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The Personal Librarian

The Personal Librarian
  • Author(s): Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

The remarkable story of J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from...

The Poet X

The Poet X
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Acevedo
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE POET X – THE WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL. A stunning New York Times bestseller with a powerful and unforgettable YA voice. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi’s The Children of Blood and Bone, Angie Thomas’s The...

The Princess of 72nd Street

The Princess of 72nd Street
  • Author(s): Elaine Kraf
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

An unforgettable portrait of a smart, sensitive, yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms ‘I don’t need LSD for things to look pretty.’ Ellen is an artist living alone on New York in the...

The Regrets

The Regrets
  • Author(s): Amy Bonnaffons
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons’s dazzling, wildly inventive miracle of a love story about an affair between the living and the dead (NPR) For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired young man sitting at her...

The Ring of Rocamadour

The Ring of Rocamadour
  • Author(s): Michael D Beil
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery, Young Adult
  • Era(s): early 21st century

It all began with The Scream. And ended with . . . well, if we told you that, it wouldn’t be a mystery! But in between The Scream and The Very Surprising Ending, three friends find themselves on a...

The Rivals

The Rivals
  • Author(s): Jane Pek
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Claudia Lin–mystery novel superfan and, until recently, clichéd underemployed English major–has scored her dream job: co-running Veracity, a dating detective agency for chronically online New Yorkers who want to know if their prospective partners are telling the truth. Unfortunately,...

The Ruby Slippers

The Ruby Slippers
  • Author(s): Keir Alexander
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Old Rosa the bag lady shuffles along the streets of New York, stinking, silent and shunned by man and beast. Time and again her nephew, Michael Marcinkus the grocer, has tried to help – but Rosa remains unknowable, hushed...

The Runaway Bridesmaid

The Runaway Bridesmaid
  • Author(s): Daisy James
  • Location(s): Devon, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Squeezing herself into a frothy, flouncy, bubble-gum pink dress, Rosie Hamilton thinks that being a bridesmaid for her spoilt little sister Freya can’t get any worse. But discovering her boyfriend in a cupboard with the bride, ten minutes before...

The Second Mrs. Astor

The Second Mrs. Astor
  • Author(s): Shana Abe
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Madeleine Talmage Force is just seventeen when she attracts the attention of John Jacob “Jack” Astor. Madeleine is beautiful, intelligent, and solidly upper-class, but the Astors are in a league apart. Jack’s mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty...

The Secret Life Of Sunflowers

The Secret Life Of Sunflowers
  • Author(s): Marta Molnar, Dana Marton (Translator)
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 1800s

When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother’s diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn’t her grandmother’s. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van...

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