long island (n.y.)

At an exclusive prep school on Long Island, Jill Newman looks forward to her senior year as a member of the school's most elite clique, the Players, until new evidence surfaces about the murder of her close friend Shaila.

"Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. The houseowners, Ruth and G. H., arrive in the middle of the night in a panic. They say a sudden blackout has swept the city: the TV and internet are down, and no cell phone service. Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?"--OCLC.

John Corey, an ex-NYPD detective and now an agent with the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force, and his wife Kate, an FBI agent, set out to re-open the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 which exploded in midair, and encounter a high-level conspiracy that could raise serious issues about national security.

Seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood, stuck in Mrs. Baker's classroom during the 1967 school year while his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, learns much of value about the world in which he lives from the study of the plays of William Shakespeare.

Presents a dramatization of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" which presents the tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.

While on detention for disrupting a science lesson, Kenneth and Aleesa are transported to 1939 where they try to protect the privacy and even the life of Albert Einstein as he struggles to decide whether he should help build an atomic bomb to stop Hitler.

In 1971, unpopular and lonely tenth-grader Andi--teased at her Long Island high school for her large breasts and ignored at home by her distant parents--builds a fantasy romantic life around her clandestine, sexual relationship with a man in his thirties.

Paul Russo, in order to save his deceased wife's spirit from a demon, must uncover clues in a haunted mansion called Stillwell Manor.

The relationships between two girls and a boy living in a small beach town on Long Island change during their thirteenth summer, when one girl's mother is dying of cancer and the boy witnesses a child's drowning.

Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, a dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.