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Deacon King Kong

Deacon King Kong
  • Author(s): James McBride
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1969

The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportscoat shoots – for no apparent reason – the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church’s baseball team. The...

Death Angel

Death Angel
  • Author(s): Linda Fairstein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime

‘Maybe she blessed the waters a century ago, but now she’s a magnet for murder. She’s an angel all right,’ Mike said, staring at the beautiful sunlit figure that towered over us. ‘A death angel.’ In New York’s Central...

Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series Book 1)

Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series Book 1)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Guthrie Center, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2010

Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls, a murder mystery, is based on real events. It is the story of how the oligarchs of Wall Street, doctors and others in the pharmaceutical research profession having significant conflicts of...

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman
  • Author(s): Arthur Miller
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don’t put a bolt to a nut, he don’t tell you the law or give you medicine. He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on...

Delicious!

Delicious!
  • Author(s): Ruth Reichl
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ruth Reichl is a born storyteller. Through her restaurant reviews, where she celebrated the pleasures of a well-made meal, and her bestselling memoirs that address our universal feelings of love and loss, Reichl has achieved a special place in...

Delirious New York

Delirious New York
  • Author(s): Rem Koolhaas
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first...

Desperate Characters

Desperate Characters
  • Author(s): Paula Fox
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A Great American Novel – from the author of ‘Borrowed Finery’. Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless steel kitchen is newly installed, and their...

Dominicana

Dominicana
  • Author(s): Angie Cruz
  • Location(s): Dominican Republic, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1965

Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to...

Dreams in the Golden Country

Dreams in the Golden Country
  • Author(s): Kathryn Lasky
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1903

In a vibrant and colorful portrait of a Jewish family, this is the diary of a Russian immigrant girl who begins a new life on the Lower East Side of New York City.

Drive

Drive
  • Author(s): John Nuckel
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern back to 1800s

In the late 1800s, a secret society is formed by a captain from Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders with the support of the nation’s leading industrialists and bankers. Over a century later, the tradition continues, in the same saloons and...

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