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Children's stories Large type books Life change events Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction New York (N.Y.) Fiction New York (State) Fiction Police New York (State) New York Fiction Private investigators New York (State) New York Fiction Widows FictionDuBois, Brendan
Summary: In the dark aftermath of World War III, Samuel Simpson, an idealistic journalist, volunteers to become a records-keeper for a U.N. war crimes investigation team in New York State and suddenly finds himself and others the target of an unknown enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBSteel, Danielle
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 Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEPatterson, James
Summary: French Kiss: "Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief joined the NYPD for a fresh start—but someone wants to make his first big case his last. Welcome to New York."--book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATSteel, Danielle
Summary: Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Godwin, Gail.
Summary: A flamboyant woman professor holds court as she lies dying from cancer. The novel traces the effect she has on the people around her: her self-effacing, much younger husband who left the priesthood to marry her, another professor who is suffering from writer's block, and the professor's wife who is falling in love with the ex-priest. By the author of Father Melancholy's Daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODRozan, S. J.
Summary: In January, New York City inaugurates its first female mayor. In April, her son disappears. Called in by the mayor's chief aide to find the missing fifteen-year-old, Smith and Chin are told the boy has run away. Neither the press nor the NYPD know that he's missing, and the mayor wants him back before a headstrong child turns into a political catastrophe. Why did the boy leave? When other teens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ROZMcDermott, Alice
Summary: A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC MCDSnyder, John K.
Summary: Matthew Scudder is dying, one bottle at a time. A young prostitute named Kim Dakkinen is dying too, her life measured out in tricks. She wanted out, had asked for Scudder's help, but suddenly she wasn't dying anymore, she was just dead. The former cop turned P.I. promised to protect her, but he failed. Now his atonement is to find her killer. But the secrets in the dead hooker's past are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SNYFairstein, Linda A.
Summary: A woman who owned a ritzy art gallery in New York is murdered, her body found in the river. Investigating assistant district attorney Alexandra Cooper is drawn into the world of stolen art, including art looted by the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAILutz, John
Summary: Frank Quinn is a decorated ex-cop. A former homicide detective specializing in tracking serial killers. Now his niece, Carlie Clark, needs help. Someone is stalking her, and the NYPD can't stop him. A blonde, blue-eyed beauty, Carlie fits the victim type of the killer who's been terrorizing women-leaving them bound, gagged, and tortured with surgical precision. To win against the most personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LUTKhoury, Raymond.
Summary: With elegant music wafting through the alcoves of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, black-tied gentlemen and white-gowned ladies applaud the unveiling of the Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Then suddenly--with sabers swinging and Uzis blazing---four armor-clad horsemen in Templar garb gallop up the museum's steps. Scattering the genteel crowd, they quickly snatch an ancient encoder and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KHOLeigh, Melinda
Summary: "After the devastating loss of her husband in Iraq, Morgan Dane returns to Scarlet Falls, seeking the comfort of her hometown. Now, surrounded by family, she's finally found peace and a promising career opportunity--until her babysitter is killed and her neighbor asks her to defend his son, Nick, who stands accused of the murder. Tessa was the ultimate girl next door, and the community is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "In early March 2020 in New Rochelle, New York, teenager Geth Montego is fumbling with the present and uncertain about her future. She only has three friends: her best friend Tovah, who's been acting weird ever since they started applying to college; Diego, who she wants to ask to prom; and the K-pop band BTS, because the group always seems to be there for her when she needs them (at least in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Sheep, an imprint of Akashic Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FARSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives inches.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SCHFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: The first graphic novel based on the classic by Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC FITSpencer-Fleming, Julia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M SPEBlock, Barbara.
Summary: When amateur detective Robin Light becomes a prime murder suspect, she unearths unsavory information about her late husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: When a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two primary suspects, her estranged husband, Delray Kruller, and her longtime lover, Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers' son, Aaron, and Eddy Diehl's daughter, Krista, become obsessed with each other, each believing the other's father is guilty until they meet again as adults, ready to exorcise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OATGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden's shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GLABurgess, 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Burgess 2014Robb, J. D.
Summary: Investigating the death of a fellow officer, Eve Dallas receives a personal warning when a dead body is placed outside her home, and her subsequent experiences make her question her beliefs about right and wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBPatterson, James
Summary: An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down--and, despite the attackers' efforts, it's not Michael Bennett. New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct signature, alerting Bennett to the presence of a professional killer with a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATWharton, Edith
Summary: Hackles bristle discreetly, lips curl ever-so politely, and every breach of good taste is carefully recorded, as social aspirant Lily Bart launches a desperate bid for a place on the city's elite social register.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 0000