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Close to shore

a true story of terror in an age of innocence
2001

Inventing the "great awakening"

1999
A study of the Great Awakening that swept New England in the eighteenth century, arguing that the religious revival was an invention of the colonists.

Leaving dirty Jersey

a crystal meth memoir
2007
James Salant provides an account of the year he spent in California where he was sent by his parents to a drug rehabilitation facility which he soon ditched to live a chaotic, crime-riddled life addicted to crystal meth.

The ditchdigger's daughters

a black family's astonishing success story
1995
The story of the Thornton family, which produced two doctors, a dentist, an attorney, a nurse, and a court stenographer. Donald Thornton worked two full-time jobs to support his family and prodded and inspired his six daughters to pursue education and succeed as young musicians and in their professions.

Election

a novel
1998
New Jersey high school teacher Mr. McAllister faces a personal and professional crisis when he decides to fix the student body election, while at the same time dealing with an unexpected attraction to his wife's best friend.

Grandma Hekmatt remembers

an Arab-American family story
2003
Three Arab-American girls learn about their family and cultural history from their grandmother, who grew up in Cairo, Egypt, and moved to New Jersey after her marriage. Includes directions for making Egyptian paper boats.

Southpaw

2007
After moving to New Jersey following his parents' divorce, Jimmy Fleming tries out for the seventh-grade baseball team while also trying to cope with his new life and dealing with his overly-competitive father.

Southpaw

2006
After moving to New Jersey following his parents' divorce, Jimmy Fleming tries out for the seventh-grade baseball team while also trying to cope with his new life and dealing with his overly-competitive father.

Takedown

2006
Seventh-grader Donald, living with his parents in New Jersey, is determined to master wrestling but discovers that to win at the sport he must learn to control his temper.

Huge

a novel
2009
Twelve-year-old Eugene "Huge" Smalls is short, mean, angry, and brilliant, characteristics which win him no friends, but he is also an amateur sleuth with his first real case, which leads him to believe life might be better if he did not imagine himself a character in a Raymond Chandler novel.

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