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Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum

Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
  • Author(s): Edward T O'Donnell
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

There were few experienced swimmers among over 1,300 Lower East Side residents who boarded the General Slocum on June 15, 1904. It shouldn’t have mattered, since the steamship was chartered only for a languid excursion from Manhattan to Long...

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
  • Author(s): Sophie Kinsella
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): very early 2000s

With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky Bloomwood’s biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. That is, until...

Shot in the Dark

Shot  in the Dark
  • Author(s): Cleo Coyle
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into a hookup hotspot–until a gunshot turns the landmark coffeehouse into a crime scene. As Village Blend manager Clare Cosi fixes a date for her wedding, her ex-husband is making dates...

Siblings: Kit’s Story

Siblings: Kit’s Story
  • Author(s): Hilary Coombes
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): 1980s

Kit said she was fine. She lied. She said she didn’t care. She cared deeply. Kit’s story is one of control, deception, infertility and guilt, but most of all it’s one of a young woman who longs to be...

Silver Bells

Silver Bells
  • Author(s): Luanne Rice
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Every year on the first day of December, Christopher Byrne traveled from his farm in Nova Scotia to sell his Christmas trees on the streets of Manhattan. But this year there’d be no cheer for the widower and his...

Sing, Wild Bird, Sing

Sing, Wild Bird, Sing
  • Author(s): Jacqueline O’Mahony
  • Location(s): West Ireland, New York City (NYC), The American West
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

A courageous woman journeys from nineteenth-century Ireland to the American West in a powerful novel about the indomitable will to survive—and to flourish—against nearly impossible odds. It’s 1849 on the west coast of Ireland. Resilient Honora O’Donoghue is accustomed...

Size 12 Is Not Fat

Size 12 Is Not Fat
  • Author(s): Meg Cabot
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Heather Wells Rocks! Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two — and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom...

Snow in August

Snow in August
  • Author(s): Pete Hamill
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

In 1940s Brooklyn, friendship between an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish rabbi might seem as unlikely as, well, snow in August. But the relationship between young Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch is only one of...

Snow White in New York

Snow White in New York
  • Author(s): Fiona French
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1920s

This is the tale of Snow White, transposed to New York in the 1920s. Snow White’s wicked stepmother uses her position of influence in the city’s underworld to contract the killing of Snow White. But the hired gun cannot...

Social Creature

Social Creature
  • Author(s): Tara Isabella Burton
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan’ Guardian, Books of the Year Lavinia has it all. Lavinia has an apartment on the Upper East Side. Lavinia goes to glittering parties that last from dusk...

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