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The author, a junior U.S. Senator, draws on personal experience to call the nation to greater compassion, solidarity, and hope.

It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.

The author, a junior U.S. Senator, draws on personal experience to call the nation to greater compassion, solidarity, and hope.

Newark private detective Tamara Hayle finds herself trapped in a maze of secrets and half-truths when she agrees to try and discover who has been stalking respected radio talk-show host Mandy Magic, a woman who has literally talked herself out of poverty.

Tells the story of three friends from the inner city of Newark, New Jersey, who made a pact in high school to find a way to go to college and become doctors, and who overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to achieve their goal, and inspire others.

New Jersey private detective Tamara Hayle, always wary when her life starts running smoothly, finds she was right to be cautious when troublemaker Lilah Love shows up asking for help in finding her missing child, ex-lover Basil Dupre comes back to town, and Tamara's own son, Jamal, witnesses a brutal murder and then is accused of the crime.

Coleman Silk, a New England professor forced into retirement on false charges of racism, has a fifty-year-old secret that Philip Roth attempts to decipher in this 1990s novel set against the backdrop of Presidential impeachment and professional witchhunts.

A novel that imagines what might have happened in America, particularly to one Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, had Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election rather than Franklin Roosevelt and acted upon his anti-Semitic leanings.

Reading his own paper's obituaries, Carter Ross comes across a woman named Nancy Marino who died in a hit and run car accident while she was actually on the job delivering copies of that very paper, the Eagle-Examiner. Struck by the opportunity to write a heroic piece about an everyday woman killed too young, he heads to her wake to gather tributes and anecdotes but instead, one of Nancy's sisters convinces him the accident might not have been an accident at all.

Coleman Silk, a distinguished professor at a small New England college where he has managed over the course of fifty years to make a lot of enemies, experiences a sort of personal liberation when he is forced from his job on false claims of racism -- a charge made all the more ironic due to a secret Silk has been keeping nearly his entire life.