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Summary: "A little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALBartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a journalist someday, keeps a journal of his experiences living in New York City in 1899. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BARGodbersen, Anna.
Summary: In 1900 New York City, fashionable debutante Diana Holland and married soldier Henry Schoonmaker flaunt the rules of society to be with one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GODGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: In 1914 New York City, nine-year-old Rebecca is determined to show her family that she is old enough to light the Shabbos candles and go to the movies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREGilbert, Julie
Summary: It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Summary: "Molly Murphy--now Molly Sullivan--is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. The most important decision Molly faces these days is whether the lace curtains need cleaning, and she's restless and irritable in the heat of a New York summer and the enforced idleness of pregnancy. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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Summary: Blizzard of the blue moon: Jack and Annie go back in time to New York City, during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression. Even worse, the city is in the grip of a terrible snowstorm. To stop the blizzard, Jack and Annie must save the unicorn made famous in the Cloister's medieval tapestries. But will that be enough to help a city that faces so many troubles?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2007
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Summary: In 1899 Manhattan, Elizabeth Holland refuses to resume her position in society, mutual scorn divides newlyweds Henry and Penelope Schoonmaker, and Carolina Broad's social position is far from secure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GODDiaz, Hernán
Summary: "An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books
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5 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIACopies Available at Peninsula
2 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIAFitzgerald, Laura Marx
Summary: In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FITRich, Roberta
Summary: "A sweeping, New York-set historical novel following a Jewish cigarette girl who moonlights as a spy and attempts to bring justice to her family on the eve of World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC RIC (Peninsula book club kit 8 paperbacks)Greene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: "What if you, as a girl battling stage fright before a dance recital, suddenly found yourself in Rebecca's world in 1914? Join Rebecca on adventures where the two of you can try out for a vaudeville show, put on a musical, or even sneak into a factory todeliver an important message. Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of options...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AMERich, Roberta
Summary: "A sweeping, New York-set historical novel following a Jewish cigarette girl who moonlights as a spy and attempts to bring justice to her family on the eve of World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RICRindell, Suzanne.
Summary: Working as a typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, Rose Baker documents confessions of harrowing crimes and struggles with changing gender roles while clinging to her Victorian ideals and searching for nurturing companionship before becoming obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking and speakeasies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINBray, Libba.
Summary: "After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner and has become a media darling. In the meantime, a mysterious sleeping sickness has hit New York City, and the Diviners must band together to find the cause and the cure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRABray, Libba
Summary: Led by a vision, the Diviners travel to Bountiful, Nebraska, where they must confront their greatest fears and learn to rely on one another in order to save the world from catastrophe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRANoble, Shelley
Summary: "It's Christmas in Gilded Age Manhattan. And for the first time ever an amazing giant ball will drop along a rod on the roof of the New York Times building to ring in the New Year. Everyone plans to attend the event. But the murder of a prominent newsman hits a little too close to home. And when a young newspaper woman, a protégé of the great Jacob Riis and old Vassar school chum of Bev's, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOBCamden, Elizabeth
Summary: Dr. Rosalind Werner is at the forefront of a groundbreaking new water technology--if only she can get support for her work. Nickolas Drake, Commissioner of Water for New York, is skeptical--and surprised by his reaction to Rosalind. While they fight against their own attraction, they stand on opposite sides of a battle that will impact thousands of lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMMathews, Brendan
Summary: Fleeing Ireland for New York City after stealing a small fortune from the IRA, three brothers immerse themselves in the cultural and political tensions of 1939, only to find their lives falling apart when they are tracked down by a hired assassin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATDobson, Melanie
Summary: 1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York's gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead in his smoking room. 1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy's castle, now in ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOBRobinson, Sharon
Summary: Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROBThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Sarah Malloy has just helped with the delivery of a bouncing baby girl at her women's clinic, when she receives a visit from an engaging and determined young woman writing an article for New Century magazine. Louisa Rodgers explains that she is researching the dangers of patent remedies. Sarah is only too happy to tell Louisa exactly what she thinks of the so-called medicines whose ingredients...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: As rumors continue about the untimely demise of Elizabeth Holland, an outwardly stricken Penelope Hayes determines to use any means necessary to claim her friend's pre-eminent place in 1899 Manhattan society and to get and keep the attentions of Elizabeth's former fianc©♭, the wealthy Henry Schoonmaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen/HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GODKramer, J. Kasper
Summary: In 1910 New York City, four years after her Irish immigrant father dies of tuberculosis, ten-year-old Essie's fear and anxiety continue to grow uncontrollably, so much that when her mother, a brave nurse, remarries and the family moves to North Brother Island, where Essie's new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurably sick, Essie imagines all manner of horrors, including the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021