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Adults! Welcome to year 3 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2024. Earn bigger prizes by reading...

Title: Walls Within Walls Author: Maureen Sherry Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books, June 2010 Summary/Review: CJ, Brid, and Patrick Smithfork (along with little sister Carron) don’t want to move from their cozy Brooklyn apartment to a sprawling penthouse in Manhattan.  But ever since their dad...

Title: The Thieves of Manhattan Author:  Adam Langer Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (2010) Summary: Ian Minot is a struggling writer working at the Morningside Coffee diner. Ian works alongside Joseph, a struggling actor, and Faye, an aspiring artist. Of the three, Ian has been the...

Title: 31 Hours Author:  Masha Hamilton Publisher: Unbridled Books, October 2009 Summary:  Carol Meitzner wakes with a feeling of dread. She knows in her heart that her 21 year old son, Jonas, is in trouble. She doesn’t know what kind of trouble or how much,...

Title: Lush Life Author: Richard Price Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, March 2008 Summary: I am not a reader of crime stories – but from now on I plan to make an exception for the works of Richard Price. His latest explores the ‘butterfly effect’ of a seemingly...

Title: I Was Told There’d Be Cake Author: Sloane Crosley Summary: This collection of witty, self-depricating, utterly hillarious essays examine what is means to be young, single and whipsmart in New York today. Crosley, who grew up in Westchester and has written for the New...