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Tower of Babel / by Sears, Michael,1950-author.;
"Queens, New York-the most diverse place on earth. Native son Ted Malloy knows these streets like the back of his hand. Ted was once a high-powered Manhattan lawyer, but after a spectacular fall from grace, he has found himself back on his home turf, scraping by as a foreclosure profiteer. It's a grubby business, but a safe one-until Ted's case sourcer, a mostly-reformed small-time conman named Richie Rubiano, turns up murdered shortly after tipping Ted off to an improbably lucrative lead. With Richie's widow on his back and shadows of the past popping up at every turn, Ted realizes he's gotten himself embroiled in a murder investigation. His quest for the truth-and to protect his own tucchus-will take him all over Queens, plunging him into the machinations of greedy developers, mobsters, enraged activists, old litigator foes and old-fashioned New York City operators"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Murder;
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Brown girls : a novel / by Andreades, Daphne Palasi,author.;
"This remarkable, deeply moving story brings you deep into the hearts and souls of a tight-knit group of friends--girls growing up in Queens, the polyglot borough of New York, where the streets sprawl for miles and echo with voices from all over the world, and the scent of bubbling oil, chopped garlic, and grilled meats waft through open windows as night comes to the neighborhood. Here Nadira, Mae, Trish, and Aisha become friends for life--or so they vow. Together they learn to survive all that the street throws at them--schoolyard bullies, clueless teachers, and the leering gaze of men who trail behind them wherever they walk. Exuberant and wild, they are daughters of immigrants from different diasporas, but in Queens their backgrounds blur and blend: they sing Mariah Carey at the tops of their lungs, pine for boyfriends who pay them no mind--and break the hearts of those who do--all while balancing the cultures they came from and the one they find themselves in. In small brick houses, their fathers snore on armchairs after long shifts, while mothers command them to be dutiful daughters, obedient young women. But as the years go by, and their own adulthood nears, choices must be made about their futures. Cracks and fissures form as some find themselves drawn to the allure of other skylines, beckoned by lovers and jobs foreign to what they knew back home. Some of the girls become wives and mothers to a new generation of brown girls; while others embark on a migration baffling to the generation before them, journeying back to the countries their parents fled for the 'better life' in America"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Female friendship; Immigrants;
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If the sneaker fits / by Auerbach, Annie.;
Junior reader: Grade 1-Grade 2.LSC
Subjects: Movie novels.; Sneakers; Fashion designers;
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We are not ourselves [sound recording] / by Thomas, Matthew,1975-; Winningham, Mare.;
Read by Mare Winningham."Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed. Eileen can't help but dream of a calmer life, in a better neighborhood. When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They marry, and Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same, ever bigger, stakes in the American Dream. Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house, but as years pass it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. Through the Learys, novelist Matthew Thomas charts the story of the American Century, particularly the promise of domestic bliss and economic prosperity that captured hearts and minds after WWII. The result is a powerfully affecting work of art; one that reminds us that life is more than a tally of victories and defeats, that we live to love and be loved, and that we should tell each other so before the moment slips away. Epic in scope, heroic in character, masterful in prose, We Are Not Ourselves is a testament to our greatest desires and our greatest frailties."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Irish Americans;
© p2014., Simon & Schuster Audio,
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Boogie [videorecording] / by Chee, Pamelyn,actor.; Coulter, Steve(Actor),actor.; Huang, Eddie,1982-screenwriter,film director.; Lendeborg, Jorge,Jr.,1996-actor.; Lombardozzi, Domenick,1976-actor.; Paige, Taylour,1990-actor.; Takahashi, Taylor,actor.; Focus Features,production company.; Immersive Pictures,production company.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Taylor Takahashi, Pamelyn Chee, Taylour Paige, Jorge Lendeborg, Jr., Domenick Lombardozzi, Steve Coulter.Alfred "Boogie" Chin, a basketball phenom living in Queens, N.Y., dreams of one day playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship to an elite college, Boogie must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, high school, on-court rivals, and the burden of expectation.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language throughout including sexual references, and some drug use.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Coming-of-age films.; Sports films.; Basketball players; Chinese Americans; High school students; Man-woman relationships;
For private home use only.
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Armageddon time [videorecording] / by Gray, James,1969-film director.; Hathaway, Anne,1982-actor.; Hopkins, Anthony,1937-actor.; Repeta, Banks,actor.; Strong, Jeremy,1978-actor.; Focus Features,presenter.; Keep Your Head Productions,production company.; MadRiver Pictures,production company.; RT Features (Firm),presenter.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Ryan Sell.From acclaimed filmmaker James Gray and featuring an all-star cast including Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong comes Armageddon Time. Set in 1980s Queens, New York, it is a deeply personal story about the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language and some drug use involving minors.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Coming-of-age films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; American Dream; Families; Friendship; Intergenerational relations; Nineteen eighties;
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Catalina : a novel / by Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla,author.;
"Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. Suffering from bouts of PTSD, she struggles to connect to her new world just as she struggled to make sense of her old one. She infiltrates the subcultures of elite undergrads-internships and college newspapers, parties and secret societies-and observes them like an anthropologist, but then falls in love, or something like love, with a fellow student, an actual anthropology scholar who wants to teach her about the Andean world she was born in but never knew. They are drawn to each other by the strange attraction of exoticized fascination-she, a real live Latin American, becomes a subject of academic interest; he, in turns, draws her fascination as a white legacy admit born into the strange world she now navigates. Catalina is uncertain: should she let herself become what he wants her to be and take up residence in his secure and privileged world? Or should she return to the life she's known, with all its thorny precarity? Who is she anyway?"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; College students; Grandparents; Identity (Psychology); Latin Americans; Man-woman relationships; Women college students;
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Queen of Hearts / by Behling, Steve.; Disney Storybook Artists.;
This book tells the story of the Queen of Hearts, the royal, short-tempered (and statured!) Villain of Alice in Wonderland.Kindergarten-Grade 1.LSC
Subjects: Queens; Good and evil; Characters and characteristics in literature;
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Tower heist [videorecording] / by Affleck, Casey,1975-; Alda, Alan,1936-; Beck, Christophe.; Broderick, Matthew,1962-; Collage, Bill.; Cooper, Adam.; Grazer, Brian,1953-; Griffin, Ted.; Helfrich, Mark.; Hirsch, Judd.; Leoni, Téa,1966-; Murphy, Eddie,1961-; Nathanson, Jeff.; Peña, Michael,1976-; Ratner, Brett.; Roth, Kim.; Sidibe, Gabourey.; Spinotti, Dante.; Stiller, Ben,1965-; Imagine Entertainment (Firm); Relativity Media.; Universal Pictures (Firm); Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
Director of photography, Dante Spinotti ; editor, Mark Helfrich ; music, Christophe Beck.Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Judd Hirsch, Tea Leoni, Michael Pena, Gabourey Sidibe.Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, dual layer format ; anamorphic widescreen presentation (2.40:1) ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English, French, and Spanish soundtracks), Dolby digital 2.0 stereo (described video track); region 1, NTSC.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Housing management; Pensions; Revenge; Securities theft; Swindlers and swindling;
© c2012., Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
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The wicked widow / by Williams, Beatriz,author.;
"While digging up dirt on a Presidential candidate at the behest of her 90-something society queen aunt, pregnant Ella Dommerich, with the help of her mysterious connection to a certain redheaded flapper, stands between a ruthless family and the prize it's sought for generations"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Married women; Murder; Nineteen twenties; Rich people; Secrecy; Socialites;
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