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The Village on the Hill

The Village on the Hill
  • Author(s): Annie Doyle
  • Location(s): Gateshead, Bournemouth, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Three women caught up in three global disasters. Will tragedy reunite them or tear them apart for ever? Bournemouth 1912 – Ena Leighton prepares for a new life with her aunt and uncle in a beautiful house with a...

The Walking People

The Walking People
  • Author(s): Mary Beth Keane
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a “softheaded...

The Way of Beauty

The Way of Beauty
  • Author(s): Camille Di Maio
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Vera Keller, the daughter of German immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York City, finds her life upended when the man she loves becomes engaged to another woman. But Angelo Bellavia has also inadvertently opened up Vera’s life to unexpected possibilities....

The Wedding Bees

The Wedding Bees
  • Author(s): Sarah-Kate Lynch
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

In the vein of Amelie and Chocolat, Sarah-Kate Lynchs The Wedding Bees is a charming, witty, honey-sweet novel about finding new love, letting go of the past, and the magic of rooftop honey in New York City.

The Weekend

The Weekend
  • Author(s): Alan Winnikoff
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): mid 1990s

Set Lower Manhattan The Weekend is the story of two people seeking to discover whether their feelings for each other are strong enough to cast off their current relationships and find something deeper with each other. The story is...

The Wilderness

The Wilderness
  • Author(s): Angela Flournoy
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife–in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela...

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street
  • Author(s): Jordan Belfort
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of...

The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window
  • Author(s): A J Finn
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

It’s been ten months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside. Anna’s lifeline to the...

The Words I Never Wrote

The Words I Never Wrote
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): Berlin, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Present Day, WW2

New York, present day: On a whim, Juno Lambert buys a 1931 Underwood typewriter that once belonged to celebrated journalist Cordelia Capel. Within its case she discovers an unfinished novel, igniting a transatlantic journey to fill the gaps in...

The Year I Flew Away

The Year I Flew Away
  • Author(s): Marie Arnold
  • Location(s): Haiti, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1985

In this magical middle-grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she imagined when she moves from Haiti to Brooklyn. With the help of a clever witch, Gabrielle becomes the perfect American — but will...

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