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3) Crazy
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English
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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.
4) Manhattan
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Allen portrays a comedy writer whose wife leaves him and is now writing a book about their failed marriage. He consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old until he gets involved with his best friend's mistress.
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"A love story of our time." -Ha Jin, author of The Boat Rocker
Once upon a very recent time in New York City, there was a couple, two ordinary single people who met the way city people meet. Even though mismatched, they fell in love. And after some hesitations they decided, finally, to marry-only to look up and find their world caving in around them.
Sexy, vivacious Elisa, of the miniskirts and tiny T-shirts, still in art school and just coming...
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English
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The world renowned author of The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie is a Whitbread Award winner and recipient of the Booker Prize. His first truly American novel, Fury is a metaphorically rich black comedy that reflects the pressure-cooker of modern life. Malik Solanka, irascible doll-maker and retired historian of ideas, suffers the pain of wanting without knowing exactly what it is he wants. Aged 55, he is at once filled...
11) Words of silk
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English
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Laney McLeod's life changes the minute she finds herself stuck in an elevator in Manhattan. Fighting her rising panic, she relies on handsome Deke Sargeant to help her overcome her claustrophobia. When the power comes back on, Deke and Laney find themselves in a passionate embrace that leads to a night of love in his apartment. Shocked at what she has done, Laney disappears, only to have Deke show up months later. Unable to forget the chemistry between...
12) Sophie's choice
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English
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"Styron's most impressive performance. . . . Belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces." -Washington Post Book World Winner of the 1980 National Book Award, Sophie's Choice is William Styron's classic novel of love, survival, and regret, set in Brooklyn in the wake of the Second World War. The novel centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor;...
13) Away: a novel
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English
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On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter, Sophie, missing. When her aunt tells her the baby is dead, Lillian emigrates to America. She is working as a seamstress at the Yiddish Theater and enjoying caf society when a cousin arrives and insists that her daughter is still alivein Siberia.Lillian cannot stop dreaming...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Kristin Burns is a struggling photographer just waiting for the glamorous life of a New York photographer. While waiting for her big break she works as a nanny for the wealthy Turnbull family. When a forbidden love develops with the man of her dreams, her life may end up in a catastrophe.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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During a state funeral for a beloved former First Lady in New York City's largest cathedral, the unthinkable occurs. Armed men disguised as monks seize the church and seal themselves inside, along with more than one hundred of the most powerful people in America. The captives include world leaders, actors, TV stars, athletes, and politicians, and the kidnappers are armed with enough C4 explosives to blow a crater in the middle of Manhattan.
NYPD officer...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.
From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic
...19) Date night
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An ordinary couple is in the right place, on the wrong night. Phil and Claire Foster are a sensible, suburban husband and wife slogging through their daily lives and marriage. But a case of mistaken identity sets off an outrageous chain of events involving small-time thieves, big-city mobsters, corrupt cops and a crazed cabbie, as the Fosters' 'date night' turns into a wild ride they'll never forget!
20) Rent
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York's East Village. The bohemians live carefree lives of art, music, sex and drugs. With this being the late 1980s, the threat of AIDS is always present.
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