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Partner Pursuit

Partner Pursuit
  • Author(s): Kathy Strobos
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a workaholic lawyer meets a fun-loving music marketing executive for opposites attract, friends-to-lovers adventures, which partnership will she choose? Workaholic lawyer Audrey Willems is not going to take any chances with her bid to become a partner at...

Madwoman

Madwoman
  • Author(s): Louisa Treger
  • Location(s): Roosevelt Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

In 1887 young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take. But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down...

Idol

Idol
  • Author(s): Louise O'Neill
  • Location(s): United States (USA), New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2022 / turn of the 21th Century

‘Follow your heart and speak your truth.’ For Samantha Miller’s young fans – her ‘girls’ – she’s everything they want to be. She’s an oracle, telling them how to live their lives, how to be happy, how to find...

The Second Mrs. Astor

The Second Mrs. Astor
  • Author(s): Shana Abe
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Madeleine Talmage Force is just seventeen when she attracts the attention of John Jacob “Jack” Astor. Madeleine is beautiful, intelligent, and solidly upper-class, but the Astors are in a league apart. Jack’s mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty...

Clean Hands

Clean Hands
  • Author(s): Patrick Hoffman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on a high-stakes case, defending a prominent bank accused of fraud. When Elizabeth gets the news that one of her junior associates has lost...

Nanny Needed

Nanny Needed
  • Author(s): Georgina Cross
  • Location(s): Upper West Side, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 20 years

When Sarah Larsen answers the Bird family’s advertisement, her life changes overnight. The job seems like a dream come true: nannying in a glamorous penthouse apartment with a salary that adds several zeroes to her current income. Sarah signs...

Nobody But Us

Nobody But Us
  • Author(s): Laure Van Rensburg
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Chesapeake Bay
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Steven Harding is a handsome, well-respected professor. Ellie Masterson is a wide-eyed young college student. Together, they are driving south from New York, for their first holiday: three days in an isolated cabin, far from the city. Ahead of...

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...

The Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam

The Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam
  • Author(s): Elias Khoury
  • Location(s): Palestine, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

A moving story about Palestine’s 1948 Exodus by the Arab world’s finest living novelist. First in a trilogy. Long exiled in New York, Palestinian ex-pat Adam Dannoun thought he knew himself. But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father...

Love, Theodosia

Love, Theodosia
  • Author(s): Lori Anne Goldstein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800

A Romeo & Juliet tale for Hamilton! fans. In post-American Revolution New York City, Theodosia Burr, a scholar with the skills of a socialite, is all about charming the right people on behalf of her father—Senator Aaron Burr, who...

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