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6423) The English Wife CD
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he's recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria.
6424) Silk
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"By day Cindy Moon is an intrepid reporter for the upstart new media empire Threats & Menaces, under her old boss J. Jonah Jameson. By night she's Silk, crime-fighting super hero! But Cindy's worlds are about to collide when her latest investigation puts Silk and everyone she loves in danger! Someone is killing gangsters in Queens, leaving behind a trail of blood and...fur? Who is this powerful new player in New York's underworld? Where did she come...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
The poignant, harrowing story of four siblings--Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana Welch--who despite their wrenching loss and subsequent separation, retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up and being together again.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Miles has a target on his back. The most dangerous super-villains in NYC keep coming at him — hard. First Rabble, then Cletus Kasady, and now the Hobgoblin has got his glider aimed squarely at Miles — and he’s more dangerous than ever before! How could this get any worse for Spidey? Well, unfortunately Hobby isn’t the only thing Miles needs to worry about. Our young hero is about to be pushed to his limits — and beyond — awakening new...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Description
When a murder desecrates the somber, book-lined halls of New York Citys iconic 42nd Street Library, Raymond Ambler, the librarys curator of crime fiction, has a personal interest in solving the crime. His quest to solve the murder is complicated by personal entanglements involving his friend-or perhaps more-than-friend-Adele Morgan.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A towering figure in world literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly one-half century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking, fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. ("You don't see things the same way when you encounter a voice like that."-Toni Morrison) In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen--children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Collects issues no. 176-180 of the "Amazing Spider-Man," in which Spidey takes part in a mob war, and battles against Silvermane, who seeks to take over the criminal underworld in New York City, and a new Goblin, whose presence is a nuisance to both Spider-Man and Silvermane.
6433) Baccano!: Vol. 1
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
New York, 1927. In a corrupt city where crime rules the streets, Firo Prochainezo is in the Camorra, an Italian criminal syndicate distinct from the mafia. Though a member of the relatively small Martillo family, Firo has big ambitions and is determined to make his mark. But while the Martillos may not be the biggest bad guys on the block, they've got some distinct advantages working in their favor. Does Firo have what it takes to become a made man?...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Presents the author's life in the 1960s as a gay, New York interior designer and owner with his parents of an upstate hotel, describing how by living in two worlds he was able to help a concert promoter rent Max Yasgur's farm for the original Woodstock concert in 1969.
6435) Curveball
Author
Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While spending the summer with his extended family in New Jersey, Derek finds a team he can play baseball with and earns money to take his best friend to a Yankees game.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Captain America and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 13 fight Crossbones' efforts to destroy A.I.M. Then, Cap travels to Europe in search of his old partner, Bucky Barnes, but Crossbones and Sin are not far behind and Cap's newest enemy,General Aleksander Lukin, makes an appearance as well.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Appears on list
Description
The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting for the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. When Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind. Set during...
6439) Morrie: in his own words
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
For everyone who enjoyed the inspiration and wisdom of Morrie Schwartz in Mitch Albom's moving best-seller Tuesdays with Morrie, here is Morrie's own book, presenting the philosophies by which he triumphantly lived, even as he faced the end of his life.
For decades Morrie engaged his Brandeis University students in the importance of community and involvement in life. Ever the teacher, in his last year, as his battle with the fatal illnes amyotrophic...
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