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American psycho : a novel / by Bret Easton Ellis. by Series: Vintage contemporaries
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type:  Text; Format:
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Publication details: New York : Vintage Books, c1991
Dissertation note: American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan businessman. The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (6)Call number: 813.54 E.B.A 1991, ...
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Bergdorf blondes / Plum Sykes. by
Edition: 1st ed
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion, 2004
Dissertation note: Plum Sykes's beguiling debut welcomes readers to the glamorous world of Park Avenue Princesses, the girls who careen through Manhattan in search of the perfect Fake Bake (tan acquired from Portofino Tanning Salon), a ride on a PJ (private jet) with the ATM (rich boyfriend), and the ever-elusive fianc.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.6 S.P.B 2004.
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Betrayal in death / [Nora Roberts writing as] J.D. Robb. by
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Berkley Books, c2001
Dissertation note: In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Detective Eve Dallas' investigation of a homicide at her husband’s hotel leads to a murderer with a passion for the finer things in life—and in death...
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823 R.J.B 2001.
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Charming Billy / Alice McDermott. by
Material type: Text; Format:
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regular print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 1999, 1998
Dissertation note: Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics. As they trade tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and consuming sorrow, a complex portrait emerges of an enigmatic man, a loyal friend, a beloved husband, an incurable alcoholic. Alice McDermott's striking novel, Charming Billy, is a study of the lies that bind and the weight of familial love, of the way good intentions can be as destructive as the truth they were meant to hide.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 M.A.C 1998.
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Divided in death / Nora Roberts ; Writing as J.D. Robb. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: London : Piatkus, c2004
Dissertation note: When one of his trusted employees, Reva Ewing, with whom he had been working on a top-secret government project, becomes the prime suspect in a double homicide, Irish billionaire Roarke enlists the assistance of Lieutenant Eve Dallas to uncover the truth and find a vicious group of techno-terrorists who will do anything to achieve their ends. 650,000 first printing.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 R.N.D 2004.
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Fashionably late / Olivia Goldsmith. by
Material type: Text; Format:
large print
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Fiction
Publication details: Thorndike, Me., USA : Bath, Avon, England : G.K. Hall & Co. ; Chivers Press, 1994
Dissertation note: In a story about deception, exploitation, and the choices modern women are forced to make, a successful fashion designer deals with a company takeover, her inability to have children, an unfaithful husband, and a secret search for her birth mother
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813 G.O.F 1994.
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Hot ice / Nora Roberts. by
Edition: Bantam hardcover ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Bantam Books, 2002
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813 R.N.H 2002.
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I'll take Manhattan / Judith Krantz. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Crown Publishers, c1986
Dissertation note: The towering iceberg drifting in the North Atlantic was a floating tomb. Embedded in the great gleaming mass was a ship - sealed in so solidly that not even its mast protruded.Here was a sea mystery to rank alongside the Bermuda Triangle and the Marie Celeste. But for Major Dirk Pitt, top troubleshooter for the National Underwater and Marine Agency, it was also the first link in a fantastic chain of events that would lead him too close - and too often - to violent death. And to the discovery of the most sinister and bizarre conspiracy of the century . . . ICEBERG.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 K.J.I 1986.
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Immortal in death / Nora Roberts ; Writing as J.D. Robb. by
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: London : Piatkus, 2003
Dissertation note: In the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas uncovers a world where technology can create beauty and youth, but passion and greed can destroy them...
She was one of the most sought after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted—even another woman’s man. And now she was dead, the victim of a brutal murder. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas put her life on the line to take the case when suspicion fell on her best friend, the other woman in the fatal love triangle. Beneath the façade of glamour, Eve found that the world of high fashion thrived on an all-consuming obsession for youth and fame. One that led from the runway to the dark underworld of New York City where drugs could be found to fulfill any desire—for a price…
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 R.N.I 2003.
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Inadmissable evidence: by Philip Friedman. by
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : D.I. Fine, c1992
Dissertation note: For tough New York City prosecutor Joe Estrada, the law is his life. That's why he's determined to get the goods on millionaire real-estate tycoon and community hero Roberto Morales, who is accused of raping and murdering his mistress. The more Joe investigates, however, the closer he moves to the possibility that Morales is innocent and that all he has to go on is...INADMISSABLE EVIDENCE.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 F.P.I 1992.
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The interceptor / Richard Herschlag by
Edition: 1st ed
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Ballantine Books, 1998
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 358.430941 H.R.I 1998.
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Judgment in death / J.D. Robb. by
Edition: Berkley ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Berkley Books, c2000
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 R.J.J 2000.
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Loyalty in death / J.D. Robb. by
Edition: Berkley ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Berkley Books, c1999
Dissertation note: In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series known for its tantalizing blend of romance, suspense, and futuristic police procedural, New York cop Eve Dallas faces her most ingenious foe: a “secret admirer” who taunts her with letters…and kills without mercy.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823 R.J.L 1999.
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Naked in death / J.D. Robb. by
Edition: 1st ed
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Berkley Books, c1995
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823 R.J.N 1995.
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Resolved / Robert K. Tanenbaum. by
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Atria Books, c2003
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 T.R.R 2003.
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Reversible error / Robert K. Tanenbaum. by
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, c1992
Dissertation note: Book Four of the bestselling Butch Karp legal thriller series: Karp, Marlene, and a few honest cops must stand up to a hive of corrupt politicians
Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp is finally recognized for his heroic service to New York City when a group of politicians back him for the top job as Manhattan’s district attorney. But a series of cases involving vigilante murders begins to reveal the true motives of those civil servants standing by his side. It’s Karp versus the dirty city in one of Tanenbaum’s most revealing and caustic legal thrillers— a stunning i
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 T.R.R 1992.
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Slow motion riot : a novel / by Peter Blauner. by
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : W. Morrow, c1991
Dissertation note: There doesn’t seem to be much information out there on this author. She might have been born in 1932: all I do know is that she wrote books with a Christian slant which were published both in Australia and London. Her first horse book, Jean’s Black Diamond, was written when she was fifteen. The book won second prize in the CSSM Literature Competition.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 B.P.S 1991.
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The age of innocence / Edith Wharton. by Series: Penguin great books of the 20th century
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 1999
Dissertation note: Engaged to the docile May Welland, Newland Archer falls madly in love with the nonconformist Countess Olenska, an older woman with a reputation
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.52 W.E.A 1999.
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The angel of darkness / Caleb Carr. by
Edition: 1st trade ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1997
Dissertation note: In The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 C.C.A 1997.
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The bone collector / Jeffery Deaver. by
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 2013
Dissertation note: In memories that rise like wisps of ghosts, LuLing Young searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the Famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with and his two teenage daughters. None of her professional sound bites and pat homilies works for her personal life; she knows only how to translate what others want to say.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 813.54 J.D.B 2013, ...
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