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Summary: "It isn't paranoia if it's really happening... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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2 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FINKhalid, Zain
Summary: "In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island's most diverse and precarious neighborhoods, Coolidge. The three boys are an inseparable if conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHAPotok, Chaim
Summary: The story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC POTAubray, Camille
Summary: Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUBSy, 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 SYKrupitsky, Naomi
Summary: "A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRUCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KRUSmith, Betty
Summary: "Set in Brooklyn in the 1920's Tomorrow will be better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy, joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work and poverty has worn them down. Determined not to end up like them, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life. Her goals are simple: to find a husband she loves, have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMIPotok, Chaim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTGross, Andrew
Summary: A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRODahl, Julia
Summary: "Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from her since. Now a recent college graduate, Rebekah has moved to New York City to follow her dream of becoming a big-city reporter. But she's also drawn to the idea of being closer to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY DAHRosenfeld, Lucinda
Summary: Working full-time for a non-profit organization and sending her daughter to an integrated school, Karen is forced to rethink her liberal ideals in the face of her do-gooder husband's questionable priorities and her daughter's struggles with bullying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rosenfeld 2017Malamud, Bernard
Summary: Raised in Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants, and coming of age in Depression-era New York, Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) began his career writing stories of unsparing precision and power, plumbing the depths of an impoverished urban world. His early, naturalistic style evolved into an inventive, often surreal idiom that blurs reality and fantasy. His first novel, The Natural (1952), is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALGilbert, David
Summary: A famous reclusive writer and his three sons find their bond tested by the weight of long-held secrets and a cumbersome legacy shaped by boarding school, Hollywood, and the elite circles of the publishing world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILReilly, Christine
Summary: "The Middlesteins meets The Virgin Suicides in this arresting family love story about the eccentric yet tightknit Simone family, coping with tragedy in '90s Manhattan and struggling to find each other again and heal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIFinn, A. J.
Summary: Anna Fox spends her day drinking wine, watching old movies, and spying on her neighbors. But when she sees something she shouldn't, Anna's world begins to crumble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINFinn, A. J.
Summary: "It isn't paranoia if it's really happening... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FINLee, Jenny
Summary: Told from multiple viewpoints, while seventeen-year-old Anna K seems above the typical problems of her Manhattan friends and siblings, finding love with a notorious playboy changes everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Lee 2020Kramer, Richard
Summary: Wesley, a tenth grader, tries to navigate through life, despite having divorced parents, a father who has come out as gay ,and a popular friend who also comes out as gay right after winning a school election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unbridled Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRAGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: One hilarious Harlem family is on a mission to find the perfect way to celebrate their Papa's fortieth birthday while discovering more about their mysterious grandparents in this heartfelt romp and latest installment to the New York Times best-selling series, perfect for fans of the Penderwicks. It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GLAAbu-Jaber, Diana.
Summary: Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white community in upstate New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUStead, Rebecca.
Summary: Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC STEAvi
Summary: An Italian boy loses his family after arriving at Ellis Island in the early 20th century. While searching for a clue as to where his family has gone, he gets caught up with a gang of boys who steal to stay alive. When unexpected betrayal leaves him scrambling, it will take all the street smarts he's gained to find a way back to his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Lupica, Mike.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LUPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lupica 2010Martin, Ann M.
Summary: Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2011