Garden State Book Swap

25/08/2020

NJ Shore Book Swappers look no further!!!
with
・・・
Don't miss our End of Summer Romance SALE!
🌹
Over 1,000 Romance books bagged and eagerly awaiting your attention...
❤️
August 20th-22nd
10am-8pm
💋
We're in Belmar Plaza, steps from the Belmar train station, and there's always PLENTY of parking.
❤️
Prepare yourself for an onslaught of amorousness! Gird your loins against this tidal wave of tittilation! Brace yourself for ROMANCE BOOKS GALORE!
🌹

05/01/2020

dropped Red, White and Royal Blue by .mcquiston at in Clifton on a super comfy leather couch that she sat a bit too long on 😬 Wonder who found it?!
📖 synopsis: What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.
Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic.

19/10/2019

wonder who found this one?! thank you for joining us!
with
・・・
FREE book alert!
I spent my morning in the waiting room at Short Hills Surgery Center and even though they have plenty of magazines, TVs, and free WiFi, I dropped a book as a gift for the next reader 🙌🏼
After Night Fall by A.J.Banner .
Good luck 👍🏻 .

11/10/2019

dropped I Want You Back by at in Clifton, NJ. Wonder who found it?!
📖 synopsis: Former NHL star Jaxson Lund has returned to the Twin Cities, but he's at loose ends, unsure if he belongs at Lund Industries, or where he stands with Lucy, his ex-girlfriend and mother of his daughter, Mimi. Despite the signs she'd like to leave him in the penalty box, the attraction burning between them reinforces his determination to prove that he deserves a second chance...
Lucy Quade is in a good place with a steady job, a nice apartment, and a well-adjusted daughter, which is why she's hesitant when Jax insists on co-parenting. It's not that Lucy doesn't trust Jax...she's just unconvinced he can handle multiple responsibilities when he's been singularly focused on playing hockey. But when issues arise with Mimi, Lucy's shocked at how levelheaded and paternal he acts, giving her a glimpse of the Jax she used to know, the sexy, sweet man she fell for years ago.
Once Lucy lets her guard down, Jax goes all in to show her how good they are together, but will their past remain too large an obstacle to ever overcome?

08/10/2019

with
・・・
I dropped Goodnight From London by in Montclair, NJ outside of on my way to meeting up with a friend for a lucky reader to find. Hope whoever finds it enjoys it!
📖 synopsis: In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff writer for Picture Weekly newsmagazine in London. She jumps at the chance, for it's an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never imagined.
Although most of Ruby's new colleagues welcome her, a few resent her presence, not only as an American but also as a woman. She is just beginning to find her feet, to feel at home in a country that is so familiar yet so foreign, when the bombs begin to fall.
As the nightly horror of the Blitz stretches unbroken into weeks and months, Ruby must set aside her determination to remain an objective observer. When she loses everything but her life, and must depend upon the kindness of strangers, she learns for the first time the depth and measure of true friendship—and what it is to love a man who is burdened by secrets that aren’t his to share.
Goodnight from London, inspired in part by the wartime experiences of the author’s own grandmother, is a captivating, heartfelt, and historically immersive story that readers are sure to embrace.

02/10/2019

dropped The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor during a quick trip to the mall. We hope it found a loving home!
📖 synopsis: From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss.
On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira. When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to reshape her life and the island itself--from a taciturn visitor with a murky past to a sanctuary-seeking religious extremist, from dragonflies to a tsunami, from black-clad kidnappers to cultural emissaries from China. Ayaana ends up embarking on a dramatic ship's journey to the Far East, where she will discover friends and enemies; be seduced by the charming but unreliable scion of a powerful Turkish business family; reclaim her devotion to the sea; and come to find her own tenuous place amid a landscape of beauty and violence and surprising joy. Told with a glorious lyricism and an unerring sense of compassion, The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world.

17/09/2019

Saturday Nite Reader dropped Gone By Midnight by - the 3rd book in the Crimson Lake series (can be read as a standalone) - at her local
Stop & Shop Supermarkets for a lucky reader to find!
📖 synopsis: Four young boys are left alone in a hotel room while their parents dine downstairs. When Sara Farrow checks on the children ‪at midnight‬, her son is missing. Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson Lake’s unlikeliest private investigators—disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. The clock is ticking, and the danger he uncovers could well put his own child in deadly peril.

29/07/2019

Good morning New Jersey (and fellow tri-state bookstagram friends!)
Here is our OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT for our summer event!
We hope to see you and we are so excited to be planning with .sto ❤
Lots of books, fun and goodies coming your way!
If you are planning on attending, please send us a quick DM (trying to get a headcount for food 🥰)
Can't wait to see you all soon!

08/07/2019

08/07/2019

🤗 stickers & bookmarks are here!!! 🤗
Start hiding your books around the Garden State for another reader to find! Bookmarks come with instructions on how to find you (the book fairy): make sure you share your handle on the line provided!
📚 Swapping books with another reader and want your book to continue to be swapped across the state: slap that sticker on! .
We can’t wait to see what books you’ve hidden (and where), what books you’ve swapped, and what books were found!
For $5 you’ll get 4 stickers and 4 bookmarks (no profit will be made, just charging enough to keep stock). Email gardenstatebookswap@gmail.com for purchasing instructions.
Live in a different state and want to start your own Swap or Drop, let us know - we will send you our templates to use! It’s all about spreading and sharing yours - and our - love of books!
💙 Can’t wait to hear from you!!! XO, Kate & Nikki

08/07/2019

Saturday Nite Reader took running errands to a whole new level! She dropped a book at each location for a few lucky NJ readers to find on this rainy Monday morning.
Drop 1 top left: Allwood USPS in Clifton, NJ
Drop 2 top right: Styertowne CVS in Clifton, NJ
Drop 3 bottom left: Free Little Library in Nutley, NJ
Drop 4 bottom right: Starbucks in Nutley, NJ

06/07/2019

Our friend brought new release, Evvie Drake Starts Over to the So. Orange pool for a lucky reader to find. Did you know a few days ago this book was on backorder on Amazon?! Its a hot summer read, wonder who will find it?!?
with
・・・
It's such a beautiful day to relax and read by the pool! ⁠
🏊‍♀️
If you’re looking for suggestions on what to read, I just dropped this Free Book by the entrance of the South Orange pool, as part of ! ⁠
😎
About the book:⁠
In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button.⁠
When Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house, the two make a deal: Dean won't ask about Evvie's late husband, and Evvie won't ask about Dean's baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken--and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. But before they can find out what might lie ahead, they'll have to wrestle a few demons: the bonds they've broken, the plans they've changed, and the secrets they've kept. They'll need a lot of help, but in life, as in baseball, there's always a chance--right up until the last out. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠
⁠