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City of Girls

City of Girls
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Retrospective 1940s/50s/60s

It is the summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine, exiled by her despairing parents. Although her quicksilver talents with a needle and commitment to mastering the perfect hair roll...

City of Hope

City of Hope
  • Author(s): Kate Kerrigan
  • Location(s): County Mayo, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

An uplifting, inspiring and heart-warming story of a woman truly ahead of her time. Of loves lost and found, of courage and determination. It is the 1930s and when her beloved husband, John, suddenly dies, young Ellie Hogan decides...

city-pick New York

city-pick New York
  • Author(s): Heather Reyes (Editor)
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

New York is one of the most exciting and pulsating cities on earth. Here over seventy dazzling writers celebrate the richness and diversity of this amazing metropolis – the latest in this unique series featuring the best-ever writing on...

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...

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...

Fin and Lady

Fin and Lady
  • Author(s): Cathleen Schine
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1964

It is 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned. Fin has not seen Lady in six years, but she is now his legal guardian – and his only hope. Uprooted from...

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