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Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets.
"Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets. What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together?...
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What if the world of the old New York waterfront was as violent and mob-controlled as it appears in Hollywood movies? Well, it really was, and the story of its downfall, told here in high style by Nathan Ward, is the original New York mob story.
New York Sun reporter Malcolm "Mike" Johnson was sent to cover the murder of a West Side boss stevedore and discovered a "waterfront jungle, set against a background of New York's magnificent skyscrapers"...
4) Struck dead
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Forensic Instincts volume 10
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"When a tragic hit-and-run takes the life of a hardworking family man, multi-millionaire Christopher Hillington becomes the prime suspect, and the whole city of New York alights with speculation as to what happened. But before the NYPD can establish Hillington's guilt, he himself is brutally murdered in his own home."--
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If the story doesn't end with marriage or a child, what then?
This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol on the eve of her 40th birthday. Despite a successful career as a writer, and an exciting life in New York City, Glynnis was constantly reminded she had neither of the things the world expected of a woman her age: a partner or a baby. She knew she was supposed to feel bad about this. After all, single women and those without children are often seen...
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Twenty-one-year-old Hiroko Tanaka's dreams of marriage to Konrad Weiss end abruptly when he is killed in the bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, and her life takes another turn when she moves to India to live with Konrad's sister and falls in love with a Muslim man, setting the stage for further pain and tragedy.
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Nonprofit trust controls the for profit Dreyer Chocolate bar company with conflicts in purpose, with nonprofit trustee clashing with for profit executives. Excitement, humor, Lathen ever present wit, with the usual charming group of Sloan people, with John Putnam Thatcher again solving the mystery.
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10) Brooklyn graves
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A brutally murdered man whom no one believed had an enemy, turns local historians on their heads as century-old letters found written to him by a woman affilated with Tiffany surface; the mausoleum at Green-Wood Cemetery is temporarily off-limits, and Erica Donato, history graduate assigned to catalog the letters in the museum where she's employed, all reveal an unknown and unexpected past.
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John Putnam Thatcher mysteries volume 23
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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.
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[2023]
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"Explores the distinctive urban vision of working-class Jewish photographers in midcentury New York. The work of Jewish photographers at the New York Photo League not only created an archive of vernacular images of city streets but also a distinctive tradition of street photography"--
13) Downsiders
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon, who lives in the secret Downsider community that evolved in the subterranean passages of the subway built in New York in 1867, she and her new friend try to bridge the differences between their two cultures.
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2024.
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"The sad, sordid story of the first American woman to face trial for capital murder." --
On Christmas night 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned a mother and child in their home--and then covered up the murders with arson. When an ambitious district attorney charges Polly...
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"After an accident leaves New York City judge William Lonergan mentally impaired, his wife, Barbara, who doubles as the judge's confidential secretary, is determined to protect his health, his career, and his reputation. Barbara and Larry Seagle, the judge's law clerk, support Judge Lonergan enough for him to fulfill his judicial duties, keeping his true condition secret. Months pass under this exhausting routine, until suddenly Barbara finds her...
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An in-the-room account of John Colt's scandalous nineteenth-century murder trial from "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (Boston Review).
In this masterful account, renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes you into the life and crimes of convicted murderer John Caldwell Colt, drawing parallels between John's rise to notoriety and his brother Samuel Colt's rise to fame as the inventor of the legendary...
17) Picturing Will
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A five-year-old, his photographer mother, and his prepetually unlucky, philandering father populate this novel about the trials and rewards of both being and raising a child.
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Henry Gamadge mysteries volume 5
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In this mystery by Agatha Christie's favorite American author, an amateur sleuth deals with sinister spirits and murder at a New York country mansion.
It's mid-1943, and Henry Gamadge is up to his elbows in war work and longing for a quiet weekend. But when a half-forgotten classmate requests assistance, Gamadge is unable to refuse the tug of an old school tie. Sylvanus Hutter is concerned about his Aunt Florence, a giddy socialite terrified of Nazi...
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"You either were there or you wanted to be. The Freaks Came Out to Write is the definitive oral history of The Village Voice-a New York City institution. Roaming its cramped, chaotic halls were the people who had written the first stories about the Stonewall Riots and the gay rights movement; who had advocated for civil rights before it was mainstream. The Voice was the first to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and the AIDS crisis with urgency...
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