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STAY
  • Author(s): Allie Larkin
  • Location(s): Chappaqua, Rochester
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

” Girl meets dog in this effervescent “feel-good debut” (People) Savannah “Van” Leone has been in love with Peter Clarke since their first day of college. Six years later, Peter is marrying Van’s best friend, Janie. Loyal to a...

Why Can’t I Be You

Why Can’t I Be You
  • Author(s): Allie Larkin
  • Location(s): Rochester, Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Soon to be a major motion picture At one time or another, everyone has wished they could be someone else. Exploring this universal longing, Allie Larkin follows up the success of her debut novel, Stay, with a moving portrait...

Househusband

Househusband
  • Author(s): Ad Hudler
  • Location(s): Rochester
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Lincoln Menner is finding out just how hard it is to be a woman. When his wife Jo was offered her dream job, Linc supported her wholeheartedly, leaving his thriving landscape business in Los Angeles and moving to Rochester,...

Mobtown

Mobtown
  • Author(s): Jack Kelly
  • Location(s): Rochester
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Ike Van Savage’s latest case starts out simply enough: a threatening husband and a beleaguered wife. But before he knows it, he’s pulled into a serpentine mystery that involves the town’s most notorious gangster, a dead heiress, and one...

Mount Allegro: A Memoir of Italian American Life

Mount Allegro: A Memoir of Italian American Life
  • Author(s): Jerre Gerlando Mangione
  • Location(s): Rochester
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 20th century, mid 20th century

Mount Allegro is an extraordinary memoir, a celebration of Sicilian life, an engaging sociological portrait, a moving reminiscence of a fledgling writer’s escape from the restrictive culture in which he grew up. Jerre Mangione’s autobiographical chronicle of his youth...

Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper

Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper
  • Author(s): Paul E Johnson
  • Location(s): New Jersey, Niagara Falls (NY), Rhode Island, Rochester
  • Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Early 19th century

In the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn’t drinking) as a mill hand for one of America’s new textile companies. Sam made a name for himself one day...

The Lipstick Laws

The Lipstick Laws
  • Author(s): Amy Holder
  • Location(s): Rochester
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

At Penford High School, Britney Taylor is the queen bee. She dates whomever she likes, rules over her inner circle of friends like Genghis Khan, and can ruin anyone’s life with a snap of perfectly manicured fingers. Just ask...

The Misbegotten Son

The Misbegotten Son
  • Author(s): Jack Olsen
  • Location(s): Rochester, Watertown
  • Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1970s, 1980s

The shattering life of a charming, ruthless, and twice-convicted serial killer. The author delves into the psychology of Arthur Shawcross, who had characteristics of a pedophile, paraphile, misogynist, necrophile, and philanderer, yet still managed to charm a release out...

The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox

The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox
  • Author(s): Nancy Rubin Stuart
  • Location(s): Hydesville, Rochester
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Mid-19th century

Here is the first authoritative biography of Margaret Fox, the world-famous medium and cofounder of the Spiritualism movement that swept America in the mid-1800s. In 1848, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her sister Katy created rapping sounds by manipulating their toe...

Turning the Page

Turning the Page
  • Author(s): Georgia Beers
  • Location(s): Rochester
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Melanie Larson is an attractive, extremely successful business executive who shocks herself by resigning from her job when her company merges with another and relocates. While trying to decide what to do with her life next and at the...

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