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A Girl Made of Air

A Girl Made of Air
  • Author(s): Nydia Hetherington
  • Location(s): Coney Island
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Post WW2

This is the story of The Greatest Funambulist Who Ever Lived… Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. Until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson...

A Winter’s Tale

A Winter’s Tale
  • Author(s): Mark Helprin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

A bestseller that takes readers on a journey to New York of the Belle Epoque, where Peter Lake attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between...

A Woman’s choice

A Woman’s choice
  • Author(s): Annie Thomas
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Pre WW1

It is 1901. Queen Victoria is dead; a new era has begun. And on a cold April morning a young girl stands uncertainly on Liverpool Docks ready to board an emigrant ship that will take her to America and...

All Adults Here

All Adults Here
  • Author(s): Emma Straub
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After Astrid Strick – a widowed, 68-year-old mother of three living in upstate New York – witnesses an accident, she resolves to live more honestly. Starting with the mistakes she made in raising her family. But are her kids,...

Amber Green Takes Manhattan (Amber Green 2)

Amber Green Takes Manhattan (Amber Green 2)
  • Author(s): Rosie Nixon
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When her TV producer boyfriend Rob announces that he’s been offered a job in New York, filming with the infamous Angel Wear lingerie models, Amber knows its her perfect chance to take the New York fashion world by storm....

Another Brooklyn

Another Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Woodson
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything until it wasn t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they...

Apple of my Eye

Apple of my Eye
  • Author(s): Helene Hanff
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1970s

A celebration of her life-long love for New York, Hanff embarked on this project as an assignment, and realized she had not been to many of the main tourist attractions- the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, the World Trade...

Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure

Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure
  • Author(s): David Freeland
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City isn’t called “the city that never sleeps” for nothing. Both native New Yorkers and tourists have played hard in Gotham for centuries,...

Bad Summer People

Bad Summer People
  • Author(s): Emma Rosenblum
  • Location(s): Fire Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The families on the island have been vacationing here for years; the Weinsteins, the Metzners, the Grobels – and unlucky in love Rachel Woolf. Outsiders aren’t welcome. That is except for Robert, the handsome new tennis coach, who some...

Bamboo and Blood

Bamboo and Blood
  • Author(s): James Church
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), North Korea, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1997

It is 1997 and North Korea is in the grip of a terrible famine. When the wife of a North Korean diplomat in Pakistan dies under suspicious circumstances, O is told to investigate, with a curious provison: Don’t look...

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