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A Killer in the Family

A Killer in the Family
  • Author(s): Amin Ahmad
  • 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...

A Ladder to the Sky

A Ladder to the Sky
  • Author(s): John Boyne
  • Location(s): Berlin, Europe, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall. If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t...

A Latte Like Love

A Latte Like Love
  • Author(s): Michelle C Harris
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Romance

Audrey Adams knows the exact routine for all her regular customers. That’s what happens when you work at the same Brooklyn coffee shop for years. So it’s completely normal that she notices Theo Sullivan, a shy new patron who...

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
  • Author(s): Tia Williams
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One florist. One pianist. One love story . . . One hundred years in the making. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn’t one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty,...

A Maid on Fifth Avenue

A Maid on Fifth Avenue
  • Author(s): Sinéad Crowley
  • 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...

A Matter of Chance

A Matter of Chance
  • Author(s): Julie Maloney
  • Location(s): Bavaria, New Jersey, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When eight-year-old Vinni Stewart disappears from a Jersey shore town, her distraught single mother begins a desperate search. Maddy Stewart’s five-year journey leads her to a bakery in Brooklyn where she stumbles upon something terrifying. Ultimately, her artist neighbor...

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...

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