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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time

New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
  • Author(s): Craig Taylor
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): N/A

A symphony of contemporary New York told through the magnificent words of its people – from the best-selling author of Londoners. In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack,...

Night Shadows (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 4)

Night Shadows (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 4)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New York State
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

When a wealthy Wall Street commodity futures trader is found dead in his townhouse of an apparent drug overdose, Deputy Coroner Michael Antonetti, NYPD, is suspicious. Antonetti tells Detective Louis Martelli he suspects what appears to be a suicide...

Nightfall in New York

Nightfall in New York
  • Author(s): Katherine Woodfine
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The fourth and final adventure in the brilliant Taylor & Rose series by bestselling author, Katherine Woodfine. Top secret agents, Sophie Taylor and Lil Rose have set sail to New York City on an elegant ocean liner, ready to...

No Laughter Here

No Laughter Here
  • Author(s): Rita Williams-Garcia
  • Location(s): Nigeria, The Bronx
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia uses her vividly realistic voice to highlight an often taboo practice that affects millions of girls around the world every year, and to explore a perspective not often...

No Matter What

No Matter What
  • Author(s): Cara Bastone
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Roz and Vin can’t look each other in the eyes anymore, let alone share a bed. It’s been a year since they survived a traumatic car accident and their marriage hasn’t been the same. But Roz has held out...

Nobody But Us

Nobody But Us
  • Author(s): Laure Van Rensburg
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Chesapeake Bay
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Steven Harding is a handsome, well-respected professor. Ellie Masterson is a wide-eyed young college student. Together, they are driving south from New York, for their first holiday: three days in an isolated cabin, far from the city. Ahead of...

Nobody’s Fool

Nobody’s Fool
  • Author(s): Harlan Coben
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

A year after the devastating events that took place in Fool Me Once, a secret from former Detective Sami Kierce’s college days comes back to haunt him. Present day is hard enough for Kierce, but his past isn’t through...

Nothing Special

Nothing Special
  • Author(s): Nicole Flattery
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

A wildly original debut novel about two young women navigating the complex worlds of Andy Warhol’s Factory, and coming of age in 1960s New York New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a run-down apartment with her alcoholic...

Object Lessons

Object Lessons
  • Author(s): Anna Quindlen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City, and twelve-year-old Maggie Scanlan begins to sense that despite the calm surface of her peaceful life, everything is going strangely wrong. When her all-powerful grandfather is struck down by a...

Off-Island

Off-Island
  • Author(s): Marlene Hauser
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Krista Bourne has always been surrounded by the strength, love and wealth of her family and their homes in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard. She has never had to think for herself. Living with boyfriend Michael and her...

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