Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick's client. Nick can no more...
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Auteur:Moehringer, J. R.Sommaire:J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, J.R. would press his ear to a clock radio, straining to hear in that...
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Auteur:Patterson, James, DiLallo, RichardSommaire:Writers Jacob and Megan Brandeis go undercover to take on the Store, a retail behemoth that has helped usher in an age of unparalleled convenience--but at what price? Harboring a secret that could get him killed, Jacob has to find a way...
- Auteur:Horn, StacySommaire:
In her enticing narrative The Restless Sleep, Horn sheds light on the dark world of the NYPD's real-life Cold Case Squad--a special command of detectives who take on the homicide cases that remain unsolved after their initial period of...
- Auteur:K'wanSommaire:
The King family is on the political rise in New York City, but must weather the violent storm wrought by their darkest secrets.
- Auteur:Sharpton, AlSommaire:
Reverend Al Sharpton will take you behind the scenes of some unexpected places--from officiating Michael Jackson's funeral, hanging out with Jay-Z and President Barack Obama at the White House, to taking charge of the Trayvon Martin...
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Auteur:Hardin, Chet, Natalie, ToniSommaire:Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada and elsewhere, to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to...
- Auteur:Patterson, JamesSommaire:
New York City's most revered detective from Paris puts his skills to the test in three thrilling cases, from the creator of Alex Cross and Detective Michael Bennett.French Kiss: Very handsome and charming French detective Luc...
- Auteur:Meyers, Randy SusanSommaire:
When her mother throws her father out, young Lulu is told never to let him in again. But Lulu disobeys, and the consequences are heartbreaking. Lulu's mother ends up killed, and Lulu and her sister Merry are orphaned. Now, as the...
- Auteur:DiLallo, Richard, Patterson, JamesSommaire:
When two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen in a university hospital, something has to be done, and Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan is fearless enough to try.
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Auteur:Oates, Joyce CarolSommaire:Joyce Carol Oates chronicles her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State.
- Auteur:Kellerman, FayeSommaire:
When a developmentally disabled man goes missing from a local diner, the disappearance becomes an official missing persons case and is assigned to detectives Peter Decker and his partner Tyler McAdams.
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Auteur:Irving, WashingtonSommaire:Washington Irving weaves a bewitching tale with hints of the gothic to expose a darkness pervading social stratification in 19th-century America. In Irving’s best-known short story, a teacher vying for the hand of a wealthy socialite...
- Auteur:Khoury, RaymondSommaire:
With elegant music wafting through the alcoves of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, black-tied gentlemen and white-gowned ladies applaud the unveiling of the Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Then suddenly--with sabers swinging and...
- Auteur:YosheSommaire:
Growing up in one of the most notorious neighborhoods in Brooklyn isn't easy, but for a long time it seemed as if Prince Poet Washington might defy those odds. His willingness to protect his family by any means necessary may seem...
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Auteur:Deaver, JefferySommaire:A US citizen in the Bahamas is shot by a sniper. The investigation reveals that the victim, Robert Moreno, a man known to have strong anti-American sympathies, was assassinated by the US government. Assigned the job of investigating the...
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Auteur:Crawford, LucasSommaire:Imagine: a public park that floats above the city, slicing the urban grey with its narrow green body. It winds its way through Manhattan, from the Meatpacking District to Chelsea to the Rail Yards. It is the beneficiary of millionaires...
- Auteur:Riordan, RickSommaire:
How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the...
- Auteur:Chase-Riboud, BarbaraSommaire:
Hannah Elias is one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900's, but an unsolved murder reveals her real identity and thousands accuse her of stealing her fortune from whites.
- Auteur:Lieberman, Herbert H.Sommaire:
Michael Manship, the curator of the Metropolitain Museum in New York, is trying to locate the final drawings for a show that will be the crowning jewel of his career: a complete collection of Botticelli's work. But as Manship puts the...
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