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My Favourite Mistake

My Favourite Mistake
  • Author(s): Marian Keyes
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple… She has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn’t want all that? Anna,...

Bittersweet Chocolate

Bittersweet Chocolate
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

In the third and final installment of Martha Reynolds’s award-winning Chocolate series, Bernadette Maguire’s story is about to come full-circle… But is she ready for what her future holds? It’s been five years since Bernie married Gary, a dear...

Missing White Woman

Missing White Woman
  • Author(s): Kellye Garrett
  • Location(s): Manhattan, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Beautiful. Blonde. Missing. Murdered. It was supposed to be a romantic getaway to New York City. Breanna’s new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything – the train tickets, the sightseeing itinerary, the four-story Jersey City rowhouse with the gorgeous...

An Available Man

An Available Man
  • Author(s): Hilma Wolitzer
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. When Edward Schuyler, a modest...

PACIFIC ODYSSEY – The Curious Journey of Lew 2.0

PACIFIC ODYSSEY – The Curious Journey of Lew 2.0
  • Author(s): Chet Nairene
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New Jersey, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current Day

Brilliant but shallow New York businessman Lew Clarke gets in over his head after partnering with a quirky SE Asian company located beyond the Golden Triangle. in this harrowing but delightful fantasy, calamities begin to strike his American customers,...

Blue Sisters

Blue Sisters
  • Author(s): Coco Mellors
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity’ RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret...

Five Stories

Five Stories
  • Author(s): Ellen Weinstein
  • Location(s): Lower East Side
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City. Jenny Epstein and her family arrive on a steamship from Russia in the 1910s....

Manhunting in Manhattan

Manhunting in Manhattan
  • Author(s): Amy Killingbeck, Saoirse Cussane
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Finding herself single in her forties after making the move to New York, or more accurately, suburban New York, Lilith feels trapped. This wasn’t the life she’d envisaged for herself. … Until something started to shift. With a newly...

Paper Names

Paper Names
  • Author(s): Susie Luo
  • Location(s): China, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

Taut, panoramic and powerful; Paper Names is an unforgettable debut about the long shadows of our parents, the ripple effects of our decisions and the ways in which our love transcends difference. Outside a New York apartment building, an...

The New Couple in 5b

The New Couple in 5b
  • Author(s): Lisa Unger
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

“Lisa Unger, you’ve done it again.” –Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emmy Award-winning actress A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six. Rosie and...

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