City on a Grid: How New York Became New York by Gerard Koeppel
The book is a fascinating look at urban planning (or lack thereof in some respects) from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries in America's largest city - N...
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The Wicked City by Beatriz Williams
Although Williams' novels have a bit more sex than I like (any mention of it is a bit more than my preference not because of prudishness, but I like action more...
The Great and the Good by Michel Deon
The book is intriguing because it almost feels like a classic. A classic in the sense that it captures the time period perfectly - 1950's America as an industri...
A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams
I do not typically read novels about rich and glamorous people, but Beatriz Williams’ latest novel A Certain Age caught my eye. It caught my eye because i...
Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead
An excellent middle grade novel. Strong central character with a great voice. Stead artfully and insightfully explores the challenges of school, families, and f...
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
I enjoyed both the sort of magical realism (tied to the classic A Wrinkle in Time) and the realism of what it might be like to be a sixth-grader in the city and...