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Isabelle in the Afternoon

Isabelle in the Afternoon
  • Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
  • Location(s): Paris, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic,...

Last Stop On The 6

Last Stop On The 6
  • Author(s): Patricia Dunn
  • Location(s): The Bronx
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1990s

Angela Campanosi fled her home in the Italian-American enclave of Pelham Bay, the Bronx, after an accident left her brother, Jimmy, an up-and-coming actor, paralyzed. Now, ten years later, on the eve of Jimmy’s wedding, anti-war activist Angela returns...

Little Deaths

Little Deaths
  • Author(s): Emma Flint
  • Location(s): Queens
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

It’s the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York shimmer in a heatwave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find a bedroom window wide open and her two young children missing. After a desperate search,...

Manhattan Transfer

Manhattan Transfer
  • Author(s): John Dos Passos
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Manhattan Transfer is an “expressionistic picture of New York” (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico’s to the underbelly of the...

Men Like Air

Men Like Air
  • Author(s): Tom Connolly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It is April in Manhattan and the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen-year-old Finn has just arrived in the city with his irrepressible and volatile girlfriend, Dilly, determined to even the score with his...

On the Town

On the Town
  • Author(s): Marshall Berman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An enteratining and cultural look at what Times Square represents… the teeming hub, the films, the brashnees, the iconography and the history. A delightfully informative book.

One Wish in Manhattan

One Wish in Manhattan
  • Author(s): Mandy Baggot
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Christmas: it’s the most wonderful time of the year…to fall in love The temperature is dropping, snow is on its way and Hayley Walker is heading for New York with one wish… to start over. With her daughter Angel,...

Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery

Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery
  • Author(s): Andrew Cotto
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Outerborough Blues is the story of a drifter, Caesar Stiles, immersed in a mystery that takes him to the hidden corners of a rapidly changing Brooklyn. The gritty search for a missing art student takes on a mythological sweep,...

Park Avenue Summer

Park Avenue Summer
  • Author(s): Renée Rosen
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Renee Rosen draws readers into the glamorous New York City of 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine, where a brazen new editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown – shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all...

Searching for Grace Kelly

Searching for Grace Kelly
  • Author(s): M G Callahan
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

For a small-town girl with big dreams in 1955, there is no address more desirable than New York’s Barbizon Hotel – the place where Grace Kelly lived when she first came to the big city. Laura is an aristocratic beauty...

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