Feeling adrift after ending a relationship, Julius, a young Nigerian doctor living in New York, takes long walks through the city while listening to the stories of fellow immigrants until a shattering truth is revealed.
New York (State)
- Auteur:Cole, TejuSommaire:
- Auteur:Higgins, KristanSommaire:
Following in the footsteps of her critically acclaimed novel If You Only Knew, multi-bestselling author Kristan Higgins returns with a pitch-perfect look at the affection-and the acrimony-that binds sisters together. Ainsley O'Leary is...
- Auteur:Karp, Marshall, Patterson, JamesSommaire:
Reality star Erin Easton's wedding may have a cable crew documenting every detail. But when she disappears, her dressing room is empty but for a blood-spattered wedding gown and signs of a struggle.
- Auteur:Karp, Marshall, Patterson, JamesSommaire:
Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie McDonald, members of the elite task force known as NYPD Red, arrive at a crime scene in Central park to find the fourth victim in a string of brutal murders. Zach and Kylie must find out what's...
- Auteur:Staub, Wendy CorsiSommaire:
In the days immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A serial killer is loose in New York City, and Allison Taylor may be the only one who can identify him. She doesn't know the killer has now set his sights on her--and unless...
- Auteur:Naumann, Francis M.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
Midwife-sleuth Sarah Brandt is surprised by her mother's desire to attend séances in an undesirable section of New York City. During one dark session, death strikes a participant while all are holding hands around the table. Now it's up...
- Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
A lady of means helps midwife Sarah Brandt rescue a young woman and her newborn from a brothel. But when the wealthy benefactor is found murdered, Sarah uncovers some unpleasant truths about the victim, her charity, and the woman and...
- Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
After an influential supporter of deaf education is found dead, NYPD Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy quickly determines the slain man--an advocate of eugenics--was bludgeoned with a trophy. But when Malloy reaches an impasse, he asks...
- Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
High society member Felix Decker, who belongs to one of New York's oldest families, resigns himself to partnering up with Irish Catholic police detective Frank Malloy when a member of his private club is murdered in nineteenth-century...
- Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
Widow and midwife Sarah Brandt helps the less fortunate of the city bring new life into the world. But when a local doctor is found murdered, the shocking motive may destroy Sarah.
- Auteur:Goldsborough, RobertSommaire:
It wasn't Nero Wolfe's idea for Orrie Cather to kill himself, but the great detective gave his blessing to his longtime associate's plan. Cather had killed three people, and it was only fair to pay the price. Though Wolfe...
- Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
Called to Chinatown to deliver a baby, midwife Sarah Brandt soon helps search for a missing girl. But nobody seems to know where she is. Has she been sold to a brothel, or has she run off with a secret love?
- Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on behalf of...
- Auteur:Hunt, SamanthaSommaire:
After years of absence, Ruth leads her niece Cora on an odyssey across the entire state of New York. Where is Ruth taking them? Where has she been? And who--or what--is she hiding? In an ingeniously structured dual narrative, two...
- Auteur:Russo, RichardSommaire:
Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls - Richard Russo's Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first...
- Auteur:Connor, ShaeSommaire:
Making his living as a model allows Aaron Stevens to pay his way through film school at NYU. While on a photo shoot, he meets Matt Carson, a journalism student who wants to interview Aaron for his senior project, and they feel an...
- Auteur:Bourdain, AnthonySommaire:
Over the years, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business--and for Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present....
- Auteur:Hall, Wynton C., Greenfield, MartinSommaire:
Taken from his Czechoslovakian home and transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Martin Greenfield was divided forever from his family. Here he remembers that horrific time-and how an impulsive decision to steal an SS soldier...
- Auteur:Millhauser, StevenSommaire:
Presents Martin Dressler, son of an immigrant cigar maker, who, in dedicating his life to the American dream, becomes a symbol of it.