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Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Anita de Monte Laughs Last
  • Author(s): Xochitl Gonzalez
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1985

1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn’t. By 1998 Anita’s name has been all but forgotten–certainly...

Anna K

Anna K
  • Author(s): Jenny Lee
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘This entertaining debut relocates Anna Karenina to Manhattan’s Upper East Side for the Tolstoy/Gossip Girl mash-up you never knew you needed.’ I Newspaper Welcome to New York’s Upper East Side: where privilege, partying and scandal rules. Anna K is...

Another Country

Another Country
  • Author(s): James Baldwin
  • Location(s): Harlem, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 1970s

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions–sexual, racial, political, artistic–that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their...

Anything Could Happen

Anything Could Happen
  • Author(s): Lucy Diamond
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A chance encounter in New York City. A great love story on the cusp of beginning. And then he was gone. For Lara and her daughter Eliza, it has always been just the two of them. But when Eliza...

Arbitrage

Arbitrage
  • Author(s): Colette Kebell
  • Location(s): London, Brighton, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s to present

Ryan Logan thinks he has it all… A young attorney specialising in finance and tax law, Logan has earned an impressive reputation and commands a hefty fee for his services. But when he advises his corporate employers against a...

Art of Desire

Art of Desire
  • Author(s): AnneMarie Brear
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Arriving in New York, Antonia is using her inheritance to start a career as an artist. In Manhattan she needs to be focused and committed to her art, wanting to make her late father proud, and to make a...

At Weddings and Wakes

At Weddings and Wakes
  • Author(s): Alice McDermott
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Twice a week, Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. Aunt Veronica, with her wounded face and dreams...

Back to Life

Back to Life
  • Author(s): Wendy Coakley-Thompson
  • Location(s): New Jersey, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1980s

1989. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. An Italian mob murders a black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins. That same night, across the Hudson River in New Jersey, Lisa and Marc meet at a party. Lisa’s black. Marc’s Italian. They eventually hook up. But...

Bad Marie

Bad Marie
  • Author(s): Marcy Dermansky
  • Location(s): Paris, Manhattan, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bad Marie is the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six years in prison for being an accessory to murder and armed robbery. The only job Marie can get on the outside is...

Bad Men

Bad Men
  • Author(s): John Connolly
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, and the supernatural in this raw and gripping thriller. He has been told the girl’s last words, and he feels unaccountably afraid. The dead ones. They were...

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