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- Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
A searing psychological thriller set in pre-9/11 Brooklyn in which a family’s dark history and an estranged son’s attempt to find meaning and purpose converge. Matthew Stone has inherited a troubling legacy: a gangster grandfather and a distant father—who...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1940s
In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father: Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic...
- 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 Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
- Location(s): Brooklyn, Cairo, Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s, 1960s
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on...