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The haunted

2020
To evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house.

Someone we know

2019
Neighbors begin to turn on each other after a series of break-ins is followed by a murder.

America's first freedom rider

Elizabeth Jennings, Chester A. Arthur, and the early fight for civil rights
2020
Tells the story of Elizabeth Jennings and the impact she had on desegregating public transit.

Molly gets a goat (and wants to give it back)

2019
Molly, who lives in New York City, and Olive, who lives on a farm in Iowa, are email friends, and both think that the other would be in serious trouble if they exchanged places--so they make a bet, and while Olive is getting totally lost in Minneapolis, Molly is at a farm in upstate New York desperately trying to milk a goat.

The African American experience in New York from 1626

2018
Details the African American experience in New York since 1626, covering topics from the first Africans in New Amsterdam and New York City's first Black churches to the Harlem Renaissance, the birth of hip hop, and Black political power in New York.

American crisis

leadership lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
2020
"Governor Andrew Cuomo tells the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York becamethe epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward"--Publisher's description.

The Scar Boys

a novel
2015
Written as a college admission essay, eighteen-year-old Harry Jones recounts a childhood defined by the hideous scars he hid behind, and how forming a band brought self-confidence, friendship, and his first kiss.

Bright shining world

2020
Wallace Cole is perpetually moving against his will. His father has some deeply important job with an energy company that he refuses to explain to Wallace who is, shall we say, suspicious. Not that his father ever listens to him.

George Washington's secret six

the spies who saved America
2020
Portrays the intelligence agents known as George Washington's secret six, who were recruited by George Washington to gather information secretly and thus contributed to the general's successes in the Revolutionary War.

Heartwood box

2019
"When Araceli Flores Harper is sent to stay with her great-aunt Ottilie in her ramshackle Victorian home, the plan is simple. Shell buckle down and get ready for college. Life wont be exciting, but shell cope, right? Wrong. From the start, things are very, very wrong. Her great-aunt still leaves food for the husband who went missing twenty years ago, and local businesses are plastered with MISSING posters. There are unexplained lights in the woods and a mysterious lab just beyond the city limits that the locals dont talk about. Ever. When she starts receiving mysterious letters that seem to be coming from the past , she suspects someone of pranking her or trying to drive her out of her mind. To solve these riddles and bring the lost home again, Araceli must delve into a truly diabolical conspiracy, but some secrets fight to stay buried. . . ."--Dust jacket flap.

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