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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Nonfiction
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Nonfiction
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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSON
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FICTION JOHNSON
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"An irresistibly accessible yet startlingly bold book of short stories and a novella, inspired by Black lives in America and featuring the gripping eponymous work "My Monticello.""--
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Juvenile Fiction - New
PICTURE BOOK HANNAH-JONES
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PICTURE BOOK HANNAH-JONES
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Juvenile Fiction - New
PICTURE BOOK HANNAH-JONES
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PICTURE BOOK HANNAH-JONES
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Mount Tabor Library - Juvenile Fiction - New
PICTURE BOOK HANNAH-JONES
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PICTURE BOOK HANNAH-JONES
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The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Renée Watson.
A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations. Grandma gathers the whole family, and...
A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations. Grandma gathers the whole family, and...
44) A library
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In this ode to libraries where everyone who loves stories is welcome, a world-renowned poet captures the magic of these places for imagination, exploration and escape.
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Juvenile Fiction - Picture Books
PICTURE BOOK GORMAN
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PICTURE BOOK GORMAN
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"As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes--big or small--in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves"--
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION STEADMAN
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FICTION STEADMAN
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STEADMAN
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FICTION STEADMAN
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"When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him, to international medical experts who are baffled by him, to the national press who call him Mr. Nobody, everyone wants answers. Who is this man? And what happened to him? Some memories are best forgotten. Neuropsychiatrist...
47) Cold barrel zero
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John Hayes novels volume 1
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUIRK
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FICTION QUIRK
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John Byrne, a retired army doctor, has been working in the overnight ER of a Washington D.C. hospital, trying to outrun his past. This past includes service in a disgraced Special Ops Command Squad accused of committing an atrocious massacre. Thomas Hayes, the squad's leader who has been in hiding, reaches out to Byrne to enlist his help with a series of heists that will either prove their innocence - or culminate in a catastrophic terrorist attack....
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION STEN
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FICTION STEN
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"Best Thrillers by Library Journal A spine-chilling, propulsive psychological suspense from international sensation Camilla Sten. The medical term is prosopagnosia. The average person calls it face blindness-the inability to recognize a familiar person'sface. When Eleanor walked in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne's, murder, she came face to face with the killer-a maddening expression that means nothing to someone like...
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION KOONTZ
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FICTION KOONTZ
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KOONTZ
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FICTION KOONTZ
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Mount Tabor Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KOONTZ
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FICTION KOONTZ
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"Who is Ashley Bell? From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes the must-read thriller of the year, perfect for readers of dark psychological suspense and modern classics of mystery and adventure. Brilliantly paced, with an exhilarating heroine and a twisting, ingenious storyline, Ashley Bell is a new milestone in literary suspense from the long-acclaimed master"--
"At twenty-two, Bibi Blair's doctors tell her that she's dying. Two...
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICHTEL
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FICTION RICHTEL
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICHTEL
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FICTION RICHTEL
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Mount Tabor Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICHTEL
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FICTION RICHTEL
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The bizarre deaths of everyone in a remote Colorado ski town thrusts world-class virologist Lyle Martin into a mystery involving a deadly syndrome that causes him to wonder if the world might be better left unsaved.
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Infected novels volume 3
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION SIGLER
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FICTION SIGLER
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"The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Infected and Contagious. The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launched one last payload--a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs engineered to wreak new forms of havoc on the human race. That harmless-looking canister has languished under thousands of feet of...
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCGUIRE
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FICTION MCGUIRE
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The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
54) Patent to kill
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Christofferson's gripping novels of medical suspense have drawn favorable comparisons to the work of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. Now she returns with a page-turning thriller that explores the cutting edge of medicine-and murder.
It is a new crime for a new century. Biopiracy: the theft of the healing secrets of isolated, indigenous peoples. Rapacious pharmaceutical companies swoop down on remote Third World tribes, steal their folk medicine,...
55) Bloodstream
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION GERRITSEN
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FICTION GERRITSEN
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Now, Gerritsen again weaves frighteningly realistic medical detail into heart-stopping suspense, as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent epidemic -- before it destroys everything she loves. Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions of the big city, and the lingering memory...
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An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursed. There are four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive, hard-drinking sister Audrey; and Teresa, youngest and most fragile, haunted by the fear that she has inherited the madness that possessed her father. Their grandfather...
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE
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FICTION MOORE
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"An electrifying read . . . I haven't read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon." - Stephen King
"Magnificent, thoroughly unnerving . . . I dare you to look away." - Justin Cronin
Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. He's out drinking after a bad breakup when a hauntingly seductive woman sits down at his side. He talks to Emmeline over absinthe, but their encounter is fleeting. She brushes...
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"In 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms. When the child dies suddenly later that night, Noah is accused by the boy's regular physician--the powerful and politically connected Dr. Arnold Frias--of prescribing a lethal dose of laudanum. To prove his innocence, Noah must investigate the murder--for it must be murder--and confront...
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"An unnerving and riveting psychological drama that challenges our notions of how we view others and how we construct our own sense of self. Mia is an elementary schoolteacher in Denmark, while her husband, Frederik, is the talented, highly respected headmaster of a local private school. During a vacation in Spain, Frederik has an accident and his visit to the hospital reveals a brain tumor that is gradually altering his personality, confirming Mia's...