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Old New York: Four Novellas

Old New York: Four Novellas
  • Author(s): Edith Wharton
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Novella
  • Era(s): 1840s, 50s, 60s, and 70s

Set in the New York of the 1840s, ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, the four short novels in this collection each reveal the tribal codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is uniquely Edith Wharton’s....

Omerta

Omerta
  • Author(s): Mario Puzo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Omertà, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia’s sense of honour for centuries. Born in the Sicilian hills, omertà carried the Mafia through a hundred years of change, but now at the century’s end...

On Green Dolphin Street

On Green Dolphin Street
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): Washington DC, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

The bestselling author of “Birdsong” and “Charlotte Gray” delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks’...

One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss

One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping:  The Diary of Julie Weiss
  • Author(s): Barry Denenberg
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1938

This special Dear Ameirca edition is actually two stories in a single volume. In part one of a two-part story, Julie Weiss’s world is suddenly torn apart by a war that will forever change the face of humanity. Her...

One Night, New York

One Night, New York
  • Author(s): Lara Thompson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s

A THRILLING DEBUT NOVEL OF CORRUPTION AND MURDER, SET IN THE NIGHTCLUBS, TENEMENTS AND SKYSCRAPERS OF 1930s NEW YORK – FROM THE WINNER OF THE VIRAGO/THE POOL NEW CRIME WRITER AWARD. At the top of the Empire State Building...

Only in New York

Only in New York
  • Author(s): Melissa Hill
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

LA Publicist Hannah is ready to put her broken heart behind her and start afresh. So when a celebrity client offers to lend her a luxury penthouse apartment in New York City, Hannah jumps at the chance. But it...

Orchid Blooming

Orchid Blooming
  • Author(s): Carol Van Den Hende
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A childhood tragedy followed her into adult life. Will she ever claim real happiness again? Kind and generous, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident, the beauty...

Ordinary Love

Ordinary Love
  • Author(s): Marie Rutkoski
  • Location(s): Manhattan, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s no such thing as an ordinary love story When Emily catches sight of Gennifer Hall at a party, she is transported back to the moment they fell in love as teenagers. Their connection was electric, and they thought...

Oreo

Oreo
  • Author(s): Fran Ross
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note. Oreo’s quest is to find...

Our Man in New York

Our Man in New York
  • Author(s): Henry Hemming
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): World War II

From the bestselling author of M, this is the fascinating and lively history of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert operation to manipulate American public opinion and bring the USA into the Second World War. William Stephenson...

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