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The Magic Barrel

The Magic Barrel
  • Author(s): Bernard Malamud
  • Location(s): Italy, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

The Manhattan Girls

The Manhattan Girls
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1921

NEW YORK CITY, 1921 An impossible dream. The war is over, the twenties are roaring, but in the depths of the city that never sleeps, Dorothy Parker is struggling to make her mark in a man’s world. A broken...

The Mare

The Mare
  • Author(s): Angharad Hampshire
  • Location(s): Austria, Germany, Majdanek, New York City (NYC), Ravensbrück
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 / 1960s-80s

Based on a true story Hermine Braunsteiner was the first person to be extradited from the Unites States for Nazi war crimes. Hermine was one of a few thousand women to work as a female concentration camp guard. Prisoners...

The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick

The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hardwick
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Elizabeth Hardwick’s rasor sharp prose appeared in magazines like the New Yorker. Here are collected some of her essays, drafted in her unique hand, with the backdrop generally of New York City

The New York Trilogy

The New York Trilogy
  • Author(s): Paul Auster
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story...

The New Yorkers

The New Yorkers
  • Author(s): Cathleen Schine
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This book is about people, about the Upper West Side in New York City, and about the effects of dogs on people. A beautifully crafted book – Central Park where dog and dog owners congregate and everyone has a...

The Oligarch’s Daughter

The Oligarch’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Joseph Finder
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Moscow, New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 6 years back

THE PAST CAN FIND YOU ANYWHERE Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is...

The Orphan Master

The Orphan Master
  • Author(s): Jean Zimmerman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

Set in New Amsterdam in the mid-17th century, Zimmerman’s nicely flowing narrative is animated by robust characters who thrive on the edges of civilization. Hardy Dutch colonists are the main inhabitants of this bustling community, but traders and adventurers...

The Pale Blue Eye

The Pale Blue Eye
  • Author(s): Louis Bayard
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1831

West Point on the Hudson. A retired New York policeman is called to West Point Military Academy in 1831 to solve a gruesome murder and he seeks the help of cadet, Edgar Allan Poe, to help solve the case.

The Paris Dancer

The Paris Dancer
  • Author(s): Nicola Rayner
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 / 2012

A heart-wrenching and unforgettable story of courage, friendship and resistance, inspired by the incredible true story of a Jewish ballroom dancer in Paris during WWII, perfect for fans of The Paris Library. Paris, 1938. Annie Mayer arrives in France...

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