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181) NYPD blue: Season 08
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Season eight finds the detectives coping with some of their most intense cases yet. But their biggest challenges might come from inside the precinct itself, as an increasingly frustrated Detective Danny Sorenson begins to exhibit signs of unraveling. New arrivals to the squad room are met with suspicion, while some old friends make their exit-including their beloved leader, Lieutenant Fancy.
Author
Series
Watson and Holmes volume 1
Publisher
FairSquare Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A missing girl case bring together the most famous dynamic duo in the world for the first time! Forget what you know about Earth's finest detectives. Re-envisioning the classic characters as African Americans living in New York City's famous Harlem district, WATSON & HOLMES brings Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's heroes to the 21st Century. Watson, an Afghanistan war vet, works in an inner-city clinic; Holmes, a local P.I. who takes unusual cases. When one...
183) NYPD Blue: Season 07
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
One of television's finest police dramas returns in the seventh season. The season seven sees the continuing relationship between Danny Sorenson and his not-so-new partner Andy Sipowicz.
Author
Publisher
Crown Currency
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a rags-to-riches tale of Citibank's one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up--a Liar's Poker for a new generation" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Press, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Whether he's taking on Sandman in Central Park with Squirrel Girl, teaming up with Ant-Man and the Wasp to stop Doc Ock from ruining the science fair, or needs help from Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel to prevent the Green Goblin from stealing, these action-packed stories are perfect for young readers."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets.
"Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets. What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together?...
189) The Metropolitans
Author
Publisher
Viking, published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the day Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, four thirteen-year-olds help track down a missing book of Arthurian legends that may hold the key to preventing a second attack on American soil.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the highest-ranking whistleblower in the history of the NYPD, a political memoir that exposes the brokenness of policing from both outside and inside the system During the workday, Edwin Raymond is on the beat as a ranked lieutenant in the New York Police Department. When the uniform comes off, he takes on a very different role: the lead plaintiff in the largest-ever civil rights lawsuit against the very police force he serves. This is the true...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher. Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty, demanding,...
193) Sabiduría familiar
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Por la sangre de las mujeres Marte corre una magia que les concede dones especiales. Creciendo en República Dominicana, y luego al migrar a Nueva York, las hermanas Flor, Matilde, Pastora y Camila aprendieron a valerse de ellos, y de la fuerza de su vínculo, para protegerse de las hostilidades del mundo. Pero también, a callarse sus deseos, temores y anhelos más profundos. Por eso, cuando Flor anuncia que va a celebrar un velorio en vida, el...
195) Shipwrecked: a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction."--