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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 –...

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 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...

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