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81) Sacred time
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bestselling author of Stones From the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953, Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parent's Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium -- and in his imagination, where he longs for a stencil kit to decorate the windows like all the other kids on his street. Instead,...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (89 pages).
Language
English
Description
After a 10-year-old boy is stricken with polio, he must wear braces on his legs and walks with a limp. He becomes sad and depressed because he can no longer participate in the activities that used to bring him joy. On top of that, bullies pick on him and make fun of him because of his disability. But when the boy learns that Franklin Delano Roosevelt also has polio and yet he is running for president, the boy is inspired to stand up to the bullies...
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy describes growing up Jewish in a mainly Catholic neighborhood in 1930s Brooklyn. The story is told in letters to a celebrated baseball player with whom the boy has struck up a correspondence.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amy was once a party girl, but she now lives a lonely life, helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn. She stops in at one of the apartments on her route, where Mrs. Epifanio, the elderly woman who lives there, says she hasn't seen her usual caretaker, Diane, in a few days. Supposedly, Diane has the flu--or so Dianes son Vincent said when he first dropped by and vanished into Mrs. E's bedroom to do no-one-knows-what....
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of Jouvert cant...
89) Worry: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold--anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed--has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she'd marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy is a year out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about, and as she searches for work and meaning in Brooklyn, Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 830L
Language
English
Description
Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.
A first-generation Puerto Rican eighth grader, Sarai can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella she...
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On her way to question US Marshal Emmett Gage about a DNA match that implicates his relative in a cold case and a recent murder, Officer Belle Montera's attacked. Now she and her K-9 partner must team up with Emmett to find his cousin and the person after Belle. But can they figure out who's targeting her without becoming murder victims themselves?" -- Page [4] cover.
92) The dragon thief
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
170 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Jax and Kavita, Kavita's brother Vik, and new friend Kenny try to return the baby dragon to the realm of magic before anything else goes wrong.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. Shes eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her fathers empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. But Winter is not the only one with revenge on her mind. Simone, Winters young business...
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a student at Brooklyn Visions Academy, Miles Morales knows he's lucky. Not all kids get this opportunity, especially not kids from his neighborhood. With his quirky best friend Ganke, this school year is gonna be a blast. Right? Wrong. Miles has a secret. He's actually Spider-Man. Well not 'the' Spider-Man but 'a' Spider-Man. Pretty much the only Spider-Man in town now that Peter Parker is gone. Miles is doing his best to save every little old...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This emotional debut by Randy Susan Meyers tells of two sisters torn apart by domestic tragedy. When her mother throws her father out, young Lulu is told never to let him in again. But Lulu disobeys, and the consequences are heartbreaking. Lulu's mother ends up killed, and Lulu and her sister Merry are orphaned. Now, as the sisters grow into adulthood, they find the ghosts of their past are difficult to outrun.
96) Pride
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Thwarting a kidnapping has thrust Officer Vivienne Armstrong and her K-9 partner, Hank, right into the culprit's crosshairs. Now, even with danger stalking them at every turn, Vivienne refuses to stop working, but FBI agent Caleb Black intends to do his job and safeguard her. Together, can they stop the would-be kidnapper from striking a final, fatal blow?" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic work is policed by a hazy network of governmental ethics committees, and threatened by the Knights of Life, religious zealots who raze the rural farms where much of this...
99) Separation
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Maggie is tragically killed in a hit-and-run, Jeff and daughter Jenny try to piece together a new life. But when Maggie's father sues for custody, and babysitter Samantha tries to be the new woman of the house, life in their Brooklyn townhome takes a dark turn.
100) The Schwa was here
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English