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The Education of Margot Sanchez

The Education of Margot Sanchez
  • Author(s): Lilliam Rivera
  • Location(s): The Bronx
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pretty in Pink comes to the South Bronx in this bold and romantic coming-of-age novel about dysfunctional families, good and bad choices, and finding the courage to question everything you ever thought you wanted–from debut author Lilliam Rivera. Things/People...

The End Of Summer

The End Of Summer
  • Author(s): Charlotte Philby
  • Location(s): Cape Cod, Languedoc Roussillon, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Your mother is not who you think she is… When the phone rings in Judy McVee’s Languedoc farmhouse, she knows her past has finally caught up with her. It’s her daughter, frantically asking why there are journalists on her...

The Engineer’s Wife

The Engineer’s Wife
  • Author(s): Tracey Enerson Wood
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800’s

Based on the true story of Emily Warren Roebling, whose life is transformed when she must complete her husband’s magnum opus—the Brooklyn Bridge, a project of unthinkable scale that takes her into the bowels of the East River, suffragette...

The Exchange

The Exchange
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), London, Marrakech, Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Exchange is John Grisham’s epic follow-up to his phenomenal global bestseller The Firm, the novel that launched his career as the world’s favourite storyteller – it will take you on a rollercoaster journey across the globe, from New...

The Execution

The Execution
  • Author(s): Dick Wolf
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Soon after the Mexican presidential election, twenty-three bodies are discovered beheaded on the United States border, each marked with a unique symbol – a carving of a hummingbird. Detective Cecilia Garza of the Mexican intelligence agency recognizes it as...

The Falconer

The Falconer
  • Author(s): Dana Czapnik
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, Lucy is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate...

The Family

The Family
  • Author(s): Naomi Krupitsky
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): From the 1920s

A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit,...

The Forrests

The Forrests
  • Author(s): Emily Perkins
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Auckland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the...

The Fortunate Pilgrim

The Fortunate Pilgrim
  • Author(s): Mario Puzo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Before The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo’s classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell’s Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa...

The Fragments

The Fragments
  • Author(s): Toni Jordan
  • Location(s): Brisbane, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1980s, 1930s

Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book — and a mystery that has captivated generations of readers. Nearly...

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