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Evergreen
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Belva Plain |
**8 Months on the N.Y. Times Best-Seller List. The Best-Loved Best-Seller of the Year:**
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The "Canary" Murder Case
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S. S. Van Dine |
*The Canary Murder Case* is a classic whodunit mystery novel which deals with the murder of a sexy nightclub singer, with Philo Vance as an investigator. The beautiful Margaret Odell, famous Broadway… |
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The lion in the box
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Marguerite de Angeli |
Retells the events of a special Christmas for a poor family in New York City at the turn of the century. |
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Shadow Nose
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Elizabeth Levy |
A young boy is the prime suspect when shadow paintings appear in his Greenwich Village neighborhood. |
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The long fall
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Walter Mosley |
A brand-new mystery series from one of the country's best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. A new Walter Mosley.His name is etched on the door of his Manhattan office… |
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The privileges
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Jonathan Dee |
Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new lif… |
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The lemur
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John Banville,Eduard Castanyo Montserrat |
"John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former CIA agen… |
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The ballad of West Tenth Street
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Marjorie Kernan |
Once upon a time in Manhattan...there stood a pair of fine old brick townhouses on West Tenth Street. One had a blue door with a tarnished brass knocker in the shape of a dolphin. The other was empty… |
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Billy and the birdfrogs
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B. B. Wurge |
Billy must save himself and his eccentric grandmother from a nefarious plot to steal the Manhattan townhouse where, years before, his paleontologist mother discovered a race of exotic creatures livin… |
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B As in beauty
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Alberto Ferreras |
Everyone in the world, it seems, is either prettier or thinner (or both) than Beauty Marie Zavala. And the only thing "B" resents more than her name is the way others judge her for the extra 40 pound… |
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The Professors' Wives' Club
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Joanne Rendell |
Nestled among Manhattan University's faculty housing, there is a garden where four women will meet each with a scandalous secret that could upset their lives, destroy their families, and rock the pre… |
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Hope In My Heart
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Kathryn Lasky |
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions.… |
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Mona Lisa awakening
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Sunny |
From the time she was an orphan child, Mona Lisa knew she was different—but she never knew how different until a man of otherworldly beauty arrived during her night shift in the ER. Gryphon is hurtin… |
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The Orange Houses
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Paul Griffin |
Meet Tamika Sykes - Mik to her friends (if she had any). She's hearing impaired and way too smart for her West Bronx high school. She copes by reading lips and selling homework answers, and looks for… |
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The underpainter
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Jane Urquhart |
"In Rochester, New York, a seventy-five-year-old artist, Austin Fraser, is creating a new seies of paintings that recall the details of his life and of the lives of those individuals who have affecte… |
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The walking people
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Mary Beth Keane |
Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that i… |
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Hummingbirds
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Joshua A. Gaylord |
A wonderfully compelling debut novel about the intertwining-and darkly surprising-relationships between the teachers and students at an all-girls prep school Spend a year at the Carmine-Casey School … |
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Five of a Kind
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Rex Stout |
Includes the novels "The Rubber Band," "In The Best Families," and Three Doors to Death (short story collection: "Man Alive," "Omit Flowers," and "Door to Death"). |
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Three Witnesses
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Rex Stout |
From Wikipedia: Three Witnesses is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1956 and itself collected in the omnibus volume Royal Flush (Viking 1965)… |
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Gossip Girl, The Carlyles
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Cecily von Ziegesar,Annabelle Vestry |
After a whirlwind first week on the Upper East Side, the Carlyles have made their mark on Manhattan's Golden Mile. Owen is new BFFs with Rhys Sterling, but what will happen when they both fall for th… |
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