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Identical strangers
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Paula Bernstein,Elyse Schein,Paula Bernstein |
Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. When Elyse contacted her adoption agency, she wa… |
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Alexander Cartwright
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Monica Nucciarone |
Alexander Cartwright is most known for "inventing" baseball. However, this is more myth than fact. He actually had an amazing life during the nineteenth century in spite of not inventing baseball. … |
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A Haitian family
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Keith Elliot Greenberg |
Chronicles the history of Haiti and the efforts of one Haitian family to emigrate to the United States and rebuild their lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. |
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A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia
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Mallory Curley |
Although best known for appearing in John Waters's early films, Cookie Mueller made a more substantial mark as a writer and performer in New York from the late 1970s to her tragic death from AIDS in … |
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Madhattan mystery
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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… |
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Bond girl
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Erin Duffy |
Being the new girl in one of New York's biggest banks isn't what Alex Garrett expected. For one thing, she gets a fold-up chair and no desk - apparently some people don't last long enough to need the… |
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Breaking ground, breaking silence
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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. |
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Vocation of a Gadfly, (Gadfly Saga #2)
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E.A. Bucchianeri |
Some white collar jobs are more difficult than others ...
After the night of the horrific accident, everyone's lives have been turned upside down. With his brother in a coma and his inexperienced… |
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl
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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… |
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A trap for fools
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Amanda Cross |
Murder in the academy |
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Young artists in Italy at the turn of the millennium
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Roberto Daolio,Alessandra Galasso,Giulio di Gropello,Andrea Pagano di Melito,Sabrina Zannier,Giacinto Di Pietrantonio,Maria Grazia Tolomeo |
231 pages : 24 cm |
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After all these years
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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… |
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Lion dancer
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Kate Waters,Madeline Slovenz-Low |
Describes six-year-old Ernie Wong's preparations, at home and in school, for the Chinese New Year celebrations and his first public performance of the lion dance. |
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Mantle
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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 … |
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Paul Auster |
1258 Seiten 22 cm |
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New York
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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… |
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Diversities old and new
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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 … |
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Dr. Seuss's ABC
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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… |
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Death has a small voice
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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 … |
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The judge is reversed
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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. |
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