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Brookland

Brookland
  • Author(s): Emily Barton
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

Since her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across the tidal straits from her home in Brooklyn to the city of Manhattan and yearned to bridge the distance. Now, firmly established as the owner of an enormously successful gin distillery...

Brown Girls

Brown Girls
  • Author(s): Daphne Palasi Andreades
  • Location(s): Queens
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Brown Girls dives deep into the lives of a group of young women of colour growing up in Queens, New York. Here, streets echo with many languages, subways rumble above dollar stores and the briny scent of the ocean...

Cain’s Book

Cain’s Book
  • Author(s): Alexander Trocchi
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Joe’s world is the half-world of drugs and addicts — the world of furtive fixes in sordid...

Central Park West

Central Park West
  • Author(s): James Comey
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One chance to crack the case. A million ways to lose. Federal prosecutor Nora Carleton has spent years building a case against a powerful New York mobster. She finally has a star witness whose testimony will lock the defendant...

Central Places

Central Places
  • Author(s): Delia Cai
  • Location(s): Illinois, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Audrey Zhou left Hickory Grove, the tiny central Illinois town where she grew up, as soon as high school ended, and she never looked back. She moved to New York City and became the person she always wanted to...

Chasing Harry Winston

Chasing Harry Winston
  • Author(s): Lauren Weisberger
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing returns with the story of three best friends who vow to change their entire lives…and change them fast. Emmy is newly single, and not by choice. She...

Chinatown Family

Chinatown Family
  • Author(s): Lin Yutang
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

Lin Yutang (1895-1976), author of more than thirty-five books, was arguably the most distinguished Chinese American writer of the twentieth century. In Chinatown Family, he brings humor and wisdom to issues of culture, race, and religion as he tells...

Christodora

Christodora
  • Author(s): Tim Murphy
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s onwards

Moving from the Tompkins Square Riots and attempts by activists to galvanize a response to the AIDS epidemic, to the New York City of the future, Tim Murphy’s Christodora recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, illustrates the allure and...

City on Fire

City on Fire
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Midnight, New Year’s Eve, 1976. Nine lives are about to be changed forever. Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, heirs to one of New York’s greatest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and...

City Secrets: New York

City Secrets: New York
  • Author(s): Robert Kahn
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

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