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The Orchard

The Orchard
  • Author(s): David Hopen
  • 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...

The Other Half of My Soul

The Other Half of My Soul
  • Author(s): Bahia Abrams
  • 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...

The Perfect Mother

The Perfect Mother
  • Author(s): Aimee Molloy
  • 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...

The Snow Girl

The Snow Girl
  • Author(s): Javier Castillo
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century

Where is Kiera Templeton? Aaron and Grace Templeton will never forget the 1998 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The day their daughter Kiera got lost in the crowd. Investigative journalist Miren Triggs has spent years trying to help the Templetons...

The Year I Flew Away

The Year I Flew Away
  • Author(s): Marie Arnold
  • 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...

This Magnificent Dappled Sea

This Magnificent Dappled Sea
  • Author(s): David Biro
  • Location(s): Italy, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two strangers—generations and oceans apart—have a chance to save each other in this moving and suspenseful novel about family secrets and the ineffable connections that lead us to one another. In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano...

Visitation Street

Visitation Street
  • Author(s): Ivy Pochoda
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the hot summer rolls on in Red Hook, Brooklyn, bored and listless fifteen-year-olds June and Val are looking for some fun. Forget the boys, the bottles, the coded whistles, Val wants to take a raft out onto the...

Wheel of Fortune (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 6)

Wheel of Fortune (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 6)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Brooklyn, Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Even as a child, Katlyn Lundquist was drop-dead gorgeous. She also was willful. In her teens, perhaps out of spite, she created her own name and persona. As she grew up, she readily accepted money and gifts from her...

When No One Is Watching

When No One Is Watching
  • Author(s): Alyssa Cole
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighbourhood takes on a sinister new meaning… Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and...

Witches of Brooklyn

Witches of Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Sophie Escabasse
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

There’s a new witch in town! Life in Brooklyn takes a strange turn when Effie discovers MAGIC runs in the family. A middle-grade graphic novel adventure filled with magical hjinks for fans of Phoebe and Her Unicorn and Making...

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