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City of margins : a novel / by Boyle, William,1978-author.;: A vivid new cast of characters collide in gritty 1990s Brooklyn, in this latest from acclaimed neo-noir author William Boyle. In City of Margins, the lives of several lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990s. There's Donnie Parascandolo, a disgraced ex-cop with blood on his hands; Ava Bifulco, a widow whose daily work grind is her whole life; Nick, Ava's son, a grubby high school teacher who dreams of a shortcut to success; Mikey Baldini, a college dropout who's returned to the old neighborhood, purposeless and drifting; Donna Rotante, Donnie's ex-wife, still reeling from the suicide of their teenage son; Mikey's mother, Rosemarie, also a widow, who hopes Mikey won't fall into the trap of strong arm work; and Antonina Divino, a high school girl with designs on breaking free from Brooklyn. Uniting them are the dead: Mikey's old man, killed over a gambling debt, and Donnie and Donna's poor son, Gabe. These characters cross paths in unexpected ways, guided by coincidence and the pull of blood. There are new things to be found in the rubble of their lives, too. The promise of something different beyond the barriers that have been set out for them. This is a story of revenge and retribution, of facing down the ghosts of the past, of untold desires, of yearning and forgiveness and synchronicity, of the great distance of lives lived in dangerous proximity to each other. City of Margins is a Technicolor noir melodrama pieced together in broken glass.; Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Noir fiction.; City and town life; Families; Retribution; Revenge; Separation (Psychology);; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
City Dog, Country Frog / by Willems, Mo.; Muth, Jon J.;: Through the seasons, whenever City Dog visits the country he runs straight for Country Frog's rock to play games with him, but during the winter things change for them both.; Subjects: Dogs; Friendship; Frogs;; © c2010., Hyperion Books for Children,; Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The city of lizards / by Puricelli Guerra, Elisa.; Bernstein, Gabriel León.; Zeni, Marco.;: Minerva, Thomasina, Ravi, and the dog, Pendragon, continue their search of Lizard Manor for the door that will lead them to the legendary City of Ravagers, where they hope to find pirate treasure as well as information that will illuminate Minerva's mysterious origins--but their search is complicated by the appearance of a nosy social worker who insists on inspecting the house.F&P text level gradient: R.LSC; Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Best friends; Pirates; Social workers; Hiding places; Secrecy;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Keys to the city / by Schroeder, Lisa.;: Nearly-thirteen-year-old Melinda Jia Mackay was adopted from China as a baby, and she has always preferred to stay out of the limelight, reading and writing for her own pleasure--but now she has a summer assignment, so with the help of a new friend, Tyler, and a therapy dog named Odie, she reluctantly hits the streets of New York City in search of her "true passion," one which she can share with others.LSC; Subjects: Chinese American children; Service dogs; Families; Self-confidence; Interpersonal relations; Friendship; Intercountry adoption;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
City on the edge / by Swinson, David(Author),author.;: In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence. Inquisitive and restless by nature, Graham suspects his State Department father is a CIA operative, and that their family's fragile domesticity is merely a front for American efforts along the nearby Israeli border. Over the course of one year, 1972, Graham's life will utterly change. Two men are murdered, his parent's marriage disintegrates, and Graham, along with his two ex-pat friends, run afoul of forces they cannot understand.; Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Noir fiction.; Historical fiction.; Americans; Espionage, American; Families; Murder;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The city we became / by Jemisin, N. K.,author.;: "Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can feel the pulse of the city, can see its history, can access its magic. And he's not the only one. All across the boroughs, strange things are happening. Something is threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars unless they can come together and stop it once and for all"--; Subjects: Fantasy fiction.;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Girls of flight city / by Heath, Lorraine,author.;: 1941. A talented flier, Jessie Lovelace yearns for a career in aviation. When the civilian flight school in her small Texas town begins to clandestinely train British pilots for the RAF, she fights to become an instructor. But the task isn't without its perils of near-misses and death. Faced with the weight of her responsibilities, she finds solace with a British officer who knows firsthand the heavy price paid in war ... until he returns to the battles he never truly left behind. Rhonda Monroe might not be skilled in the air but can give a trainee a wild ride in a flight simulator. Fearing little, she dares to jeopardize everything for a forbidden relationship with a charismatic airman. Innocent and fun-loving Kitty Lovelace, Jessie's younger sister, adores dancing with these charming newcomers, realizing too late the risks they pose to her heart. As the war intensifies and America becomes involved, the Girls of Flight City do their part to bring a victorious end to the conflict, pouring all their energy into preparing the young cadets to take to the skies and defeat the dangers that await. And lives from both sides of the Atlantic will be forever changed by love and loss.; Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Aeronautics; Air pilots, Military; Flight training; Man-woman relationships; Women air pilots; World War, 1939-1945;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2; unAPI

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