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Old New York: Four Novellas

Old New York: Four Novellas
  • Author(s): Edith Wharton
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Novella
  • Era(s): 1840s, 50s, 60s, and 70s

Set in the New York of the 1840s, ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, the four short novels in this collection each reveal the tribal codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is uniquely Edith Wharton’s....

Omerta

Omerta
  • Author(s): Mario Puzo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Omertà, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia’s sense of honour for centuries. Born in the Sicilian hills, omertà carried the Mafia through a hundred years of change, but now at the century’s end...

On Green Dolphin Street

On Green Dolphin Street
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): Washington DC, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

The bestselling author of “Birdsong” and “Charlotte Gray” delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks’...

One Night, New York

One Night, New York
  • Author(s): Lara Thompson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s

A THRILLING DEBUT NOVEL OF CORRUPTION AND MURDER, SET IN THE NIGHTCLUBS, TENEMENTS AND SKYSCRAPERS OF 1930s NEW YORK – FROM THE WINNER OF THE VIRAGO/THE POOL NEW CRIME WRITER AWARD. At the top of the Empire State Building...

Orchid Blooming

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

A childhood tragedy followed her into adult life. Will she ever claim real happiness again? Kind and generous, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident, the beauty...

Oreo

Oreo
  • Author(s): Fran Ross
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note. Oreo’s quest is to find...

Our Man in New York

Our Man in New York
  • Author(s): Henry Hemming
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): World War II

From the bestselling author of M, this is the fascinating and lively history of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert operation to manipulate American public opinion and bring the USA into the Second World War. William Stephenson...

Our Missing Hearts

Our Missing Hearts
  • Author(s): Celeste Ng
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Boston
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): The near future

‘Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere took off (and became a Reese Witherspoon-helmed TV show). Now she’s back with a politically charged tale of 12-year-old Bird Gardner, a Chinese-American child growing up in a dystopian America where difference is being stamped out’ The...

P.S. Be Eleven

P.S. Be Eleven
  • Author(s): Rita Williams-Garcia
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1960s

After spending the summer in Oakland, California, with their mother and the Black Panthers, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern arrive home with a newfound streak of independence. That doesn’t sit well with Big Ma, who doesn’t like the way things...

Paper Names

Paper Names
  • Author(s): Susie Luo
  • Location(s): China, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

Taut, panoramic and powerful; Paper Names is an unforgettable debut about the long shadows of our parents, the ripple effects of our decisions and the ways in which our love transcends difference. Outside a New York apartment building, an...

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