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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. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained...
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During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
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John Corey novels volume 3
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English
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A fictionalized account of the investigation and theories surrounding the crash of TWA Flight 800 over Long Island in 1996.
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The Great Gatsby meets The Godfather in this #1 New York Times bestselling story of friendship and seduction, love and betrayal.
"[Demille is] a true master." - Dan Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code
Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men...
"[Demille is] a true master." - Dan Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code
Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men...
5) Brimstone
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Pendergast novels volume 5
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English
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In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.
6) Three Junes
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In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage. Six years later, again in June, Paul's death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as...
7) Zoobreak
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2009
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After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.
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Judith Singer, a widowed history professor at St. Elizabeth's College on Long Island, gets wrapped up in a murder mystery when her neighbor is accused of killing his wife. The twist is that the man is the son of the notorious mobster Philip "Fancy Phil" Lowenstein.
9) That night
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Delta
Pub. Date
c1987
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English
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On a warm suburban night, the sound of lawn sprinklers is drowned out by the rumble of hot rods. Suddenly, a car careens onto a family's neat front yard, teenage boys spill out brandishing chains and leather, and a young man cries out for the girl he loves. Tonight, fathers will pick up snow shovels and rakes to defend their turf, and children will witness a battle fuelled by fierce and true love. This is the night they will talk about and remember...
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Dutton
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[2009]
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English
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To Carley Wells, words are the enemy when her insane English teacher reports to her parents that she has answered "What is your favourite book?" with "Never met one I liked". They resolve to fix a book to be written for Carley that she'll have to love - one that will impress her teacher and the whole town with their family's devotion to the arts. They will be patrons - the Medici's of Long Island. They will buy their daughter a Love of Reading.
11) Midas
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Mysterious
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2005
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English
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After a series of suicide bombings in New York, police officer Justin Westwood discovers that the perpetrators did not have Middle Eastern ties and that some of the nation's most powerful figures are being targeted.
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Houghton Mifflin
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c2003
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English
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With such classic works as The Rector of Justin and, more recently, Manhattan Monologues, Louis Auchincloss has long established himself as one of our "most useful and intelligent writers" (New York Observer). Now this American master offers his cleverest novel yet: a triumphant modern twist on the legendary Hawthorne tale, in which secrets, sin, and suspense collide among the fabulously rich. The year is 1953, and the coastal village of Glenville,...
13) Bloodman
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Thomas & Mercer
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c2012
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English
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Returning to his childhood home after his elderly father nearly kills himself, FBI consultant Jake Cole is pulled into a hauntingly familiar double homicide investigation that echoes his mother's murder three decade earlier.
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Scribner
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2010
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English
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Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Susie, a mother of four-year-old triplets, bristles at her neighbors' mixed reactions and tackles everyone from her husband's partners to the DA to restore her family's honor.
15) Lie
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Told in several voices, a group of Long Island high school seniors conspire to protect eighteen-year-old Jimmy after he brutally assaults two Salvadoran immigrants, until they begin to see the moral implications of Jimmy's actions and the consequences of being loyal to a violent bully.
16) So close to you
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HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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When a portal sends seventeen-year-old Lydia Bentley to 1945 at a secret military base near her Long Island home, she learns that her grandfather's stories of dangerous government experiments are true, that the Montauk Project was real, and that she needs the help of a darkly mysterious time traveler to return home.
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Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1986
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English
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When the Shepards' car breaks down in pre-War New York City, a chain of events is set in motion that will transform the lives of the beautiful but stupid Evan Shepard, his doomed lover Rachel, and both their families. Fated to play out the mistakes of their parents, Evan and Rachel quickly discover the betrayal behind the dream, and desperately try every avenue of escape, only to find that all paths lead back to the small Long Island coastal town...
18) El gran Gatsby
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"El gran Gatsby es un retarto de la Jazz Age que captura el espírtu de la generación de Scott Fitzgerald y le concede un trono permanente en el Olimpo de la literature norteamericana. El millonario hecho a sí mismo., Jay Gatsby, personaliza una de las obsesiones del autor y de la sociedad de su país: la combinación de dinero, ambición y lujuria como promesa de nuevos comienzos. Una extraordinaria fábula--y como tal, no exenta de moraleja--sobre...
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[Lee Bartholomew series] volume 2
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Lee Bartholomew heads for New York to interview for a job ghostwriting the autobiography of aging rock legend Shotgun Marriott, but she soon finds herself investigating the murders of Marriott's estranged son and one of her competitors.
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Ranger in time volume 10
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Scholastic Inc
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2019.
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English
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Ranger the time-travelling Golden retriever and young Isaac Pope come together in 1776 during Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island, and Ranger stays with Isaac while he slowly recovers from Smallpox--but Ranger's real mission comes later when Isaac is sent to spy out the Hessian troops' intentions before the Battle of Trenton.
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