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"Simple text and full-color illustrations describe the true story of Scarlett, the stray cat that famously saved her kittens from a Brooklyn garage fire"--.

Live through a stinky night in the life of a New York City garbage truck that likes to eat alphabet soup. Follow Mr. Gilly around Trashy Town until his truck is full of glorious garbage. Big diesel engines threaten to run Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel out of business until he finds just the job to prove their worth. An old tricycle is mistaken for trash, but just before being crushed for scrap metal, it magically speeds away on an adventure through town.

Eleven-year-old orphan baker Cady embarks on a journey that leads her to a mysterious house, an old recipe, a family of Talent-seeking children, and a Talent Thief who changes her life forever.

"Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever"--Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes.

Traces the development of an organization of volunteers, dedicated to prevention of crime in the streets and on subways, founded by New Yorker Curtis Sliwa in 1979.

In the early twentieth century, a romance is sparked between, freak show performer, Coralie Sardie, and young immigrant photographer, Eddie Cohen, but after taking photographs following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Eddie becomes involved in the mystery behind a young woman's disappearance.

Based on Venkatesh's interviews with New York City prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high end drug bosses and street-level dealers, "Floating City" exposes the underground as the city's true engine of social transformation and economic prosperity.

Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs investigate an assassination of an American citizen in the Bahamas.