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The Barbizon

The Barbizon
  • Author(s): Paulina Bren
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th century

WELCOME TO THE BARBIZON, NEW YORK’S PREMIER WOMEN-ONLY HOTEL Built in 1927, New York’s Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the ‘Modern Woman’ seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for...

The Birdcage Library

The Birdcage Library
  • Author(s): Freya Berry
  • Location(s): Manhattan, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1880s/1930s

1932. Emily Blackwood, adventuress and plant hunter, travels north for a curious new commission. A gentleman has written to request she catalogue his vast collection of taxidermied creatures before sale. On arrival, Emily finds a ruined castle, its owner...

The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities
  • Author(s): Tom Wolfe
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

He wasn’t aging: he was growing up. Bonfire’s pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn’t just Wolfe’s best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from...

The Book Itch

The Book Itch
  • Author(s): Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far...

The Book of Stone

The Book of Stone
  • Author(s): Jonathan Papernick
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

A searing psychological thriller set in pre-9/11 Brooklyn in which a family’s dark history and an estranged son’s attempt to find meaning and purpose converge. Matthew Stone has inherited a troubling legacy: a gangster grandfather and a distant father—who...

The Bookstore

The Bookstore
  • Author(s): Deborah Meyler
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ardent and Idealistic, Esme Garland has arrived in Manhattan with a scholarship to study art history at Columbia University. When she falls in love with New York blue-blood Mitchell van Leuven, with his penchant for all things erotic, life...

The Breakaway

The Breakaway
  • Author(s): Jennifer Weiner
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Niagara Falls (NY)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and the power of a trip to change your life. Thirty-four-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a...

The Broken Window (Lincoln Rhyme Book 8)

The Broken Window (Lincoln Rhyme Book 8)
  • Author(s): Jeffery Deaver
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Companies know everything about you. So does he. He knows you, better than you even know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death. But you are not his only victim. He is also watching your...

The Caravaggio Conspiracy

The Caravaggio Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Alex Connor
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Italy, Palermo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1608 and 2014

1608. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the greatest Italian painter of his day, is expelled from the Order of the Knights of Malta. Subject to a clandestine hearing, his crime remains a closely guarded secret. 2014. Two bodies are found...

The Chelsea Girls

The Chelsea Girls
  • Author(s): Fiona Davis
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City’s creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets who have called it home –...

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