new york

Asher Lev, born into a devout Jewish family and community, struggles to reconcile his burning need to create art with the restrictions and expectations placed on him by his faith and his people.

Three friends, Stingo, a twenty-two-year-old writer; Sophie, a survivor of the Nazi camps; and Nathan, her mercurial lover, share magical, heart-warming times until doom overtakes them as Sophie's and Nathan's darkest secrets are revealed.

Thirty-something New Yorker, Jane Hayes, who is obsessed with Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice," is gifted a vacation to an estate where fans are transported back in time and actors pretend to be characters from Austen novels; and things get confusing when she blurs the line between fiction and reality by becoming attracted to two of the actors.

Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italo-American, works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood. He develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.

Presents the script of a play written by students at New York's Stuyvesant High School, presented in a series of monologues based on interviews with students on their experiences and feelings about the attack on the World Trade Center--visible from the school--and its aftermath.

Alvirah Meehan teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly, and they get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree.

Richard Picciotto, the highest-ranking firefighter to survive the collapse of the World Trade Center, provides an account of his activities and those of his fellow firefighters on September 11, 2001, when he and his team put their own lives on the line to help evacuate the North Tower, working until the building collapsed around them.

Amateur sleuth Alvira has her hands full in the weeks before Christmas when she vows to find out why a friend who had promised to leave her townhouse to an after-school shelter suddenly changed her will, and at the same time attempts to locate a child whose mother left her on the steps of a neighborhood church seven years earlier.

Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.