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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...

Misinterpretation

Misinterpretation
  • Author(s): Ledia Xhoga
  • Location(s): Albania, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In New York City, an Albanian interpreter cannot help but become entangled in her clients’ struggles, despite her husband’s cautions. When she reluctantly agrees to work with Alfred, a Kosovar torture survivor, during his therapy sessions, his nightmares stir...

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...

My Name is Lucy Barton

My Name is Lucy Barton
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Strout
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Illinois
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 AND THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge Lucy is recovering...

Nanny Needed

Nanny Needed
  • Author(s): Georgina Cross
  • Location(s): Upper West Side, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 20 years

When Sarah Larsen answers the Bird family’s advertisement, her life changes overnight. The job seems like a dream come true: nannying in a glamorous penthouse apartment with a salary that adds several zeroes to her current income. Sarah signs...

New York

New York
  • Author(s): Edward Rutherfurd
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

An irristable story of the birth of the City that Never Sleeps, from the tiny American Indian fishing village to the present day. He interweaves historical and fictitious characters and brings the city to fulsome life.

New York Valentine

New York Valentine
  • Author(s): Carmen Reid
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Love is in the air! Personal shopper Annie Valentine has a dream job in the heart of fabulous Manhattan. Daughter Lana is lost in the heat of first love, but has she fallen for a heart-breaker? In London husband...

Of Time and the River

Of Time and the River
  • Author(s): Thomas Wolfe
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Era(s): Earlly 20th Century

Overseas

Overseas
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): France, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th Century and Modern

‘…a heady blend of wit, charm, and romantic sizzle, all wrapped around a tantalizing mystery.’ Anne Fortier, New York Times bestselling author When twenty-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a...

Pineapple Street

Pineapple Street
  • Author(s): Jenny Jackson
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This unputdownable debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected,...

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