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