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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The first graphic novel based on the classic by Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back.
502) The Christie curse
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared -- making headlines across the world -- only to show up eleven days later at a spa under an assumed name. During those eleven days, did she have time to write a play? Jordan Kelly needs a new job and a new place to live. She's back in Harrison Falls, New York, living with her not so law-abiding uncles, in debt thanks to a credit card-stealing ex and pending grad school loans. Enter the perfect job, a research position...
Author
Publisher
Gordian Knot Books, an imprint of Crossroad Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"If you want anything done right in the Hamptons there is only one person to call: Mary Moody, celebrity concierge who can handle everything from hiring Cirque du Soleil to perform at a wedding to the more mundane juggling of privileged brats, wealthy wannabes, and getting the Bentley detailed.She never expected to add sleuth to her job description, however when a client--a nasty but well-known art dealer--goes missing, Mary is hired by the one person...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1985, Rhode Island. A private jet carrying four partners of a Providence law firm crashes outside New York City, killing all aboard but leaving behind more questions than answers and setting the stage for four widows to find the truth. Justine: a former fashion model adjusting to suburban life. Camille: a beautiful, young second wife whom some suspect is a gold digger. Meredith: a stripper who was in a relationship with the firm's only female partner....
Author
Series
Hearts on the rails volume 6
Publisher
[Rachel Wesson]
Pub. Date
[2020?]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1911 and Lily's plans for her factory are not progressing as fast as she would like. Maria, her sister Rosa, and friend Leonie are still working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Maria and Conrad have agreed it's pointless finding new jobs when they will soon be joining Lily's factory. Rosa can think of nothing but her upcoming marriage and Leonie worries how she is going to look after her four siblings when their mother falls very ill. Frieda...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried in the presses of two continents over fleeing her abusive husband. Now his sudden death allows her to return to New York to make a fresh start, restoring Liefdehuis, a dilapidated Hyde Park mansion, and hopefully her reputation at the same time. However, fresh starts aren't as easy as they seem, as Alva discovers when stories of a haunting at Liefdehuis...
Author
Series
Merton Heimrich mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1993, c1948
Language
English
510) Piñata
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español, [2023]
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Carmen Sánchez está de regreso en su país de origen, México, supervisando la renovación de una antigua catedral en un hotel boutique. Sus hijas adolescentes, Izel y Luna, están con ella durante el verano y se fueron a pasar las tardes sin supervisión en una ciudad extranjera. Los lugareños tratan a las mujeres Sánchez como forasteras, mientras que los contratistas de Carmen desafían y sabotean abiertamente su trabajo. Después de un accidente...
Author
Series
Jewish family saga volume 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Goldie Schatzman is nearing forty, but she is behaving like a reckless teenager, and every day she is descending deeper into a dark web. Since her return home to Berlin, she has reconnected with her childhood friend, Leni, a free spirit who has swept Goldie into the Weimar lifestyle that is overflowing with artists and writers, but also with debauchery. Goldie had spent the last nineteen years living a dull life with a spiritless husband. And now...
512) Gone fishing
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Kissing his wife and daughter goodbye, Alex Mollan sets off to a secluded area in upstate New York for his montly fishing trip. His excitement is tempered, however, after hearing reports about a psychopathic killer stalking the shores he frequents. And when Alex takes a fall while hiking, he wonders about the intentions of the mysterious stranger who comes to his aid.
513) Orphan train strike
Author
Series
Hearts on the rails volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two New York girls, Maria Mezza and Alice Doe wake up one November morning in 1906. Their lives are about to change forever. Maria is heading to her first job in a shirtwaist factory wishing she was heading to the country side. Alice is leaving New York to find a new family in Illinois country side. Three years later, the paths of the two girls will converge once more. Gone is the innocence of youth yet both girls are desperately hoping their lives...
514) Unreliable
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Riotous and riveting, Unreliable is the story of Edwin Stith, a failed novelist and charming college writing instructor who most definitely did not -- but maybe did -- kill his ex-wife. Or someone else. Or no one. Lee Irby plays with the thriller trope in unimaginably clever ways, leading up to a masterful ending that will have you thinking for days.
515) Remains silent
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jake Rosen, deputy chief medical examiner for New York City, gets a call from his beloved mentor, Dr. Pete Harrigan, who as county medical examiner in his retirement upstate, has just been handed a pile of bones dug up in an excavation for a new mall. After Harrigan identifies the bones of Korean War vet James Albert Lyons, who mysteriously disappeared in 1963, Jake suggests that Lyons's daughter hire an attorney, Philomena "Manny" Manfreda, a...
516) A brush with murderh
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For Chloe Abbington, the transition from fine art painter in New York City to painting-event business owner in charming Whisper Cove is more than a little jarring. But when poison-pen journalist Fiona Gimble writes a viciously negative review of the newly opened Paint with a View, Chloe learns that critics are the same everywhere. And when she finds Fiona's body behind her shop with a painting knife in her neck, Chloe realizes that this picture-perfect...