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Five Stories

Five Stories
  • Author(s): Ellen Weinstein
  • Location(s): Lower East Side
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City. Jenny Epstein and her family arrive on a steamship from Russia in the 1910s....

Manhunting in Manhattan

Manhunting in Manhattan
  • Author(s): Amy Killingbeck, Saoirse Cussane
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Finding herself single in her forties after making the move to New York, or more accurately, suburban New York, Lilith feels trapped. This wasn’t the life she’d envisaged for herself. … Until something started to shift. With a newly...

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...

The Snow Girl

The Snow Girl
  • Author(s): Javier Castillo
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century

Where is Kiera Templeton? Aaron and Grace Templeton will never forget the 1998 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The day their daughter Kiera got lost in the crowd. Investigative journalist Miren Triggs has spent years trying to help the Templetons...

The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan

The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan
  • Author(s): Beth Merlin, Danielle Modafferi
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a young woman hits rock bottom, she embarks on a positively Dickensian adventure in a witty and warmhearted novel about past regrets, old loves, new beginnings, and making up for lost time. Avery Lawrence thought she had it...

Libby and the Manhattan Mystery

Libby and the Manhattan Mystery
  • Author(s): Becka Moor (Illustrator), Jo Clarke
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

3: The Travelling School Mysteries The travelling school arrives in New York, and Libby and her friends find themselves organising a charity auction alongside Hollywood star Eloise Fitzwilliam. But something isn’t right. Why is Eloise’s friend Count Alvarez acting...

The Birdcage Library

The Birdcage Library
  • Author(s): Freya Berry
  • Location(s): Manhattan, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1880s/1930s

1932. Emily Blackwood, adventuress and plant hunter, travels north for a curious new commission. A gentleman has written to request she catalogue his vast collection of taxidermied creatures before sale. On arrival, Emily finds a ruined castle, its owner...

Happy as Larry: A New York Story of Cults, Crushes and Quaaludes

Happy as Larry: A New York Story of Cults, Crushes and Quaaludes
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1970s

After her beloved dad suddenly dies, teenage Saskia gets a crash course in growing up in after-hours New York. Her downwardly mobile family move from Gramercy Park to the seedy Upper West Side. Her mom becomes increasingly nihilistic and...

The Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project
  • Author(s): Paul McNeive
  • Location(s): Manhattan, Afghanistan, Japan
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Real. Invisible. Devastating. And it’s taking New York by storm. With its insatiable hunger for fast food, easy fixes and life lived at breakneck speed, the city that never sleeps is hurtling towards disaster. Now John Wyse, an ordinary New...

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...

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