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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...

The Silence

The Silence
  • Author(s): Don DeLillo
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): The near future

From one of America’s greatest writers, The Silence is a timely and compelling novel about what happens when an unpredictable crisis strikes. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in...

The Singer’s Gun

The Singer’s Gun
  • Author(s): Emily St. John Mandel
  • Location(s): Ischia, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career is a partnership venture with his cousin Aria selling forged passports and social security cards to illegal aliens. Anton longs for...

The Sisters of Book Row

The Sisters of Book Row
  • Author(s): Shelley Noble
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Progressive Era

From bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a gripping and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York’s famed Book Row. 1915: Manhattan’s Book Row, an eclectic jumble of forty bookshops along Fourth Avenue,...

The Soldier’s Home

The Soldier’s Home
  • Author(s): George Costigan
  • Location(s): France, England, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

The Soldier’s Home’ is the stunning sequel to the bestselling debut, ‘The Single Soldier’, by renowned actor and writer George Costigan. The war is over and his home was re-built … but a home is just a set of...

The Startup Wife

The Startup Wife
  • Author(s): Tahmina Anam
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. Then a chance meeting and whirlwind romance with her old high-school crush, Cyrus, changes everything. Dreaming big, together...

The Stolen Queen

The Stolen Queen
  • Author(s): Fiona Davis
  • Location(s): Egypt, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936 and 1978

Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes. New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old...

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