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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
  • Author(s): Julia Alvarez
  • Location(s): Dominican Republic, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Yolanda Garcia is taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to revisit the country where she was born, and which her family was forced to flee for New York when she was a child. Previously privileged and wealthy, the...

How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days

How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days
  • Author(s): K M Jackson
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

USA Today bestselling author K.M. Jackson delivers a hilarious road-trip rom-com perfect for fans of Meet Cute and When Harry Met Sally. Bethany Lu Carlisle is devastated when the tabloids report actor Keanu Reeves is about to tie the knot....

I Have Lost My Way

I Have Lost My Way
  • Author(s): Gayle Forman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A brand-new, heart-wrenching novel from the bestselling author of If I Stay and I Was Here, Gayle Forman Around the time that Freya loses her voice while recording her debut album, Harun is making plans to run away from home to find the boy that he loves, and Nathaniel is arriving in New York City after a family tragedy leaves him isolated on the outskirts of Washington state. After the three of them collide in Central Park, they slowly reveal the parts of their past that they haven’t been able to confront,and together, they find their way back to who they’re supposed to be. Told over the course of a single day from three different perspectives, this is a story about the power of friendship and being true to who you are.

I Need You to Read This

I Need You to Read This
  • Author(s): Jessa Maxwell
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New York State
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Years ago, Alex Marks escaped to New York City for a fresh start. Now, aside from trips to her regular diner for coffee, she keeps to herself, gets her perfectly normal copywriting job done, and doesn’t date. Her quiet...

If Looks Could Kill

If Looks Could Kill
  • Author(s): Kate White
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Meet Bailey Weggins, the thirty-something, single-again true crime writer for a leading Manhattan woman’s magazine. Smart and savvy, she’s got a sixth sense when it comes to seeing the truth in a story-especially if it’s murder. Bailey’s in bed...

Ilustrado

Ilustrado
  • Author(s): Miguel Syjuco
  • Location(s): Manila, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins with a body. One anonymous winter day, the corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River. Gone is the controversial giant of Asian literature. And missing is the only manuscript of his final book, an...

In A New York Minute

In A New York Minute
  • Author(s): Kate Spencer
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Their love story has gone viral. But it hasn’t even begun . . . Franny Doyle is having the worst day. She’s been sacked, the subway doors ripped her favorite dress to ruins, and now she’s flashed her unmentionables...

In Five Years

In Five Years
  • Author(s): Rebecca Serle
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2020 and 2025

Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day, this heart-breaking story of love, loss and life will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about destiny… ‘Where do you see yourself in five years?’ Type-A Manhattan...

In Glass Houses

In Glass Houses
  • Author(s): Edel Coffey
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Twenty years ago, Eddie’s career as a journalist was destroyed by the Juliet Fox case. Juliet was young and beautiful, born into the privileged world of the Manhattan elite. Pulled into their orbit by her investigation, Eddie discovered how...

In the Midst of Winter

In the Midst of Winter
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds. Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms between three people thrown together by circumstance. Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his...

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