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English
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"Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody's Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author's ever-changing relationships with her grandmother and mother, through sickness and health, as they experience the joys and challenges of Black American womanhood"--
3) Five stories
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City"--
4) Subway art
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Series
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
"Traces the history of New York graffiti, shows a variety of painted subway cars, and desribes the graffiti writers and how they work"--
"Two gifted photographers have documented every aspect of this extraordinary urban subculture, complete with 239 full-color photographs"--
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf comes the gripping 24th season of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," television's longest-running primetime live-action series. Emmy Award winner Mariska Hargitay stars as Capt. Olivia Benson is commander of an elite squad of dedicated detectives investigating New York City's most vicious sexually based offenses. Working alongside her second-in-command, Sgt. Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, Senior Det. Amanda Rollins,...
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Publisher
Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York-and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat-from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map"--
"Steven Johnson’s engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuries—from Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Now in its 23rd season, Dick Wolf's iconic crime drama continues to set records as the longest-running U.S. primetime live-action series in history. Capt. Olivia Benson returns as commander of the Special Victims Unit, a dedicated squad of detectives who investigate vicious crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence. Benson is joined by her second-in-command, Sgt. Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, Senior Det. Amanda Rollins, Officer Katriona "Kat" Azar Tamin,...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Marked Man tells the propulsive story of Frank Serpico who, in the 1960s, single-handedly rooted out systematic corruption in the New York Police Department. Since the NYPD was formed in 1845, the famous "pad" was as much a criminal ring as it was a legitimate police force. As the decades wore on, corruption became so out of hand that cops were regularly demanding payments from brothels, bars, pool halls, and gambling joints to keep them out of trouble...
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Luis Miranda arrived in New York City from Puerto Rico in 1974 to study psychology at NYU, but he soon found himself drawn to community action, eventually working for the Department of Employment, the Board of Education, and the nonprofit Aspira, among many other organizations. In the 1980s he was a special advisor for Hispanic Affairs to Mayor Ed Koch, and he continued to serve in key roles for the Dinkins and Giuliani administrations. In 1990 Miranda...
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Series
Everyman's library volume 417
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Here in one volume is an exceptional selection from Chester Himes's acclaimed Harlem Detectives series. Winner of France's prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and lauded by Jean Cocteau as a "prodigious masterpiece," A Rage in Harlem introduces detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson in a searing escapade. In The Real Cool Killers, the duo investigates a shooting and discovers an unsettling personal connection. In The Crazy...