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Lucia, Lucia

Lucia, Lucia
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Lucia Sartori, now in her seventies, single, tells the story of her life to the only other single woman who lives in the same apartment block as her Kit who is mid twenties. it is the story of New...

Still Me

Still Me
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lou Clark knows too many things . . . She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London. She knows her employer is a good man and she...

Summer at Castle Stone

Summer at Castle Stone
  • Author(s): Lynn Marie Hulsman
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This summer, lose your heart in Ireland… Shayla Sheridan’s a New York native born into big city luxury, but she’s never really fitted in with the “it” crowd. Desperate to make it as a writer and to finally step...

Terminal City

Terminal City
  • Author(s): Linda Fairstein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When the body of a young woman is found in a suite at one of the most prestigious hotels in Manhattan, Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace find themselves hunting for an elusive killer...

The Pool House

The Pool House
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): The Hamptons, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

To Jem Chapman, it’s the chance of a lifetime. An invitation to join a group in an exclusive Hamptons house-share, who could say no? But when she discovers what happened last summer, Jem can’t help but feel a chill....

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Author(s): Therese Anne Fowler
  • Location(s): France, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), New York City (NYC), Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th century

When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen and he is a young army lieutenant. Before long, Zelda has fallen for him, even though Scott isn’t...

Ellis Island

Ellis Island
  • Author(s): Kate Kerrigan
  • Location(s): County Mayo, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady’s maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he is embroiled in his affairs in Ireland, and caught...

1876

1876
  • Author(s): Gore Vidal
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Novel set in New York.This is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner parties, more corruption, and all the tacky panoply of power. Into the rarefied atmosphere of a world where money has begun to talk...

A Certain Age

A Certain Age
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s

New York in the Roaring Twenties – a time for love, secrets and scandal… As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue – a beautiful socialite of a...

A Family Scandal

A Family Scandal
  • Author(s): Zoe Miller
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Rock Star It is twenty years since rock musician Zach Anderson mysteriously plunged to his death in a lake. When media interest in the incident is suddenly re-ignited, hidden tensions fracture the glamorous facade of the Morgan family,...

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