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Provides an inside look at the New York City Police Department, charging that egos, attitudes, political agendas, backstabbing, and allegations of wrongdoing keep the department from doing its job and pose a threat to public safety.

Paul J. Lioy, an American environmental scientist, discusses the dust that was released from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, describing his scientific findings and the environmental impact of the dust, the government focus on asbestos, and suggestions to prepare for future incidents.

A play performed by a full cast in which a juror in a murder trial holds out on a guilty verdict and tries to get the other jurors to look at the situation without being swayed by their personal prejudices or biases.

Gossip Girl, an unknown narrator, shares the inside scoop on her friends and foes in a privileged private school in New York City, focusing on the return of the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen, who is rumored to have been kicked out of boarding school.

Sports agent and sometimes sleuth Myron Bolitar is plunged into his most difficult and bizarre case yet when he sets out to prove that his partner, Esperanza, did not kill their client, Clu Haid.

Sophie Caco, a child who was born of rape, leaves Haiti at the age of twelve to join her mother in New York City, where they both battle with the results of sexual abuse.

After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.

In 1869, Alfred Beach wanted to build America's first air-powered railway below New York City, but Boss Tweed, powerful politician and notorious crook, opposed. Working under night cover, Beach and his crew carved a three-hundred-foot tunnel beneath a department store. Before long, the project was discovered and the public raved about its potential. But no further tunnels were ever built. What happened to Beach's railway, and where is it now?.

Sara Crewe, a lively and imaginative child who has grown up with wealth, adjusts gracefully to her new circumstances after her beloved father dies, leaving her in poverty and at the mercy of a cruel headmistress in a New York boarding school.

Examines how the environment was affected by the collapse of the World Trade Center after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and reveals how the government tried to mislead citizens about the true extent of the contamination.