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The Herd

The Herd
  • Author(s): Andrea Bartz
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Why did the founder of a glamorous coworking space for women disappear? Her best friends will risk everything to uncover the truth. The name of the elite women-only coworking space stretches across the wall behind the check-in desk: THE...

The Horn

The Horn
  • Author(s): John Clellon Holmes
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

From the acclaimed Beat Generation author of Go: The classic jazz novel of New York’s bebop scene and a brilliant musician’s tragic fall. Edgar Pool came up with the big bands. He spent the 1930s crisscrossing the country, playing...

The Hottest State

The Hottest State
  • Author(s): Ethan Hawke
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In this slim debut novel, he tells a coming-of-age tale of a fairly unpleasant young actor from Texas named William who lives in Manhattan and is working his way through an ugly little relationship with a singer/songwriter named Sarah....

The House Girl

The House Girl
  • Author(s): Tara Conklin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1852 and 2004

A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York Virginia, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the...

The House Guest

The House Guest
  • Author(s): Mark Watson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A perfect summer. A perfect stranger. A perfect nightmare. When British twenty-somethings Ruth and Adam are offered the chance to spend the summer housesitting in New York, they can’t say no. Young, in love and on the cusp of...

The House of Impossible Beauties

The House of Impossible Beauties
  • Author(s): Joseph Cassara
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

A gritty and gorgeous debut inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the...

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth
  • Author(s): Edith Wharton
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s

Edith Wharton’s dark view of society, the somber economics of marriage, and the powerlessness of the unwedded woman in the 1870s emerge dramatically in the tragic novel The House of Mirth. Faced with an array of wealthy suitors, New...

THE IMMORALIST

THE IMMORALIST
  • Author(s): Nathan Senthil
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He spent years training to kill. Now there is no stopping him. One grim morning, New York is shocked by the gruesome killing of four prominent individuals in the community. A serial killer has lined them up for a...

The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss
  • Author(s): Kiran Desai
  • Location(s): West Bengal, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai’s extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for...

The Intercept

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

Days before the July Fourth holiday and the dedication of One World Trade Center at Ground Zero, an incident aboard a commercial jet reminds everyone involved that vigilance saves lives. But New York Police detective Jeremy Fisk—from the department’s...

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