Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic
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Harlem World: How Hip Hop’s Super Showdown Changed Music Forever
$26.95 Read moreA thrilling narrative history of how one rap battle in New York transformed American culture forever.
July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America’s newest art form: hip hop. In New York
- Author: Mael, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 142144688X
- Language: English
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Chuck Tanner and the Pittsburgh Pirates
$36.99 Add to cartBaseball’s Mr. Sunshine
A beloved son of Western Pennsylvania, Chuck Tanner spent a career in baseball both as a player and manager. He lead the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1977 to 1985 and helped capture
- Author: Perelman, Dale Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257894
- Language: English
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The Pennsylvania Dutch
$24.95 Add to cartFredric Klees’ The Pennsylvania Dutch is the best and most inclusive volume with an over-all approach to its subject. “I have tried,” he says, “to make this book a comprehensive treatment of the Penns
- Author: Klees, Fredric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1934597929
- Language: English
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Black Hand Black Sheep
$18.95 Add to cartAs a teenager, in the early 1900s, Antonio Caliendo left Italy in hopes of finding a better life in America. His journey from the Italian countryside would take him from the steel mills of Western Pen
- Author: Caliendo, Louis A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1662479549
- Language: English
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Bob Dylan’s New York: A Historic Guide
$19.95 Add to cartA walking tour and history of Bob Dylan’s life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Weissman, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1438490860
- Language: English
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Governors Island
$31.99 Add to cartPurchased from the Manhattan tribe of the Wappinger
Confederacy by the Dutch, Governors Island has long been
the secret island in New York’s harbor. Although this pristine island has appeared on maps … [more below]- Author: Glen, Susan L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1531623174
- Language: English
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Fort Niagara: The Key to the Inland Oceans and the French Movement to Dominate North America
$28.99 Add to cartFort Niagara is located twelve miles downriver from the world-renowned Niagara Falls, yet few visitors to either site know this was once Iroquois territory and claimed by France. This volume summarize… [more below]
- Author: Utley, William Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1532070659
- Language: English
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Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties
$29.95 Add to cartJohn D’Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy… [more below]
- Author: D’Emilio, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1478015926
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910
$38.00 Add to cartAn expansive exploration of The Gilded Age in New York City, from of the extravagant lifestyles and magnificent mansions of the ultra-rich to the daily doings of the wretchedly poor who lived in the s
- Author: Crain, Esther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0316353663
- Language: English
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Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
$32.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2017!
Here is New York, as you’ve never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, th- Author: Wertz, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0316501212
- Language: English
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Bone in the Throat
$17.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed first novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN. A wildly funny, irreverent tale of murder, mayhem, and the mob.
When up-and- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 18 2000
- ISBN10: 1582341028
- Language: English
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Gettysburg
$21.99 Add to cartA comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today’s leading historians.
The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s … [more below]
- Author: Sears, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 623
- Publish Date: November 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0618485384
- Language: English
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The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
$22.00 Add to cartAs President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves.
The result is a “scathing and revelatory” (The New- Author: Bolton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1982148047
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York—now with a new introduction from acclaimed author Colm Tb匤 for th… [more below]
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 1998
- ISBN10: 0684842378
- Language: English
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Bodega Dreams
$17.00 Add to cartIn this “thriller with literary merit” (Time Out New York), a stunning narrative combines the gritty rhythms of Junot Diaz with the noir genius of Walter Mosley.
Bodega Dreams pulls us into Spanish H- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Quiñonez, Ernesto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 14 2000
- ISBN10: 375705899
- Language: English
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When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellions and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation’s Capital
$33.82 Add to cartEchoing James Forman Jr.’s Locking Up Our Own, a riveting story of race, civil rights, and rebellion in Washington, DC
In April 1968, following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., a wave of uprising- Author: Sommers, Kyla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977478
- Language: English
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It’s a Wonderful Woof: A Chet & Bernie Mystery
$17.99 Add to cartINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Spencer Quinn’s It’s a Wonderful Woof presents a holiday adventure for Chet the dog, “the most lovable narrator in crime fiction” (Boston Globe), and his human partner, PI- Series: Chet & Bernie Mystery #12
- Author: Quinn, Spencer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 125077036X
- Language: English
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Clockers
$40.99 Add to cartNovelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Richard Price’s bestselling second novel offers an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair (USA Today)
At once an intense mystery and a- Author: Price, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0312426186
- Language: English
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Hurry Up, Houdini!
$6.99 Add to cartThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!
Abracadabra! Jack and Annie are on a mission for Merlin the magician. T- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Merlin Mission #22
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0307980480
- Language: English
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Stepping on the Cracks
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1944, when her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret changes her mind about the school bully, Gordy, after she discovers he is hiding his own brother, a deserter.
A… [more below]
- Author: Hahn, Mary Downing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547076606
- Language: English
