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Luster

Luster
  • Author(s): Raven Leilani
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No one wants what no one wants. And how do we even know what we want? How do we know we’re ready to take it? Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties—sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking...

Maeve in America

Maeve in America
  • Author(s): Maeve Higgins
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

A timely essay collection about life, love, and becoming an American from breakout comedy star and podcaster Maeve Higgins Maeve Higgins was a bestselling memoirist and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old age of thirty-one,...

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
  • Author(s): Stephen Crane
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1892

In 1892 Stephen Crane (1871-1900) published Maggie, Girl of the Streets at his own expense. Considered at the time to be immature, it was a failure. Since that time it has come to be considered one of the earliest...

Malee: A Tear in the Ocean

Malee: A Tear in the Ocean
  • Author(s): William McAllister
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Koh Samui, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A novel of international romance. Michael could not have known when he flew into Bangkok to launch a new company that his life would change so dramatically. Working on million dollar negotiations during the day and spending tropical nights...

Manhattan Beach

Manhattan Beach
  • Author(s): Jennifer Egan
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on...

Manhattan Ember

Manhattan Ember
  • Author(s): Olive Collins
  • Location(s): Manhattan, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Marguerite Kelley’s childhood home was dominated by the disappearance of her uncle who vanished into thin air. On a windy morning in November 1905, she is the first to hear about the discovery of a skeleton tucked under the...

Manhunting in Manhattan

Manhunting in Manhattan
  • Author(s): Amy Killingbeck, Saoirse Cussane
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Finding herself single in her forties after making the move to New York, or more accurately, suburban New York, Lilith feels trapped. This wasn’t the life she’d envisaged for herself. … Until something started to shift. With a newly...

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
  • Author(s): Steven Millhauser
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 19th - early 20th centuries

Martin Dressler is a turn-of-the-century New York City entrepreneur who begins in his father’s cigar store but dreams of a bigger empire. That dream shapes into a series of large hotels. At first, Dressler seems the archetypal American success...

Meet Kirsten: An American Girl

Meet Kirsten: An American Girl
  • Author(s): Janet Beeler Shaw
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

Kirsten Larson is a pioneer girl of strength and spirit growing up on the Minnesota prairie in 1854. Kirsten’s stories begin with her long, dangerous voyage with her family from Sweden to America. At first, Kirsten finds it difficult...

Merlin at War

Merlin at War
  • Author(s): Mark Ellis
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Cairo, France, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW II

War rages across Europe. France is under the Nazi thumb. Britain has its back to the wall. In London, Scotland Yard detective Merlin investigates a series of disturbing events – a young girl killed in a botched abortion, a...

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