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Dog Fight

Dog Fight
  • Author(s): Matt Burgess
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Set Queens. lfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose-sorry, Tariq-is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now...

Don’t I know You?

Don’t I know You?
  • Author(s): Karen Shep
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

In Part 1 it is 1976 and twelve years old Steven Engels comes home to his family’s Upper West Side apartment only to discover the corpse of his single mother Gina who has been stabbed to death. A year...

Double Fault

Double Fault
  • Author(s): Lionel Shriver
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Love me, love my game’ says twenty-three year-old Willy Novinsky. Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy’s one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf. She’s a middle-ranked professional...

Downtown

Downtown
  • Author(s): Pete Hamill
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

Manhattan, the keystone of New York City, is a place of ghosts and buried memory. One can still see remnants of the British colony, the mansions of the robber barons, and the speakeasies of the 1920s. These are the...

Eat The City

Eat The City
  • Author(s): Robin Shulman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern and Various

New York is not a city for growing and manufacturing food. It’s a money and real estate city, with less naked earth and industry than high-rise glass and concrete. Yet in this intimate, visceral, and beautifully written book, Robin...

Elijah Rising

Elijah Rising
  • Author(s): Lyn LeJeune
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

A novel seen throught the eyes of two young men, a wealthy white New Yorker, Michael Cooke Holt and black preacher, Elijah Broom. Michael lives off his wealth and during one of his aimless wanderings to pass the time...

Ellis Island

Ellis Island
  • Author(s): Kate Kerrigan
  • Location(s): County Mayo, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady’s maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he is embroiled in his affairs in Ireland, and caught...

Empire Rising

Empire Rising
  • Author(s): Thomas Kelly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire...

Encore Valentine

Encore Valentine
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the same book as Brava, Valentine. Meet the Roncalli and Angelini families, artisans of handcrafted shoes in Greenwich Village since 1903. Valentine’s dreams are dashed when her grandmother names her brother and nemesis Alfred her partner at...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • Author(s): Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century/various

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade...

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