Road Tripping Across the USA Mini Reading Challenge: New Jersey

Love. Family. A Choice. Sometimes plans change…

Her uncle went to prison. She inherited a mess. Her enemies want their money. Can Stephanie Sabbatini, the new Boss of the Sabbatini Crime Family, pay them back, go legit, and find happily-ever-after with the girl of her dreams?

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A true LGBTQ+ love story both on and off the pages.

In this swoon-filled lesbian romcom, two dating show contestants vying for the affection of the leading man fall head over heels—for each other.

Kenzie Shaw is the most sought-after rookie in women’s major league soccer, but her life changes forever when she’s drafted in her home state of New Jersey.

Kenzie and Sutton’s chemistry as teammates quickly escalates to undeniable attraction off the field, but when allegations of sexual harassment rock the team and their relationship, they must decide if they’re willing to sacrifice their dreams for love. Are they destined to last, or are they players in a game set to lose?

Lauren Daly is fed up with her dead-end job, frustrating roommates, and unhealthy love life.

She escapes to The Dollhouse, New Jersey’s hottest lesbian bar, where disappearing in a crowd of gorgeous women is exactly what she needs at the end of the day. But when the owner, Berit Matthews, approaches her for a casual hookup, Lauren pushes her away, knowing better than to put her heart on the line for a playgirl.

Can the truth really set you free?

Genevieve Applegate is tired of her stagnant life and she’s ready to make a change by going after her dream job in New Jersey. The listing seems ideal when Genevieve scans it, but a big surprise comes at her interview: Out Shore Magazine is an LGBT publication. She’s willing to work around this detail with an innocent lie, one she’ll keep from her longtime boyfriend as well as her new boss, Harper Davies.

Vera Steiner lives through pogrom, poverty, epidemic ... but how can she go on after she loses everything?

In a time before anyone dares dream that love is a right, Vera pays for her deviance with lifelong loneliness. Yet this is not a throwback to the old doomed-lesbian tale. Vera survives. Fifty years later, in a new era, her granddaughter Randy comes of age and comes out of the closet. Randy throws herself into the struggle to do away with shame and secrecy–never knowing her own grandmother’s secret shame until it’s too late. Sweeping across the miles and over the years–from czarist Russia to sweatshop New Jersey, from the 1960s Motor City to the Manhattan of LGBTQ protests–VERA’S WILL takes the reader on a grand journey.

Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this inventive queer romance asks what it means to be truly happy.

Tegan Masters is dead.

She’s sixteen and she’s dead and she’s standing in the parking lot of the Marybelle Motor Lodge, the single most depressing motel in all of New Jersey and the place where Tegan spent what she remembers as the worst weekend of her life.

A tender and edgy take on coming of age in the afterlife.

Queer middle-aged librarian Nan Nethercott, a wisecracking hypochondriac with a lackluster career and a nonexistent love life, needs to make a drastic life change before it’s too late.

When she lands a job as librarian in a seemingly idyllic small town in southern New Jersey, Nan quickly discovers unforeseen challenges.

Meet Cassandra Slick--a private investigator who knows that few pleasures in life can compare to a dry martini, a sexy blonde, and serving sweet justice on New Jersey's meanest streets. . .

While other little girls dreamed of growing up to be princesses, Cassandra Slick wanted to be Pam Grier in Foxy Brown, busting bad-ass criminals while yelling “Take that, you jive turkey!” She got her wish, but at the request of her girlfriend Laura–the beautiful, blonde daughter of New Jersey’s wealthiest clam magnate–Slick has given up cop life to be a P.I.

Deb Dawson has seen ghosts all her life, but it’s the living that haunts her.

In New Jersey there exists a humble psychic shop, a beacon for those in search of guidance, both the living and the dead. With her tarot cards, Deb Dawson can peel away at the layers of your life, glimpsing your very soul. She is a woman of many secrets, one who prefers solitude, that is until a spirit leads Deb to the site of a horrific ritualistic murder.

Joined by her girlfriend and burgeoning witch, Madeline Hall, Deb and Maddy uncover evil forces working from the shadows.

Life is the end, and death is just the beginning…

As evil forces close in, Deb and Maddy work to expose a deadly cult and its demented leader. By doing so, they put themselves at unimaginable risk against a rising tide of sorcery and violence. Can Deb Dawson escape the long, homicidal grasp of the secret organization, or will she become its next victim? In a contest for her own soul, Deb marches towards Clarimond Hospital, an abandoned asylum rumored to contain the heart of the beast where fate will decide whether she lives or dies…

With the help of new friends and a planetarium hotline, thirteen-year-old Pluto goes on a journey of self-discovery, in this poignant story about mental health from acclaimed middle grade author Nicole Melleby.

This summer, when Pluto’s turning thirteen, is different. Pluto has just been diagnosed with depression, and she feels like a black hole is sitting on her chest, making it hard to do anything. When Pluto’s dad threatens to make her move to the city—where he believes his money could help her get better—Pluto comes up with a plan to do whatever it takes to be her old self again. If she does everything that old, “normal” Pluto would do, she can stay with her mom. But it takes a new therapist, new tutor, and new (cute) friend with a plan of her own for Pluto to see that there is no old or new her. There’s just Pluto, discovering more about herself every day.