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Clap When You Land

Clap When You Land
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Acevedo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Dominican Republic
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): N/A

The stunning New York Times bestselling novel from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning, Waterstones Book Prize shortlisted author of THE POET X. 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Winner of CLAP WHEN YOU LAND. Camino Rios lives for the summers when...

Codename: Chimera

Codename: Chimera
  • Author(s): J K Persy
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present time

How do you track down a killer when he has no face? The corpse of a millionaire antique collector is found in New York on the eve of a major auction. The last thing he saw in the darkness,...

Color Me In

Color Me In
  • Author(s): Natasha Diaz
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A powerful coming-of-age novel pulled from personal experience about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds. Growing...

Commitment

Commitment
  • Author(s): Mona Simpson
  • Location(s): California, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from LA to college, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep depression. A single mother who believes that her children can attain all the things she...

Confessions

Confessions
  • Author(s): Catherine Airey
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago...

Cooking for Picasso

Cooking for Picasso
  • Author(s): Camille Aubray
  • Location(s): Juan-les-Pins, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s, present

“A tasty blend of romance, mystery, and French cooking.”–Margaret Atwood, via Twitter The French Riviera, spring 1936: It’s off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned...

Cool Machine

Cool Machine
  • Author(s): Colson Whitehead
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just...

Count My Lies

Count My Lies
  • Author(s): Sophie Stava
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New York State
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sloane Caraway is a liar. They are harmless lies, she tells herself, to make her own life a bit more interesting. So when she sees a child in tears in a playground one afternoon, she tells the girl’s (very...

Crook Manifesto

Crook Manifesto
  • Author(s): Colson Whitehead
  • Location(s): Harlem, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

1971 – Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner...

Dash And Lily’s Book Of Dares

Dash And Lily’s Book Of Dares
  • Author(s): David Levithan, Rachel Cohn
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I’ve left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please. At the urge of her lucky-in-love brother, sixteen-year-old Lily has left a red notebook full...

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