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A Thousand Times Before

A Thousand Times Before
  • Author(s): Asha Thanki
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 20th/21st Centuries

A heartrending family saga following three generations of women connected by a fantastic tapestry through which they inherit the experiences of those that lived before them, sweeping readers from Partition-era India to modern day Brooklyn. Ayukta is finally sitting...

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...

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...

Agatha of Little Neon

Agatha of Little Neon
  • Author(s): Claire Luchette
  • Location(s): Western New York
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2005

A group of nuns relocates from Western New York to Rhode Island and adjusts to their new life and with there. One in particular must venture outside her comfort zone and as she does she begins to question her...

All the Greys on Greene Street

All the Greys on Greene Street
  • Author(s): Laura Tucker
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1981, 1980s

A dazzling debut novel about resilience, courage, home and family.–Rebecca Stead, Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me. SoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist–and in her neighborhood, that’s normal. Her dad and his business partner Apollo bring...

All Through the Night

All Through the Night
  • Author(s): Mary Higgins Clark
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 1990s

At the center of the novel are two of Mary Higgins Clark’s most beloved characters, Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy, both of them caught up in a Christmas mystery that calls on all...

Alternate Side

Alternate Side
  • Author(s): Anna Quindlen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anna Quindlen follows her highly-praised novel Miller’s Valley – ‘reads like a companion to Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge’, Elisabeth Egan – with a captivating novel about money, class and self-discovery set in the heart of New York where the...

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