The Puerto Rican-born author shares recollections of the bilingual, bicultural childhood she experienced, moving between her island home and New Jersey as a result of her father's Navy career.
With vampires in control of Europe, the Far East, and major cities in North and South America, Joe, a disgraced priest, decides to hide out and wait for the end, but he is shaken out of his stupor when his niece enlists him, along with a vampire killer and a rabbi, in a plan to fortify an abandoned church and defy the invaders.
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.
Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of New Jersey and New York. Includes maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other relevant material.
Provides information about the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of New Jersey, and includes photographs, maps, sidebars, a time line, an almanac of state facts, and a gallery of famous New Jersyans.
In July, 1916, Chet Roscow is fascinated by news accounts of the great white shark said to be attacking people along the New Jersey shore not far from his home, but when he goes swimming in Matawan Creek he discovers the truth of the stories.
Told in two voices, high school juniors Allie, who now lives on the poor side of town, and Jake, the "Crestie" whose family bought her house, develop feelings for one another that are complicated by her former friends, his current ones, who refuse to forgive her for her father's bad investment that cost them all.
Told in two voices, Ally and Jake, back together and both "Cresties" again as senior year begins, are shocked when Chloe tells Jake he is the father of her child.
