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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows"--
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2024.
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"A lyrical and proud picture book that recognizes the beauty of the bodegas, subways, and playgrounds that characterize everyday life in the Bronx and pays homage to the ways that its residents have shaped pop culture through music, visual art, and dance"--
8) The whispers
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[2023]
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English
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"On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighborhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down; drinks continue late into the night. Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her. Everyone at the party hears her exquisite veneer crack-loud and clear. Before long, that same young boy falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night. And then, his mother...
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[2023]
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"Get your webs ready! Spidey, Ghost-Spider and Miles leap into action in this collection of all-new adventures that include their Super Hero friends Black Panther, Hulk, and Ms. Marvel! My First Comics Readers are written for children who are reading on their own. The stories feature easy-to-follow layouts and grade-appropriate text."--
10) Snow and sorcery
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Cardboard kingdom volume 3
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"It's winter break in the Cardboard Kingdom, and kids from the town across the park want to play together. But according to the evil Sorceress, not just anyone can join the kingdom--so it's not long before the two communities spiral into battle. Will the Sorceress realize the error of her ways before all hope is lost?"--
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2023.
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"The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual summer block party, there has been a murder. But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfold--discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing--and no one--is ever as it seems"--
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2024.
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"Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, The Wests, are a perfect fit. Katherine and Josh seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beautiful emerald-green lawn. But soon people start to notice: why don't they join backyard barbecues? Why do they brush away offers to babysit? Why, when you knock at the door, do they shut you out, rather...
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2024.
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English
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"One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants, some of whom have barely spoken to each other, become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston and a...
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