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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Interpersonal relations Juvenile fiction Life change events Fiction New York (N.Y.) Fiction New York (N.Y.) Juvenile fiction Roman pour jeunes adultes Schools Juvenile fiction Young adult fictionBrickman, Sophie
Summary: "It takes a village...just not this one. Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She's a mother of three young children, her workaholic husband is never around, and the vicious competition for spots in New York City's kindergartens is heating up. A New York Times journalist-turned-parenting-advice-columnist for an internet start-up, Annie can't help but judge the insanity of it all-even as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisheres 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRIGutman, Dan
Summary: "Five kids across centuries recount the history of Cleopatra's Needle, from its construction in ancient Egypt to moving it across the ocean to New York city in the 19th century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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Summary: After a black drug dealer goes to jail in Brooklyn, his ruthless 17-year-old daughter takes over his empire. A look at the mores and manners of the black underclass, this one with money. First novel by a hip-hop artist, author of No Disrespect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1999
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Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBMontague, Liz
Summary: Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONSy, Cherry Lou
Summary: "A beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own burning desires Love Can't Feed You is a stunning, heartbreaking, and compressed look at coming of age, shifting notions of home, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SYSummary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Scraping by as a foreclosure profiteer after a spectacular fall from grace, a once high-powered Manhattan attorney is implicated in an informant's murder and forced to confront greedy developers, mobsters, activists, and rivals to clear his name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEASummary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOUFinger, Bobby
Summary: "A tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered, and then again thirty years later"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEPrice, Richard
Summary: "East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble ... As the city's rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. By day's end, six bodies have been recovered but many of the other tenants are missing. In Lazarus Man, Richard Price ... creates intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Meyer, Gabrielle
Summary: "Identical twin sisters Grace and Hope are time-crossers who simultaneously live in 1692, as daughters of a tavern owner during the Salem Witch Trials, and in 1912, as an aviatrix and a journalist. As their twenty-fifth birthday approaches, they will each have to choose one life to keep and one to leave behind forever--no matter the cost"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024
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Summary: "The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last four years trying so hard to be a Good Kid for her mom that she has no idea who she really is anymore, and two, she has no idea what she wants because of it. The solution? Pack her bags and move to New York for the summer, where her childhood best friend Tom and co-creator of The Getaway List — a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORUnderhill, Edward
Summary: Queer teens Abby and Leo spend a life-changing day together lost in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC UNDZaher, Yasmin
Summary: "The Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHLief, Katia
Summary: "In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came at a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIEWilliams, Tia
Summary: "Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion: an adorable bloom that's actually a weed, born to float...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILMoldavsky, Goldy
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Jimena realizes she is undocumented, she decides the best path forward is to find an American to marry her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MOLBhuiyan, Tashie
Summary: Determined to win the student film competition, Mina makes a deal with indie film star Emmitt Ramos, and as they spend time together and NYC starts to feel more like home than ever before, she wonders if winning is worth losing everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BHUWeber, Robby
Summary: "Theater star Teddy McGuire is ready for all his dreams to come true. He and his best friend, Annie, have been counting down the days to the end-of-the-year drama club trip to New York City. To make it even more magical, if they can win the annual scavenger hunt, they'll get a chance to meet their popstar idol, Benji Keaton. But the universe has other plans: when Annie can't go on the trip,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEBLopez, Loretta
Summary: As Elisa, Lucia, and Alice grapple with internal struggles and hidden challenges while navigating middle school in New York City, they find unexpected friendship and support when they let go of their preconceived notions of each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square Books for Young Readers / Seven Stories Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOPTash, Sarvenaz
Summary: Eleven-year-old podcaster-turned-sleuth, Roya, teams up with the new kid in the building, Stefanie, to find their missing neighbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: For over a year the Bronx has been plagued by unexplained disappearances. Raquel does her best to ignore it: after all, the police only look for the white kids. Then her crush Charlize's cousin goes missing-- and Raquel's mom comes down with a mysterious illness that seems linked to the disappearances. Raquel and Charlize discover that everything is tied to a terrifying urban legend called the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TIRRhuday-Perkovich, Olugbemisola
Summary: "When the strange new girl at her high school takes her to a place underneath the subways of New York, where people like them can go and find a home, Harriet Adu, who is riddled with guilt over her brother's death, gets a second chance at being a better person"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2024