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Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge

Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge
  • Author(s): Ezzedine C Fishere
  • Location(s): Cairo, Brooklyn, Leiden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the eve of Salma’s twenty-first birthday, friends and family travel to New York for a celebration reluctantly organized by her grandfather Darwish. As the guests make their way to the party, each journey takes on a greater significance...

Enchanted, Inc.

Enchanted, Inc.
  • Author(s): Shanna Swendson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Katie Chandler had always heard that New York is a weird and wonderful place, but this small-town Texas gal had no idea how weird until she moved there. Everywhere she goes, she sees something worth gawking at and Katie...

Every Dead Thing

Every Dead Thing
  • Author(s): John Connolly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

EVIL TAKES MANY FORMS. PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CHARLIE PARKER HUNTS THEM ALL. Tormented and racked with guilt over the deaths of his wife and daughter, Charlie Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to track down a missing girl. It is...

Everyone Worth Knowing

Everyone Worth Knowing
  • Author(s): Lauren Weisberger
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Soon after Bette Robinson quits her horrendous Manhattan banking job like the impulsive girl she’s never been, the novelty of walking her four-pound dog around her unglamorous Murray Hill neighborhood wears as thin as the “What are you going...

Evil Eye

Evil Eye
  • Author(s): Etaf Rum
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of Palestinian-American women, the meaning of a fulfilling life, and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents....

Fake Accounts

Fake Accounts
  • Author(s): Lauren Oyler
  • Location(s): Berlin, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and the self in the age of the internet On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend’s phone and makes a startling...

Fifty Fifty

Fifty Fifty
  • Author(s): Steve Cavanagh
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two sisters on trial for murder. Both accuse each other. Who do YOU believe? Alexandra Avellino has just found her father’s mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She believes her sister killed him, and that she is...

Five Stories

Five Stories
  • Author(s): Ellen Weinstein
  • Location(s): Lower East Side
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City. Jenny Epstein and her family arrive on a steamship from Russia in the 1910s....

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
  • Author(s): Lauren Elkin
  • Location(s): Paris, London, New York City (NYC), Tokyo, Venice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Flâneuse , noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur , an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.’ If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then...

Following Frankenstein

Following Frankenstein
  • Author(s): Catherine Bruton
  • Location(s): Arctic, New York City (NYC), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A brilliantly-conceived and hugely imaginative ‘sequel’ to Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, Following Frankenstein is a hugely exciting and beautifully-written historical adventure, perfect for 9-12 year olds. Sometimes I was jealous of the monster of Frankenstein. I grew up believing my...

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