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- Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
This is a New York classic about a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, evocative of this area of New York (Williamsburg) and describes the experience of people immigrating into the city.
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Brooklyn, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1630s - 2000s
Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry...
- Location(s): Brooklyn, Quebec
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
“Outside my window, the city lights are taking hold now, the breeze-brushed, gently pulsating grid. Why is a cemented aggregate of homes arranged in a tall, tight cluster any further from nature than one wood home within the woods?...
A Friend is a Gift you Give Yourself
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Thelma and Louise Meets Goodfellas… After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her eighty-year-old neighbor Enzio in the head with an ashtray when he makes an unwanted move on her, she retreats to the Bronx home of her estranged...
- Location(s): Cobble Hill
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the eclectic Brooklyn neighbourhood of Cobble Hill, the lives of four married couples and their children are about to flip from complicated to combustible… Mandy is so underwhelmed by motherhood that she’s faking a debilitating disease to get...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Journalist Rebekah Roberts works at New York City’s sleaziest tabloid, but dreams of bigger things. When she receives a letter from a convicted murderer claiming his innocence, she sees both a story she can’t ignore and, possibly, a chance....
Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery
- Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Outerborough Blues is the story of a drifter, Caesar Stiles, immersed in a mystery that takes him to the hidden corners of a rapidly changing Brooklyn. The gritty search for a missing art student takes on a mythological sweep,...
- Location(s): Brooklyn, Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
As he approaches his fortieth birthday, the introverted monk Seido Oda is ordered by his superior to leave behind his peaceful, quiet refuge in the remote mountains of Japan and set up a temple in Brooklyn’s Little Calabria. There...
- Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 2000s
Brooklyn Heights, the fourth novel by award-winning Egyptian author Miral El-Tahawy, revolves around the character of Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, who emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight year...
- Location(s): Coney Island
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Post WW2
This is the story of The Greatest Funambulist Who Ever Lived… Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. Until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson...