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Amber Green Takes Manhattan (Amber Green 2)

Amber Green Takes Manhattan (Amber Green 2)
  • Author(s): Rosie Nixon
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When her TV producer boyfriend Rob announces that he’s been offered a job in New York, filming with the infamous Angel Wear lingerie models, Amber knows its her perfect chance to take the New York fashion world by storm....

American Psycho

American Psycho
  • Author(s): Bret Easton Ellis
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): 1980s

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and...

And All That Madness

And All That Madness
  • Author(s): Joan Merrill
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

AND ALL THAT MADNESS a Casey McKie mystery by Joan Merrill When the New York Jazz Society acquires a fifty-year old letter from Georgia Valentine, questions arise over the legendary vocalist’s death. Did she give herself a fatal dose...

Another Brooklyn

Another Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Woodson
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything until it wasn t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they...

Apple of my Eye

Apple of my Eye
  • Author(s): Helene Hanff
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1970s

A celebration of her life-long love for New York, Hanff embarked on this project as an assignment, and realized she had not been to many of the main tourist attractions- the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, the World Trade...

Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure

Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure
  • Author(s): David Freeland
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City isn’t called “the city that never sleeps” for nothing. Both native New Yorkers and tourists have played hard in Gotham for centuries,...

Bamboo and Blood

Bamboo and Blood
  • Author(s): James Church
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), North Korea, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1997

It is 1997 and North Korea is in the grip of a terrible famine. When the wife of a North Korean diplomat in Pakistan dies under suspicious circumstances, O is told to investigate, with a curious provison: Don’t look...

Banished Children of Eve

Banished Children of Eve
  • Author(s): Peter Quinn
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s, Modern

Set in New York City in 1863, this is a history of the city and its people, from the ground up. Through both fictional and historical characters, Quinn offers a perspective on New York City that doesn’t appear in...

Believe Me

Believe Me
  • Author(s): J P Delaney
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Claire Wright likes to play other people. A British drama student, in New York without a green card, Claire takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pick-up in...

Black Chalk

Black Chalk
  • Author(s): Christopher J Yates
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Oxford
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A compulsively readable psychological thriller set in New York and at Oxford University, in which a group of six students play an elaborate game of dares and consequences, with tragic results One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was...

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