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Reality Check Reality Check Jen Calonita Sixteen-year-olds Charlie, Keiran, Brooke, and Hallie have just been signed up for their own reality television show. They can't even believe it. "You'll be The Hills meets The Secret Life of the Ame… OL15013497W
Aloft Aloft Chang-rae Lee "Aloft offers a reexamination of the American dream from the inside out, through the voice of Jerry Battle, a suburban middle-aged man who has lived his entire life on Long Island, New York." "Battle… OL15854573W
Crash test love Crash test love Ted Michael Told in their separate voices, Henry, who prefers "hook-ups" to dating, and Garrett, who has often been dumped, meet as seniors at a Long Island, New York, high school where Henry falls in love but G… OL15907386W
Not exactly a love story Not exactly a love story Audrey Couloumbis After his parents divorce, high school junior Vinnie Gold moves to Long Island with his mother and new stepfather and must negotiate a secret crush and a rather complicated connection with the popula… OL16504634W
If I knew you were going to be this beautiful, I never would have let you go If I knew you were going to be this beautiful, I never would have let you go Judy Chicurel A novel in stories about a young woman's coming of age during the summer of 1972 in a gritty, working-class community on the brink of gentrification traces her hedonist associations with friends and … OL18164087W
Then Again, Maybe I Won't Then Again, Maybe I Won't Judy Blume Unable to accept or explain his family's newly acquired wealth, his growing interest in sex, and a friend's shoplifting habit, a thirteen-year-old finds the pains in his stomach getting worse and wor… OL1838412W
The way it hurts The way it hurts Patty Blount Guitarist Elijah and actress Kristen connect after unusual circumstances bring them together, but cruelty from strangers online and Kristen's strict father threaten their relationship. OL19721399W
Aphrodite Aphrodite Russell Andrews Bestselling author Russell Andrews returns with a new thriller about a small-town cop who must get to the bottom of one of the greatest conspiracies of his time. OL1988817W
Orient Orient Christopher Bollen Suspenseful and haunting, Bollen's thrilling novel Orient is a provocative take on the troubled American dream, in the vein of Lionel Shriver or AM Homes. At the eastern edge of Long Island, far from… OL20003018W
Aphrodite Aphrodite Russell Andrews The murder of a young female journalist draws Justin Westwood, a small-town Long Island cop, into a dangerous investigation that forces him to confront his fellow cops, the FBI, and an oddball team o… OL20099494W
The Last Summer (of You and Me) The Last Summer (of You and Me) Ann Brashares "The long, hot summers spent on Fire Island have always been the highlight of the year for sisters Riley and Alice. Not least because it is there that they always see Paul: their next-door neighbour,… OL21435598W
Night Fall Night Fall Nelson De Mille On a beach at dusk, while Bud Mitchell and Jill Winslow conduct their illicit love affair in front of a video camera set to record each steamy moment, a terrible explosion suddenly lights up the sky.… OL22914W
Lapham rising Lapham rising Roger Rosenblatt Harry March is something of a wreck and more than half nuts. Up until now, he has lived peacefully on an island in the Hamptons with his talking dog, Hector, a born-again Evangelical and unapologetic… OL3342374W
Great Neck Great Neck Jay Cantor "From the author of Krazy Kat and The Death of Che Guevara, the tumultuous story of a group of friends growing up idealistic, radical, and romantic in the sixties and seventies.". "We enter their li… OL4483408W
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at… OL468431W
Seventh heaven Seventh heaven Alice Hoffman Nora is ahead of her time. A single mother in 1950s suburbia, she's strong, sexy, passionate, and mysterious. Everyone in town is touched by her, and in the mirror of her magnetism, people see themse… OL48931W
More than it hurts you More than it hurts you Darin Strauss The acclaimed author of Chang and Eng returns with a literary showstopper— a beautifully realized novel that at its heart is the story of a woman who will risk everything to feel something; a doctor … OL52960W
Brimstone Brimstone Lincoln Child,Douglas Preston A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates … OL549375W
Lead a horse to murder Lead a horse to murder Cynthia Baxter When full-time vet and part-time sleuth Jessica Popper is asked to treat a billionaire’s ailing horse, she gets a deadly glimpse into the lifestyles of the rich and felonious… Murder gallops after… OL5726316W
Three Junes Three Junes Julia Glass Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed … OL5851112W
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