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The Chosen

The Chosen
  • Author(s): Chaim Potok
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1940s

In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father: Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic...

The City We Became

The City We Became
  • Author(s): N K Jemisin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

‘A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York’ Neil Gaiman on THE CITY WE BECAME ‘The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation… Jemisin seems able to do just about everything’ NEW...

The City We Became

The City We Became
  • Author(s): N K Jemisin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future

Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every city has a soul. Some are as...

THE COCOA GIRLS

THE COCOA GIRLS
  • Author(s): Annie Doyle
  • Location(s): Gateshead, London, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th and early 20th centuries

Gateshead, 1903 – four-year old Evie’s world crumbles when her grandmother dies. Evie’s unmarried mother Margaret and Aunt Dinah discover their mother’s death has left them deeply in debt to their vicious aunt. She orders the sisters into service...

The Colossus of New York

The Colossus of New York
  • Author(s): Colson Whitehead
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction

In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who...

The Cricket in Times Square

The Cricket in Times Square
  • Author(s): George Selden
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

One night, the sounds of New York City–the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices–is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of...

The Cuban Scar

The Cuban Scar
  • Author(s): Gabriel Hemingway, Nick Padron
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970-1980s

Inspired by factual events, The Cuban Scar begins when a young New York musician, Nelson Montes, discovers a videotape recording made by his deceased father detailing his participation in the John F. Kennedy assassination, “The greatest unsolved crime of...

The Drawing of the Three

The Drawing of the Three
  • Author(s): Stephen King
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Eddie Dean is a heroin junkie (1980’s). Odetta Holmes is a civil rights activist (1960’s), and Detta Walker is her dark other half. Jack Mort is a serial killer from the 1970’s. Together with Roland, King has assembled a...

The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights

The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
  • Author(s): Kitty Zeldis
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1924

Brooklyn, 1924. As New York City enters the jazz age, the lives of three very different women are about to converge in unexpected ways. Recently arrived from New Orleans, Beatrice is working to establish a chic new dress shop...

The Editor

The Editor
  • Author(s): Steven Rowley
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

A poignant, highly original novel about an author whose relationship with his very famous book editor will change him forever… fter years of struggling as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally gets his big break...

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