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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...

The Storm King

The Storm King
  • Author(s): Brendan Duffy
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Nate McHale has assembled the kind of life most people would envy. After a tumultuous youth marked by his inexplicable survival of a devastating tragedy, Nate left his Adirondack hometown of Greystone Lake and never looked back. Fourteen years...

The Strain

The Strain
  • Author(s): Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground...

The Street

The Street
  • Author(s): Ann Petry
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

New York City, 1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem, Lutie Johnson is determined to build a new life for herself and her eight-year-old boy, Bub – a life that she can be proud of. Having left her unreliable...

The Sun Sister

The Sun Sister
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Lake Naivasha, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s, contemporary

To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous. Yet beneath the veneer, Electra’s already tenuous control over her state of mind...

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