Glaser, Karina Yan
Summary: When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden's shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GLAGreen, Jocelyn
Summary: "For years her explorer father promised Dr. Lauren Westlake she'd accompany him on one of his Egyptian expeditions. But as the empty promises mounted, Lauren determined to earn her own way. Now the assistant curator of Egyptology for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lauren receives two unexpected invitations. The first is her repentant father's offer to finally bring her to Egypt as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction GreenBreslin, Jimmy.
Summary: A satire on the cult of the Mafia tells the story of an inept gang of Sicilian cretins and their criminally foolish plots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BreslSummary: Collects seventeen mystery stories centering around the borough of Manhattan, from a stand-off outside the Flatiron building and a tale of World War II espionage to the mystery of an antique hope chest found in Union Square.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M CLACastellanos, Alexis
Summary: "A wordless graphic novel in which twelve-year-old Marisol must adapt to a new life 1960s Brooklyn after her parents send her to the United States from Cuba to keep her safe during Castro's regime"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CASBurgess, Gemma.
Summary: "Wild child and secret romantic Angie wakes up in a hotel room with $3,000 and no memories of the night before. Her best friends aren't talking to her, she can't get a job in fashion, her parents are divorcing, and she's about to turn twenty-three. And life is about to get much worse. Brooklyn Girls: Love and Curses continues the story of our five favorite grads sharing a brownstone and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Burgess 2014Nazemian, Abdi
Summary: It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Nazemian 2019Woods, Caroline (Caroline Courtney)
Summary: New York City, 1953. Louise Leithauser has filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe's brand new literary magazine, Downtown-- albeit under a male pseudonym. On the side she's writing a science fiction romance, The Lunar Housewife. When she overhears Joe and his business partner fighting about listening devices and death threats, Louise discovers that Downtown's strings are being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOLehane, Cornelius
Summary: An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator - Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy - tells him he plans to fight the acquisition tooth and nail. Why would Abernathy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHWhite, Kate
Summary: It's summer in New York City, but Kiki Reed isn't feeling very sunny. She recently broke off her engagement to Jamie Larsson, a great guy, but just not "the one." And although she knows it was for the best, she feels guilty for hurting him. When Kiki accepts an invitation to a party at a friend's Connecticut country house, she knows Jamie will be there, too, but decides to get their first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: On temporary leave from his service in Korea for the holiday season, young sailor Pete is devastated by his girlfriend's unfaithfulness and evaluates his relationship with his distant father, a gruff Irish factory worker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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Summary: Matthew Scudder is dying, one bottle at a time. A young prostitute named Kim Dakkinen is dying too, her life measured out in tricks. She wanted out, had asked for Scudder's help, but suddenly she wasn't dying anymore, she was just dead. The former cop turned P.I. promised to protect her, but he failed. Now his atonement is to find her killer. But the secrets in the dead hooker's past are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SNYTaylor, David C.
Summary: New York City in 1954. The Cold War is heating up. Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for Communists in America. The newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary US intelligence agency. And the bodies of murdered young men are turning up in the city. Michael Cassidy has an unusual background for a New York cop. His father, a refugee from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYSteel, Danielle
Summary: Five successful women play for high stakes in their careers at a boutique literary and talent agency where newcomer Jane Addison quickly discovers there are damaging secrets hidden behind its doors. Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEJimenez, Claire
Summary: "Las Ramírez de Stanten Islan orbitan alrededor de la ausencia. Cuando Ruthy, a los trece años, desapareció sin dejar rastro después de un entrenamiento de atletismo, su familia quedó marcada y deshecha. Una noche, doce años después, Jessica, la hermana mayor, ve en la pantalla de su televisión a una mujer que aparece en Catfight, un reality show subido de tono. Se apresura a decírselo a Nina,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC JIMCollins, Jackie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLRobb, J. D.
Summary: Investigating the death of a fellow officer, Eve Dallas receives a personal warning when a dead body is placed outside her home, and her subsequent experiences make her question her beliefs about right and wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBPatterson, James
Summary: An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down--and, despite the attackers' efforts, it's not Michael Bennett. New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct signature, alerting Bennett to the presence of a professional killer with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2018Fleming, Ian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 0000
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA M FLECastillo, Javier
Summary: "¿Quieres jugar? Nueva York, 2011. Una chica de quince años aparece crucificada en una iglesia en un suburbio a las afueras. Miren Triggs, periodista de investigación del Manhattan Press, recibe de manera inesperada un extraño sobre. En su interior, la polaroid de una chica amordazada y maniatada, con una sola anotación: 'Gina Pebbles, 2002.' Miren Triggs y Jim Schmoer, su antiguo profesor de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Suma 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH CASCoben, Harlan
Summary: It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fianc J̌eff, the man who shattered her heart-- and who she hasn't seen in 18 years. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Coben 2014Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Hugh Breedlove is far from the most agreeable client private investigator Frank Malloy has ever had, but his case is impossible to refuse: his young niece, Julia, has been wrongfully committed to an insane asylum by her cruel and unfaithful husband, Chet Longly. Though Breedlove and his wife seem more interested in protecting the family reputation than their niece's safety, Frank and Sarah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction CorreaJacobs, Kate
Summary: Walker & Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Its Friday Night Knitting Club is improvised by some of Georgia's regulars, who stroll into the shop looking for tips on knitting and end up finding much, much more. So now, once a week, they gather to work on their latest projects and to chat-- and occasionally clash-- over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007