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Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Susann
  • Location(s): Hollywood, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high-powered industrialists and the jet-set. Valley of the Dolls took the world by storm when...

Valley Verified

Valley Verified
  • Author(s): Kyla Zhao
  • Location(s): Silicon Valley, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Vernon Downs

Vernon Downs
  • Author(s): Jaime Clark
  • Location(s): Boston, New York City (NYC), Phoenix
  • Era(s): Modern

This is a moody novel which follows the exploits of Charlie as he gravitates from one woman to the next.

Vianne

Vianne
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), France, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Secrets. Chocolate. A touch of magic… On the evening of July 4th, Sylviane Rochas scatters her mother’s ashes in New York and lets the changing wind blow her to the French seaside town of Marseille. For the first time...

Victory

Victory
  • Author(s): James Lasdun
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporay

Two timely explorations of male sexual violence, power and corruption Love and hate, desire and guilt, friendship and betrayal form the coordinates of these two intensely dramatic stories of men and women caught between their irrational passions and the...

Visitation Street

Visitation Street
  • Author(s): Ivy Pochoda
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the hot summer rolls on in Red Hook, Brooklyn, bored and listless fifteen-year-olds June and Val are looking for some fun. Forget the boys, the bottles, the coded whistles, Val wants to take a raft out onto the...

Walk With Me New York

Walk With Me New York
  • Author(s): Susan Kaufman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Photography, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2022

From photographer Susan Kaufman, an intimate celebration of the beauty and charm of New York City For some people, New York City exists only in their imaginations, a big-screen beacon of wonder and twenty-four seven delight. For others, it’s...

Walking Shadows

Walking Shadows
  • Author(s): Faye Kellerman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

AN INTENSE AND ADDICTIVE MYSTERY YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS! The twenty-fifth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman A murder On a quiet suburban street in...

Walls Within Walls

Walls Within Walls
  • Author(s): Maureen Sherry
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult
  • Era(s): early 21st century

After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move from their cozy Brooklyn neighborhood to a swanky apartment on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. They have no friends, a nanny...

Want

Want
  • Author(s): Lynn Steger Strong
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love. Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life,...

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