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The Ask

The Ask
  • Author(s): Sam Lipsyte
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Set in Queens. Milo Burke — husband to a ‘touched-out’ wife, father to a three-year-old son, fund-raising officer at a third-tier university — has just joined the swelling ranks of the unemployed. As he grasps after odd jobs to...

The Basement

The Basement
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Novella, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

New York is a city full of strangers. For NYPD detectives Turner and Marcinko, none are harder to figure out than the serial killer on the loose torturing and killing young women. In fact, right now, somewhere in the...

The Electric Michelangelo

The Electric Michelangelo
  • Author(s): Sarah Hall
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Lancashire, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

On the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his childhood years first in a guest house for consumptives run by his mother and then as apprentice to alcoholic tattoo-artist Eliot Riley. Thirsty for new experiences, he departs...

The Flight Attendant

The Flight Attendant
  • Author(s): Chris Bohjalian
  • Location(s): Rome, Dubai, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She’s a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing....

The Friday Night Knitting Club

The Friday Night Knitting Club
  • Author(s): Kate Jacobs
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Walker and Daughter yarn shop, Manhattan, the venue for the Friday Knitting Club.This is the gentle story of single Mum Georgia and her daughter Dakota. Dad left early in Dakota’s life and returns to re-build his relationship. Interspersed with...

The Grief of Others

The Grief of Others
  • Author(s): Leah Hager Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

2012 Orange Prize Shortlist. The Ryrie family, living in the suburbs of New York, suffer the tragic loss of their baby only fifty seven hours after it is born. The story deals with the emotional trauma of this event...

The Interpretation of Murder

The Interpretation of Murder
  • Author(s): Jed Rubenfeld
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1900s

Sigmund Freund makes a single visit to New York in 1909, together with Carl Jung. A beautiful debutante is found murdered in her penthouse above Broadway. Within 24 hours Nora Acton, an heiress is found tied to a chandelier,...

The Perfect Find

The Perfect Find
  • Author(s): Tia Williams
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’s finally found her soulmate. But he’s completely off-limits . . . Former fashion editor Jenna Jones is forty, broke and starting over. Dumped by her fiancé and fired from her job, Jenna begs her arch nemesis, Darcy Vale,...

The Perfect Scent

The Perfect Scent
  • Author(s): Chandler Burr
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Follow the creation in NYC of the scent ‘Lovely’ for Sarah Jessica Parker. And in Paris follow how Hermes sets about creating ‘Un Jardin sur le Nil’ – facts about (170,000 bottles of fragrance are sold in France every...

A Cup of Tea

A Cup of Tea
  • Author(s): Amy Ephron
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1917

Rosemary Fell was born into privilege. She has wealth, well-connected friends, and a handsome fiance, Philip Alsop. Finally she has everything she wants. It is then, in a moment of beneficence, that Rosemary invites Eleanor Smith, a penniless young...

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