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East Village (New York, N.Y.) 20th century Fiction East Village (New York, N.Y.) Fiction East Village (New York, N.Y.) History 20th century Fiction Female friendship Fiction Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction New York (State) History 20th century Fiction Nineteen seventies Fiction Teenagers Fiction Women journalists FictionMurphy, Tim
Summary: In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan’s East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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Summary: New York writer Ridley Jones finds herself at the center of a global crime network when she picks up a few prints at a local photo lab, prints that reveal the presence of a mysterious, familiar, and supposedly dead figure with ties to her own past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2007
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Summary: An impulsive good deed transforms the mundane life of Ridley Jones, a young New York City writer, when she receives a mysterious package that forces her to question everything she knows about herself and sends her on a dangerous quest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M UNGStandiford, Natalie
Summary: "New York's last bohemia-the glittering, decadent downtown club scene of the 1980s-is the setting for this brilliantly winning novel about a smart, vulnerable young woman taking a deep dive into her dark side, essential for fans of Sweetbitter, Fleabag, and books by Patti Smith. New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STALaskin, David
Summary: "A striking coming-of-age novel set in New York City at the beginning of 1970 as a young man escapes his Long Island suburb to Manhattan where he becomes swept up in the radical causes of the era. As the 1960s turn into 1970 in the Long Island suburb of Great Neck, seventeen-year old Sam Stein is falling in love for the first time. Kim is a young radical in a place where bourgeois white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASEpstein, Jennifer Cody
Summary: East Village, 1989. Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes have arrived from Germany, and with them, a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019