Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic
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Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Noto
$23.00 Add to cartAll but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrif… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 143914155X
- Language: English
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Everyday Matters
$15.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Persepolis, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Our Cancer Year, an illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power, and beauty Danny Gregory and his wife, Patti, hadn’t been married lon… [more below]
- Author: Gregory, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1401307957
- Language: English
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Louise Blanchard Bethune: Every Woman Her Own Architect
$33.95 Add to cartThe trailblazing story of the life and career of Louise Blanchard Bethune, America’s first professional woman architect.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Hayes McAlonie, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 143849288X
- Language: English
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Trout Streams and Hatches of Pennsylvania: A Complete Fly-Fishing Guide to 140 Streams
$31.99 Add to cartMany of the 10,000 miles of classified trout water in the state is easily accessible from major population centers. But this massive, complete work also includes smaller “secret” streams in remote reg… [more below]
- Series: Trout Streams #0
- Author: Meck, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 088150453X
- Language: English
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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
$19.00 Add to cartEvery morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignore… [more below]
- Author: Sorkin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477574
- Language: English
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Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
$19.00 Add to cartOriginally published: c2007. With new afterword and interview.
- Author: Kraybill, Donald B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0470344040
- Language: English
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Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better: A Gossip Girl Novel
$13.99 Add to cartThe uptown girls are headed downtown as Serena and Jenny take on their new fabulous roles as rock-star model girlfriends of New York’s hottest band, The Raves. Meanwhile, Dan is to busy drowning his s… [more below]
- Series: Gossip Girl #7
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0316735124
- Language: English
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Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004
$39.95 Add to cartStand, Columbia! Alma Mater
Through the storms of Time abide Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide. “Stand, Columbia!” by Gilbert Oakley Ward, Columbia College 1902 (1904) Marki- Series: Columbiana
- Author: McCaughey, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 715
- Publish Date: October 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0231130082
- Language: English
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The Dream Bearer
$8.99 Add to cartPrintz Award winner Walter Dean Myers deftly draws a compassionate portrait of a boy’s odyssey of self-discovery and the acceptance and empathy for others he learns along the way.
David doesn’t know wh
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0064472892
- Language: English
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Saved at the Seawall: Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift
$17.95 Add to cartSaved at the Seawall is the definitive history of the largest ever waterborne evacuation. Jessica DuLong reveals the dramatic story of how the New York Harbor maritime community heroically delivered s
- Author: Dulong, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501759124
- Language: English
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Hiking the Catskills: A Guide to the Area’s Greatest Hikes
$24.95 Read moreHiking the Catskills provides everything hikers need to plan day hikes in the Catskill region of New York State: a five-county area west of the Hudson River that includes parts of Delaware, Greene, Ot
- Series: Regional Hiking
- Author: Minetor, Randi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493062999
- Language: English
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Joel Sternfeld: Walking the High Line: Revised Edition
$45.00 Read moreA newly expanded edition of Sternfeld’s popular portrayal of the High Line’s early days
With nine additional photos, a larger format and an expanded, up-to-date timeline, this is the new and revised ed
- Author: Sternfeld, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 3958297641
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Broadway: New York Theater 1850-1970
$47.99 Add to cartThe history of theater in New York is captured in the images of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. From this valuable archive, author Leonard Jacob
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Jacobs, Leonard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: June 18, 2008
- ISBN10: 1683369548
- Language: English
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Remembering United States Naval Academy
$19.99 Add to cartWith a proud tradition reaching back to its founding in 1845, the United States Naval Academy today pursues its role as the nation’s premier institution dedicated to teaching and molding the naval lea
- Series: Remembering
- Author: Cheevers, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: August 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1683368975
- Language: English
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Spooky Maryland: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
$17.95 Add to cartMaryland’s folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser, and in artist Paul Hoffman’s evocative illustrations.
- Series: Spooky
- Author: Schlosser, S. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493044796
- Language: English
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Battle of White Plains: Washington and Howe in Westchester
$41.99 Add to cartWashington’s Harrowing Escape from the Hudson Valley
In October 1776 central Westchester witnessed a critical episode in the early campaign of George Washington’s ragtag Continental Army and its quest
- Series: Military
- Author: Devillo, Stephen Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: June 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252698
- Language: English
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Making Long Island: A History of Growth and the American Dream
$24.99 Read moreDiscover the history of the development of Long Island and its intimate relationship with New York City.
Beginning in the Roaring Twenties, Wall Street money looked eastward to Nassau and Suffolk cou
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Samuel, Lawrence R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154970
- Language: English
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Downstate New York Rock Walks: An Explorer’s Guide to Amazing Boulders and Rock Formations
$29.95 Add to cartAn explorer’s walking guide to downstate New York’s awesome boulders and rock formations.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Dunn, C. Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 143849470X
- Language: English
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Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
$24.00 Add to cartA frank and entertaining memoir–from the daughter of Edward Said–now in paperback.
The daughter of the famous intellectual and outspoken Palestinian advocate Edward Said and a sophisticated Lebanese- Author: Said, Najla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1594632758
- Language: English
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The Irish at Gettysburg
$24.99 Add to cartAt the outbreak of the Civil War, Irish citizens on both sides of the Mason-Dixon answered the call to arms. This was most evident at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Louisiana Irish Rebels charged with the c
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Tucker Phd, Phillip Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138525
- Language: English
