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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,...

Well-Behaved Indian Women

Well-Behaved Indian Women
  • Author(s): Saumya Dave
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Simran Mehta has always felt harshly judged by her mother, Nandini, especially when it comes to her little “writing hobby.” But when a charismatic and highly respected journalist careens into Simran’s life, she begins to question not only her...

West Virginia

West Virginia
  • Author(s): Joe Halstead
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

When Jamie Paddock learns of his father’s suicide, memories of his childhood in West Virginia come roaring back. One of the few people in his town to ever make it out, Jamie’s living in New York City now, developing...

What If It’s Us

What If It’s Us
  • Author(s): Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Meet Arthur and Ben. ARTHUR is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. BEN thinks the universe needs...

Wheel of Fortune (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 6)

Wheel of Fortune (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 6)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Brooklyn, Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Even as a child, Katlyn Lundquist was drop-dead gorgeous. She also was willful. In her teens, perhaps out of spite, she created her own name and persona. As she grew up, she readily accepted money and gifts from her...

When No One Is Watching

When No One Is Watching
  • Author(s): Alyssa Cole
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighbourhood takes on a sinister new meaning… Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and...

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