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"1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York's gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead in his smoking room. 1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy's castle, now in ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still captivates tourists and locals alike. She is focused on preserving...
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Harlem trilogy volume 1
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English
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"'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked' ... To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven gunmen stormed the singer’s house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but much has been whispered, gossiped and sung about in the streets of West Kingston....
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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vi, 160 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Jenny Linsky, a black cat who lives with Captain Tinker in New York City, has adventures with the neighborhood cats who belong to the Cat Club.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"So begins Destination Unknown -- it's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a dance club, trying to pretend he's more out and outgoing than he really is. C.J. isn't just out -- he's complete out there, and Micah can't help but be both attracted to and afraid of someone who travels so loudly and proudly through the night. A connection occurs. Is it friendship? Romance? Is C.J. the one with all the answers... or does Micah bring more to the relationship...
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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293 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"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 to summer with her mother-in-law in Westchester County....
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American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
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77 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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While celebrating her brother's Bar Mitzvah on Coney Island, nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin disobeys by going off on her own, leaving her cousin Ana, a recent immigrant, alone.
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American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
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85 pages : illustrations (some color). ; 22 cm.
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English
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While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.
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Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
85 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 cm.
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English
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Nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin eagerly helps her cousin Ana, newly arrived from Russia, to adjust to life in New York City, but when their teacher says the two must sing together at a school assembly, Rebecca worries that her big moment will be ruined.
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Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
85 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm.
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English
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Rebecca Rubin worries that her tenth birthday will be ruined because it falls during Passover, but her mother's cousin Max, an actor, takes her with him to a movie studio, where she makes friends with an actress and a set carpenter.
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Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
78 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.
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Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'Retired' detective and police captain's wife Molly Murphy Sullivan tangles with Tammany Hall"--
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Series
Magic tree house volume 50
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Join Jack and Annie as they as they meet one of the world's most famous illusionists - Harry Houdini!"--
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Series
Golem and the Jinni volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I-- the long-awaited follow-up to The Golem and the Jinni revisits Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world."--
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
637 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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Series
Magic tree house. Original volume 29
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
75 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
When Jack and Annie travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, they participate in a history-making baseball game with Jackie Robinson.
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Series
Wicked city novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
The dazzling narrator of The Wicked City brings her mesmerizing voice and indomitable spirit to another Jazz Age tale of rumrunners, double crosses, and true love, spanning the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Long Island to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1924. Ginger Kelly wakes up in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, having fled south to safety in the company of disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall and her newly-orphaned
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Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
198 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Johnny Trott, a bell-boy at London's Savoy Hotel in 1912, becomes caregiver to Kaspar Kandinsky, the Prince of Cats, and soon the two are stowing away on the Titanic, where they are befriended by the Stanton family of New York.
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