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Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter. She's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian fixer-upper into a charming-and profitable-guest house. One small problem: the house is haunted, and the two ghosts insist Alison must find out who killed them.
282) The book lover
Author
Publisher
Three Women Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Lucinda Barrett's husband destroys their marriage in a shocking betrayal, she's left with nothing but the shattered remnants of her life-- and her novel. Desperate to keep one last dream alive, she sets out on a 1,000 mile journey to get it into the hands of readers-- one bookstore at a time. Ruth Hardaway knows all about shattered dreams. For the last 30 years she's devoted her life to her store, The Book Lover, trying to bury her painful past....
Author
Publisher
Gallery
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Giovanna 'Gia' Spumanti and her cousin Isabella 'Bella' Rizzoli are going to have the sexiest summer ever. While they couldn't be more different -- pint-size Gia is a carefree, outspoken party girl and Bella is a tall, slender athlete who always holds her tongue -- for the next month they're ready to pouf up their hair, put on their stilettos, and soak up all that Seaside Heights, new Jersey, has to offer: hot guidos, cool clubs, fried Oreos, and...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A monk is killed with a knitting needle during a retreat in a monastery in upstate New York. To find the killer, Mother Lavina Grey, pastor of St. Bede's Episcopal Church, ably assisted by Deacon DeeDee Gilchrist search all the rooms while the guests are engaged in prayer.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Alison is weeks away from graduating from an East Coast boarding school and then off to the Ivy League, on his way to a job on Wall Street, when his ambitions are derailed when he is busted for selling drugs. He returns to his roots on the Jersey Shore and makes a new friend, Clare Savage, the son of a disgraced financier. The pair head to a boarding school in Scotland, where they discover a world shaped by even more greed and ambition than the...
287) An uninvited ghost
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"In exchange for help entertaining her guests on 'spooky' vacations, Alison Kerby told her resident gumshoe ghost that she'd help him on the occasional case. But she didn't think she'd have to go through with it--after all, who goes to a dead private eye? The answer: other ghosts. The deceased Scott McFarlane got roped into a prank that may have killed a prominent local resident. With some snooping, it turns out the woman is alive--that is, of course,...
288) Jack: secret circles
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"When his five-year-old neighbor goes missing, Jack can't help feeling responsible. He should have taken Cody home when he found him riding his bicycle near the Pine Barrens. Then a lost man wanders out of the woods after having been chased all night by...something. Jack knows, better than anyone, that the Barrens are dangerous, a true wilderness filled with people, creatures and objects lost from sight and memory. Like the ancient, fifteen-foot-tall...
290) Por siempre jamás
Author
Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
2002, 2017.
Language
Español
Description
Will Klein tiene su héroe: su hermano mayor Ken. Una noche de calor agobiante aparece en el sótano de la casa de los Klein una joven, antiguo amor de Will, asesinada y violada. El principal sospechoso es Ken. Ante la abrumadora evidencia en contra suya, Ken desaparece.
291) Murder and marinara
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When Victoria takes a break from penning her popular mystery series and moves back to the Jersey shore, she imagines sun, sand, and scents of fresh basil and simmering marinara sauce at the family restaurant, the Casa Lido. But her nonna's recipes aren't the only things getting stirred up in this Italian kitchen. Their small town is up in arms over plans to film a new reality TV show, and when Victoria serves the show's pushy producer his last meal,...
292) Love feast
Author
Publisher
Athenenum
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Here is the third volume of Frederick Buechner's profound and prodigiously funny tale of Leo Bebb, con-man and preacher. Taking its title from the outrageous gatherings organized by the now-widowed Bebb in Princeton, New Jersey - combinations of religious revivals and lone-ins that soon have the authorities clamoring for the preacher's hide - Love Feast reveals Bebb as an enormously funny character who always manages to find something of value amid...
293) The money man
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"New Jersey bookkeeper Alice Thurber has a carefully constructed risk-free life. Everything in perfect balance. Until little discrepancies show up in her clients' accounts. Most would ignore it. Not the impeccably precise Alice. In desperation she reaches out to a high-powered consulting firm for help. New York City's movie-star handsome financial wizard Derek Killion reaches back. All he has to do is smile and Alice's fantasies stir. A girl can dream,...
294) Kiss and spell
Author
Series
Elemental love ; 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"All Ursula Caraway wished for was to live happily ever after in her hometown of Freya Grove. The self-proclaimed Jersey Shore Witch Princess was set to begin her perfect life--until a twist of fate changed everything. Now, she's telling fortunes to the lovelorn, selling crystals at the local psychic shop, and reclaiming her missing magic. Ursula desperately wishes to shake up her life--so much so, she'll do just about anything. Including befriending...
295) Hot six: & Seven up
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Hot Six: "Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, along with New Jersey's hunkiest vice cop Joe Morelli, join forces in their latest madcap adventure that will put them in the path of a ruthless killer, a dog with an eating disorder, a curious hamster named Rex, and too many donuts to count. Anything can happen--and everything does--as Stephanie tries to apprehend a fugitive ... and not end up dead in the process."--Amazon.
Seven Up: "When Mobster Eddie DeChooch...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Kenneth Patchen's comic masterpiece, Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer first appeared in 1945. The hilarious saga of Alfred Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey - a Candide-like innocent and part-time pornographer, written with what Diane DiPrima called Patchen's "tender silliness"--Is sure to inspire a new generation of readers."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
Feeling a need for stability after her divorce and pursuit by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts a job with a Manhattan law firm and buys the former family house in New Jersey. When the house is renovated, the corpse of a missing woman turns up along with evidence linked to a family disappearance in 1892.
La abogada Emily Graham se ha comprado una casa. No una casa cualquiera, sino una casa antigua que perteneció a sus antepasados,...
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