Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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c2004., Adult, Shaye Areheart Books Call No: FIC BOH Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Summary Note: Animal rights' activist Spencer McCullough is shot with a hunting rifle by his twelve-year-old neice, Charlotte and as the family tries to come to terms with what happened, Spencer's employers file a lawsuit against the owner of the weapon.
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2008., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC DEA Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: New York police department forensic consultant Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs try to clear Rhyme's cousin, Arthur, of a murder charge and uncover a serial killer who is using data mining to frame innocent people.
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2016., Adults, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: FIC PAT Edition: 1st edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Michael Bennett Volume: #9Summary Note: "Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold War red-hot once again. Stepping directly into the line of fire, the president of the United States is in New york fro a summit at the United Nations with his Russian counterpart. Pulled away from his family and pressed into service, Detective Michael Bennett must trace the source of a threat that could rip the country apart--and ignite a war the likes of which the world has never seen. With allegiances constantly in doubt and no one above suspicion, only Bennett can save the president-- and the country-- before the assassins' deadly kill shot hits its mark." -from front cover.
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2010., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC DEA Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An electricity-wielding criminal terrorizes New York City and forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is leading the investigation, but Rhyme's determination, despite his physical impairment and his involvement in another high-profile investigation in Mexico, causes conflict within his team.
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-- Enchanted (version française)2008., Family, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD VID Edition: Full screen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Disney DVDSummary Note: The beautiful princess Giselle is banished from the animated land of Andalasia by the evil queen. She finds herself in the gritty streets of the real, modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that does not operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle find herself adrift in a chaotic world that is badly in need of enchantment. Giselle begins to fall in love with the cynical, no-nonsense divorce lawyer who has come to her aid. Little does he realize that this joyful, wide-eyed innocent is about to enchant him.
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-- After The Firm[2023]., Adult, Doubleday Call No: FIC GRI Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a stunning new legal thriller that marks the return of Mitch McDeere, the brilliant hero of The Firm. What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America's favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications--and once again endangers his colleagues, friends, and family. Mitch has become a master at staying one step ahead of his adversaries, but this time there's nowhere to hide"--
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-- I will walk alone2011., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC CLA Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Thirty-year-old interior designer Alexandra Moreland, struggling to deal with the disappearance of her son, fights to uncover who is behind a plot to destroy her sanity and life after she is indicted for identity theft and suspected of murder.
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By Jenoff, Pam2019., Adults, Park Row Books Call No: FIC JEN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II.1946, ManhattanOne morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs--each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station.Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents who were deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home, their fates a mystery. Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose daring mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal.Vividly rendered and inspired by true events, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shines a light on the incredible heroics of the brave women of the war and weaves a mesmerizing tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the hardest of circumstances.--
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2020., Adults, Grand Central Publishing Call No: FIC PAT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition, it's her life's work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try. Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. The feisty single mom teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective to solve the case, but the truth is far more twisted than Lucy could ever have imagined.."--
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2002., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC McL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In order to pay her way through NYU, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of a wealthy family, where she soon realizes her real job responsibility is making sure the Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day.
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2009., Adult, Atria Books Call No: FIC MCL Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Nan returns to New York after twelve years abroad with her husband, and as she tries to get her new business off the ground, she once again encounters Grayer X, who is sixteen and demands to know why she abandoned him years earlier.
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2020., Adults, Delacorte Press Call No: FIC STE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Eileen Jackson was happy to set aside her own dreams to raise a family with her husband, Paul. Together they built an ordinary life in a Connecticut town, the perfect place for their kids to grow up. But when Eileen discovers that Paul's late nights in the city are hiding an affair with a younger woman, she begins to question all those years of sacrifice and compromise. On the brink of forty and wondering what she's going to do with the rest of her life, is it too late for her to start over? Meanwhile, as Paul is thrust back into the role of suburban fatherhood, his girlfriend, Olivia, is in Manhattan, struggling to find herself in the shadow of her mother, a famous actress, and her grandmother, a fiercely independent ninety-two-year-old artist. With their unique brands of advice ringing in her head, Olivia takes a major step, expanding her art gallery business internationally. Seeing her mother pursue old dreams and even find new love, Olivia realizes that there is so much she must learn about herself before committing her life to someone else. Ultimately, Eileen decides to chase her own dreams as well. She's off to Paris to attend Le Cordon Bleu cooking school. What awaits is an adventure that reinvents her life and redefines her. At every age, there are challenges to be met and new worlds to discover. In this surprising, illuminating novel, Danielle Steel gives us a warmhearted portrait of people driven by their emotions, life experiences, and loyalties, who realize that it's never too late to turn a new page and start again"--
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c2003., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC CHI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sylvia Bergstrom Compson gains insights into the untold life of her mother Eleanor, who died when Sylvia was just a child, when she sets out on a nationwide quest to locate Eleanor's hand-stitched quilts which have gone missing from the attic of Elm Creek Manor.
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2016, Children, Illumination Entertainment Illumination Entertainment Call No: DVD VID Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. Max, a terrier, has his favorite-pet status turned upside-down when his owner takes in a stray named Duke.
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-- Secret life of pets two[2019], Children, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD VID Edition: [English/French/Spanish dialogue version]. Blu-ray + DVD [edition]. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Terrier Max is coping with some major life changes. His owner is now married and has a toddler, Liam. Max is so worried about protecting the boy that he develops a nervous tic. On a family trip to a farm, Max and Duke encounter many creatures who elevates Max's anxiety. Luckily, Max gets some guidance from veteran farm dog Rooster, who pushes Max to ditch his neuroses, find his inner alpha, and give Liam a little more freedom. Can Max and the gang find the courage to face their biggest fears?
