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The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1924
Brooklyn, 1924. As New York City enters the jazz age, the lives of three very different women are about to converge in unexpected ways. Recently arrived from New Orleans, Beatrice is working to establish a chic new dress shop...
- 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,...
- 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 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...
- Location(s): County Wexford, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990's to 2020
It’s time to curl up with Carmel… When your heart belongs in two places, can you ever truly find home? Brooklyn, New York, Bea has grown up in the heart of the Irish community, always hearing stories of home....
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Era(s): 1940s and 1950s
On a gloomy February afternoon, Jim sends his wife Annie out to do the shopping before dark falls. He seals their meagre apartment, unhooks the gas tube inside the oven, and inhales. Sister St. Saviour, a Little Nursing Sister...
- Location(s): Miami, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox...
- Location(s): Aleppo, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Consistently receiving 5-star ratings, The Other Half of My Soul; is a gripping story about an American-born Syrian Jew from Brooklyn and a Syrian-born Shi-ite Muslim from Aleppo. The book raises profound questions about personal choices, commitments, responsibility, and...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
We all want different things. Francie wants to be the perfect mother. Nell wants to escape the past. Collette wants to spend more time with her family. All Winnie wants is to have her baby back. When Nell suggests...
- Location(s): Haiti, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): 1985
In this magical middle-grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she imagined when she moves from Haiti to Brooklyn. With the help of a clever witch, Gabrielle becomes the perfect American — but will...
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