Tag: New York

Adults! Welcome to year 3 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2024. Earn bigger prizes by reading...

          Title: Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet Author: H.P Wood Publisher: Sourcebooks, June 2016 Summary/Review: Ah, turn of the century Coney Island. The sun, the surf, and its newest amusement park Dreamland. Yes, it’s all fun and games until someone dies from...

  Title: Still Life with Bread Crumbs Author: Anna Quindlen Publisher : Random House, 2014 Summary/Review : Rebecca Winter is 60 and newly divorced. She is a lifelong New Yorker and a well-known photographer.    Her photographs are no longer bringing in the money she...

Title: Walls Within Walls Author: Maureen Sherry Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books, June 2010 Summary/Review: CJ, Brid, and Patrick Smithfork (along with little sister Carron) don’t want to move from their cozy Brooklyn apartment to a sprawling penthouse in Manhattan.  But ever since their dad...

Title: The Interpretation of Murder Author: Jed Rubenfeld Publisher: Picador, May 2007 Summary:  The year is 1909 and Sigmund Freud has arrived in the United States with his protégé Carl Jung for a series of lectures at Clark University.  The same day of Freud’s arrival...

Title: Last Night in Montreal Author:  Emily St. John Mandel Publisher: Unbridled Books, April 2010 Summary: When Lilia’s father abducts her in the middle of the night, the 7 year old willingly goes with him. Some might say she was rescued, not kidnapped. From that night...

Title: Collusion Author:  Stuart Neville Publisher: Soho Press, October 2010 Summary: Stuart Neville, author of GHOSTS OF BELFAST, does it again with this new novel set in New York and Northern Ireland. Ex IRA hit-man Gerry Fegan has sworn to protect Marie and her young...

Title: America, America Author:  Ethan Canin Summary: Ethan Canin has always been a wonderful writer, but this is his best book yet.  In fact, it’s one of the best books I’ve read – period.  Several reviewers have deemed it a “great American novel,” not...

Title: Down River Author: John Hart Summary: Five years ago, Adam Chase was acquitted of murder, even though his own stepmother testified against him. Most people in his hometown believed that he was guilty and that his father’s money paid for the verdict. Adam...

Title: The Air We Breathe Author: Andrea Barrett Summary: While World War I looms in the future, the patients at Tamarack State Sanatorium are fighting their own battle with tuberculosis and the emotional issues that come from being confined to a strict regimen of rest and little social...