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Lady Be Good

Lady Be Good
  • Author(s): Amber Brock
  • Location(s): Havana, Miami, New York City (NYC)
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in the 1950s, Lady Be Good marks Amber Brock’s mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the world of the mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate and the electric nightlife of three iconic cities: New York, Miami, and Havana....

Last Night in Brooklyn

Last Night in Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Xochitl Gonzalez
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2007

SPRING, 2007 At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She’s in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her mother’s beliefs, saving up for her wedding to a future doctor. But after Alicia ventures out one...

Last Prophecy of Rome

Last Prophecy of Rome
  • Author(s): Iain King
  • Location(s): Iraq, Istanbul (Constantinople), New York City (NYC), Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

NEW YORK: A delivery van hurtling through Wall Street, blows up, showering the sky with a chilling message: America is about to be brought down like the Roman Empire. And there is only one man that can stop it...

Learning to Love Africa: My Journey from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back

Learning to Love Africa: My Journey from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back
  • Author(s): Monique Maddy
  • Location(s): Liberia, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the remote mountains of Liberia to the epicenter of New York City, Monique Maddy’s life has been an extraordinary journey from an idyllic community to the chaos of city living. But Learning to Love Africais far more than...

Let the Devil Sleep

Let the Devil Sleep
  • Author(s): John Verdon
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The most decorated homicide detective in NYPD history, Dave Gurney is still trying to adjust to his life of quasi-retirement in upstate New York when a young woman who is producing a documentary on a notorious murder spree seeks...

Letter From a Stranger

Letter From a Stranger
  • Author(s): Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey), Connecticut, Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), New York City (NYC), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2004; 1938-1945

Captivating and evocative, Letter from a Stranger will take you on an unforgettable journey from idyllic Connecticut to exotic Istanbul to war-torn Berlin then back to the present day. When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful...

Libby and the Manhattan Mystery

Libby and the Manhattan Mystery
  • Author(s): Becka Moor (Illustrator), Jo Clarke
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

3: The Travelling School Mysteries The travelling school arrives in New York, and Libby and her friends find themselves organising a charity auction alongside Hollywood star Eloise Fitzwilliam. But something isn’t right. Why is Eloise’s friend Count Alvarez acting...

Library of the Dead

Library of the Dead
  • Author(s): Glenn Cooper
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he’s claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have...

Lilac Girls

Lilac Girls
  • Author(s): Martha Hall Kelly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris, Ravensbrück
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939–and then sets...

Lilith: Demon of the Night (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 3)

Lilith: Demon of the Night (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 3)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New York State
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

When a man walks into a Catholic church just prior to the start of a funeral service, stuffs garlic into the deceased’s mouth and pumps a bullet into the corpse, NYPD Homicide Detective Louis Martelli is as puzzled as...

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