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Manhattan Transfer

Manhattan Transfer
  • Author(s): John Dos Passos
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Manhattan Transfer is an “expressionistic picture of New York” (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico’s to the underbelly of the...

Men Like Air

Men Like Air
  • Author(s): Tom Connolly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It is April in Manhattan and the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen-year-old Finn has just arrived in the city with his irrepressible and volatile girlfriend, Dilly, determined to even the score with his...

On the Town

On the Town
  • Author(s): Marshall Berman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An enteratining and cultural look at what Times Square represents… the teeming hub, the films, the brashnees, the iconography and the history. A delightfully informative book.

One Wish in Manhattan

One Wish in Manhattan
  • Author(s): Mandy Baggot
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Christmas: it’s the most wonderful time of the year…to fall in love The temperature is dropping, snow is on its way and Hayley Walker is heading for New York with one wish… to start over. With her daughter Angel,...

Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery

Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery
  • Author(s): Andrew Cotto
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Outerborough Blues is the story of a drifter, Caesar Stiles, immersed in a mystery that takes him to the hidden corners of a rapidly changing Brooklyn. The gritty search for a missing art student takes on a mythological sweep,...

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...

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, 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 . . ....

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