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Hello Beautiful

Hello Beautiful
  • Author(s): Ann Napolitano
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

A rich, compassionate tale of four sisters and the love affair that fractures their family Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls are seen as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Italian-American neighbourhood. Julia, the eldest, is the...

Her Heart for a Compass

Her Heart for a Compass
  • Author(s): Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York
  • Location(s): Ireland, London, New York City (NYC), Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s/70s

London 1865 In an attempt to rebel against a society where women are expected to conform, free-spirited Lady Margaret Montagu Scott flees her confines and an arranged marriage. But Lady Margaret’s parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, as...

Here Is New York

Here Is New York
  • Author(s): E B White
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1948

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten...

Hidden Steel

Hidden Steel
  • Author(s): Stuart Field
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), London, Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): modern

The second book of the John Steel thriller series. This finds John Steel on a mysterious Cruise ship on its maiden voyage, It’s a journey to go from Southhampton UK to New York via Spain. Steel finds there is...

His Whole Life

His Whole Life
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hay
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home. At the outset ten-year-old Jim...

Holiday in the Hamptons

Holiday in the Hamptons
  • Author(s): Sarah Morgan
  • Location(s): The Hamptons, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Mroden

Professional dog-walker Felicity Knight loves everything about New York…until her ex-husband starts working at her local vet clinic. She hasn’t seen Seth Carlyle in ten years, but one glimpse of him – too gorgeous, and still too good for...

Home Stretch

Home Stretch
  • Author(s): Graham Norton
  • Location(s): Ireland, Liverpool, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1987 onwards

Shame and longing can flow through generations, but the secrets of the heart will not be buried for ever. It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony a group...

Horse

Horse
  • Author(s): Geraldine Brooks
  • Location(s): Kentucky, New York City (NYC), Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current back to 1850

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky,...

House Of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Homicide Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD) (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series)

House Of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Homicide Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD) (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2009

“Cohen’s style is not unlike that found in novels by authors such as Dan Brown, or Tom Clancy, or even the late Michael Crichton.” Gary Sorkin for Pacific Book Review. The head of one of the largest investment banking...

House of Sticks

House of Sticks
  • Author(s): Ly Tran
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Queens
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century, 21st century

An intimate, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir recounting a young girl’ s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she...

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