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Summary: In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2011Horan, Ellen
Summary: Committed to justice and the law, New York City defense attorney Henry Clinton will aid the vulnerable widow Emma Cunningham in her desperate fight to save herself from the gallows as they both seek to discover who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORRodale, Maya
Summary: "Fearless reporter Nellie Bly will stop at nothing to chase down stories that expose injustices against women-even if it comes at the risk of her own life and freedom-in this exciting novel inspired by the true story of one remarkable woman. In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RODSimpson, Alice
Summary: "Young Rivkah Milmanovitch arrives in New York expecting to be met by her fiancé, who never shows. Resilient and plucky-and pregnant-Rivkah makes her way to the Lower East Side tenement inhabited by neighbors from the Old World, and gives birth to a daughter named Miriam. While one might expect Miriam to follow in her mother's footsteps at the sweatshop, her fortune quickly changes when, as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Paperbacks 2023
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Summary: In the years following the Civil War, as Manhattan experiences a surge in prosperity, Joshua Turner aspires to become a real-estate titan while Mollie Brannigan, raised by her aunt in a bordello, sees her life change after a chance encounter with Joshua in Macy's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWEThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Reformed gangster Jack Robinson is working hard to bolster his image in Gilded Age New York City society as he prepares to become a new father. But when Hayden Norcross, the man who nearly ruined his wife, is shot in cold blood, Jack knows the police will soon come knocking on his door. Frank Malloy has to agree ... things don't look good for Jack. But surely a man as unlikeable as Hayden had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Thompson 2021Evanovich, Janet.
Summary: Pressured by her mother to marry a proper gentleman, Caroline Maxwell reluctantly considers Lord Bremerton while harboring a secret longing for adventure and passion with her brother's world-traveling friend, Jack, whose new money and lack of title render him an unsuitable candidate in her mother's eyes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Evanovich 2013Finney, Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF FINWallace, Carol
Summary: "Helen Wilcox has one desire: to successfully launch her daughters into society. From the upper crust herself, Helen's unconventional--if happy--marriage has made the girls' social position precarious. Then her husband gambles the family fortunes on an elevated railroad that he claims will transform the face of the city and the way the people of New York live, but will it ruin the Wilcoxes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALAlger, Horatio
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Philip Brent leaves his small hometown to seek his fortune in 1880s New York after his spiteful stepmother reveals that instead of being his late father's beloved only son, he is of unknown parentage and must fend for himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kessinger Publishing 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALGBelli, Kate
Summary: "New York City, summer 1889. Society girl-turned-investigative journalist Genevieve Stewart and wealthy Daniel McCaffrey have arrived at the docks to see their friends, Rupert and Esmie Milton, off on their honeymoon. But the romantic idyll comes to a screeching halt when a crazed man bursts into their stateroom screaming about demons and drops dead before their eyes. The dead man is Marcus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELParry, Leslie
Summary: "New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARTaylor, Janet
Summary: As a member of a long line of time-traveling ancestors, sixteen-year-old Hope must travel back to 1895 New York City to stop a plan to steal a dangerous device from inventor Nikola Tesla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017