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81) Stay
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Piper's life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school. But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships, like the girls in Firefly Girls Troop 423 and a sweet street dog named Baby. So when Baby's person goes missing, Piper knows she has to help. But helping means finding...
82) Take out
Author
Series
Sigrid Harald mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Following the heartwarming conclusion to her Deborah Knott series, New York Times bestselling author Margaret Maron returns with a thrilling new mystery featuring NYPD detective Sigrid Harald"--
Publisher
Arts Alliance America
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 74 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of community and art..."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
372 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
Description
Pip lives by his wits in the city of Clarel. When he picks the wrong pocket, he finds himself in possession of a strange dried heart in a silver casket--and those who lost it will stop at nothing to get it back. With assassins on his trail and the ominous heart beginning to whisper to him, Pip and his childlike older sister El are drawn deeper into the forbidden world of magic. Now they must seek the help of the secret witches of Clarel and Princess...
Publisher
Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the Bowery: chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer which jump-started the post-war American independent film movement, earning an Oscar nomination. Good times, wonderful times: Rogosin's plea for humanity against war and fascism. The film took two years of travel to twelve countries and permission to use their war archives before it was released in 1964, at the height of the Vietnam War. In it, mundane chatter at a London cocktail...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden's shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone in an impossible situation."--Page [4] of cover.
88) City of orphans
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
90) The intruder
Author
Publisher
Dead Sky Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
ix, 317 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Successful lawyer Jacob Schiff is driven to the edge by a homeless man--a patient of his social worker wife, Dana--who takes to stalking Jacob's wife and son.
91) Pretty baby
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm
Description
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head... Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and...
92) Parked: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Newly homeless Jeanne Ann and wealthy Cal form a vital friendship as they both search for stability and community, finding it through love of books, art, and food"--
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
Discovering children living on the streets but unable to afford toys to give them, Nicky Claus vows that for one night only, every child will have the toy of their dreams and, with the help of his uncles and some flying reindeer, the legend of Father Christmas is born.
95) The salt path
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, through Devon and Cornwall. Carrying only the essentials for survival on their backs, they live wild in the ancient, weathered...
96) Reliquary
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 2
Publisher
Brilliance
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When two skeletons are found off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator and anthropological expert Margo Green is called in by the police because of her earlier experiences in battling a horrific beast in the museum.
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