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I Saw A Man

I Saw A Man
  • Author(s): Owen Sheers
  • Location(s): London, Nevada, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Hampstead. New York. Nevada. The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner – thinking the Nelsons’ house was empty – stepped through their back door. After the...

I’ll Take New York

I’ll Take New York
  • Author(s): Miranda Dickinson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The author of the Sunday Times bestselling Take a Look at Me Now, returns to New York with her most heart-warming, romantic story yet. Have you ever given up on love? When her boyfriend lets her down for the...

Ivan and Misha

Ivan and Misha
  • Author(s): MIchael Alenyikov
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

In “Ivan and Misha”, Michael Alenyikov portrays the complexities of love, sexuality, and the bonds of family with boldness and lyric sensitivity. As the Soviet Union collapses, two young brothers are whisked away from Kiev by their father to...

Jazz

Jazz
  • Author(s): Toni Morrison
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mainly 1920s

Joe Trace – in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband – shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet – who is given to...

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Hubert Selby Jr
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Last Exit to Brooklyn remains undiminished in its awesome power and magnitude as the novel that first showed us the fierce, primal rage seething in America’s cities. Selby brings out the dope addicts, hoodlums, prostitutes, workers, and thieves brawling...

Let it Rain Coffee

Let it Rain Coffee
  • Author(s): Angie Cruz
  • Location(s): Dominican Republic, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Essentially the story of Esperanza and her father in law Don Chan, and their fractured relationship. Don Chan joins the family in New York shortly after his wife dies in the Dominican Republic. Esperanza recalls the country as largely...

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,...

Madwoman

Madwoman
  • Author(s): Louisa Treger
  • Location(s): Roosevelt Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

In 1887 young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take. But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down...

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...

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