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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOUPotok, 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 POTPotok, Chaim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTSprague, Gretchen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPRDahl, 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 DAHSmith, 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 SMIKrupitsky, 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KRUStyron, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STYSy, 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 SYWaldman, Adelle.
Summary: A rising star in Brooklyn's literary scene who is drawn to women in spite of commitment issues considers relationships with three women who compel him to decide what he really wants out of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALPotok, Chaim.
Summary: Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year." THE DETROIT NEWS Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into a world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTStead, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC STEScieszka, Jon.
Summary: On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2010
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Summary: Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYManfredo, Lou.
Summary: When NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo and his ambitious new partner Mike McQueen are given the delicate task of finding and returning the runaway daughter of a city councilman, they learn that the councilman may or may not be more interested in something his daughter has taken with her than in her safety--something that may or may not be evidence of his wrongdoing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANManfredo, Lou.
Summary: "Brooklyn cop Joe Rizzo is ready to retire and spend the rest of his days with his wife, doting on their grown-up girls. But when his youngest daughter Carol decides to follow her dad onto the force, Joe decides to stay on until she's settled, calling infavors to get her assigned to the easiest house, the best training officer-- anything to protect his baby girl. And while there, he's expected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANManfredo, Lou.
Summary: When NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo and his ambitious new partner Mike McQueen are given the delicate task of finding and returning the runaway daughter of a city councilman, they learn that the councilman may or may not be more interested in something his daughter has taken with her than in her safety--something that may or may not be evidence of his wrongdoing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MANCole, Alyssa
Summary: Sydney Green starts a Brooklyn walking tour and finds an unlikely assistant in her neighbor Theo. But their deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLAbdel Gawad, Aisha
Summary: "A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan. It's the holy month of Ramadan, and twin sisters Amira and Lina are about to graduate high school in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. On the precipice of adulthood, they plan to embark on a summer of teenage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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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: Playaway 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZOBRivero, Melissa
Summary: "Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It's been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Martín, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, cleaning beneath his urn, Flores discovers a note written in her mother's handwriting: Perdóname si te falle. Recuerda...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVCole, Alyssa
Summary: "Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cole 2020Reynolds, Jason.
Summary: Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYBurgess, 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