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After years of playing nothing but soccer in Hudson City, New Jersey, Manny has to work very hard to play on the middle school football team, using determination, speed, and smarts to make up for being small and inexperienced.

The author describes her experiences as an African American girl growing up in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and how she and her sisters formed a singing group to finance their education and went on to become successful despite the obstacles in their paths.

When a series of murdered bodies begin turning up on an abandoned construction site, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum picks up the case. As she soon realizes, the killer is also after her, and unless she can figure out he is -- and fast -- she may become his next victim.

Interior designer Bartolomeo di Crespi has picked every decoration in Our Lady of Fatima church in New Jersey, but remodeling the church requires more help, and more ideas. Bartolomeo clashes with another designer, an artist, and a stained-glass craftsman during the project, and their work impacts the community inside the church and out.

A lonely seventeen-year-old who has dreamed of meeting a different and special boy desperately seeks help from his friend Trace, a Goth girl, to free him from the clutches of a handsome ghost he has met on a rural New Jersey highway.

David Kim celebrates his twelfth birthday shortly after he leaves his home in Seoul, Korea, with his mother and teenage sister, to join his father in New Jersey, and starts to work at his father's gift shop.

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum joins forces with Diesel, a fellow hunter and sometimes lover, to track down Wulf Grimoire, a wanderer and murderer with no remorse and the ability to hide in any conditions, and as the pair track the elusive criminal, they find themselves plagued by spooky occurrences and the legendary Jersey Devil.

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum discovers she is being stalked by a crazed woman and sets out to find the mysterious woman and uncover her connection to a dangerous murderer.

New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum wades into the middle of a confusing case of stolen race horses and dirty money when her Grandma Mazur finds a duffle bag full of cash on St. Patrick's Day, buys a Winnebago, and heads to Atlantic City.

Collection of ten stories focusing on the frustrations and joys of people living in poverty and uncertainty in places like the barrios of the Dominican Republic and urban communities of New Jersey.