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Stories From the Tenants Downstairs

Stories From the Tenants Downstairs
  • Author(s): Sidik Fofana
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Banneker Terrace on 129th and Fred Doug ain’t pretty, but it’s home. Home to young and old, folk just trying to get by. Cookouts with beer and wings, summertime with souped-up cars bumpin music. People don’t come here for...

Stowaways

Stowaways
  • Author(s): André Aciman
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Maybe we love people because they won’t let us know them.’ A summer’s evening in Manhattan. Nothing – not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore – can undo the heat’s...

Strength in what Remains

Strength in what Remains
  • Author(s): Tracy Kidder
  • Location(s): Burundi, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Strength in What Remains recounts the remarkable experiences of Deo, a medical student from Burundi who narrowly survived two genocides, first in his own country, then Rwanda. Through sheer fortitude, and the astonishing kindness of strangers, Deo fled to...

Stuart Little

Stuart Little
  • Author(s): E B White
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945

Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he’s shy and thoughtful, he’s also a true lover...

Suite Scarlett

Suite Scarlett
  • Author(s): Maureen Johnson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Her new summer job comes with baggage Scarlett Martin has grown up in a most unusual way. Her family owns the Hopewell, a small Art Deco hotel in the heart of New York City. When each of the Martins...

Summer Fridays

Summer Fridays
  • Author(s): Suzanne Rindell
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, New Adult
  • Era(s): 1999

Summer 1999: Sawyer is striving to make it in New York. Between her assistant job in publishing, her secret dreams of becoming a writer, and her upcoming wedding to her college boyfriend, it feels like the perfect life could...

Summer in the City

Summer in the City
  • Author(s): Alex Aster
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter, Elle, has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She’s had writer’s block for months, and her screenplay is due by the end of the summer....

Sweetbitter

Sweetbitter
  • Author(s): Stephanie Danler
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Tess is the 22-year-old narrator of this stunning first novel. Moving to New York, a place at the centre of the universe, from a place that feels like ‘nowhere to live’, she lands a job at a renowned Union...

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
  • Author(s): James Baldwin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For...

Ten Years Later

Ten Years Later
  • Author(s): Lisa Marie Latino
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Carla D’Agostino is not your typical heroine. Stuck in a seemingly dead-end job, single, and still living with her overbearing Italian-American parents, Carla is thrown for a loop when she realizes her ten-year high school reunion is fast approaching....

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