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The Swans of Fifth Avenue

The Swans of Fifth Avenue
  • Author(s): Melanie Benjamin
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially...

The Weekend

The Weekend
  • Author(s): Alan Winnikoff
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): mid 1990s

Set Lower Manhattan The Weekend is the story of two people seeking to discover whether their feelings for each other are strong enough to cast off their current relationships and find something deeper with each other. The story is...

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street
  • Author(s): Jordan Belfort
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of...

Theft

Theft
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): Australia, Manhattan, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey’s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via...

To Kill A Cook

To Kill A Cook
  • Author(s): W M Akers
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Humour, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tender at the Bone meets Finlay Donovan is Killing It in this hilarious, fast-paced mystery about a feisty food critic in 1970s NY who finds her chef friend murdered and realizes she might be the only one to find...

Trading Up

Trading Up
  • Author(s): Candace Bushnell
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2004

Candace Bushnell is turning heads . . . The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. When Trading Up was published in July, readers from coast to coast devoured the sharp-witted, Jane Austin-esque story of Janey Wilcox’s unsteady climb to...

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...

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...

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