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The Silence

The Silence
  • Author(s): Don DeLillo
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): The near future

From one of America’s greatest writers, The Silence is a timely and compelling novel about what happens when an unpredictable crisis strikes. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in...

Rooted in the Hood

Rooted in the Hood
  • Author(s): Anna Angelidakis
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Photography
  • Era(s): Modern

Rooted in the Hood is a photo essay celebrating the community gardens of New York City and the people who create, cultivate, and enjoy them. The late 60s and 70s witnessed the devastation of New York City, with many...

The Nanny Diaries

The Nanny Diaries
  • Author(s): Emma McLaughlin
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Wanted: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic and selfless–bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler. Must love getting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in...

Under the Egg

Under the Egg
  • Author(s): Laura Marx Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): early 21st century

When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s great news for Theo, who’s struggling to hang onto her family’s two-hundred-year-old townhouse...

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...

Lipstick Jungle

Lipstick Jungle
  • Author(s): Candace Bushnell
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The new novel that fans of the bestselling author have been waiting for, about three sexy, powerful career women who will do anything to stay at the top of their fields Victory Ford is the darling of the fashion...

Everyone Worth Knowing

Everyone Worth Knowing
  • Author(s): Lauren Weisberger
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Soon after Bette Robinson quits her horrendous Manhattan banking job like the impulsive girl she’s never been, the novelty of walking her four-pound dog around her unglamorous Murray Hill neighborhood wears as thin as the “What are you going...

Trading Up

Trading Up
  • Author(s): Candace Bushnell
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2004

Candace Bushnell is turning heads . . . The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. When Trading Up was published in July, readers from coast to coast devoured the sharp-witted, Jane Austin-esque story of Janey Wilcox’s unsteady climb to...

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...

The 25th Hour

The 25th Hour
  • Author(s): David Benioff
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): 2000

An absorbing novel of crime, its terrifying consequences, and a bond that redefines the friendship of three restless young men. Wall Street speculators, the Manhattan downtown club scene, Russian gangsters, immigrant neighborhoods – all the elements in the urban...

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