Seize the Day deftly interweaves humor and pathos, capturing the climactic events of a single, transformative day. The story unfolds with Tommy Wilhelm, a man in his mid-forties, who finds himself temporarily residing in the Hotel Gloriana on the Upper West Side of New York City. Here, amidst the elderly retirees, he stands out as a figure of isolation.

This novella traverses a pivotal day in Tommy's life — his "day of reckoning." He grapples with his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, confronting his separation from his wife and children, strained relationship with his vain and successful father, and the failures of his acting career. A mysterious philosophizing con man offers him a moment of truth and understanding, shining a light on one last hope.

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna’s limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal.

But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel’s colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim’s widow skips town. Lionel’s world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.

Will Barrett is a twenty-five-year-old wanderer from the South, living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future. But everything changes when he purchases a telescope, setting off a romance that will alter the course of his life forever.

Will's journey takes him from the bustling streets of New York to the heart of the Mississippi Delta, where he becomes entangled with the eccentric Vaught family. His unexpected role as caretaker for the family's ailing son, Jamie, challenges him to confront his personal demons.

Amidst these challenges, Will discovers a profound love for Jamie's sister, Kitty, and forges a deepening relationship with the Vaught family. Through these connections, he learns the true meaning of home and belonging.

The Angel of Darkness, by Caleb Carr, immerses readers in the vivid world of The Alienist with an intriguing twist: the story is narrated by former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has endowed him with wisdom beyond his years. Thus, New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew.

Set in June 1897, a year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with his trusted companions. Kreizler and his friends—high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime—have returned to their former pursuits, trying to forget the horror of the Beecham case.

But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara's aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. This case is fraught with danger, as Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Caleb Carr once again demonstrates his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low.

As the horror unfolds, Delmonico's still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer's past. At the same time, readers embark on revealing journeys into Stevie's New York, a place where poor and neglected children—then as now—turn to crime and drugs at shockingly early ages.

Peppered throughout are characters taken from real life and rendered with historical vigor, including suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; painter Albert Pinkham Ryder; and Clarence Darrow, who thunders for the defense in a tense courtroom drama during which the sanctity of American motherhood itself is put on trial.

Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York.

Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort.

In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inhabit.

Sexus is the first novel of Henry Miller's frank, autobiographical trilogy known collectively as The Rosy Crucifixion. This captivating narrative uses dream, fantasy, and burlesque to portray the life of a struggling writer in pre-World War I New York.

Delve into Miller's tempestuous marriage and his relentless sexual exploits in the vibrant city of New York. The trilogy continues with the novels Plexus and Nexus, exploring further the depths of human desire and artistic ambition.

Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but it's pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out.

Suddenly, he's on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and perhaps death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country's hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman.

No matter where he turns, the case is waiting for him, haunting his nights and turning his days into a living hell. Stone finds himself caught in a perilous web of unspeakable crimes, dangerous friends, and sexual depravity that has throughout it one common thread: Sasha.

Wiseguy is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, offering the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia. This is the story of Henry Hill, shared in fascinating and brutal detail, revealing the never-before-revealed day-to-day life of a working mobster.

Explore his violence, wild spending sprees, his wife and mistresses, and his code of honor. Discover the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas. Experience the secret life inside the mob—from one who’s lived it.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature—an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind. It's Christmas time, and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school.

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone around Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps, and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is both beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, with a mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

J.D. Salinger's classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel has been frequently challenged in court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and was the book that every teenage boy wanted to read in the 1950s and 60s.

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