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Silenced Girls (Agent Tori Hunter #1)

Silenced Girls (Agent Tori Hunter #1)
  • Author(s): Roger Stelljes
  • Location(s): Minnesota, Iowa, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Guilt has kept FBI Agent Tori Hunter away from her home in Manchester Bay, Minnesota for twenty years, ever since her twin sister disappeared on the Fourth of July, when the girls should have been together. But when she...

Terminal Value

Terminal Value
  • Author(s): Thomas Waite
  • Location(s): Boston, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

“Be careful what you wish for.” That’s a warning Dylan Johnson should have listened to. When his mobile computing firm is bought out by Mantric Technology, a red-hot company about to go public, it seems like a dream come...

That Green Eyed Girl

That Green Eyed Girl
  • Author(s): Julie Owen Moylan
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, LGBTQ+, Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

1955: In an apartment on the Lower East Side, school teachers Dovie and Gillian live as lodgers. Dancing behind closed curtains, mixing cocktails for two, they guard their private lives fiercely. Until someone guesses the truth . . ....

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence
  • Author(s): Edith Wharton
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Wharton’s story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer’s impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of...

The Biology of Luck

The Biology of Luck
  • Author(s): Jacob M Appel
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Odd-job queen Starshine Hart is about to go on somebody else’s perfect date. At 29, the usually carefree Starshine has realized that it is easier to start sleeping with a man than to stop. Her lovers include one of...

The Dakota Winters

The Dakota Winters
  • Author(s): Tom Barbash
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1979

‘Conjures a gritty, populous, affectionate portrait of 1979 New York City’ Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach It’s the fall of 1979 when 23-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout...

The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle
  • Author(s): Jeannette Walls
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist’s journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her...

The Immortalists

The Immortalists
  • Author(s): Chloe Benjamin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From 1969

It’s 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York’s Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young...

The Leavers

The Leavers
  • Author(s): Lisa Ko
  • Location(s): The Bronx, China, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Masterpiece

The Masterpiece
  • Author(s): Fiona Davis
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1928 and 1974

Takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women strive to make their mark on a world set against them. In 1928 25 year-old Clara is a talented illustrator, with dreams...

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