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Park Avenue Summer

Park Avenue Summer
  • Author(s): Renée Rosen
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Renee Rosen draws readers into the glamorous New York City of 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine, where a brazen new editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown – shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all...

Red Honey

Red Honey
  • Author(s): Saira Viola
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A collection of Noir inspired short stories and flash fiction showcasing hot spots in London LA and New York

Searching for Grace Kelly

Searching for Grace Kelly
  • Author(s): M G Callahan
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

For a small-town girl with big dreams in 1955, there is no address more desirable than New York’s Barbizon Hotel – the place where Grace Kelly lived when she first came to the big city. Laura is an aristocratic beauty...

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, LGBTQIA+, 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...

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