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Close to Shore

Close to Shore
  • Author(s): Michael Capuzzo
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1916

Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive...

Cold Truth

Cold Truth
  • Author(s): Mariah Stewart
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

TRUTH HAS DEADLY CONSEQUENCES Twenty-six years ago, even before a series of brutal murders rocked the idyllic town of Bowers Inlet, Cassie Burke lost her parents, her sister, and nearly her own life to a transient befriended by her...

Corporate Blues

Corporate Blues
  • Author(s): Christina Paul
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Madison Renault is a financial client services manager from a small town in New Jersey, and a single mom. Raleigh St. James is the new CEO of the most prestigious engineering firm in Connecticut, and one of Madison’s biggest...

Deal Breaker

Deal Breaker
  • Author(s): Harlan Coben
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1990s

Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron’s prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone,...

Election

Election
  • Author(s): Tom Perrotta
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A brilliantly funny novel from the author of ‘The Abstinence Teacher’ and ‘Little Children’, made into an acclaimed film starring Reece Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick. Tracy Flick wants to be president of Winwood High. She’s one of those ambitious...

Eleven on Top

Eleven on Top
  • Author(s): Janet Evanovich
  • Location(s): Trenton, New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She’s been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Stephanie thinks it’s time for a change. So she quits....

Envisioning New Jersey

Envisioning New Jersey
  • Author(s): Maxine N Lurie, Richard F Veit
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): various centuries

See New Jersey history as you read about it! Envisioning New Jersey brings together 650 spectacular images that illuminate the course of the state’s history, from prehistoric times to the present. Readers may think they know New Jersey’s history...

Explosive Eighteen

Explosive Eighteen
  • Author(s): Janet Evanovich
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home, in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich.   Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 from Hawaii to...

Fade Away

Fade Away
  • Author(s): Harlan Coben
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

The home was top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room was Martha Stewart. The basement was Legos—and blood. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he’d once competed against was bringing back memories—of the sport he...

Fearless Fourteen

Fearless Fourteen
  • Author(s): Janet Evanovich
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet. The Crime: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the...

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