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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...

Final Girls

Final Girls
  • Author(s): Riley Sager
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

FIRST THERE WERE THREE The media calls them the Final Girls – Quincy, Sam, Lisa – the infamous group that no one wants to be part of. The sole survivors of three separate killing sprees, they are linked by...

Forty Years in a Day

Forty Years in a Day
  • Author(s): Dianne Vigorito
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s Great Depression onwards

Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed… The story begins in Italy, 1900. After years of torment and neglect, Victoria and her four small children immigrate to Hell’s Kitchen, New York, to escape...

Ghana Must Go

Ghana Must Go
  • Author(s): Taiye Selasi
  • Location(s): New England, New York City (NYC), West Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

With mesmerizing craftsmanship and massive imagination takes the reader on an unforgettable journey across continents and most importantly deeply into the lives of the people whom she writes about. She de-“exoticizes” whole populations and demographics and brings...

Girl in Translation

Girl in Translation
  • Author(s): Jean Kwok
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

New York Times bestseller Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok is a powerful story about a Chinese immigrant family in Brooklyn. Kimberley Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them – making a new...

Harriet the Spy

Harriet the Spy
  • Author(s): Louise Fitzhugh
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Centu

First published by HarperCollinsUS in 1964, this classic children’s novel has sold over 4 million copies and was awarded the New York Times Outstanding Book Award. Sixth-grader Harriet attends school on the New York’s Upper East Side along with...

House of Fire

House of Fire
  • Author(s): Joseph Finder
  • Location(s): New England, Boston, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who struggled with opioid addiction, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is...

I am the Central Park Jogger

I am the Central Park Jogger
  • Author(s): Trisha Meili
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Crime
  • Era(s): 1989

It was the end of a long day and Trisha Meili, a young New York stockbroker, was just out for a run. At 9.35 p.m. on April 19, 1989, as she jogs alone near 102nd Street in Central Park,...

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