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Summary: After fourteen-year-old classics prodigy Jack Perdu has a near fatal accident he meets Euri, a young ghost who introduces him to New York's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on, and Jack vows to find his dead mother there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audiobooks 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD JFIC MARSchellman, Katharine
Summary: "The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence. Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHPessl, Marisha.
Summary: When the daughter of a cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PESMaron, Margaret.
Summary: While in New York for their delayed honeymoon, Judge Deborah Knott and Dwight Bryant agree to deliver a package to NYPD lieutenant Sigrid Harald, but when a doorman is murdered and the package goes missing, Deborah and Dwight join the investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARMaron, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARSwartz, Katharine
Summary: Jane's British husband Andrew decides to relocate from New York to a small village on Britain's Cumbrian coast, buying a vast and crumbling former vicarage. Jane has a hard time adjusting and then finds a scrap of an old shopping list and becomes fascinated with Alice James, who lived in the vicarage decades before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWAMaron, Margaret.
Summary: While in New York, Judge Deborah Knott has been asked to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. Sigrid offers to swing by the apartment with her husband to pick up the box, but when they reach the apartment, they discover that the box is missing and the doorman has been murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMaron, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARPiercy, Marge.
Summary: Coming of age in a post-Civil War New York City tenement flat, Jewish-Russian Freydeh juggles multiple jobs to earn passage for her family, until she learns that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PIEPuzo, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUZCoulter, Catherine
Summary: "Political speechwriter Jessie Matlock is at the top of her professional game, working for the re-election campaign of New York's popular governor, when she receives the first phone call: "Stop sleeping with the governor or I'll kill him." Though Jessie isn't sleeping with the governor, the menacing ultimatums persist. The police suddenly stop believing her, even after the stalker murders an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUCoulter, Catherine.
Summary: Receiving a letter that threatens the governor and damages her own reputation, political speechwriter Becca Matlock finds herself on her own when the police refuse to believe her and declare her a suspect instead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS COUPage, Katherine Hall.
Summary: At a party in New York, caterer Faith Sibley Fairchild meets a school friend, now married to an ambitious politician. The lady is being blackmailed by someone threatening to reveal her past which would ruin her husband. Faith goes to work and uncovers a killer. By the author of The Body in the Bookcase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAGAdelmann, Maria
Summary: "In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADECooley, Martha
Summary: "In Brooklyn, New York, in 2005, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a whim; not long after, she realizes she's won a hundred-million-dollar jackpot. With a month to redeem the ticket, she tells no one but her alcoholic brother-a talented composer whose girlfriend has died in a terrorist attack abroad-about her preposterous good luck. As the clock ticks, Ellen caroms from incredulity to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Hen Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOGrimes, Martha.
Summary: Cindy Sella struggles with writer's block and a lawsuit by her unscrupulous former agent, L. Bass Hess, who is targeted by bumbling hitmen Candy and Karl's zany efforts to drive him out of New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grimes 2014Benedict, Marie
Summary: "In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: Four scientists working for the New York-based think tank Kingsley International Group have died or disappeared within 24 hours in different parts of the world. KIG head Tanner Kingsley vows to find the perpetrator. Meanwhile, two of the scientists' widows find themselves under attack by mysterious strangers and form an uneasy alliance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHESelden, George
Summary: Chester, a musical cricket from Connecticut, who spends the summer in a New York subway, is befriended by a mouse, a cat and a boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus 1960
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SELFranco Ramos, Jorge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAKelly, Martha Hall
Summary: "On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELWiesel, 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 WIEAlam, Rumaan
Summary: Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple--it's their house, and they've arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area--with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service--it's hard to know what to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020