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The queen of Ocean Parkway

2024
Eleven-year-old podcaster-turned-sleuth, Roya, teams up with the new kid in the building, Stefanie, to find their missing neighbor.
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A gift from Tiffany's

2012
On 5th Avenue in New York City, two very different men are shopping for gifts for the women they love. Gary is buying his girlfriend Rachel a charm bracelet, partly to thank her for paying for their holiday-of-a-lifetime to New York, and Ethan Green is picking out a ring for the woman who showed him how to be happy again after the death of his wife.
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Passing

2003
A reprint of Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen's 1929 novel in which Irene, an African-American woman with a comfortable life, is disturbed by the return of a childhood friend, Clare, who has passed for white since adolescence and now wants to rejoin the African-American community.
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Miracle on 34th Street

2020
The lives of three people are changed by an old man who insists that he is Santa Claus. Details of how the book came to be written and made into a film are included in a brief historical note written by Anna Marlis Burgard.
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Magnolia Wu unfolds it all

2024
"A self-proclaimed sock detective inside her parents' New York City laundromat, 10-year-old Magnolia Wu and Iris, a new friend from California, set off across the city to solve the mystery of each missing sock, meeting people and uncovering the unimaginable along the way"--OCLC.
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A whole song and dance

2023
A freshman at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Nasrin is seemingly living her dream, except her parents think she is attending business school and it gets harder and harder to keep lying to them, especially after they surprise her in New York.
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Just say yes

2024
When seventeen-year-old Jimena realizes she is undocumented, she decides the best path forward is to find an American to marry her.
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This day changes everything

a novel
2024
Queer teens Abby and Leo spend a life-changing day together lost in New York City.
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Five stories

2024
"Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City"--Provided by publisher.

Breaking to the beat!

2023
In the 1970s Bronx, Manolo, a shy Puerto Rican boy, overcomes his fears and insecurities to become part of a new innovative dance style called breaking.

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