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- Location(s): Chinatown (NYC), Fuzhou, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): 1980s and contemporary
For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meagre existence in New York City’s Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented the...
- Location(s): Manhattan, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Good-natured but naïve, Mumbai party boy Ali Azeem is drifting through life. Then he meets the Khan sisters: pretty, marriage-material Maryam and sexy, unpredictable, off-the-rails Farhan. They are the daughters of Abbas Khan, the formidable immigrant patriarch of a...
- Location(s): Ireland, Manhattan
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s and contemporary
Annie thinks she has found the answer when she leaves her home on the west coast of Ireland and boards a ship for New York. Irish maids are in demand in the 1920s, and she finds work with the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Greenwich Village
- Genre(s): Cozy 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...
- 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...
- 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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