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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...

A Searing Acquaintance

A Searing Acquaintance
  • Author(s): J L Ashton
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 21st century

“I don’t know why I ever thought we made sense.” Smart, educated people are fools in love, especially when they’re mired in denial and misunderstanding. In this modern spin on Jane Austen’s classic tale, Elizabeth Bennet, a grad student...

A Student of Weather

A Student of Weather
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hay
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Ottawa, Saskatchewan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th century

From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There...

A Tender Thing

A Tender Thing
  • Author(s): Emily Neuberger
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Growing up in rural Wisconsin, Eleanor O’Hanlon always felt different. In love with musical theatre from a young age, she memorised every show album she could get her hands on. So when she discovers an open call for one...

A Woman is No Man

A Woman is No Man
  • Author(s): Etaf Rum
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990 and 2008

Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue and courage. Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the...

A Woman of Courage

A Woman of Courage
  • Author(s): Rita Bradshaw
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Survival means fighting back. It’s 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is...

Accidental Heroes

Accidental Heroes
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): San Francisco, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

On a beautiful May morning at New York’s JFK Airport, a routine plane departs for San Francisco. Security agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous message. Who left the postcard behind, which...

Addressed to Greta

Addressed to Greta
  • Author(s): Fiona Sussman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), London, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Rwanda
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Greta Jellings blushes and bumbles her way through her carefully ordered existence, forever constrained by what her mother would have said and done. ‘No expectation, no disappointment’ was one of her mother’s mantras. It serves Greta well too. It...

Afternoon

Afternoon
  • Author(s): Nidhi Dalmia
  • Location(s): Delhi, Kashmir, New York City (NYC), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, Kashmir and Delhi in the late ’60s, intertwined with the significant cultural, student, sexual and intellectual revolutions taking place around that time, Afternoon is the story of a young...

Against All Odds

Against All Odds
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Taking chances is part of life, but when you bet your future against the odds, it’s a high-risk game. Kate Madison’s stylish resale shop has been a big SoHo success, supporting her and her four kids since her husband’s...

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