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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...

The Secret of Lost Things

The Secret of Lost Things
  • Author(s): Sheridan Hay
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A stunning debut from a new Australian writer – the story of a treasure hunt through a vast New York bookshop. At eighteen, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little more than her love of books and...

The Secret of Secrets

The Secret of Secrets
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Prague, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon–a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that...

The Secret Runners of New York

The Secret Runners of New York
  • Author(s): Matthew Reilly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gossip Girl meets Mad Max in this breakneck thriller from an international bestselling author where the line between rich and poor is the line between life and death. ‘The windows on all the skyscrapers are smashed . . ....

The Seventh Son

The Seventh Son
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman’s child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire...

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