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If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin.His fifth novel (and 13th book overall), it is a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. [1] [2] The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues", named after Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
Children's books set in Harlem (6 P) Pages in category "Children's books set in Manhattan" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Private is a series of young-adult novels by American author Kate Brian, beginning with 2006's entry of the same name.The books chronicle the rise of ambitious teenager Reed Brennan, the series' narrator, as she becomes a member of her new school's elite dorm—composed of a glamorous yet disparate group of teens known as the Billings Girls.
Manhattan Beach is a historical novel [1] by American writer Jennifer Egan. It was published in 2017 by Scribner. The National Book Foundation listed the book in their 2017 National Book Award Longlist in the Fiction category. [2] Time magazine selected it as one of its top ten novels of 2017. [3]
Early books, like the junior novels, had little sex, although that gradually changed over the years. The romance series for teens in the 1980s was modeled on adult romances with "more innocent" storylines. [2] These books were generally told from the point-of-view of a 15–16-year-old girl experiencing her first love. [9]
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The novel tells the stories, primarily, of four people living in Manhattan from the 1890s to the late 1920s. The stories are presented in a fragmented, contrasting way, often juxtaposing them to bring out new meaning. The title of the book refers to a railway station, and the way that Manhattan itself was undergoing change. [2]