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1) Hero
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening . . . Anna Fox lives alone-a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn't,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After Lulu and Merry's mother is killed in a drunken rage by their father, who is sent to prison, they become orphans and are sent to a terrifying group home where they cling to each other for support, but thirty years later, the girls have yet to come to terms with the events and each has a different view of their incarcerated father.
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a mafia don falls for the son of the D.A. in a Godfather-inspired thriller set in a futuristic New York.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?"
8) Button man
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s"--
9) The family
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself"--
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