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Pub. Date
[2021]
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Description
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
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The Middlesteins meets The Virgin Suicides in this arresting family love story about the eccentric yet tightknit Simone family, coping with tragedy in '90s Manhattan and struggling to find each other again and heal"--
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When their fifteen-year-old son Jake forwards a sexually explicit video of a thirteen-year-old girl to his friends, which then goes viral, the Bergmots find their social and professional lives in jeopardy and decide to fight back, resulting in disastrousconsequences.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Anna Fox vive sola, recluida en su casa de Nueva York, sin atreverse a salir. Pasa el día chateando con desconocidos, bebiendo vino (quizá más de la cuenta), mirando películas antiguas, recordando tiempos felices... y espiando a los vecinos."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Anna K volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 382 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
With their mother dead and their father imprisoned for her murder, Lulu and Merry grow up living tenuous lives that come to the brink of collapse when they learn that their unrepentant and manipulative father is about to be paroled.
7) Button man
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
"After a string of New York Times bestselling suburban thrillers, Andrew Gross has reinvented himself as a writer of historical thrillers. In his latest novel, Button Man, he delivers a stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s."--Amazon.com.
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Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Thyme Owens moves across the country with her family so her younger brother can take part in a promising cancer drug trial, and though all she wants is for him to get better, adjusting to life in Manhattan is anything but easy"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
275 pages : photographs ; 24 cm.
Description
As she fights for the family company, Tandy Angel's detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, forcing her to face the possibility that her stalker could be all in her head--or the very real danger that will finally bring her down.
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 1
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Description
In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.
12) Invisible City
Author
Series
Rebekah Roberts novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from her since. Now a recent college graduate, Rebekah has moved to New York City to follow her dream of becoming a big-city reporter. But she's also drawn to the idea of being closer to her mother, who might still be living in the Hasidic community...
Author
Publisher
Viking Adult
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
355 p. ;
Description
" "Eddie Joyce's terrific first novel is so American that the story might as well have taken place at the base of the Statue of Liberty. His Amendola family and their beloved Staten Island may be flawed, but they represent what's best and most necessary in the American character, what our tired and poor still yearn for." -Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls A startling and tender portrait of one family's struggle to...
14) Charming Billy
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics. As they trade tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and consuming sorrow, a complex portrait emerges of an enigmatic man, a loyal friend, a beloved husband, an incurable alcoholic. Alice McDermott's striking novel, Charming Billy, is a study of the lies that bind and the weight of familial love, of the way good intentions...
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