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Cospmopolis

Cospmopolis
  • Author(s): Don DeLillo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

DeLillo’s protagonist this time is a well-heeled American, Eric Packer, who sets out one eventful day for a haircut. Gazing through the windows of his white limousine (and availing himself of its state-of-the-art technology), this self-made millionaire takes in...

Dinner with Edward

Dinner with Edward
  • Author(s): Isabel Vincent
  • Location(s): Manhattan, Roosevelt Island
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Earlier 2000s

A charming, tender and life-affirming memoir of a woman’s unlikely bond with a 93-year-old widower With its delicious food, warm jazz, and stunning views of Manhattan, Edward’s home was a much-needed refuge for reporter Isabel Vincent. Her recently widowed...

Dog Fight

Dog Fight
  • Author(s): Matt Burgess
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Set Queens. lfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose-sorry, Tariq-is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now...

Eat The City

Eat The City
  • Author(s): Robin Shulman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern and Various

New York is not a city for growing and manufacturing food. It’s a money and real estate city, with less naked earth and industry than high-rise glass and concrete. Yet in this intimate, visceral, and beautifully written book, Robin...

Elevator Pitch

Elevator Pitch
  • Author(s): Linwood Barclay
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in Manhattan. Each presses the button for their floor, but the elevator climbs, non-stop, to the top where it pauses for a few seconds, before dropping. Right to...

Elijah Rising

Elijah Rising
  • Author(s): Lyn LeJeune
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

A novel seen throught the eyes of two young men, a wealthy white New Yorker, Michael Cooke Holt and black preacher, Elijah Broom. Michael lives off his wealth and during one of his aimless wanderings to pass the time...

Eloise

Eloise
  • Author(s): Kay Thompson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 20th entury

Eloise lives with her nanny at The Plaza Hotel in New York. The daughter of extremely rich parents, she is left daily to her own devices. She knows everything about The Plaza and everyone in it. Henry James would...

Empire Rising

Empire Rising
  • Author(s): Thomas Kelly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • Author(s): Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century/various

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade...

Fairytale of New York

Fairytale of New York
  • Author(s): Miranda Dickinson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Are happy-ever-afters made in Manhattan? Find out in this gorgeous debut, perfect for cold winter nights. Once upon a time an English girl went to New York to live out her very own fairytale… Florist Rosie Duncan’s life couldn’t...

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