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When the Summer Was Ours

When the Summer Was Ours
  • Author(s): Roxanne Veletzos
  • Location(s): Budapest, Dachau, New York City (NYC), Paris, Sopron
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943, 1956-57, early 1990s

A sweeping tale about lovers separated by circumstance, the lives they each lead, and the various points at which their journeys intersect. Set mostly in Hungary (Sopron and Budapest) with chapters in both Germany (Dachau) and the USA (New...

When We Meet Again

When We Meet Again
  • Author(s): Caroline Beecham
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

An emotionally compelling tale of love and mystery set in the publishing world of World War II London, When We Meet Again tells the story of a mother searching for her stolen child, and illustrates the unbreakable bonds among...

Where the Grass Is Green

Where the Grass Is Green
  • Author(s): Lauren Weisberger
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Conteporary

Perfect lives. Perfect lies. The brand new novel from the global bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada Peyton Marcus is the woman New York wakes up to, anchor of the most-watched morning show in the city. With a...

Whistler

Whistler
  • Author(s): Ann Patchett
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn’t expect it to be Eddie – her former stepfather. Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was...

White Shroud

White Shroud
  • Author(s): Antanas Škėma
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Lithuania
  • Genre(s): Fiction

White Shroud is considered by many as the most important work of modernist fiction in Lithuanian. Drawing heavily on the author’s own refugee and immigrant experience, this psychological, stream-of-consciousness work tells the story of an émigré poet working as...

Wise Guy

Wise Guy
  • Author(s): Nicholas Pileggi
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Biography, Crime
  • Era(s): 1950s-80s

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill–the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows...

Witches of Brooklyn

Witches of Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Sophie Escabasse
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

There’s a new witch in town! Life in Brooklyn takes a strange turn when Effie discovers MAGIC runs in the family. A middle-grade graphic novel adventure filled with magical hjinks for fans of Phoebe and Her Unicorn and Making...

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
  • Author(s): Meg Medina
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

In Meg Medina’s compelling novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school – and must discover resources she never knew she had. One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado...

You

You
  • Author(s): Caroline Kepnes
  • Location(s): East Village, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a beautiful aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City....

Your Own Kind

Your Own Kind
  • Author(s): Linda Fagioli Katsiotas
  • Location(s): Greece, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is 1974. Alexandros is a young man who has left his rural Greek village to come to New York to work in his cousin’s restaurant. The restaurant is in East End, a small seaside village fifty miles from...

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