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Let the Great World Spin

Let the Great World Spin
  • Author(s): Colum McCann
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers,...

Lucia, Lucia

Lucia, Lucia
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Lucia Sartori, now in her seventies, single, tells the story of her life to the only other single woman who lives in the same apartment block as her Kit who is mid twenties. it is the story of New...

MAILBOX: A Scattershot Novel of Racing, Dares and Danger, Occasional Nakedness, and Faith

MAILBOX: A Scattershot Novel of Racing, Dares and Danger, Occasional Nakedness, and Faith
  • Author(s): Nancy Freund
  • Location(s): California, Kansas City, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1970s

The Drue family moves from New York to Small Town, USA in the ’70s, and they may never fully fit in. Thirteen-year-old Sandy’s parents encourage her curiosity, her imagination, and her challenge of social conventions – but not without...

Man on Wire

Man on Wire
  • Author(s): Philippe Petit
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1974

Philippe Petit chronicles the day day in 1974 when he illegally walked across a tightrope suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. As early as the late 60s, in France, Petit resolved to carry out this...

Manhattan ’45

Manhattan ’45
  • Author(s): Jan Morris
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1945

In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this...

Manhattan Transfer

Manhattan Transfer
  • Author(s): John Dos Passos
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Manhattan Transfer is an “expressionistic picture of New York” (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico’s to the underbelly of the...

Manhattan, When I Was Young

Manhattan, When I Was Young
  • Author(s): Mary Cantwell
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

Greenwich Village, middle of the twentieth century, an intimate portrait of a young woman as she negotiates her way through work, love and parenthood. Beautifully written and insightful.

Melting the Snow on Hester Street

Melting the Snow on Hester Street
  • Author(s): Daisy Waugh
  • Location(s): Hollywood, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First three decades of 20th Century

Sumptuously evoking the Golden Age of Hollywood, a time when money is built on greed and love can be a trick of the light, Daisy Waugh’s stunning new novel is a compelling portrait of love, fame, and survival. It...

Men Like Air

Men Like Air
  • Author(s): Tom Connolly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It is April in Manhattan and the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen-year-old Finn has just arrived in the city with his irrepressible and volatile girlfriend, Dilly, determined to even the score with his...

Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Jonathan Lethem
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for...

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