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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...

The Last to See Her

The Last to See Her
  • Author(s): Courtney Evan Tate
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A woman disappears into the dark city night… Gen is on the verge of a divorce from her cheating husband. When her sister, Meg, has a convention to attend in the Big Apple, she invites Gen along to celebrate...

The Leftover Woman

The Leftover Woman
  • Author(s): Jean Kwok
  • Location(s): China, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China’s one-child-policy. Fleeing...

The Letter Writer

The Letter Writer
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

The first thing Woodrow Cain sees when he steps off the train in New York City on February 9, 1942, is smoke from an ocean liner in flames in the harbor. It’s the Normandie, and word on the street...

The Librarians of Rue de Picardie

The Librarians of Rue de Picardie
  • Author(s): Janet Skeslien Charles
  • Location(s): France, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1918 / 1987

Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book… 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from...

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