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Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A white man has been lynched two months before 23-year-old Donald Gambell returns to his New Jersey hometown. As the first black member of the police force, Gambell learns the routines of his new work--the traffic stops and domestic quarrels, the bullying and bragging--from his partner Frank Butras, who refuses to discuss the murder that has left the town shaken. For Gambell, life near his father and sister is familiar in both its comforts and confusions,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One last summer to escape, to find herself, to figure out what comes next. Fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han will love this contemporary, coming-of-age romance. Graduation was supposed to be a relief. Except Quinn can't avoid the rumors that plagued her throughout high school or the barrage of well-intentioned questions about her college plans. How is she supposed to know what she wants to do for the next four years, let alone the rest of her life?...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Robin Constantine's New Jersey romance The Promise of Amazing is a sexy, poignant, funny, and authentic debut novel that will appeal to fans of books by Stephanie Perkins, Sarah Mlynowski, and Jennifer E. Smith. Wren Caswell is average. Ranked in the middle of her class at Sacred Heart, she's not popular, not a social misfit. Wren is the quiet good girl who's always done what she's supposed to--only now, in her junior year, this passive strategy is...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An upstanding juror becomes dangerously obsessed with a seductive plaintiff in this "fast-paced, haunting" novel by a #1 New York Times --bestselling author (Boston Sunday Herald). Terence Greene is admired for his perfect life in an affluent New Jersey suburb, and for his marriage to a minister's beautiful and wealthy daughter. He's also envied for his successful career as director of an arts foundation. But all of that changes when Terence is summoned...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ginny, Sharon, Terri, and Bev are all senior honor students in high school in a rural community in upstate New York. They hardly ever cut school, but on the day that they do--driving south to New Jersey--they find themselves in the wrong spot at the wrong time as an unemployed loner goes on a shooting spree. Those who return home face the nearly impossible task of making sense not only of the act, but of their own lives.
6) Kick
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the very first time in his decades-long career writing for teens, acclaimed and beloved author Walter Dean Myers writes with a teen, Ross Workman.
Kevin Johnson is thirteen years old. And heading for juvie. He's a good kid, a great friend, and a star striker for his Highland, New Jersey, soccer team. His team is competing for the State Cup, and he wants to prove he has more than just star-player potential. Kevin's never been in any serious
...7) Oona
Author
Publisher
The Lilliput Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In Alice Lyons' implosive first novel, Oona, child of first generation immigrants, lives in an affluent New Jersey suburb where conspicuous consumption and white privilege prevail. A silence surrounding death extends to the family home where Oona's mother lies dying of cancer. As her inner life goes into shutdown, Oona has her first encounters with sex, drugs and other adolescent rites of passage. What does a voice alienated from itself sound like?...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell, a woman must face the truth about her past in this luminous, evocative literary novel of parents and children, guilt and forgiveness, memory and magical thinking, set in the faded, gritty world of the New Jersey Shore. Olivia was only fifteen the summer she left her hometown of Ocean Vista. Two decades later, on a visit with her children, her nine-year-old son Daniel, recently diagnosed with bipolar...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Like Meg Cabot, Sarah Strohmeyer has a gift for creating smart, funny girls teen readers love. She's done it again with Zoe, heroine of her latest romcom. In YA novel How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True, Zoe learns there is a dark core under the glittering façade of the fairy-tale themed amusement park (cough, Disneyland, cough) where she's a summer intern. For starters, her boss has a blacker heart than Snow White's stepmother, and the other...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most talented story tellers around." -- Associated Press "Clark has perfected the suspense novel ... in classic Christie fashion." -- Booklist New York Times bestseller Mary Jane Clark introduced readers to professional wedding cake decorator and amateur sleuth Piper Donavan in her acclaimed mystery novel To Have and To Kill. Piper's back in The Look of Love, on cake creating assignment at a West Coast luxury spa for the wealthy and famous...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hollywood collides with New Jersey when legendary actress Charlotte Graham investigates an art-world murder in this charming cozy mystery It's been fifty years since Charlotte Graham began her reign as the queen of Hollywood, and the legendary actress shows no signs of slowing down. To keep herself young, she crisscrosses the country with her friend Tom Plummer, an author devoted to the quest to find the perfect diner. From Maine to Pennsylvania,...
12) Snake Eyes
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A New Jersey family takes an ex-con into their suburban home in this "chilling, nightmarish" novel by a #1 New York Times --bestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle). Attorney Michael O'Meara's dogged belief that Lee Roy Sears was innocent of murder has paid off. The lawyer has not only gotten the convicted inmate released from death row at Connecticut State Prison, but also procured an artist's residency in Mount Orion, New Jersey, for the rehabilitated...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Oscar-winning actress Charlotte Graham must turn amateur sleuth to save an island in this atmospheric cozy mystery set in remote Bar Harbor, Maine After more than forty years in Hollywood and on Broadway, something strange has happened to Charlotte Graham. The run of her latest play has ended, and the legendary actress is forcing herself to do something unprecedented: She's taking a vacation. On a desolate island off the coast of Maine, she settles...
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