilous moment in our history, the betrayal of the American people and the Constitution and the risks we still face.
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Outlive : the Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia eBook + eAudioDrawing on the latest science and challenging mainstream medicine, a visionary physician and leading longevity expert presents a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving our physical, cognitive and emotional health.
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