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Jackson, Tiffany D.

Summary: Brooklyn, 1998. When their best friend Steph is killed, Quadir and Jarrell don't want his tracks to lie forgotten. They know his beats could turn any Bed-Stuy corner into a celebration. With the help of Steph's younger sister, Jasmine, they come up with a plan to promote Steph's music under a new rap name: The Architect. When his mixtape catches the attention of a hotheaded music rep and, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JAC

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YAFiction Jackson 2019

Steel, 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 STE

Rich, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC RIC

Khalid, Zain

Summary: "In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island's most diverse and precarious neighborhoods, Coolidge. The three boys are an inseparable if conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHA

Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)

Summary: "When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy's friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive. . . . A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows whoʼs responsible--the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing their own community with violence and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THO

Montague, Liz

Summary: Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MON

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MON

Moses, Rucker

Summary: Returning to Brooklyn, where his magician-father disappeared years before, twelve-year-old Kingston learns that magic is real and that if he enters the Realm, he might get his father back.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOS

Gino, Alex

Summary: Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIN

Fredericks, Mariah

Summary: "In Mariah Fredericks's Death of a Showman, the fourth in this absorbing series set in Gilded Age New York, lady's maid Jane Prescott is thrust into the world of show business, where a killer is stalking Broadway. It's the summer of 1914 and Jane Prescott-lady's maid to Louise Tyler, daughter of a wealthy New York society family-has just arrived home from Independence Day celebrations to find...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Aubray, Camille

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUB

Patterson, James

Summary: "To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition, it's her life's work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try. Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. The...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAT

Rozan, S. J.

1 hold on 1 copy

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 ROZ

Steel, Danielle

1 hold on 1 copy

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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Robb, J. D.

1 hold on 7 copies

Summary: "The homicide cop with a passion for justice returns in the captivating crime thriller series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who'd conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And now Eve Dallas has made her entrance-but not as a guest. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROB

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ROB

Green, Amy Lynn

Summary: "During World War II, Catherine Duquette and Maggie McCleod come from different worlds but are thrown together on a USO variety show touring North Africa. While they each have secret reasons for accepting the job, neither anticipates the danger and intrigue they'll encounter performing so close to the front lines."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Wiseman, Ellen Marie

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wiseman

Cussler, Clive

Summary: When NUMA Director Dirk Pitt finds a document inside an antiquated submersible left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell, it reopens a mystery involving an international power scheme aimed at seizing control of a rare element.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Cus

Whitehead, Colson

Summary: It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence, Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023

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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC WHI

Bowen, Rhys

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: "Retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is back with In Sunshine or in Shadow, the next book in this beloved series by New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles. New York, 1908: The days are getting longer-and warmer-in Manhattan. Molly Murphy Sullivan doesn't want to leave her home in the city, but typhoid is back, and she's expecting. So she heads north with the children...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOW

Podos, Rebecca

Summary: On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POD

Robb, J. D.

Summary: "Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Minutes later, Jake's getting some fresh air, and the girl comes stumbling out. He tries to help, but it's no use. The only thing left to do is call her friend, Lieutenant Eve Dallas. After everyone on the scene is interviewed,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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Abdel Gawad, Aisha

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan. It's the holy month of Ramadan, and twin sisters Amira and Lina are about to graduate high school in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. On the precipice of adulthood, they plan to embark on a summer of teenage...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023

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Robb, J. D.

Summary: "Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake's in the alley getting some fresh air, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024

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3 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: M ROB

Kandic Torres, Christine

Summary: "Brisma and Kelly, two young Latinas growing up along Clement Moore Avenue in Queens, would do anything for each other. They keep each other's secrets, hide from their mothers' chancletas, and ward off creepy neighbors. At the beginning of high school, Brisma falls deeply in love with Brian, the local baseball legend. Always the wallflower to the vibrant and alluring Kelly, Brisma is secretly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOR

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