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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...

The Island at the Center of the World

The Island at the Center of the World
  • Author(s): Russell Shorto
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): pre 1664

When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of...

The Knowing

The Knowing
  • Author(s): Emma Hinds
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

In the slums of 19th-century New York. A tattooed mystic fights for her life. Her survival hangs on the turn of a tarot card. Powerful, intoxicating and full of suspense. The Knowing is a darkly spellbinding novel about a...

The Last Book Party

The Last Book Party
  • Author(s): Karen Dukess
  • Location(s): Truro (Cape Cod), New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1980s

A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the timeless beaches of Cape Cod. In the summer of 1987, 25-year-old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low-level...

The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan

The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan
  • Author(s): Beth Merlin, Danielle Modafferi
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a young woman hits rock bottom, she embarks on a positively Dickensian adventure in a witty and warmhearted novel about past regrets, old loves, new beginnings, and making up for lost time. Avery Lawrence thought she had it...

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