Nina is actually a tough Queens cop, an avenger on a mission. Her latest investigation involves Artemis, one of the city's battered women's shelters. A number of men connected to the women living there are ending up dead. Why...
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Author:Patterson, James, Ledwidge, MichaelSummary:Detective Michael Bennett and FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker reluctantly team up to stop a killer targeting not only the children of New York's wealthiest families--but the entire city of New York.
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Author:O'Connell, CarolSummary:Never has Kathleen Mallory faced as many surprises as in the case before her now. It seems cut-and-dried at first: a burglar has been caught in the act and killed by an ice pick-wielding home owner. Except that the home owner turns out...
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Author:Marcus, AnthonySummary:While homelessness has not disappeared from the American social scene, "the homeless" have disappeared from American public discourse following increased attention in the 1980s and early 1990s. In this work, the first volume...
- Author:Cole, AlyssaSummary:
Sydney Green starts a Brooklyn walking tour and finds an unlikely assistant in her neighbor Theo. But their deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear.
- Author:Ford, WallaceSummary:
A powerful and unscrupulous investment banker learns the hard way that what goes up must come down. Ever since Gordon Perkins made off with his partners' money, he's been living fast, but losing even faster.
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Author:James, HenrySummary:Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the century, Washington Square is the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations.
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Author:Strausbaugh, JohnSummary:While World War II launched and leveled nations, spurred economic growth, and saw the rise and fall of global fascism, New York City emerged as the new capital of the world. John Strausbaugh tells the story of New York City's war...
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Author:Houle, Michelle M.Summary:Discusses the 1911 fire that killed 146 New York garment factory workers, the conditions that led up to it, and some of the legislation that came about to prevent the occurrence of similar disasters.
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Author:Patterson, James, Ledwidge, MichaelSummary:A bomb set in one of New York's busiest places is discovered before it explodes. But relief turns to terror when the police realize it is just a warning of greater devastation. Before long, another horrifying crime leads Detective...
- Author:Williams, IsméeSummary:
Alex is a baseball player. A great one. His papi is pushing him to go pro, but Alex maybe wants to be a poet. Not that Papi would understand or allow that. Isa is a dancer. She'd love to go pro, if only her Havana-born mom weren...
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Author:Scoppettone, SandraSummary:Meet Faye Quick, a sassy secretary who keeps the home fires burning by reluctantly becoming a private investigator after her boss and agency owner, Woody Mason, joins the army. True to her name, Faye catches on quick, and is especially...
- Author:Mofina, RickSummary:
Jeff Griffin, a mechanic, and his wife, Sarah, travel from Montana to Manhattan to give their nine-year-old son, Cole, his dream vacation as they secretly face the heart-wrenching turmoil that has them teetering on divorce. In the wake...
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Author:Hammett, DashiellSummary: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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Author:DONNELLY, JenniferSummary:Set in Whitechapel in 1888. Fiona Finnegan is the spirited, ambitious daughter of an Irish dock worker. She longs to break free from the squalid lanes and alleys of Whitechapel, where she has a job in a tea factory. With the love of her...
- Author:Horn, StacySummary:
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...
- Author:Sharpton, AlSummary:
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...
- Author:Chandlar, L. A.Summary:
Lane Sanders and her fiery boss, Mayor Fiorello "Fio" La Guardia, have managed to contain the explosive underground conspiracies of New York's most sinister schemers. But after a seemingly harmless pinball racket claims the life of a...
- Author:Meyers, Randy SusanSummary:
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...
- Author:DiLallo, Richard, Patterson, JamesSummary:
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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