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James McBride chronicles his twelve-year journey to learn about his mother's past, describing her unhappy childhood, marriage, refusal to admit she was white, and creation of an all-black church in Harlem, and shares details of his own life and the challenges he faced coping with his family's secrets.

With the precociousness expected of the only child of a doctor and a classical musician, Marco Roth shares his parents' New York, a world centered around house concerts, a private library of literary classics, and dinner discussions of the latest advances in medicine. That world ended when his father began to suffer the worst effects of the AIDS virus that had infected him in the early 1980s.

Describes one year in the life of children in the poorest congressional district in the United States, the South Bronx.

In 2060 in New York, police lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the death of Thomas Anders, a prominent businessman, found tied to his bed and strangled with cords of black velvet; the evidence suggests that the victim didn't struggle and that the killer was someone known to the family.

NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the death of a young woman employed by Eve's billionaire husband.

With help from her husband, Roarke, Lt. Eve Dallas investigates a double murder, a tax evasion and money laundering scheme in a high profile accounting firm, a missing person, and a mysterious death while planning a baby shower for her friend, Mavis.