As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem's history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who shared...
New York (State)
- Auteur:Rhodes-Pitts, SharifaSommaire:
- Auteur:Huston, CharlieSommaire:
Manhattan's vampire ecosystem is fragile, with too many bloodsuckers feeding on the same supply. So undead strong-arm Joe Pitt heads to the outer boroughs to keep an Orthodox danger at bay.
- Auteur:Von Ziegesar, CecilySommaire:
Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep-sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we aren't careful, she's going to win over our teachers, wear that...
- Auteur:Chauncey, GeorgeSommaire:
- Auteur:Castle, RichardSommaire:
YPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to...
- Auteur:Podos, RebeccaSommaire:
Hannah's whole life has been on the road with no explanations. Then, on her seventeenth birthday, she wakes up transformed. Hannah must unearth her family's secrets in order to break the curse.
- Auteur:Ndibe, OkeySommaire:
Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver, is desperate. Despite having a degree in economics, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate world. With gambling debt mounting, he travels back to Nigeria to steal the statue of an...
- Auteur:Cole, TejuSommaire:
Every Day is for the Thief is an account of a Nigerian in the diaspora who returns home after many years abroad. The book gains its strength as much from its subject matter (contemporary Lagosian life as experienced by a visiting former...
- Auteur:Banks, MayaSommaire:
"Have we met?" Answer: a right hook! Because Bryony Morgan pulls no punches. Even when she's very pregnant and facing down the father of her unborn child. She fell for wealthy hotelier Rafael de Luca when he courted her for her...
- Auteur:Selzer, RichardSommaire:
Presents an autobiographical account of a doctor coming of age.
- Auteur:Katz, Jon.Sommaire:
Katz learns that living with four dogs on a rural New York farm is one thing. But what happens when you add a couple cows, four donkeys, a growing flock of sheep, a few hens, a temperamental rooster, and even Mother (a barn cat) to the...
- Auteur:Musgrave, JimSommaire:
Finalist in the 2013 Clue Book Awards for Mysteries, Suspense and Thrillers Second Mystery in the Best-Selling Pat O'Malley Historical Steampunk Series It’s 1866 in New York City. Civil War Vet and Detective Pat O’Malley’s biggest case...
- Auteur:Woods, StuartSommaire:
Amanda Dart is the queen of the glitzy, trashy gossip world until rivals publish an underground scandal sheet called Dirt. When Dart's and her associates' peccadilloes are faxed to news desks across the nation, the motive becomes clear...
- Auteur:Diggs, Anita DoreenSommaire:
Of Hercsville, Long Island's many remarkable ladies, four in particular stand out. Newest in town is Asha, an ambitious young woman with a voracious sexual appetite. Not so licentious, clinical psychologist Penelope is disgusted but the...
- Auteur:Martin, KatSommaire:
For reporter Hope Sinclair, writing about the recovery of a sunken Spanish treasure off Pleasure Island should be her big break. Yet Hope can't help feeling she's been hand-picked for this job for all the wrong reasons. Someone wants...
- Auteur:Goldsborough, RobertSommaire:
Nero Wolfe's favorite newspaper faces a hostile take-over, and the paper's staunchest supporter is suddenly found dead. Master sleuth Nero Wolfe steps into the crossfire of a tabloid war.
- Auteur:Kaminsky, Stuart M.Sommaire:
The body of a middle-aged man is found in the elevator of a ritzy doorman building on the Upper East Side. Mac Taylor and Aiden Burn's initial investigation yields no bullets, no DNA evidence, and no motive. Could this be the perfect...
- Auteur:Wright, iO TillettSommaire:
A candid, tough, and stirring memoir of a young person in search of an authentic self as her family and home life devolve into chaos.
- Auteur:Layne, LaurenSommaire:
Vincent Moretti is one of the NYPD's top homicide detectives who has spent years working alongside his longtime partner, Jill--who drives him crazy with desire. When Vin sees Jill with someone else he feels jealous and desperate to find...
- Auteur:Patterson, James, Paetro, MaxineSommaire:
Tandy Angel isn't a normal girl, and she knows it. For one thing, her family is magnificently wealthy and lives in a massive apartment in the famous Dakota building in New York City. Her parents are the head of a prominent hedge fund...