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Bittersweet Chocolate

Bittersweet Chocolate
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

In the third and final installment of Martha Reynolds’s award-winning Chocolate series, Bernadette Maguire’s story is about to come full-circle… But is she ready for what her future holds? It’s been five years since Bernie married Gary, a dear...

Black Buck

Black Buck
  • Author(s): Mateo Askaripour
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A New York Times best seller, Black Buck is a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like and wildly successful start-up where nothing is...

Blackout

Blackout
  • Author(s): Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Dhonielle Clayton, Nic Stone, Nicola Yoon, Tiffany D. Jackson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 21st century

The irresistible blockbuster YA romance of summer 2021 that celebrates Black love stories, by six of the biggest voices in YA. Perfect for fans of Jenny Han, Netflix’s Let it Snow and Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour. When a...

Book of Forbidden Words

Book of Forbidden Words
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1550s / 1950s

1552, Paris: Against a backdrop of turmoil, suspicion, and paranoia, the printing press is quickly spreading new ideas across Europe, threatening the power of church and state and unleashing a wave of book burning and heretic hunting. When frightened...

BOOTLEG BROADWAY

BOOTLEG BROADWAY
  • Author(s): Diana Rubino
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Prohibition, 1930s

It’s 1932. Prohibition rages, the Depression ravages, and Billy McGlory comes of age whether he wants to or not. Musical and adventurous, Billy dreams of having his own ritzy supper club and big band. On the eve of his...

Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl
  • Author(s): Meg Cabot
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Meet Kate Mackenzie. She: – works for the T.O.D. (short for Tyrannical Office Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Division at the New York Journal) – is sleeping on the couch because her boyfriend...

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  • Author(s): Truman Capote
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn’s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is Truman Capote’s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in Penguin Modern Classics. It’s New York in the 1940s,...

Brewed Awakening

Brewed Awakening
  • Author(s): Cleo Coyle
  • Location(s): Greenwich Village
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No 18 in the Coffeehouse Mystery series. When coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi awakens on a bench in Washington Square Park, she has no idea she’s been missing for days, or that her friends and family have been frantic with...

Bright Lines

Bright Lines
  • Author(s): Tanwi Nandini Islam
  • Location(s): Bangladesh, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A vibrant debut novel, set in Brooklyn and Bangladesh, Bright Lines follows three young women and one family struggling to make peace with secrets and their past. For as long as she can remember, Ella has longed to feel...

Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things
  • Author(s): Anna Godbersen
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1929

The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties. Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town...

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