New York is the Backdrop for These Stories

This week we are in a New York frame of mind with three new books. They are all very different, but all take place in New York City. We hope you enjoy these new titles. Happy reading!

Bond Girl: a Novel By Erin Duffy, January 2012, 293 pages.  

When other little girls were dreaming about becoming doctors or lawyers, Alex Garrett set her sights on conquering the high-powered world of Wall Street. Ignoring her friends' pleas to quit, Alex excels (while learning how to roll with the punches and laugh at herself) and soon advances from lowly analyst to slightly-less-lowly associate. Fast-paced, funny, and thoroughly addictive, Bond Girl will leave you cheering for Alex: a feisty, ambitious woman with the spirit to stand up to the best (and worst) of the boys on the Street—and ultimately rise above them all. This book has been described as The Devil Wears Prada for Wall Street. This is a smart and fun contemporary fiction book.

Kill Switch by Neil Baer, September 2011, 304 pages.

Neal Baer and Jonathan Greene have worked on popular shows like “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and “ER,” but Kill Switch marks their long-form fiction debut. The novel centers on forensic psychiatrist Claire Waters and NYPD detective Nick Lawler. Troubled by a traumatic event from deep in her past, Waters finds herself at the epicenter of a serial killer’s rampage. Fans of suspense authors like Harlan Coben and Robert Ludlum will want to give this novel a try.

The Street Sweeper: a Novel by Elliot Perlman, January 2012, 626 pages.

The acclaimed author of Seven Types of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman brings us a novel following the lives of two men and their myriad connected friends, lovers and families. The worlds surrounding these two men, their families, their pasts, their potential futures, swirl in and out of history as the forces of the Holocaust, the American civil rights movement, Chicago unions, and New York City racial politics combine in a thrilling cross- generational literary symphony. It’s a powerful novel of historical fiction set in modern times.

Reviews brought to you each week by librarians Jennifer Niederhausen, Dona Stein and Heather Timko, Adult Services Division, .