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Cinema Love

Cinema Love
  • Author(s): Jiaming Tang
  • 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...

4 3 2 1

4 3 2 1
  • Author(s): Paul Auster
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th century

On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take...

A Better Life

A Better Life
  • Author(s): Lionel Shriver
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new city programme – Big Apple, Big Heart – that would pay her to take...

A Bright Ray of Darkness

A Bright Ray of Darkness
  • Author(s): Ethan Hawke
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first novel in nearly twenty years from the acclaimed actor/writer/director, A BRIGHT RAY OF DARKNESS is a book about art and love, fame and heartbreak — a blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut just...

A Cruel Season For Dying

A Cruel Season For Dying
  • Author(s): Harker Moore
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Serial killer of gay targets, who have swan feathers inserted into cuts on their back to simulate angels’ wings. NYPD lieutenant James Sakura heads the case, who has a race against the clock to find the killer before he...

A Fall of Marigolds

A Fall of Marigolds
  • Author(s): Susan Meissner
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Ellis Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1911 and 2011

September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose...

A Freewheelin’ Time

A Freewheelin’ Time
  • Author(s): Suze Rotolo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

Greenwich Village in the explosive years of the bureoning music scene. Suze Rotolo discovers a like minded group and this is her story of the years she spent with Dylan.

A French Girl in New York

A French Girl in New York
  • Author(s): Anna Adams
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Maude Laurent is a spirited sixteen year-old orphan who grew up in a small, provincial town in the North of France with a passion for piano and a beautiful voice. One day in Paris, she is discovered by an...

A Great Act of Love

A Great Act of Love
  • Author(s): Heather Rose
  • Location(s): Tasmania, Europe, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1830s

Caroline examines a stolen map. And there she finds it, at the edge of the Western Hemisphere, a black mark at the 30th latitude smaller than a flea: Norfolk Island. Her Aunt thinks she’s a fool for wanting to...

A Home at the End of the World

A Home at the End of the World
  • Author(s): Michael Cunningham
  • Location(s): New York State, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Michael Cunningham’s celebrated novel is the story of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a...

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