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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"January 3, 1935. The trial opens in Flemington, New Jersey, for the man accused of the crime of the century. And Edna Ferber is there to cover it. 1932. On a windy March 1 night, Charles Lindbergh, America's hero, discovers that his twenty-month-old son has been snatched from his crib. A ransom is arranged. Yet two months later, Little Lindy is found in a ditch near his Hopewell home, several weeks dead from a blow to the head. It takes over two...
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English
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"An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in this lyrical debut novel that "shimmers with love" (Los Angeles Times), from the acclaimed author of If They Come For Us "Haunting . . . a knife-sharp story of self-discovery."-People In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise...
83) Rolling thunder
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Series
John Ceepak mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the suspicious death of a prominent Sea Haven, New Jersey, resident on the opening day of a new boardwalk roller coaster, straight-arrow cop John Ceepak and his partner Danny Boyle discover links between the case the subsequent death of a beach beauty.
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist. When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who's occasionally called Jack. While it's doubtful that anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true identity, or even if he's still alive, he's in his mid-thirties...
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English
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The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter.
Seymour Levov, a devoted family man and inheritor of his father's factory, comes of age in thriving post-war...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta's Election-and Reese Witherspoon's character from the classic movie adaptation-is determined to take high school politics by storm.Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede,...
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Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Janet Evanovich presents a special addition to the Stephanie Plum series. For the first time ever, listeners can experience three between-the-numbers Stephanie Plum novels (Visions of Sugar Plums; Plum Lovin'; and Plum Lucky) together in one entertaining audiobook. Join the ditzy yet lovable New Jersey bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, as she gets lucky in Atlantic City, crosses paths with the smoldering Diesel, and tries to get into the holiday spirit,...
92) Rite of passage
Author
Series
Supernatural volume 10
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When an escalating series of accidents hits Laurel Hill, New Jersey, demon hunters Sam and Dean Winchester uncover a connection between three local boys and a mysterious stranger at the center of the chaos.
93) 18 seconds
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Series
Sherry Moore thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Investigative consultant Sherry Moore is blind with the ability to "see" the deceased's last eighteen seconds of memory by touching the corpse. Serial killer Earl Sykes was never caught for his vicious murders, now thirty years later, he returns to the seaside town of Wildwood, New Jersey and to abducting young female victims for his gruesome games.
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Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Three ordinary men find themselves completely out of their element, holding a young girl hostage without the slightest idea of what to do next. They are already guilty of kidnapping and robbery. It is only a matter of time before they find out just what else they are capable of. For these four people, three days will decide their fate, between freedom and prison, innocence and guilt, and life and death.
95) Suburban dicks
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English
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Andie Stern thought she'd solved her final homicide. Once a budding FBI profiler, she gave up her career to raise her four (soon to be five) children in West Windsor, New Jersey. But one day, between soccer games, recitals, and trips to the local pool, a very pregnant Andie pulls into a gas station--and stumbles across a murder scene. An attendant has been killed, and the bumbling local cops are in way over their heads. Suddenly, Andie is obsessed...
96) Icing Ivy
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to use her fiction writers' retreat at the Munsee Lodge to reconcile with her friend Ivy Benson, literary agent Jane Stuart instead must sift through a wealth of clues to find a killer when Ivy is murdered.
97) Airtight
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English
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Rendered a public hero when he is forced to kill a chief suspect in the murder of a high-profile judge, New Jersey police officer Luke Somers is targeted by the suspect's vengeful older brother, who kidnaps Luke's brother and insists that his own brother is innocent.
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Series
At the shore novels volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Connie Reyes and Jonathan Pierce only discovered how different they were after a magical summer on the Jersey shore. She was ambitious and practical; he was artistic and rebellious. Their parting was heartrending, and the intervening years have only made a reunion less and less possible. Now, Jonathan is back in Sea Kiss, having made a fortune in tech. He has everything money can buy, but his bed is empty and his heart is hollow. He's never...
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Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
It's the start of another action-packed summer for the wise-cracking Boyle and straight-arrow cop (now Chief of Detectives) John Ceepak down the Jersey Shore as they do their best to help Danny's friend, an attractive young nurse, who claims she has been falsely accused of aggravated assault by a prestigious Sea Haven resident. Ceepak's unshakable code of honor is tested when he trusts that the nurse is telling the truth. It's stretched to the limit...
100) Black and blue
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Series
Doug Brock novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The next exciting installment in bestselling David Rosenfelt's Doug Brock series. Doug Brock hasn't had it easy since his getting shot in the line of duty as a New Jersey state police officer. Between the amnesia and having to solve two murder cases, it hasn't been the most restful recovery. Now, the cold case department is checking evidence from a murder case Doug was investigating before the accident, but the DNA points to a man Doug eliminated...
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