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Good Neighbors

Good Neighbors
  • Author(s): Ryan David Jahn
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in Queens, NYC. This book has also been published as Acts of Violence. At the centre is the brutal stabbing of Katrina Marino – and precept is based on the real life murder of Catherine Genovese, murdered in...

Grace of the Empire State

Grace of the Empire State
  • Author(s): Gemma Tizzard
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930

As the Great Depression bites, show dancer Grace’s Irish immigrant family can’t afford the rising rents, nor the medicine that her little sister urgently needs. When her twin brother is injured and can no longer work on the construction...

Harlem is Nowhere

Harlem is Nowhere
  • Author(s): Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s onwards

For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and political action. At a crucial moment in Harlem’s history, as gentrification encroaches, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning...

I heart New York

I heart New York
  • Author(s): Lindsey Kelk
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

It’s official. Angela Clarke is in love – with the most fabulous city in the world. Fleeing her cheating boyfriend and clutching little more than a crumpled bridesmaid dress, a pair of Louboutins and her passport, Angela jumps on...

I’m Not Done With You Yet

I’m Not Done With You Yet
  • Author(s): Jesse Sutanto
  • Location(s): England, New York City (NYC), Oxford
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jane is unhappy. She’s a struggling writer trapped in an underwhelming marriage with husband Ted, scraping by to pay for a mortgage for a house and a life that she’s never really wanted. There’s only ever been one person...

J’adore New York

J’adore New York
  • Author(s): Isabelle LaFleche
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Catherine is a young professional French lawyer with a natural flair for fashion who moves from Paris to the New York, to the same law firm

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...

Metropolis

Metropolis
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gaffney
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

New York. 1868. Irish Beatrice is a “hot-corn Girl”, selling corn on the cob to passers-by and picking their pockets. German Georg, arriving in Manhattan on the run from a scandal – or perhaps a crime – back in...

Modern Lovers

Modern Lovers
  • Author(s): Emma Straub
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporaryy

Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy property, and start families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to...

My New York City

My New York City
  • Author(s): James Rizzi
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Rizzi hat seiner Lieblingstadt New York ein k?nstlerisches Denkmal gesetzt – in Form eines bislang einzigartigen Reisef?hrers in zwei Versionen. Sehensw?rdigkeiten. Stadt- und U-Bahn-Pl?ne, Alltagsszenen – alles gemalt. Das drei Kilo schwere Coffee Table Book enth?lt ?ber 1000 Illustrationen,...

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