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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

Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore

Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore
  • Author(s): Robin Sloan
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops: it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new....

Nothing Else

Nothing Else
  • Author(s): Louise Beech
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Hull, New York City (NYC), The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Heather Harris is a piano teacher and professional musician, whose quiet life revolves around music, whose memories centre on a single song that haunts her. A song she longs to perform again. A song she wrote as a child,...

Something from Tiffany’s

Something from Tiffany’s
  • Author(s): Melissa Hill
  • Location(s): Ireland, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Doesn’t every girl dream of getting . . . something from Tiffany’s? It’s Christmas Eve. And on 5th Avenue in New York City, two very different men are shopping for gifts for the women they love. Gary is buying...

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