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"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening ... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies ... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is...
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Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.
Author
Series
Anna K volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Told from multiple viewpoints, while seventeen-year-old Anna K seems above the typical problems of her Manhattan friends and siblings, finding love with a notorious playboy changes everything.
7) The family
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English
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"Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers' unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love. But the disappearance of Antonia's father drives a whisper-thin...
8) Button man
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English
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A gut-wrenching, noirish historical novel of Jewish organized crime and labor unions in 1930s New York. The author immerses readers in a maze of labor racketeering and political and police corruption, upping the suspense chapter by chapter. The narrative follows Morris and Sol Rabishevsky, brothers striving to stay afloat in their garment business while fighting union takeovers and price control by criminal organizations. Meanwhile, Harry, the other...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus. She fully expects the tragedy that befell her and her family in Puerto Rico to catch up with her in New York. Pheus is a golden-voiced, bachata-singing charmer, ready to spend the summer on the beach with his friends. When he meets Eury, all...
11) Rat bohemia
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
vii, 232 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
12) California time
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
13) Shards of memory
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
14) & sons: a novel
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Language
English
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A famous reclusive writer and his three sons find their bond tested by the weight of long-held secrets and a cumbersome legacy shaped by boarding school, Hollywood, and the elite circles of the publishing world.
18) Face
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
19) Permanent record
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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College dropout Pablo Neruda Rind works a graveyard shift at an upscale, twenty-four-hour deli in Brooklyn. He's up to his eyeballs in credit card debt, never mind his student loans. Pop juggernaut Leanna Smart graduated from child stardom, became an international icon, and has enough social media followers to populate whole continents. When Leanna and Pablo meet at 5:00 a.m. at the bodega in the dead of winter it's absurd to think they'd be A Thing....
20) Indivisible
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. Now Mateo must figure out who he is...
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