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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend,...
2) Bullseye
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold War red-hot once again. Stepping directly into the line of fire, the president of the United States is in New York for a summit at the United Nations with...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"1940: As the Germans advance upon Paris, young seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee everything she's ever known. She's bound for New York City with her signature gold dress, a few francs, and a dream: to make her mark on the world of fashion. Present day: Fabienne Bissette journeys to the Met's annual gala for an exhibit featuring the work of her ailing grandmother - a legend of women's fashion design. But as Fabienne begins to learn more...
5) Escape
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A luminous novel exploring a woman’s desire to abandon the endless obligations of work and marriage—and the idea that the most passionate romance can be found with the person you know best.
From the author of Not My Daughter comes the story of Emily Aulenbach, an idealistic young lawyer who once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse. Instead, she now spends her...
From the author of Not My Daughter comes the story of Emily Aulenbach, an idealistic young lawyer who once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse. Instead, she now spends her...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty-two year old Alexandra Moreland is a rising star in the architectural world and lives in Manhattan. But when she is plagued by identity theft, her successful life is turned upside down. Someone has gained access to her bank accounts, credit cards, personal background, and is now impersonating her. Then, with overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against her, Alexandra is arrested for the murder of a woman she claims she's never met....
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-six-year-old Carolyn MacKenzie, having suffered from the September 11, 2001, death of her father and finished her clerkship in Manhattan, decide to track down her brother who disappeared ten years earlier, and uncovers a web of lies and deceit involving her family and wealthy, powerful people whowant to keep a secret quiet.
8) Little night
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Clare Burke's life took a devastating turn when she tried to protect her sister, Anne, from an abusive and controlling husband and ended up serving prison time for assault. The verdict largely hinged on Anne's defense of her spouse--all lies--and the sisters have been estranged ever since. Nearly twenty years later, Clare is living a quiet life in Manhattan as an urban birder and nature blogger, when her niece, Grit, turns up on her doorstep."--Provided...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The drowsy Dormouse named Bernard Pepperlin of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland has been trapped in time subjected to an endless tea party with the Mad Hatter and others. One day a girl in a blue dress crashes the Hatter's tea party, the Dormouse feels more awake than he has in a long time. When the Hatter shoves him into a porcelian teapot painted with the New York City's skyline, he's thrilled to be transported to a maginficent new world where clocks...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Quadriplegic forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme leads his team--NYPD detective Amelia Sachs, officer Ron Pulaski, and FBI agent Fred Dellray--to find and stop a killer who uses electricity as modus operandi. Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhyme's net.
11) The zero hour
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A cat-and-mouse game between FBI agent Sarah Cahill and an international terrorist hired to destroy the Wall Street computer which handles the world's monetary transactions. The organizer is a revengeful American millionaire in Switzerland--wanted for insider trading--whose wife and daughter were killed by U.S. agents trying to bring him back.
14) Snow White
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A stylized noir retelling of Snow White set against the backdrop of Depression-era Manhattan.
17) Killer riff
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Magazine advice columnist Molly Forrester, assigned to write a profile of legendary rock manager/producer Russell Elliott, who just died of an accidental drug overdose, believes the story will give her a chance to prove herself as a serious journalist, but when Elliott's daughter insists his death was murder, Molly cannot resist doing some more in-depth investigation.
18) Killer deal
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When Manhattan advertising maverick Garth Henderson is murdered, magazine advice columnist Molly Forrester believes it is her chance to prove her worth and sets out to solve the crime before the police, but her quest for the truth puts her directly into the path of danger.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a counting house door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith--amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he won't explain why, or where he comes from, or what he is planning to do...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Terrier Max is coping with some major life changes. His owner is now married and has a toddler, Liam. Max is so worried about protecting the boy that he develops a nervous tic. On a family trip to a farm, Max and Duke encounter many creatures who elevates Max's anxiety. Luckily, Max gets some guidance from veteran farm dog Rooster, who pushes Max to ditch his neuroses, find his inner alpha, and give Liam a little more freedom. Can Max and the gang...
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