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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A strait of southeast New York between Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York City and connecting Upper and Lower New York Bay. The Narrows is spanned by the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, one of the longest suspension bridges in the world.
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Connelly's 2004 novel, The Narrows, is the sequel to The
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The Narrows is an intelligent, tautly written thriller, and should only serve to heighten Connelly's already exalted stature as one of today's leading crime writers.
The Narrows: Summary and book reviews of The Narrows by Michael Connelly. 2004
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The Narrows is clean, precise, neatly executed and thrilling.
The Narrows: Summary and book reviews of The Narrows by Michael Connelly. 2004
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The Narrows is Connelly at his best, producing the creepy, cunning killer he is famed for and, at the same time, weaving into the story line plausible human drama, such as Bosch's poignant attempts to bond with his newly discovered daughter.
The Narrows: Summary and book reviews of The Narrows by Michael Connelly. 2004
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The Narrows is a sequel to Connelly's first stand-alone book, The Poet (1996).
The Narrows: Summary and book reviews of The Narrows by Michael Connelly. 2004
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The Narrows is a blues bar known for outbreaks of small violence.
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"The name Narrows is derived from the fact that at this place the
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" Edith Matilda Thomas 1889
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Saint Kitts and Neviswith coastlines in the shape of a baseball bat and ball, the two volcanic islands are separated by a three-km-wide channel called The Narrows; on the southern tip of long, baseball bat-shaped Saint Kitts lies the Great Salt Pond; Nevis Peak sits in the center of its almost circular namesake island and its ball shape complements that of its sister island
Geography-note 2008
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Geographynote: with coastlines in the shape of a baseball bat and ball, the two volcanic islands are separated by a three-km-wide channel called The Narrows; on the southern tip of long, baseball bat-shaped Saint Kitts lies the Great Salt Pond; Nevis Peak sits in the center of its almost circular namesake island and its ball shape complements that of its sister island
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Long Island, — that Spiking-devil and the Narrows are the two ends of the world, — that the country is still under the dominion of their
Washington Irving 2004
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