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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...

The Light We Lost

The Light We Lost
  • Author(s): Jill Santopolo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lucy and Gabe meet in New York on a day that will change their lives – and the world – forever. As the city burns behind them, they kiss for the very first time. Over the next thirteen years...

The Lions of Fifth Avenue

The Lions of Fifth Avenue
  • Author(s): Fiona Davis
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1913 and 1993

In nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis’s latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces. It’s 1913, and on the surface, Laura...

The Little Brooklyn Bakery

The Little Brooklyn Bakery
  • Author(s): Julie Caplin
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Take a trip to the best little bakery in Brooklyn, where there’s more than a sprinkle of romance and a slice of pie makes it feel like home! When Sophie Bennings arrives in New York, love is the last...

The Lonely City

The Lonely City
  • Author(s): Olivia Laing
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Latter half 20th Century

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art....

The Lost Steps

The Lost Steps
  • Author(s): Alejo Carpentier
  • Location(s): Amazon Rainforest, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York, takes a journey with his mistress to the remote upper reaches of a South American river, imagining he is retracing the lost steps of mankind

The Magnolia Palace

The Magnolia Palace
  • Author(s): Fiona Davis
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter’s life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought after artists’...

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