Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic
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Kaufmann’s: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community
- Author: Pitz, Marylynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967138
- Language: English
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The Great Hurricane: 1938
$16.00 Add to cartOn the night of September 21,1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color i… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Cherie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142540
- Language: English
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Inside the Dream Palace
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing
“Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea’s artists, but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing, narrative: that of t- Author: Tippins, Sherill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0544334477
- Language: English
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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
$23.00 Add to cartDavid Carter’s Stonewall is the basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising.
In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City- Author: Carter, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0312671938
- Language: English
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When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Boys of Summer and The Bronx Is Burning, New York Times sports columnist Harvey Araton delivers a fascinating look at the 1970s New York Knicks–part autobiography, part sports… [more below]
- Author: Araton, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0061956244
- Language: English
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The View from Federal Twist: A New Way of Thinking about Gardens, Nature and Ourselves
$55.00 Read moreFederal Twist is set on a ridge above the Delaware River in western New Jersey. It is a naturalistic garden that has no utilitarian or leisure uses and the site is not an obvious choice for a garden (… [more below]
- Author: Golden, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1999734572
- Language: English
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Beaver River Country: An Adirondack History
$24.95 Add to cartEncompassing the lands immediately surrounding the upper reaches of the Beaver River from its headwaters at Lake Lila to Beaver Lake at the settlement of Number Four, Beaver River country is the large
- Series: New York State
- Author: Pitts, Edward I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0815611331
- Language: English
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The Haunted History of Pelham, New York: Including Ghostly Tales of The Bronx, Westchester County, and Long Island Sound
$21.95 Add to cartA fascinating fusion of New York history and local folklore sure to send shivers up your spine!
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Bell, Blake A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 143848674X
- Language: English
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Melba’s American Comfort: 100 Recipes from My Heart to Your Kitchen
$26.99 Add to cartFresh from the kitchen of her legendary Harlem restaurant, Melba’s, the reigning queen of American comfort food serves up one hundred delectable recipes that put her own special touch on favorite dish… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Melba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1476795304
- Language: English
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Sworn to Silence: The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies’ Case
$17.00 Add to cartTwo small-town attorneys who outraged the nation defending a hated man; the detective who desperately sought answers to the whereabouts of missing women; the unveiling of a modern-day serial killer; a… [more below]
- Author: Tracy, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 164293626X
- Language: English
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Photographing: New York: Award-Winning Photographers Show You How to Get the Best Shots
$19.95 Add to cartNew York is new and has something extraordinary for every photographer.
This guide takes you to the best locations at the best times of day. Each location has hours, admission fees, directions, the be
- Author: Simephoto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 8899180555
- Language: English
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Historic Haunts of Long Island: Ghosts and Legends from the Gold Coast to Montauk Point
$24.99 Add to cartExplore the mysterious past of Long Island and learn about the spirits that haunt the historic American island.
Take a ghostly journey through Long Island’s history, from Native American legends and be
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Brosky, Kerriann Flanagan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1626196680
- Language: English
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Long Island’s Gold Coast
$31.99 Add to cartIn the spotlight with the publication of The Great Gatsby, the North Shore’s Gold Coast boasted perhaps the greatest concentration of wealth in the country during the first half of the 20th century. I… [more below]
- Author: Mateyunas, Paul J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1531661610
- Language: English
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Brooklyn Before: Photographs, 1971-1983
$34.95 Read moreBefore Brooklyn rose to international fame there existed a vibrant borough of neighborhoods rich with connections and traditions. During the 1970s and 1980s, photographer Larry Racioppo, a South Brook
- Author: Racioppo, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1501725874
- Language: English
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The 50 Greatest Players in New England Patriots Football History
$31.58 Add to cartPerhaps even more than the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots are the team of the entire northeast from Rhode Island to Canada. Here, sports historian Robert W. Cohen ranks the 50 best players t… [more below]
- Series: 50 Greatest Players
- Author: Cohen, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493033573
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Baltimore
$21.99 Add to cartBaltimore’s unforgettable dining scene of the past is re-visited here in thirty-five now shuttered restaurants that made their mark on this city.
Haussner’s artwork. Coffey salad at the Pimlico Hotel.
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Loudermilk, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 146714066X
- Language: English
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Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
$34.95 Read moreA revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century.
Allen Ginsberg’s 1956- Author: Weine, Stevan M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1531502660
- Language: English
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How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn
$18.99 Add to cartA “funny, poignant, dishy, and even enlightening” adventure through a tight-knit world of drag performers making art, mayhem, and dreaming of making it big, this book is “the story of America now” (Al… [more below]
- Author: Pasulka, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1982115807
- Language: English
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That’s So New York: Short (and Very Short) Stories about the Greatest City on Earth
$18.95 Add to cartCharming, poignant, and occasionally salacious, That’s So New York is brimming with little snapshots of humanity that make one thing clear: There’s no place like New York.
New York Times editor and li- Author: Saltzstein, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1797224123
- Language: English
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Paws of Firefighters: The Dogs & Other Animals of New York Firehouses
$29.99 Read moreIn this book, Emmy Park has combined her love for dogs and cats and her passion for documenting the relationship between pets and their families in this unique journey with the firefighters who serve
- Author: Park, Emmy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28, 2024
- ISBN10: 076436734X
- Language: English
