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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...
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, Québec
- 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?...
- 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...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything until it wasn t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they...
- Location(s): Brooklyn, Enniscorthy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman’s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
An anthlogy of stories under the editorship of Tim McLoughlin. New York’s punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today’s best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bay Ridge...
Brooklyn Noir 3 (Nothing but the Truth)
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
An anthology of short stories under the editorship of Tim McLoughlin set in Brookly, some noir, essentially factual.
- 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...