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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Like most Manhattanites, aspiring artist Tate can't resist a good rental deal-even if it's in the city's strangest neighborhood, Golgotham, where for centuries werewolves, centaurs, and countless other creatures have roamed the streets. Her new landlord is a sorcerer name Hexe, who is determined to build his reputation without using dark, left-hand magic. As Tate is drawn into Hexe's fascinating world, they both find that the right hand does not always...
82) Forever: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
613 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First e-book edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Astrologer detective David Lowell is more than a little shocked when he is approached by Dr. Edgar Williamson and offered one million dollars in return for finding the twin brother of the doctor's teenage son in time for a live-saving kidney transplant. With the help of his assistant Sarah, psychic hacker Mort, and bodyguard Andy, David sets off to track down the missing boy and his mother, who disappeared shortly after the boys were born. But as...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Theodore Prescott the Third, one of Manhattan's Rogues of Millionaire Row, has really done it this time. The only way to survive his most recent, unspeakably outrageous scandal is marry someone respectable. Someone sensible. Someone like Daisy Swann. Of all the girls in Gilded Age Manhattan, it had to be her. Daisy Swann has plans and they do not involve a loveless marriage with anyone. But when a devastating family secret threatens to destroy her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Desire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Becoming a father was never part of Jager McNeill's plan, until the heat between him and his luscious assistant turned into searing passion. Now Delia Rickard is carrying his baby. After growing up without a father, Jager's determined to be there for his child. And marriage would ensure that. But despite their chemistry, Delia's unwilling to marry for anything less than love. A trip with Jager to Manhattan could change all that. For in this enchanting...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Falsely convicted of a brutal crime, college student Jeff Converse sees his future vanishing before his eyes. But someone has other plans for Jeff, in a far deadlier place than any penitentiary. Jeff finds himself beneath the teeming streets of Manhattan, in a hidden landscape of twisting tunnels and forgotten subterranean chambers. Here, an invisible population of the homeless, the desperate, and the mad has carved out its own shadow society. But...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Living through WWII working in a Paris bookstore with her young daughter, Vivi, and fighting for her life, Charlotte is no victim, she is a survivor. But can she survive the next chapter of her life? Alternating between wartime Paris and 1950s New York publishing, Paris Never Leaves You is an extraordinary story of resilience, love, and impossible choices, exploring how survival never comes without a cost. The war is over, but the past is never past."...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From Susan Rebecca White, award-winning author of A Soft Place to Land and Bound South, comes a breathtaking story of three richly nuanced outcasts whose paths converge in a chic Manhattan café as they realize they must give up everything they thought they knew to find a home at last.
Alice Stone is famous for the homemade southern cuisine she serves at Café Andres and her groundbreaking cookbook, but her past is a mystery to all who know her....
90) Severance
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Picador edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she's had her fill of uncertainty. She's content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads....
91) Antiques con
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Description
"Small-town sleuths Brandy and Vivian Borne -- with their trusty shih tzu, Sushi -- head for a Big Apple comics convention to sell a rare 1940s Superman drawing. When an intruder breaks into their hotel suite, their madcap Manhattan misadventure is only beginning. Soon the out-of-towners stumble onto a murder victim impaled by a pen-shaped award. Villains abound -- from cartoonists to crime bosses -- creating a jumble of clues. Brandy and Vivian will...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follows a cast of characters as the negotiate one of Manhattan's swiftly changing neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the perils and unease of twenty-first-century life. Marie and Simone, friends for decades, were once immigrants to New York, survivors of World War II in Europe. Now widows, living in Chelsea, they remain engaged and adventurous, even as their past interrupts their present. Helen is an art historian who takes a painting class with...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Violet Townsend has always been a people pleaser. Raised in the privileged world of Upper East Side Manhattan, she always says the right things, wears the right clothes, and never rocks the boat. Violet would do anything for the people closest to her, especially her beloved grandmother. So when she asks Violet to teach the newly-discovered grandson of her friend how to fit in with New York City's elite, Violet immediately agrees. Her goal? To get...
94) 21 bridges
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on whom he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him. When the search intensifies, extreme measures are taken to prevent the killers from escaping Manhattan as the authorities close all of the city's bridges to prevent any entry or exit from the iconic island.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you are a nanny to an obscenely rich Park Avenue matron who refuses to do anything for herself or her four-year-old son? What do you do if she decides it is time for a divorce? What do you do when your working life and your personal life merge and you find yourself in a symbiotic relationship with your employer?
96) The manny
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
What's a Park Avenue working mom to do when her troubled son desperately needs a male role model? If she's like the gutsy heroine of Holly Peterson's astute new comedy of manners, she does what every other woman on the block does. She hires a manny. A middle-class girl from Middle America, Jamie Whitfield isn't "one of them" but she lives in "the Grid," the wealthiest acre of real estate in Manhattan. And she has most everything they have-a sprawling,...
97) 27 dresses
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jane has the kind of selflessness that everyone looks for in a friend. Lately the perennial bridesmaid has begun to feel as if something is missing in her life. Kevin is a local newspaper reporter who spots Jane racing between two receptions - one in Manhattan and the other in Brooklyn. He quickly surmises that her quirky tale may be just the story to get him into the big leagues. Jane butts heads with Kevin just as her younger sister, Tess, shows...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five-year-old Linda Donovan has spent her life working for her father, Anthony, at Donovan and Daughter Exterminators in New York City. On the anniversary of her mother's death, her father makes his annual visit to his late wife's grave while Linda heads to a Park Avenue apartment building to work solo. When she arrives, she finds the body of an elderly resident, partially eaten by rats. The gruesome death not only speaks poorly of the Donovans'...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Physical Desc
535, 14 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
New York, 1880. Séances are the entertainment of choice in exclusive social circles, and many-- some with true powers, others gifted with the art of performance-- find work as mediums. At Tea and Sympathy, Adelaide Thom and Eleanor St. Clair provide a place for whispered confessions, secret cures, and spiritual assignations. When Beatrice hires as a shop girl, she doesn't know she has spiritual gifts. As she learns to harness her powers, she doesn't...
100) Midnight voices
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When Cheryl Evans, a recently widowed mother of two, marries Anthony Fleming and moves her children into his luxurious apartment, she thinks the oddities of her new neighbors are pleasant eccentricities. Then things begin to change, and she discovers that behind the luxury and beauty of The Rockwell is a monstrously evil secret she couldn't have begun to imagine.