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English
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Twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent, having met banker Tinker Grey while hanging out at a Greenwich Village jazz bar, finds her way into the upper echelons of New York society, and, as she makes new friends and waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her life, she begins to realize she regrets some of the choices she has made.
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Language
English
Description
Sandy Kinsolving's once-glittering life hangs by a threat; his future depends on his wife's inheritance and whether or not she's about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn't give for a solution to his money and marriage problems. If this were an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the solution would be obvious. Enter a stranger with wife problems of his own, who offers a violent -- and mutually advantageous -- proposal.
Them in the time it takes to...
5) The alienist
Author
Language
English
Description
In New York City of 1896 reporter John Moore, psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, and police secretary Susan Howard join forces to catch a serial murderer.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An electricity-wielding criminal terrorizes New York City and forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is leading the investigation, but Rhyme's determination, despite his physical impairment and his involvement in another high-profile investigation in Mexico, causes conflict within his team.
8) Heat rises
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Nikki Heat, having uncovered a conspiracy in the New York Police Department while investigating the murder of a priest at a New York bondage club, has her badge taken from her, finds she has become the target of killers, and relies on the help of reporter Jameson Rook to solve the case and stay alive.
10) Accelerated
Author
Language
English
Description
"A single father and his son discover what lies beneath the gilded facade of a tony Upper East Side private school"--Dust jacket.
11) Sunset Park
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Four people in their twenties--including an artist, a mender of relics, a graduate student, and a man named Miles, who is a fugitive from his own family--search for hope and meaning during a time of economic crisis in the US.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In this wordless story, a young girl and her grandmother view works inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while the balloon she has been forced to leave outside floats around New York City causing a series of mishaps that mirror scenes in the museum's artworks.
16) Crazy
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Language
English
Description
Joey El Bueno spends his entire life trying to figure out Jane Bent, from their first meeting in New York in 1941 when Joey was just a smart-aleck kid at St. Stephen's school and Jane was a freckle-faced girl with red pigtails.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1987, 1988 printing
Language
English
Description
Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan becomes involved in a freak accident. Prosecutors, politicians, press, police, clergy, and assorted hustlers close in on him.
19) Red mist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta questions inmates at the Georgia Prison for Women looking to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier.
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