Bobby Cannavale
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Discovering a secret pattern to The Teacher's lessons, Detective Mike Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history.
3) Tick tock
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A rash of horrifying crimes rips through the city, throwing it into complete chaos. It's clearly the work of a calculating, efficient, and deadly mastermind. The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside retreat with his children and their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. This tears apart their first vacation since Michael's wife died--and leaves the family open to attack. Bennett enlists the help of former coleague FBI...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan only to find themselves immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett is called in when the son of one of New York's richest families is kidnapped and held hostage, and when another student disappears, Bennett must rely on FBI agent Emily Parker before the mastermind can fulfill his plot to bring destruction to the city.
6) Lush life
Author
Language
English
Description
In this police procedural, Eric Cash, the 34-year-old bartender at Café Berkmann and a would-be screenwriter, ends up in jail as a murder suspect and it's up to two New York City police detectives to find out the truth.
7) Rizzo's war
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"There's no wrong, there's no right, there just is." This is the refrais of Joe Rizzo, a decades-long veteran of the NYPD, as he passes on the knowledge of his years of experience to Mike McQueen, his ambitious new partner from Manhattan, as the detectives ride together in the 62nd Precenct in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. But when the pair is given the delicate task of finding the runaway daughter of a city councilman, who may or may not be more interested...
Author
Language
English
Description
For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future. He worries most about his eldest son, who wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the family business. A prequel to The Godfather, The Family Corleone is an exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, and will appeal to the legions of fans who can never get enough of The Godfather, as well as introduce it to a whole...
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When timid Jersey crab Armen meets bold tourist sea crab, Ramona, it causes shell-shocking tension in the community. But when the duo is swept away by a storm, they embark on an epic journey to find a home. Their courage unites their families paving the way for great summers to come, Under the Boardwalk.
10) Sacred time
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of an Italian-American family spanning three generations, beginning in the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporary Brooklyn. The tragic death of a daughter, one of eight-year-old twins, will define the lives of everyone in this extended family and change them as surely as their Bronx neighborhood is changing.
11) Spy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Susan Cooper is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency's most dangerous missions. But when her partner falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent a global crisis.
Author
Language
English
Description
On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was 120,000. Lafayette's arrival in 1824 coincided with one of...
13) Win win
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A part-time high-school wrestling coach 's luck turns when he brings home a teenage runaway who also happens to be a wrestling champion.
14) I, Tonya
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the unbelievable but true events, I, Tonya is a dark comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous and poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. I, Tonya is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal...
15) Daddy's home
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mild-mannered radio executive strives to become the best stepdad to his wife's two children. But complications ensue when their freewheeling and freeloading real father arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids. The two competing dads suddenly find themselves in a heated competition for affection. One brings home a dog; the other brings home a pony. And this war only escalates from there.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has long thrilled fans with tales of masterful villains and their nefarious ways, and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series has collected his award-winning, spine-tingling stories of suspense -- stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination. This standout collection from Twisted includes "Gone Fishing" in which, a daughter begs her...
17) Chef
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.
18) Angry neighbors
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When his ultra-wealthy neighbor in the Hamptons builds an obnoxious mega-mansion next door, grumpy retired novelist Harry March concocts an elaborate scheme for revenge that is destined to go hilariously awry.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Nothing extraordinary ever happens to Carol Peters, so when she starts getting snarky backtalk from her TV, phone, and microwave, she thinks she's being punked. Or losing her mind. The world's first superintelligence has chosen to study and observe Carol's attempt to romantically reconcile with her former boyfriend to better understand the human condition. Soon, the all-powerful entity takes over her life ... with ominous plans to possibly take over...
20) Shall we dance?
Language
English
Description
A lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected turn when he follows a woman to a dance studio and begins to take lessons and finds he has a passion for dance. His wife thinks he is having an affair and hires a detective to follow him.