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Go Tell it on the Mountain

Go Tell it on the Mountain
  • Author(s): James Baldwin
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

‘I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.’ Drawing on James Baldwin’s own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes....

Golden Hill

Golden Hill
  • Author(s): Francis Spufford
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1740s

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith, amiable,...

Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher 13)

Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher 13)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs.There are twelve things to look for.No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them. New York City.The subway, two o’clock in the...

Goodbye Orchid

Goodbye Orchid
  • Author(s): Carol Van Den Hende
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One of the most anticipated fall reads: Buzzfeed l Parade l Travel+Leisure. Winner: 2020 American Fiction Award l Pinnacle Achievement Award. “Page-turner” “Breath of awe” “Tugs on your soul” Can love blossom after life changes in an instant? One...

Gravesend

Gravesend
  • Author(s): William Boyle
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ray Boy Calabrese is released from prison 16 years after his actions led to the death of a young man. The victim’s brother, Conway D’Innocenzio, is a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite Aid, stuck in the...

Great Black Hope

Great Black Hope
  • Author(s): Rob Franklin
  • Location(s): Atlanta, New York City (NYC), The Hamptons
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An arrest for cocaine possession in the Hamptons on the last day of a sweltering summer leaves Smith, a young Black queer graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself...

Happy and You Know It

Happy and You Know It
  • Author(s): Laura Hankin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After her former band shot to superstardom without her, Claire reluctantly agrees to a gig as a playgroup musician for overprivileged infants on New York’s Park Avenue. Claire is surprised to discover that she is smitten with her new...

Happy as Larry: A New York Story of Cults, Crushes and Quaaludes

Happy as Larry: A New York Story of Cults, Crushes and Quaaludes
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1970s

After her beloved dad suddenly dies, teenage Saskia gets a crash course in growing up in after-hours New York. Her downwardly mobile family move from Gramercy Park to the seedy Upper West Side. Her mom becomes increasingly nihilistic and...

Harlem After Midnight

Harlem After Midnight
  • Author(s): Louise Hare
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

1936, September 17th, 1am… In the middle of Harlem, in the dead of night, a woman falls from a second storey window. In her hand, she holds a passport and the name written on it is Lena Aldridge… Nine...

Harlem Shuffle

Harlem Shuffle
  • Author(s): Colson Whitehead
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 1960s

To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on...

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