Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press
$22.00 Add to cartStories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Portnoy, Eddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 150360411X
- Language: English
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Calling the Water Drum
$10.95 Add to cartA moving story about a family’s attempt to flee Haiti in a boat, and a young boy who bravely learns to navigate a new world through playing his drum.
Henri and his parents leave their homeland, Haiti,
- Author: Redding, Latisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1643795996
- Language: English
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The Bone Collector
$10.99 Add to cartDON’T MISS THE NBC TELEVISION SERIES LINCOLN RHYME: HUNT FOR THE BONE COLLECTOR
The first novel in the New York Times bestselling series featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme–from the author of- Series: Lincoln Rhyme Novels #1
- Author: Deaver, Jeffery
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0451469798
- Language: English
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The 500 Hidden Secrets of New York Revised and Updated
$25.00 Add to cart– An insider’s guide to New York City’s hidden gems and lesser-known spots
– Written by a true local, filled with independent advice, based on thorough research and the author’s personal opinions
– An i
- Author: Swandiak, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9460583105
- Language: English
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Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters
$19.95 Add to cartNature on the Doorstep reveals the simple pleasures of paying attention to the natural world in one’s own backyard over the course of a year. In weekly letters, Angela Douglas shares the joys and curi
- Author: Douglas, Angela E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501768115
- Language: English
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
$30.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics–soon to be a Showtime limited series
… [more below]- Author: Chabon, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0679450041
- Language: English
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Hudson Valley History & Mystery, Volume 2
$29.99 Add to cartPicking up where the first volume of Hudson Valley History & Mystery left off, readers will learn little-known tales about heroic battles, famous individuals, mysterious creatures, and paranormal happ… [more below]
- Author: Adamovic, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366785
- Language: English
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Ask Me No Questions
$12.99 Add to cartA Muslim immigrant teen struggles to hold her family together in the wake of 9/11 in this poignant novel from acclaimed author Marina Budhos.You forget. You forget you don’t really exist here, that th… [more below]
- Author: Budhos, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1416949208
- Language: English
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving … [more below]
- Author: Moehringer, J. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0306828057
- Language: English
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Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
$26.00 Read moreA “magisterial” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize–and previously unmapped–influence ext… [more below]
- Author: Meier, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0812981049
- Language: English
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Empire Rising
$27.00 Add to cartIt is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his
- Author: Kelly, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425740
- Language: English
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Valley Forge
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is return with “a thorough, nuanced, and enthralling account” (The Wall Street Journal) about one of the most inspiring–and u… [more below]
- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1501152726
- Language: English
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Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
$28.95 Add to cartEugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government’s actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Ho… [more below]
- Author: Pietila, Antero
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1566638437
- Language: English
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Don’t Stop the Carnival
$19.99 Add to cartThe “compulsively and clock-racingly readable” novel (New York Times Book Review) that captures the comedy and tragedy of island life and inspired a Jimmy Buffett musical.
It’s every parrothead’s dre… [more below]- Author: Wouk, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 15 1992
- ISBN10: 316955124
- Language: English
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111 Places in New York That You Must Not Miss
$23.95 Read more– The ultimate insider’s guide to New York City
– Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides
– Part of the international 111 Places series with over 650 titles and 3.
- Author: Elikann, Jo-Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 3740820578
- Language: English
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The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
$17.00 Add to cartLegendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America.
Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little siste- Author: Trevanian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 06 2006
- ISBN10: 1400080371
- Language: English
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The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder
$10.99 Add to cartIn The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the tragedy of the Watts family, whose seemingly perfect lives played out on social media–but the truth would lead to a vic
- Author: Glatt, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1250782686
- Language: English
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Ashes of Roses
$11.99 Add to cartWhen Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, she is looking for a land of opportunities; what she finds is far from all she’d dreamed. Stubborn and tenacious, she r
- Author: Auch, Mj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0312535805
- Language: English
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Made in New York: 25 Innovators Who Shaped Our World
$24.95 Add to cartHow New Yorkers transformed the world!
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Vizard, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438493681
- Language: English
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A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
$9.99 Add to cartAs a new generation of activists demands an end to racism, A Place to Land reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the movement that it galvanized. Now available in paperback… [more below]
- Author: Wittenstein, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0823451135
- Language: English
