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Studio Saint-Ex

Studio Saint-Ex
  • Author(s): Ania Szado
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s

A sleek, stylish novel set in the sophisticated, dazzling New York of the 1940s, between the shock of Pearl Harbor and the first landing of American troops in Europe-a deft, romantic novel about a wartime triangle involving a twenty-two-year-old...

Sunset In Central Park

Sunset In Central Park
  • Author(s): Sarah Morgan
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

After witnessing the fallout of her parent’s divorce, love has never been a priority for garden designer Frankie Cole. The only man in her life is her friend Matt–but that’s strictly platonic. If only she found it easier to...

Sutton

Sutton
  • Author(s): J R Moehringer
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Early and late 20th Century

One of the most notorious criminals in American history is brought blazing back to life by a master storyteller. Willie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, and...

Sweet Caress

Sweet Caress
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Berlin, France, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s-1950s

Long listed for the Walter Scott Prize 2016 Amory’s first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are...

Sylvia

Sylvia
  • Author(s): Leonard Michaels
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Manhattan 1960s –  Leonard, a young writer drifting through the city, meets Sylvia by chance at a friend’s shabby Greenwich Village apartment. He’s instantly besotted with her striking beauty and quiet disdain, and the question of what to do...

Tar Beach

Tar Beach
  • Author(s): Faith Ringgold
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1930s

Illustrations in full color. “Ringgold recounts the dream adventure of eight-year-old Cassie Louise Lightfoot, who flies above her apartment-building rooftop, the ‘tar beach’ of the title, looking down on 1939 Harlem. Part autobiographical, part fictional, this allegorical tale sparkles...

Tatiana and Alexander

Tatiana and Alexander
  • Author(s): Paullina Simons
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

The world at war … two people in love. Tatiana is eighteen years old and pregnant when she miraculously escapes war-torn Leningrad to the West, believing herself to be a widow. Her husband, Major Alexander Belov, a decorated hero...

The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything
  • Author(s): Rona Jaffe
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958

When it first published in 1958, Rona Jaffe’s debut novel electrified readers who saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. There’s Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the...

The Bottom of the Harbor

The Bottom of the Harbor
  • Author(s): Joseph Mitchell
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1930s

The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Clean easy prose, and well observed characters along the waterfront of the Hudson River

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye
  • Author(s): J D Salinger
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Sixteen year old Holden Caulfield has been expelled from school, confused and disillusioned, he observes the world of adulthood about him.

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