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Double Fault

Double Fault
  • Author(s): Lionel Shriver
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Love me, love my game’ says twenty-three year-old Willy Novinsky. Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy’s one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf. She’s a middle-ranked professional...

Encore Valentine

Encore Valentine
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the same book as Brava, Valentine. Meet the Roncalli and Angelini families, artisans of handcrafted shoes in Greenwich Village since 1903. Valentine’s dreams are dashed when her grandmother names her brother and nemesis Alfred her partner at...

Fairytale of New York

Fairytale of New York
  • Author(s): Miranda Dickinson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Are happy-ever-afters made in Manhattan? Find out in this gorgeous debut, perfect for cold winter nights. Once upon a time an English girl went to New York to live out her very own fairytale… Florist Rosie Duncan’s life couldn’t...

Fates and Furies

Fates and Furies
  • Author(s): Lauren Groff
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

AMAZON.COM’s 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA’S BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Every story has two sides....

Gilding The Lily

Gilding The Lily
  • Author(s): Justine John
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 2000

A gripping mystery of jealousy, murder and lies. An invitation to her estranged, wealthy father’s surprise 75th birthday party in New York sees Amelia and her husband, Jack, set off across the pond to meet a whole new world...

Glamorama

Glamorama
  • Author(s): Bret Easton Ellis
  • Location(s): Europe, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn’t been and with people he doesn’t know. On the eve...

Holding Out for a Hero

Holding Out for a Hero
  • Author(s): Victoria Van Tiem
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern; 1980s

Libby London fell in love with the eighties, came of age in the nineties, and now the twenty-first century is baffling her. Her New-York-City style is more, erm, vintage tragedy than retro babe and her penchant for All Things...

Hot Ice

Hot Ice
  • Author(s): Nora Roberts
  • Location(s): Madagascar, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Romance

Doug Lord is on the run, gangster Dimitri is in hot persuit. On the run, Doug jumps into Whitney McAllister’s cab in NYC, and she joins him as a partner, an escape from her regimented life as an ice...

Idol

Idol
  • Author(s): Louise O'Neill
  • Location(s): United States (USA), New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2022 / turn of the 21th Century

‘Follow your heart and speak your truth.’ For Samantha Miller’s young fans – her ‘girls’ – she’s everything they want to be. She’s an oracle, telling them how to live their lives, how to be happy, how to find...

Manhattan Noir 2 (the Classics)

Manhattan Noir 2 (the Classics)
  • Author(s): Lawrence Block
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Late 1800s to 2008

The collection is divided into three sections. covering the periods 1891 to 2008, short stories under the editorship of Lawrence Block

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