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Always Orchid

Always Orchid
  • Author(s): Carol Van Den Hende
  • Location(s): China, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Shortlisted for the 2023 Hawthorne Prize for Fiction He almost let her go. Her past could tear them apart. But a love like theirs is worth fighting for… Phoenix Walker will never be the same. Nine months after a...

Among Friends

Among Friends
  • Author(s): Hal Ebbott
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four friends. A betrayal that should shatter their seemingly perfect lives. But will they let it? Amos and Emerson have been friends for more than thirty years. Despite vastly different backgrounds, the two now form an enviable portrait of...

An American Decade

An American Decade
  • Author(s): Richard Aronowitz
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

An American Decade is a novel that connects the current political climate with that of the tumultuous 1930s; a decade in which the world was changed forever. After the death of his wife, Christoph leaves Germany in 1930 and...

An Available Man

An Available Man
  • Author(s): Hilma Wolitzer
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. When Edward Schuyler, a modest...

An Englishman in New York: The Memoirs of John Miskin Prior 1948-49

An Englishman in New York: The Memoirs of John Miskin Prior 1948-49
  • Author(s): Simon Michael Prior
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940s

Have you ever wanted a first-hand glimpse into post-war 1940s New York? When 21-year-old John Miskin Prior travelled by ship to New York in 1948, he had no idea he was going to meet and dine with the Roosevelts...

Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood

Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood
  • Author(s): Frank McCourt
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1930s /40s

It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums – too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy’s drinking bouts constantly brings the family to the...

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...

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