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From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet. Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and-because many have never been recorded-when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin,...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings--turned-roommates navigating an absurd world about to suffer great change--a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood. It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold--anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed--has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she'd marry when her younger...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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The internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.
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W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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With deadpan humor and a keen eye for the strangeness of our days, Negative Space follows a week in the life of a part-time high school English teacher. At home, her two children, increasingly restless in the wake of the pandemic, ask constant questions that flit from the weirdness of television shows to casual conversations about mortality. Her husband, always on business calls with Hong Kong at odd hours, shows up for meals only occasionally. At...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2007
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English
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When their father takes a job in Japan, rambunctious, spontaneous, impulsive and disorganized sixteen-year-old Holly Tyler moves in with her twenty-eight-year-old organization freak sister, Valerie, in Manhattan-- and the sisters discover they may make better siblings than roomies.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1999-c2000
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English
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Chandler moves in with Monica and Rachel moves in with Phoebe. Joey is on the hunt for a new roommate. Ross and Rachel seek annulment and, eventually, divorce with their typically hilarious amicable acrimony. Ross dates a student, Elizabeth. Her father in turn ends up wooing a willing Rachel. Monica's former beau, Richard confesses his lingering love for her. There is no cliff-hanger this time, though, and Monica and Chandler wind up agreeing to tie...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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The wedding date (1 hr., 29 min.): Kat Ellis is determined to attend her younger sister's wedding with a date. In order to show up her ex-fiance, she resorts to the Yellow Pages to find a last minute escort, Nick. His dashing good looks and quick-witted charm may win over the rest of her family, but will they win Kat?
Prime (1 hr., 45 min.): When Rafi, a 37-year-old single woman meets David, a 23-year-old painer, it's love at first sight. But that...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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From Rachel's crush on her new, younger assistant to her pregnancy; from Monica's wedding plans to her wedding ceremony; from Phoebe's secret cookies recipe to her secret kiss with Rachel; from Joey's laugh finding Rachel's dirty book to his movie collaboration with Oldman; from Chandler's strained smile in pictures to his runaway marriage plan; from Ross's nap with Joey to his crush on a cousin ... and that is just for starters.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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On Christmas night, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. When an ambitious district attorney charges Polly Bodine (Emeline’s sister-in-law) with a double homicide, the new “penny press” explodes. Polly is a perfect media villain: she’s a separated wife who drinks gin, commits adultery, and has had multiple...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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One dark evening on New York City's Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I'll kill for you. In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her...
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Since making his Major League Baseball debut in 2016, Aaron Judge has taken the world of baseball by storm. He has won Home Run Derby competitions and has been named an All-Star. In 2022, he broke the American League record for most home runs in a season when he hit 62 homers. Young readers will learn about how Aaron became the star he is today after excelling in college baseball at Fresno State University and growing up playing football, basketball,...
17) One of us knows
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Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home's conservation...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond...
19) It had to be you
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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In the latest thrilling entry in the bestselling Under Suspicion series by Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran investigates the unsolved murder of a beloved couple celebrating the college graduations of their successful twin sons.
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