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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8153 HEAFox, Margalit
Summary: "In 1850, Fredericka Mandelbaum emigrated to New York from Germany and worked as a rag peddler on the streets of the Lower East Side. By the 1870s she was a widow with four children, a popular society hostess, and a philanthropist. What enabled a woman on the margins of nineteenth-century American life to ascend from tenement poverty to immense wealth? In the intervening years, Mrs. Mandelbaum...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: Rhythmic verse presents three sisters who moved from Puerto Rico to New York City as children and grew up to be pioneering activists in their Bronx community, focusing on schools, libraries, and the arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 RAMSyrett, Nicholas L.
Summary: "The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESTELL, MADAME SYRRyan, Hugh
Summary: "The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.43 RYARaboteau, Emily
Summary: "A powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice--and what it takes to find shelter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RABOTEAU, EMILY RABMwai, Melissa H.
Summary: "Learn all about the amazing African American culture of Harlem with this fun-filled nonfiction reader--carefully leveled to help children progress . . . 'Harlem Renaissance' will introduce kids to the exciting lives, music, art and ideas of the African American community of Harlem 100 years ago--and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MWASummary: Fran Drescher stars in her defining role as street-smart Fran Fine, a down-on-her-luck diva who finds herself hired for a job for which she never even applied. Now, she's the nanny for a rich, sophisticated family in Manhattan, and when this blue-collar girl from the block moves in with a blue blood, widowed Broadway producer and his three children, the comedy is red hot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NANSummary: Fran Drescher stars in her defining role as street-smart Fran Fine, a down-on-her-luck diva who finds herself hired for a job for which she never even applied. Now, she's the nanny for a rich, sophisticated family in Manhattan, and when this blue-collar girl from the block moves in with a blue blood, widowed Broadway producer and his three children, the comedy is red hot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NANSummary: A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A man-beast living under the streets of New York City saves and befriends a wealthy and shallow attorney after she is beaten and left for dead. From the moment these two cross paths, they share a strong psychic bond, and though they live in separate worlds, their love continues to grow without measure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BEASummary: Nora Wilder is a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job, but her quest for love consistently results in falling flat on her face. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman with an unabashed passion for living. Inevitably, Nora discovers she must look inward before finding a new outlook on life and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BROSummary: Doug fakes cardiac arrest at Carrie's work event to cover up his inability to remember her co-workers' names. Carrie scores box seats to a Mets game, only to have Doug strike out with her boss. When Doug's parents come to town, Arthur is more than happy to entertain Doug's bored mom. Arthur settles a decades-old vendetta against a game show, solves a crime of a missing wallet, and learns the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: "From the author of MONSTER TRUCK and STARRING CARMEN comes a gorgeous and lyrical story about Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who changed the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BELLeon, Joel
Summary: "A beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 LEOSteel, Danielle
Summary: 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 agency. Eager to impress her new colleagues, Jane jumps right in as an assistant to Hailey West, one of the agents in the literary department. Even though she's a newcomer, Jane quickly realizes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEESummary: How far will a man go to climb the corporate ladder? C.C. 'Bud' Baxter, a lowly insurance clerk, has a trump card: his apartment. He "loans" it out to married company executives for secret trysts. In return, he's well looked after, although he does grapple with his conscience. One day he asks out one of the elevator girls, Miss Kubelik, but she stands him up because of a crisis in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2007
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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 STECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STELassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASAnderson, Beth
Summary: After being denied a seat on a New York City streetcar, Elizabeth Jennings begins the fight for equality by telling her story in churches, to newspapers, and finally in the courtroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JENEder, Mari K.
Summary: "From corsets to crime fighting , Mae Foley challenged the patriarchal status quo by not only juggling family life, but also by forming the first female auxiliary police force in the City That Never Sleeps. After the 19th Amendment passed in 1920, Foley galvanized 2,000 women to join her "Masher Squad" and eventually became one of the first sworn officers with the NYPD. The "Masher Squad"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 EDESummary: Series revolving around Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Ross--six friends living in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In 2011, construction workers were shocked to uncover the remains of a woman in an abandoned lot in Queens, New York. Follow forensic archaeologist Scott Warnasch and a team of historians and scientists as they investigate this woman' story, revealing a vivid picture of what life was like for free African American people in the North."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This fantasy-crime drama series features the adventures and romance between Vincent, a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine, a savvy assistant D.A. in New York. These two share a strong, mystical bond that enables Vincent, while in his underground lair, to sense whenever Catherine is in danger in the World Above. In this season, Catherine, pregnant with Vincent's child, becomes a victim to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2008