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Recipe for a Perfect Wife

Recipe for a Perfect Wife
  • Author(s): Karma Brown
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary, 1950s

When Alice Hale leaves a career to become a writer and follows her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. But when she finds a vintage cookbook...

Recursion

Recursion
  • Author(s): Blake Crouch
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just...

Red at the Bone

Red at the Bone
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Woodson
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Comtemporary

“…a dazzling portrait of Brooklyn..” Red Magazine An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of ANOTHER BROOKLYN and BROWN GIRL DREAMING. Two families...

Red Pill

Red Pill
  • Author(s): Hari Kunzru
  • Location(s): Paris, Berlin, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of “Red Pill” arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he...

Revolution

Revolution
  • Author(s): Jennifer Donnelly
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern, French Revolution (18th century)

BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying...

Room on the Sea

Room on the Sea
  • Author(s): André Aciman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Have you ever had the sense that maybe all lives are nothing more than the chronicle of countless stinging might-have-beens that continue to haunt us? In the scorching New York heat, a hundred people wait to be selected as...

Rooted

Rooted
  • Author(s): Idabel Allen
  • Location(s): Tennessee, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Working his lifetime to bury a shameful past and restore the family name, Grover McQuiston rules the town of Moonsock, Tennessee and his family with an iron fist. Or he did, until his eerily skittish tomboy granddaughter, Sarah Jane,...

Rosemary’s Baby

Rosemary’s Baby
  • Author(s): Ira Levin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unaware that the elderly neighbors and their bizarre group of friends have taken a disturbing interest in them. But by the time Rosemary discovers...

Russian Reckoning

Russian Reckoning
  • Author(s): Joyce Yarrow
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Russia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Early twenty-first century

Roped into helping her socially inept émigré stepfather, Nikolai, escape the clutches of a blackmailer, performance poet and private investigator Jo Epstein enters a world where criminals enforce a 19th-century code of honor, threats arrive inside not-so-traditional Matryoshka (nesting)...

Saint X

Saint X
  • Author(s): Alexis Schaltkin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family’s vacation. Several days later Alison’s body is found in...

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