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The Wife

The Wife
  • Author(s): Alafair Burke
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Manhattan, The Hamptons
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The stunning new domestic thriller from the New York Times-bestselling, Edgar-nominated author of The Ex When Angela met Jason Powell, while catering a function in the Hamptons, she assumed their romance would be a fling. But, Jason, a brilliant...

Too Far

Too Far
  • Author(s): Jason Starr
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jack Harper isn’t a bad man, but he’s stuck in a loveless marriage with a mediocre job just trying to keep sober. The only good thing in his life is his son. When an old college friend introduces him...

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
  • Author(s): Kathleen Rooney
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for Macy’s department store to become the highest paid advertising woman in the world. Now it s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years...

A Rage in Harlem

A Rage in Harlem
  • Author(s): Chester Himes
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1957

A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings...

All Through the Night

All Through the Night
  • Author(s): Mary Higgins Clark
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 1990s

At the center of the novel are two of Mary Higgins Clark’s most beloved characters, Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy, both of them caught up in a Christmas mystery that calls on all...

An Available Man

An Available Man
  • Author(s): Hilma Wolitzer
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. When Edward Schuyler, a modest...

Bad Marie

Bad Marie
  • Author(s): Marcy Dermansky
  • Location(s): Paris, Manhattan, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bad Marie is the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six years in prison for being an accessory to murder and armed robbery. The only job Marie can get on the outside is...

Brewed Awakening

Brewed Awakening
  • Author(s): Cleo Coyle
  • Location(s): Greenwich Vllage
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No 18 in the Coffeehouse Mystery series. When coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi awakens on a bench in Washington Square Park, she has no idea she’s been missing for days, or that her friends and family have been frantic with...

Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things
  • Author(s): Anna Godbersen
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1929

The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties. Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town...

Dash And Lily’s Book Of Dares

Dash And Lily’s Book Of Dares
  • Author(s): David Levithan, Rachel Cohn
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I’ve left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please. At the urge of her lucky-in-love brother, sixteen-year-old Lily has left a red notebook full...

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