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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Madhattan mystery	John J. Bonk	On her first day in New York City with her younger brother, Kevin, twelve-year-old Lexi overhears thieves discussing where to hide stolen jewels, and the siblings, along with their aunt's neighbor, K…	OL16239536W
Breaking ground, breaking silence	Joyce Hansen	Describes the discovery and study of the African burial site found in Manhattan in 1991, while excavating for a new building, and what it reveals about the lives of black people in Colonial times.	OL16580318W
The Beautiful Cigar Girl	Daniel Stashower	On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later…	OL18167274W
A trap for fools	Amanda Cross	Murder in the academy	OL1857854W
Young artists in Italy at the turn of the millennium	Roberto Daolio,Alessandra Galasso,Giulio di Gropello,Andrea Pagano di Melito,Sabrina Zannier,Giacinto Di Pietrantonio,Maria Grazia Tolomeo	231 pages : 24 cm	OL19045865W
After all these years	Susan Isaacs	E-book extra: "To the Mystery!," a speech to the Mystery Writers of America by Susan Isaacs.Another model marriage ends with a corpse in the kitchen, and a spouse on the run. People magazine: "Isaacs…	OL1940958W
Mantle	Tony Castro	MOVE OVER BABE, THE MICK IS THE GREATEST * From Tony Castro, the New York Times bestselling author, comes the concluding book of his brilliant biographical trilogy of Mickey Mantle -- of whom even …	OL20516254W
New York	Benjamin Blom	An exceptionally large number of the over 750 photographs reproduced in New York are published for the first time. In this respect New York is a radical departure from books on the subject, as is its…	OL22059676W
Diversities old and new	Steven Vertovec	"How can people live together, with ever more diverse characteristics, in the world's rapidly expanding cities? The UN estimates a doubling of the world's urban population by 2050. Meanwhile, global …	OL22313554W
Dr. Seuss's ABC	Dr. Seuss	It is Dr. Seuss again with this handy books for parents to make their children learn the basic ABCs with this funny and whimsical mind of Dr. Seuss in this very colour-illustrated children book. Pare…	OL261152W
Death has a small voice	Frances Louise Davis Lockridge,Richard Lockridge	When Pam North receives a Dictaphone record in the mail, he naturally assumes it is a message from her husband, Jerry, who is in San Francisco on business. She goes to his office to play it back and …	OL2989419W
The judge is reversed	Frances Louise Davis Lockridge,Richard Lockridge	Pam and Jerry North investigate the murder of a tennis official, but the case becomes more complex when the chief suspect is also found murdered.	OL2989421W
The Red Trailer Mystery (Trixie Belden (Audio))	Julie Campbell	Jim Frayne has run away again-this time to upstate New York-to avoid capture by his cruel stepfather. Can Trixie Belden and her friend Honey Wheeler track him down and help give him the life he deser…	OL5124689W
Trixie Belden #2	Julie Campbell	Jim Frayne has run away again-this time to upstate New York-to avoid capture by his cruel stepfather. Can Trixie Belden and her friend Honey Wheeler track him down and help give him the life he deser…	OL5124693W
American anthem	American Folk Art Museum.,Brook Davis Anderson,Stacy C. Hollander	"A song of praise to the nation, American Anthem celebrates the symbols of liberty, ingenuity, and refuge indelibly embedded in American folk art from colonial days through the present. This glorious…	OL6211072W
Camps and Trails	Henry Abbott	Camps and Trails is one of the small and rare, self-published, "Birch Bark Books" written by Henry Abbott. It is a true story about the author, and his partner Bige, and the camps they built and sta…	OL6324188W
The Chief Engineer	Henry Abbott	The Chief Engineer is one of the small and rare, self-published, "Birch Bark Books" written by Henry Abbott. It is a true story about an industrious, white-capped beaver, and family, who make their …	OL6324189W
The Confessions of a Magdalen	Experience Borgia	A very good read. Some passages from letters written by Experience Borgia to Forgiveness Mandeville, Esq. It is a narrative of her extraordinary life filled with her experiences good and bad, her l…	OL7658684W
Garbage Land	Elizabeth Royte	Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do t…	OL8074502W
Wild Fear	Jack Dave	Poughkeepsie, a small town harbors a monstrous terror. An unearthly legend hides deep in its woods. Dan Bergman, senior forest ranger, encounters this horror in the woods. Pamella, a high school seni…	OL8147013W