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- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of Palestinian-American women, the meaning of a fulfilling life, and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents....
- Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This unputdownable debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected,...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds. Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms between three people thrown together by circumstance. Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): From the 1920s
A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit,...
- Location(s): Haiti, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): 1985
In this magical middle-grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she imagined when she moves from Haiti to Brooklyn. With the help of a clever witch, Gabrielle becomes the perfect American — but will...
- 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...