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A Boardwalk Story

A Boardwalk Story
  • Author(s): J Louis Yampolsky
  • Location(s): Atlantic City, New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

This first novel by J. Louis Yampolsky is a vivid coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of 1939 Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was the tenth year of the Great Depression, and, in Europe, war clouds were gathering. The...

A Matter of Chance

A Matter of Chance
  • Author(s): Julie Maloney
  • Location(s): Bavaria, New Jersey, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When eight-year-old Vinni Stewart disappears from a Jersey shore town, her distraught single mother begins a desperate search. Maddy Stewart’s five-year journey leads her to a bakery in Brooklyn where she stumbles upon something terrifying. Ultimately, her artist neighbor...

A Naturalist along the Jersey Shore

A Naturalist along the Jersey Shore
  • Author(s): Joanna Burger
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Naturalist Joanna Burger invites the reader to join in with her as she investigates the wildlife along the Jersey coastline. Among the creatures covered are the fish communities, the herring gulls and shorebirds, various types of crab, hawks and...

All Around the Town

All Around the Town
  • Author(s): Mary Higgins Clark
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, she has no memory of the crime. Her fingerprints, however, are everywhere. When she asks her sister, attorney Sarah, to mount her defense, Sarah in turn...

All The Summer Girls

All The Summer Girls
  • Author(s): Meg Donohoe
  • Location(s): New Jersey, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

In Philadelphia, good girl Kate is dumped by her fiancé the day she learns she is pregnant with his child. In New York City, beautiful stay-at-home mom Vanessa finds herself obsessively searching the Internet for news of an old...

Back to Life

Back to Life
  • Author(s): Wendy Coakley-Thompson
  • Location(s): New Jersey, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1980s

1989. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. An Italian mob murders a black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins. That same night, across the Hudson River in New Jersey, Lisa and Marc meet at a party. Lisa’s black. Marc’s Italian. They eventually hook up. But...

Bad Turn

Bad Turn
  • Author(s): Zoë Sharp
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One bad turn…deserves another. Charlie Fox has quit her job in close protection, been turned out of her apartment, and is apparently out of options. House-sitting in rural New Jersey has to be the pits—TV and TV dinners. A...

Camino Island

Camino Island
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Florida, New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The most daring and devastating heist in literary history targets a high security vault located deep beneath Princeton University. Valued at $25 million (though some would say priceless) the five manuscripts of F Scott Fitzgerald’s only novels are amongst...

Caught

Caught
  • Author(s): Harlan Coben
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

17 year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on...

Charmed

Charmed
  • Author(s): Beth Ciotta
  • Location(s): Atlantic City
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Beloved storyteller Lulu Ross champions non-violence. Just her luck, she’s tiara over glass slippers for a man who carries a gun. Professional bodyguard Colin Murphy is s-e-x-y. Too bad he’s delusional. Who would want to hurt Princess Charming—a low-profile,...

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