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by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick - Fiction

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a year-long video diary project that chronicled Lizzie Bennet’s life as a 24-year-old grad student. When rich, handsome Bing Lee comes to town, along with his stuck-up friend William Darcy, things really start to get interesting for the Bennet sisters --- and for Lizzie’s viewers. Suddenly Lizzie --- who always considered herself a fairly normal young woman --- was a public figure. But not everything happened on-screen. Luckily for us, Lizzie kept a secret diary.

by Jean Kwok - Fiction

Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and 11-year-old sister. But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down.

by Rita Zoey Chin - Memoir, Nonfiction

Rita Zoey Chin survives her harrowing childhood to become a prize-winning writer and the wife of a promising surgeon. But when she is suddenly besieged by terrifying panic attacks, her past trauma threatens her hard-won happiness. Within weeks, she is incapacitated with fear --- literally afraid of her own shadow. Realizing that she is facing a life of psychological imprisonment, Rita undertakes a journey to find help through a variety of treatments.

by A. X. Ahmad - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Bollywood film icon Shabana Shah has been murdered, her body found in the apartment where New York City taxi driver Ranjit Singh ate dinner mere hours before. With his fingerprints all over the murder weapon, Ranjit is accused by the NYPD as an accessory to murder. His only credible alibi is Shabana’s Indian doorman, but he has vanished. With a Grand Jury arraignment looming in 10 days, and Ranjit’s teenage daughter about to arrive from India, Ranjit must find the doorman.

by James Patterson and David Ellis - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes and murders are all connected. That is, until she finds a piece of evidence he can't afford to ignore.

by Al Silverman - Biography, History, Nonfiction, Sports

Here is an intimate pictorial history featuring rare and many unpublished color photographs of the Yankees from the golden age of the celebrated baseball team. YANKEE COLORS tells the story of the legendary period from 1949 to 1964 when New York baseball was supreme and the New York Yankees were in the World Series almost every year. Now, this glorious period of Yankees history is captured through the intimate lens of famed sports photographer Marvin Newman.

by Tony Massarotti - Nonfiction, Sports

Author Tony Massarotti has been covering the Red Sox since the 1991 season, and in DYNASTY he provides an in-depth and probing look at how the Red Sox became the most successful franchise in baseball.

by Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg - Biography, Nonfiction, Sports

Authorized by the future Hall of Famer himself, and written by a clinical psychologist and an award-winning investigative journalist, BECOMING MANNY is the incredible story behind one of the greatest baseball sluggers of all time. Manny Ramirez ranks 17th in career home runs and eighth in career slugging percentage --- the only players above him on both lists are Barry Bonds, Jimmie Foxx, and Babe Ruth.

by Matthew Silverman - Nonfiction, Sports

With trivia boxes, records, and team lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events and facts every Mets fan should know.