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Roland has successfully drawn Odetta Holmes from 1690s New York City to treacherous shores of Mid-World for recruitment in his ka-tet; but he and young Eddie Dean soon learn her terrible secret. A traumatic head injury in Odetta's youth led to her personality being split in two, and she now shares her mind with the terrifyingly unstable and violent Detta Walker. Between this unexpected threat and Roland's rapidly deteriorating health, the stakes grow ever higher in the desperate quest to reach the Dark Tower.

Odetta Holmes has long endured a life filled with chaos, from her roots in the racially segregated Deep South to her Civil Rights-ear activism in New York City. Now ka has selected her, as part of Roland's, journey to the Dark Tower, even as diabolical forces of Mid-World conspire to seal her fate. And Odetta hides a terrible secret: a split personality; the frighteningly unstable Detta Walker, who is full of omnipresent rage and prone to sudden acts of violence.

Eddie, a troubled young man with the ability to open doors to other worlds, smuggles narcotics for dangerous mobster Balazar. But now he must escape a packed airplane guarded by armed Customs agents! How will Eddie avoid prison--and fulfil the contract that will clear his brother Henry's name? The answer lies in Mid-World, with a dying gunslinger named Roland, and his quest to save the Dark tower! What doors will open when there's nothing left to lose? With Henry in Balazar's clutches, Eddie must face down the mobster. Outnumbered and outgunned, it's Eddie and Roland versus the world!.

Meet Eddie Dean, a troubled young man gifted with the ability to open doors to other worlds. Can he survive family tragedy, haunting addiction, and the deadly forces that conspire to stop him from growing up to challenge the Man in Black?.

To stop the Library from descending into chaos, Irene must obtain a particular book and teams up with an unlikely band of misfits to pull off an amazing art heist in order to get the book and appease the dangerous villain who stands in her way.

Seventeen-year-old Oscar Lester and his dog/supernatural companion, Mr. Cigar, eager to avoid nefarious forces that are after Mr. Cigar, speed to New York where Oscar's twenty-two-year-old sister, Carla, is being held hostage.

"The Girls with No Names pulls readers into the gilded age of New York City in the 1910s, when suffragettes marched in the street, unions fought for better work conditions?and girls were confined to the House of Mercy for daring to break the rules. Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon?s large family mansion in Inwood looms the House of Mercy, a work house for wayward girls. The sisters grow up under its shadow with the understanding that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. But when the sisters accidentally discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen older sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. But her rebellion comes with consequences, and one morning Luella is mysteriously gone. Effie suspects her father has made good on his threat to send Luella to the House of Mercy and hatches a plan to get herself committed to save her sister. But she made a miscalculation, and with no one to believe her story, Effie?s escape from the House of Mercy seems impossible?unless she can trust an enigmatic girl named Mable. As their fates entwine, Mable and Effie must rely on each other and their tenuous friendship to survive. "--OCLC.

Told from multiple viewpoints, while seventeen-year-old Anna K seems above the typical problems of her Manhattan friends and siblings, finding love with a notorious playboy changes everything.

"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"--Provided by the publisher.

Teenage Bina runs away to New York City's Catherine House, a young women's residence in Greenwich Village with a tragic history and dark secrets, where she is drawn to her mysterious downstairs neighbor Monet.