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In Reiken's "affectionate but tough-minded second novel, he captures the poetry of the New Jersey condition, circa 1980, with a rare precision" (The New York Times Book Review).
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Romeo and Juliet in northern New Jersey? Yiddish constellations in Asbury Park? A garbage dump in the Meadowlands that's filled with old...
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Romeo and Juliet in northern New Jersey? Yiddish constellations in Asbury Park? A garbage dump in the Meadowlands that's filled with old...
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Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey-especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade...
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2021.
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English
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"When Alberta's 21-year-old grandson, Sergio, who has been missing for six months, shows up at the Mistletoe Ball next to a dead body, she and her estranged daughter Lisa Marie must put their past behind them and work together to clear his name before Christmas"--
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"From debut author Karen Winn, a powerful and lyrical coming-of-age novel that examines the complicated bond of sisterhood, the corrosive power of envy, and how the traumas of our youths can shape our identities for a lifetime"-- Book jacket.
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2018.
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English
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For Alberta Scaglione, her golden years are turning out different than she expected, and much more deadly. Alberta's spinster aunt had some secrets--like the fortune she squirreled away and a secret lake house in Tranquility, New Jersey. More surprising: she's left it all to Alberta. Alberta, a widow, is no spring chicken and she's gotten used to disappointment. So having a beautiful view, surrounded by hydrangeas, honeysuckle, and her cat, Lola,...
6) Waylaid
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[2002]
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English
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Waylaid is the story of a Chinese American boy who struggles to grow up in the grip of an overcharged sexual environment. With a daily routine that involves renting out rooms to johns and hookers at his parents' sleazy hotel, the narrator loses his grip on concepts of friendship, family and childhood. As he pursues his all-consuming quest to lose his virginity, issues of race, class and sex cripple his sense of self-worth. It is a story told with...
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[2019]
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English
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Since Alberta Scaglione inherited her spinster aunt's Cape Cod cottage she's been enjoying the good life in Tranquility with her black cat, Lola. When she and her granddaughter, Jinx, stumble across a hidden treehouse and a dead body they take a detour into solving a murder.
8) Forever
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English
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Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.
9) Coleman Hill
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2023.
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First edition.
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English
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"Once in a while, a writer comes along with a brilliance that stops the breath. Kim Coleman Foote is that writer." -Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author of Red at the Bone"A masterpiece. Brilliant, vivid, heartbreaking, epic, beautiful, raw and true . . . This is the American story." ?Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Is Lost"Kim Coleman Foote has the rare talent of completely immersing you in time and place...
12) Glow
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2017.
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English
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"When thrift-store aficionado Julie discovers a series of antique paintings with hidden glowing images that are only visible in the dark, she uncovers a century-old romance and the haunting true story of the Radium Girls"--Provided by publisher.
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