Geographic Orientation/New York
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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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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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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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The Guys: A Play
$18.00 Add to cartFirst performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production, and soon to be a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia, The Guys is a timeless drama about the surprising truths people can discover… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 13 2002
- ISBN10: 0812967291
- Language: English
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Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
$26.99 Add to cartNew York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen.
In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York’s dining
- Author: Grimes, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532494
- Language: English
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
$53.00 Add to cartIn this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers’ Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repre… [more below]
- Series: History of NYC
- Author: Wallace, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1196
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0195116356
- Language: English
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Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era
$25.00 Add to cart- Author: Emerson, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037773
- Language: English
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Iroquois Medical Botany
$24.95 Add to cartThe world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy–the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora nations–is based on a strong cosmological belief system. This is especially evident i
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Herrick, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0815604645
- Language: English
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The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America
$25.99 Add to cartThe Dalzells . . . do an astonishing job of placing Kykuit in historical context while weaving the larger-than-life Rockefeller personalities into its very walls and hallways.–Los Angeles Times
One h- Series: John MacRae Books
- Author: Dalzell, Robert F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0805088571
- Language: English
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Ellis Island
$23.99 Add to cartThe United States is considered the world’s foremost refuge for foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than Ellis Island.
Through Ellis Island’s halls and corridors more than twe
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Moreno, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0738513040
- Language: English
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Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
$25.99 Add to cartThe fabulous life of Brooke Astor, a pioneer of philanthropy and for decades a luminary of New York society. Hers is a story out of Edith Wharton. After a disastrous early marriage, Brooke Astor wedde
- Author: Kiernan, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331601
- Language: English
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The Young World
$19.99 Add to cart“Chris Weitz has made a beautiful transition from writing and directing films to novels. The Young World is populated with characters you won’t forget and a story as fresh and urgent as Divergent.”–J… [more below]
- Series: Young World #1
- Author: Weitz, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0316226289
- Language: English
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The Turkish Lover: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartEnthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago’s memoirs of her childhood have yearned to read more. Now, in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of the monumental struggle with her powerful mot… [more below]
- Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Author: Santiago, Esmeralda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 10 2005
- ISBN10: 030681451X
- Language: English
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Tales of Times Square
$18.95 Read more“Friedman has drawn a vivid picture of the Times Square area and its denizens. He writes about the porn palaces with live sex shows, and the men and women who perform in them, prostitutes and their pi
- Author: Friedman, Josh Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1932595287
- Language: English
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Robert Rauschenberg
$55.00 Read more“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two.)” –Robert Rauschenberg
The early 1950s, when Robert Rauschenberg launched his career, was the hey
- Author: Rauschenberg, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 163345021X
- Language: English
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Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landsca
$17.99 Add to cartMcKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion.–Entertainment Weekly
In Wandering- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1627790209
- Language: English
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Mob Daughter: The Mafia, Sammy the Bull Gravano, and Me!
$21.99 Add to cartFrom Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and betrayal.
Karen Gravano is the- Author: Gravano, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1250022207
- Language: English
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25 Bicycle Tours in the Lake Champlain Region: Scenic Rides in Vermont, New York, and Quebec
$22.99 Add to cartThis book offers rides over the entire Lake Champlain region, from the southern tip of the lake at the birthplace of the U.S. Navy in Whitehall, New York, to its northernmost bay in Quebec, west to La
- Series: 25 Bicycle Tours #0
- Author: Hansen, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0881505757
- Language: English
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Birds of the Lake Erie Region
$28.00 Add to cartThis latest collaboration of Carolyn V. Platt and Gary Meszaros is a beautifully photographed book that explores Lake Erie and its effects on the birds that make this region their home.
Birds of the L
- Author: Platt, Carolyn V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 21 2001
- ISBN10: 0873386906
- Language: English
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Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins
$15.00 Add to cartIn this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded o
- Author: Flynn, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: July 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0865479852
- Language: English
