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Twenty Years Later

Twenty Years Later
  • Author(s): Charlie Donlea
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century to modern

Two decades after an event that shook the world, a chilling cold case murder is about to make the headlines all over again DNA from a tiny bone fragment has allowed the New York medical examiner’s office to make...

Under a Riviera Moon

Under a Riviera Moon
  • Author(s): Helen McGinn
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemorary

When a heartsick Maggie is sent on an errand by her mother to Cannes, she is keen to get it over with as quickly as possible. She has been tasked with collecting a treasured box of photos from her...

Under the Egg

Under the Egg
  • Author(s): Laura Marx Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): early 21st century

When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s great news for Theo, who’s struggling to hang onto her family’s two-hundred-year-old townhouse...

Under Water

Under Water
  • Author(s): Tara Menon
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Environmental
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

A stunning and deeply moving literary debut of grief, loss and female friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic natural events. When five-year-old Marissa loses her mother, she is taken by her father to live on a small Thai island in the Andaman...

Until The Last Star Fades

Until The Last Star Fades
  • Author(s): Jacquelyn Middleton
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), East Village, Staten Island
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In her senior year at NYU, Riley Hope appears to be on top of the world. With a loving mother who makes Lorelai Gilmore look like a parenting slacker, ride-or-die friends, and a longtime boyfriend destined for the National...

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...

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