Archive | September, 2025

Come to the 2025 Library Festival and meet Local Authors!

10 Sep

Join us on Saturday, September 20 from noon-3 PM, for a special day celebrating reading and our community at the Hoboken Public Library. Below you can learn more about the authors who plan to join us that day who you can meet; stop by the second floor reading room! Plus nearby we will be debuting our new Crafternoon for adults where you can bring your own project to work on or use some of our supplies to create your next great masterpiece.

D.V. Stone
You can borrow a variety of great books through Hoopla from author D.V. Stone including Rainbow Sprinkles about a widower who finds an unexpected second chance at love while trying to make her dreams of starting an ice cream business in Upstate NY come true.

M. Flagg
Fantasy fans will enjoy M. Flagg‘s The Champion Chronicles, available from eBCCLS. The trilogy starts with The Vampire’s Retribution focused on Michael Malone, a vampire enhanced by magic, who must battle immortal sorcerers and their beast army. Will his love be strong enough to save him?

Miriam Allenson
Miriam Allenson is known for “writing about hunky heroes and the women who drive them crazy.”  You can borrow two of her novels from eBCCLS including For the Love of the Dame, featuring an Italian Opera Singer and Major League Ball Player who are forced to pretend to be a couple, but will they ultimately find opposites do attract? Her steamy stories will delight romance fans.

Carla Helene Cornick
Carla Helene Cornick’s novel Braids debuted yesterday (9/9). Each chapter is a self-contained story told over nine lifetimes spanning ancient Egypt to present day NJ.

Disha Mathur
Disha Mathur is the founder of Buddoo Books and the author of Maya Loves the Sun, a joyful picture
book that celebrates self-love, confidence, and the beauty of brown skin.

Also scheduled to attend will be author Maria Rodriguez Bross, who will be on third floor with our Children’s and Teen Department. Hope to see you at the Festival!

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Aimee Harris
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Fantasies to Believe In: A Tangle of Time, Love Bites, and Pantomime

3 Sep

Check out these three terrific fantasies coming out next week!

The Hexologists: A Tangle of Time
by Josiah Bancroft
A Tangle of Time is the second in Josiah Bancroft’s fantastic Hexologist series. Set in a steampunk world where technology is slowly overtaking magic and there is waning belief in practitioners of arts like Hexology, which is magic using different symbols, (each chapter has a different hex represented at the start). But when an artist dies suspiciously after reaching out to hexologist, Isolde, for help, it will be up to her and her husband to discover the answer to what is going on and who is behind the mysterious changes in their world. This story further explores the intriguing world they inhabit and adds new and clever characters as well as revisiting some old favorites. Isolde comes closer to understanding the mystery of her missing father. There are clever spins on classic fantasy tropes as well as new and original monsters that speculative fiction lovers will enjoy. If you are missing the clever, funny writing of Terry Pratchett check this one out.

Love Bites
by Cynthia St. Aubin
Love Bites is an urban fantasy set in our modern world where things like vampire and werewolves are things of myth and legend, that is what Hanna believes until she gets a new job as an assistant to a handsome and mysterious art gallery owner. Hanna is a recent divorce and though life has gotten her down in the romance and finance department, things seem to be looking up with two handsome men (her new boss and a cop) seemingly interested in her as well as the gallery providing a steady pay check. I enjoyed Hanna’s snarky worldview and the cute interactions between her and her cats who are more children than pets. This is not a subtle novel, this a fun, over the top romp. The ending has an exciting cliffhanger which leads in to the next book in the Tails from the Alpha Art Gallery Mystery Series, Love Sucks. which will be out on October 7.

Pantomime
L.R. Lam
Pantomime is the first in the Micah Grey series set in an alternate Victorian Scotland where mysterious remnants of past inhabitants are used by those currently living there, but not fully understood. Micah was born intersex and runs away and hides with a traveling circus in order to stop the surgery that his mother was going to force upon him to have him be more fully female. A strange ghost from the past at the circus whispers that there maybe others in hiding like him with long forgotten magical powers. This sweet, gentle coming of age story slowly unfolds with flash backs between Micah’s life with the circus and his previous life as a wealthy debutant. Although written as a Young Adult novel, it has appeals for adults as well.

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Aimee Harris
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