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1) Black buck
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"An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of...
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"Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first school dance. She's supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different. And her pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to her mother in Oakland,...
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"Rashid is a young Black man from Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, with a complicated life. Looking for an escape from a neighborhood few ever leave, he finds it in Rachel--married, twenty years his senior, and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. It begins with a flirtation and a tryst. It becomes an intense romance, exhilarating and enriching, that defies the expectations of Rashid's friends and family. What draws Rachel to Rashid is his curiosity, his need...
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"Aaron, a disgraced rabbi turned Wall Street banker, and Amelia, his journalist girlfriend, live with their newborn in Bedford-Stuyvesant, one of the most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in New York City. The infusion of upwardly mobile strivers into Bed-Stuy's historic brownstones belies the tension simmering on the streets below. But after a cop shoots a boy in a nearby park, a riot erupts--with Aaron and his family at its center. Over the course...
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Everybody hates Chris volume 4
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"After ripping his jeans irreparably, Chris is finally given money to buy a brand-new pair instead of taking a hand-me-up from his younger brother. So what does he do? He lets his best friend, Greg, convince him to buy a new video game for Greg's Atari instead..."--Cover back.
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Reddick es un joven pintor frustrado que vive en Brooklyn. A la espera de abrirse camino en el feroz mundo artístico neoyorquino, trabaja para una empresa que se dedica a montar exposiciones en las viviendas de la gente más acaudalada de Manhattan. Una gélida noche, en un callejón al lado de su casa, se encuentra a una desconocida con la que charla un rato antes de que ella desaparezca bruscamente. El descubrimiento de que se trata de la novia...
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