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Theft

Theft
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): Australia, Manhattan, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey’s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via...

Then Came Love

Then Came Love
  • Author(s): Melissa Foster
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jax Braden (The Bradens & Montgomerys: Pleasant Hill – Oak Falls Book 9) Blazing heat, laugh-out-loud humor, and an abundance of swoon-worthy moments make this sexy standalone romance by New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melissa...

This Is a Love Story

This Is a Love Story
  • Author(s): Jessica Soffer
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Present looking back

Abe and Jane have been together for fifty years: as two among the thousands of starry-eyed young lovers in Central Park, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as an artist and a writer whose careers were taking flight. Now, Jane...

This Magnificent Dappled Sea

This Magnificent Dappled Sea
  • Author(s): David Biro
  • Location(s): Italy, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two strangers—generations and oceans apart—have a chance to save each other in this moving and suspenseful novel about family secrets and the ineffable connections that lead us to one another. In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano...

Time Shifters Chronicles

Time Shifters Chronicles
  • Author(s): Shanna Lauffey
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Chicago, Idaho, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 20-21st century

An ancient people who can move through time or space… but not both at the same time. Akalya of the Harekaiian must discover who is behind the hunt for her people, when no one should have known they existed....

To Kill A Cook

To Kill A Cook
  • Author(s): W M Akers
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Humour, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tender at the Bone meets Finlay Donovan is Killing It in this hilarious, fast-paced mystery about a feisty food critic in 1970s NY who finds her chef friend murdered and realizes she might be the only one to find...

Trading Up

Trading Up
  • Author(s): Candace Bushnell
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2004

Candace Bushnell is turning heads . . . The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. When Trading Up was published in July, readers from coast to coast devoured the sharp-witted, Jane Austin-esque story of Janey Wilcox’s unsteady climb to...

Triple Crown

Triple Crown
  • Author(s): Felix Francis
  • Location(s): Kentucky, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organization—an informant who is passing on confidential information...

Trust

Trust
  • Author(s): Hernan Diaz
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

A sweeping, breathtakingly ambitious novel about power, wealth and truth, told by four unique, interlocking voices and set against the backdrop of turbulent 1920s New York. The legendary Wall Street tycoon whose immense wealth gives him the power to...

Tunnel of Mirrors

Tunnel of Mirrors
  • Author(s): Ferne Arfin
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 20th century, 1907 to 1928

1907 – Rachel Isaacson, spirited, otherworldly and haunted, is born into a rigidly Old World Family in New York’s Lower East Side. Hungry for independence, Rachel enters a marriage of convenience with violent consequences. Across the Atlantic, storyteller, fiddler...

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