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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...

Arranged

Arranged
  • Author(s): Catherine McKenzie
  • Location(s): Mexico, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anne Blythe has a great life: a good job, close friends, and a potential book deal for her first novel. When it comes to finding someone to share her life with, however, she just can’t seem to get it...

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...

Audition

Audition
  • Author(s): Katie Kitamura
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young – young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she...

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...

Behold the Dreamers

Behold the Dreamers
  • Author(s): Imbolo Mbue
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2007

New York, 2007. After two long years apart, Jende Jonga has brought his wife Neni from Cameroon to join him in the land of opportunity. Drawn by the promise of America they are seeking the chance of a better...

Better Nate Than Ever

Better Nate Than Ever
  • Author(s): Tim Federle
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he’s wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he’d settle for *seeing* a Broadway show.) But how is Nate supposed to make his dreams come true when he’s stuck in...

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