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A tough Irish cop. A prostitute. A massive cover-up that stretches to the highest levels of law enforcement... and its fatal impact on three generations of a New York police family. Harlem, just before midnight. A New York Police Department cop and his partner pull up in front of a tenement. A short while later, Sergeant Brian O'Malley is dead from a stab wound to the jugular, and a prostitute has fallen down an airshaft to oblivion. A few years...
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A New York City Police Inspector tracks a serial killer who's been murdering sports referees in this spectacular crime fiction blockbuster by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mike McAlary They call Mickey Donovan "the Wraith." A sometimes-rogue NYPD Deputy Inspector who knows the city top to bottom, he clashes against the police brass and the mayor's office as he haunts the streets searching for his heroin-addicted daughter, Dillon. But now a truly...
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Robin Hudson mysteries volume 2
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TV news reporter Robin Hudson descends into New York's underground sex clubs to solve the murder case of her Paul Newman–lookalike gynecologist in this mystery that Entertainment Weekly calls "hilarious" and "keenly written," by award-winning author Sparkle Hayter Robin Hudson has a new secret weapon: Positive Mental Attitude. And it is about to be put to the test when her aunt Mo comes to town for a church convention-and to reform her rebel...
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John Putnam Thatcher mysteries volume 23
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950L
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Quax, a nonalcoholic beer, becomes the center of a political feud when a nineteen-year-old dies in a drunken car wreck. Mrs. Underwood, heading NOBBY, campaigns tirelessly against Rugby's, a national-fast-food chain, when it decides to sell Quax. The protest turns into a riot at the restaurant and Mrs. Underwood is murdered.
7) Nocturna
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Strain trilogy volume 1
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Siempre han estado aquí. Vampiros. En la oscuridad y en secreto. Esperando. Ahora ha llegado su momento. En una semana, tomarán Manhattan. En un mes, el país entero. En dos meses, el mundo. El visionario creador de la película ganadora del Oscar El laberinto del Fauno y un escritor ganador del Hammett Award, vuelcan sus imaginaciones en esta audaz novela épica sobre una horrorosa batalla entre hombre y vampiro que amenaza a toda la humanidad....
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When a coffin containing the body of a boy with the letters "G.I." written on his forehead drifts ashore in Red Hook, detective Jack Leightner is assigned to help investigate the case, following a trail that takes him into the depths of New York's harborworld.
10) Happy family
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"Happy family" is not just the name of a dish on a Chinese menu--it also refers ironically to the relationships that Hua Wu discovers in her new home, New York City. Originally from Fuzhou, China, Hua Wu spends most of her time missing her homeland and her grandmother before connecting in a West Village park with Jane Templeton and her daughter, Lily, who was adopted from China. Soon, the young Chinese woman leaves her restaurant job to nanny for...
11) Someday dancer
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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In South Carolina in 1959 Casey Quinn dreams of being a ballerina, and though she has never had the money for lessons, she follows her dream to New York City and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.
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"Walking on Hidden Wings is a historical romance set in the 1920s and highlights the daring adventures of a New York City socialite who exchanges her glittering gowns for a pair of coveralls and pilot goggles. Disguised as a flamboyant barnstormer, she travels throughout rural New York in hopes of unearthing clues behind her husband's murder. A gentleman linked to her past unexpectedly appears with information that shines a haunting light on everything...
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