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21) Tootsie
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Michael Dorsey is a talented actor but his demanding nature have antagonized every producer in New York, and no one will hire him. Michael needs money-eight thousand dollars to be exact-and to earn it, he's willing to play the role of a lifetime.
22) The namesake
Pub. Date
2007
Description
The son of Indian immigrants wants to fit in with his fellow New Yorkers, but his family is unwilling to let go of their traditional ways.
27) The women
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Clothing designer Mary haines lives in a beautiful country home with her wealthy financier husband and their 11-year-old daughter. Her best friend is the editor at a prominent fashion magazine. When Mary's husband becomes involved with perfume salesgirl Crystal Allen at Saks Fifth Avenue, her friendship with Sylvia is put to the test.
28) Precious
Pub. Date
2010
Description
An African-American teenage girl is abused by her parents and is helped by a social worker and teacher to overcome her background.
29) Michael Clayton
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house lawyer for one of the biggest corporate law firms in New York. He is leading a class action law suit successfully when the case falls apart and he faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon, who lives in the secret Downsider community that evolved in the subterranean passages of the subway built in New York in 1867, she and her new friend try to bridge the differences between their two cultures.
32) King Kong
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
In the 1930s, a down-on-her-luck actress accompanies an over-ambitious filmmaker on an expedition to a remote island. There they encounter a terrifying giant ape who forms an attachment to the beautiful actress. Hoping to win fame and fortune, the filmmaker brings the ape back to New York City for public exhibition, with catastrophic results.
34) Big
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Josh is a 12-year-old who makes a wish to be big. Josh finds himself grown the next morning. Now he looks like a thirty-year-old guy but still behaves like a boy. In New York, he gets a job in a toy company and develops a romantic crush on a beautiful woman.
37) Daredevil
Pub. Date
2003
Description
A masked vigilante stalks the streets at night with an uncanny "radar sense" that allows him to see with superhuman capabilities.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks filled with hundreds of names—businessmen, socialites, gangsters, and bootleggers. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by the governor of New York, Franklin Delano...
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