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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUZWachtel, Shirley Russak
Summary: "1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances. They survive by miraculously escaping, but their shared past haunts and shapes their lives forever. Years later, Zalman plows a future on a Minnesota farm. In Brooklyn, Jacob has a new life with his wife, Esther. When Zalman travels to New York City to reconnect, Jacob's hopes for the future are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WACRich, 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 Stacks, Call number: FIC RICSteel, Danielle
Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEBloom, Amy
Summary: "A Moll Flanders set in America, this epic, intimate novel follows a young Russian immigrant determined to make her way--and find her daughter--in the hip, harsh 1920s"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLOSteel, Danielle
Summary: "When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEBloom, Amy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION BloomWiesel, Elie
Summary: Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIEHoffman, Alice.
Summary: The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOFVapnyar, Lara
Summary: "Follows the intertwined lives of four immigrants in New York City as they grapple with love and tumult, the challenges of a new home, and the absurdities of the digital age"--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAPHoffman, Alice.
Summary: "An extraordinarily imaginative and immersive novel, this one set in New York from 1911-1925"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hoffman 2014Steel, Danielle
Summary: "When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2018Lee, Wendy.
Summary: "Happy family" is not just the name of a dish on a Chinese menu--it also refers ironically to the relationships that Hua Wu discovers in her new home, New York City. Originally from Fuzhou, China, Hua Wu spends most of her time missing her homeland and her grandmother before connecting in a West Village park with Jane Templeton and her daughter, Lily, who was adopted from China. Soon, the young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEGilbert, 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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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILRivero, 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 New Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVMcDermott, 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 MCDMcDermott, 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 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McDermott 2017Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MCD FICRum, Etaf
Summary: In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mother, Isra, also had no choice when she left Palestine as a teenager to marry Adam. Though Deya was raised to believe her parents died in a car accident, a secret note from a mysterious, yet familiar-looking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mother, Isra, also had no choice when she left Palestine as a teenager to marry Adam. Though Deya was raised to believe her parents died in a car accident, a secret note from a mysterious, yet familiar-looking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMorales, Areli
Summary: "In the first picture book written by a DACA dreamer, Areli Morales tells her own powerful and vibrant immigration story of moving from a quiet town in Mexico to the bustling and noisy metropolis of New York City"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORLassieur, 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 LASSummary: 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