The Mole People

From Julie Rosslee author: Toth, Jennifer The Mole People The informational content of this book is fantastic. There is a comfortable balance between statistics and personal vignettes regarding the houseless population who live in underground in NYC. This book was incredibly intriguing and difficult to put down.

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Run For Your Life

From Gina Cortina author: Patterson, james Run For Your Life In James Paterson style, chapters are short and sweet and make you want to see what is going to happen next! In this psychological thriller Detective Mike Bennett is once again faced with trying to catch a killer. Just when you think you have figured [...]

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Tick Tock

From Hedda Wohllebe author: Patterson, James Tick Tock NYPD detective Michael Bennett, a widower with ten adopted children is challenged by a copycat killer  of NYC’s most notorious killers. Faced paced, with a little romance thrown in, it’s a good summer read.

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Secret of the White Rose

From Rosemarie Jerome author: Pintoff, Stefanie  Secret of the White Rose Anarchists? Blackmailers? Conspirators?  Who is killing judges?  And why are white roses, bibles and sheets of music left at the crime scenes? Detective Simon Ziele and Criminologist Alistair Sinclair’s hunt for the killer takes them through the opulent world of high society and the [...]

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The Chosen

From Margie Hartough author: Potak, Chaim The Chosen This book explores the friendship that develops between two Jewish boys in New York City during the Second World War. It weaves together their very different lives, Danny is a Hassidic Jew and Reuven is merely Orthodox.  An accident on the baseball field brings them together and [...]

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Rose Sees Red

From Rosalia Millan author: Castellucci, Cecil Rose Sees Red In Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci Rose goes to the performing arts high school in Manhattan.  Making the decision to attend this high school caused a rift between Rose and her best friend Daisy (who wasn’t really a very good friend in the first place).  [...]

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A Secret Rage

From Robin McCracken author: Harris, Charlaine A Secret Rage In ‘A Secret Rage’, this story brought together a tight friendship between old friends after a vicious attack on each one was shared. Growing up in a small town in Tennessee, and then venturing to NYC to become a model, Nikki Callahan returns to college and [...]

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A Visit from the Goon Squad

From Rosemarie Jerome author: Egan, Jennifer A Visit from the Goon Squad This is the story of Bennie Salazar a record executive/former punk rocker and his neurotic young assistant Sasha.  It recaps their lives and the lives that have crossed their paths throughout  the years.  This kaleidoscope of dreams, successes, failures, despair and disillusionment captures [...]

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Golden Reads reviews

From Lynne Demestichas: Joop   A Novel of Anne Frank, by Richard Lourie An interesting spin on the Anne Frank story.Who turned the family over to the Nazi’s? This book takes it’s reader to Holland, during the war and is gripping when descibing the traumatic lives of a family trying to make ends meet, did they [...]

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