An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. "Extraordinary - Consider this remarkable memoir a...
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Author:Wang, Qian JulieSummary: -
Author:Melville, HermanSummary:In Manhattan, an elderly lawyer's business is growing. Having two scriveners in his employ, the lawyer advertises for a third to meet demand. Enter Bartleby, a glum albeit quality scrivener. However, the lawyer quickly discovers that...
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Author:Bernardo, Charlotte, Zaman, NatalieSummary:It’s Hell on heels—again! When Shar tries on a Tiffany’s diamond ring from Hades, the annoyingly hot Lord of the Underworld, it activates an obscure contractual clause that puts Shar and former-frenemy-turned-friend Meg in Hades’...
- Author:Acito, MarcSummary:
Edward Zanni has been kicked out of drama school because he's just too "jazz hands" for Juilliard. He moves to New York City and lands a job working as a stealth guest at corporate parties. When he gets caught up in an insider trading...
- Author:Cooper, AndersonSummary:
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a...
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Author:Roux, Abigail, Urban, MadeleineSummary:Libro #1 della serie ‘Armi & bagagli’ Una serie di omicidi affligge la città di New York. L’FBI e la polizia brancolano nel buio: si sospetta che il killer sia uno solo, ma gli indizi sono talmente scarsi e indecifrabili da non...
- Author:Shopsin, TamaraSummary:
"Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world-when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life....
- Author:King, StephenSummary:
Depuis son plus jeune âge, Jamie Conklin, un jeune garçon, voit les morts et peut parler avec eux. Alors qu'un poseur de bombes sévit à New York, la petite amie policière de Tia, la mère de Jamie, lui demande d'utiliser...
- Author:Richardson, Justin, Parnell, PeterSummary:
The heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family is now available in a sturdy board book edition. At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different...
- Author:Trump, Fred C.Summary:
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this revealing memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name. For the record... Fred Trump never...
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Author:Handler, DanielSummary:Adverbs is a novel about love--a bunch of different people, in and out of different kinds of love. At the start of the novel, Andrea is in love with David--or maybe it's Joe--who instead falls in love with Peter in a taxi. At the...
- Author:Goodwin, S. M.Summary:
Jasper Lightner is a decorated Crimean War hero and the most admired inspector in London's Metropolitan Police. Along with a chest full of medals, he's got a head injury that's left large chunks of his memory missing. But Jasper's...
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Author:Rum, EtafSummary:Three generations of Palestinian American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue, courage, and betrayal that will resonate with...
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Alvin Theatre, George Abbott, in association with Robert Fryer presents Shirley Booth, Johnny Johnston, in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," a new musical (based on Betty Smith's novel), book by Betty Smith & George Abbott, music by...
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
In a poignant tale of 1902 North Dakota, Lauraine Snelling'best-selling author of Sophie's Dilemma' explores the silent world of 18-year-old Grace Knutson. Surrounded by her family's love and the townsfolk's kindness, Grace finds all...
- Author:Yanagihara, HanyaSummary:
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and...
- Author:Yazdani, Ashley BenhamSummary:
In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened to swallow up the remaining open space. The people needed a green place to be-a park with ponds to row on and paths for wandering through trees and...
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Author:Kaldor, Connie, Fil & JulieSummary:Enhanced ebook featuring a narrated story and two recorded songs performed by Connie Kaldor. Follow a little duck from the Prairies who has a big dream: making it to New York City and doing his ducky dance on Broadway! It turns out to...
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Author:Margoshes, DaveSummary:Set largely among the Jewish community of inter-war New York City, this is a beautifully-told collection of scenes from Morgenstern's life. The tricky ground of writing the advice column for a provincial Yiddish daily; successes during...
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Author:Schwartz, Virginia FrancesSummary:Family, school, and life in general are seen through the writings of four fifth graders who have been taken out of an overcrowded New York City classroom and placed with a teacher who shows them how to write and how to believe in...
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