Geographic Orientation/New York
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Heart of a Soldier
$22.95 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart comes the extraordinary story of American hero Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley security director and a veteran of Vietnam and the British colonial wars in Rho… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, James B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0743244591
- Language: English
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The Closer
$19.99 Add to cartThe greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.
Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door,- Author: Rivera, Mariano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0316400742
- Language: English
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The Schwa Was Here
$12.99 Add to cartThey say his clothes blend into the background, no matter where he stands. They say a lot of things about the Schwa, but one thing’s for sure: no one ever noticed him. Except me. My name is Antsy Bona… [more below]
- Author: Shusterman, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0142405779
- Language: English
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Handbook for Boys
$15.99 Add to cartIn the groundbreaking tradition of his award-winning Monster and Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a highly readable, powerful novel about the rules for success for young men, especially t
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0064409309
- Language: English
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The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
$50.00 Read moreA “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years
- Author: New York Times
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593234618
- Language: English
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A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York
$24.99 Add to cartA complex and troubled history defines the borders of upstate New York beyond the physical boundaries of its rivers and lakes. The United States and the state were often deceptive in their territory n… [more below]
- Author: Amrhein, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 1626199310
- Language: English
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Haunted Catskills
$21.99 Add to cartWashington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a spellbound region,” and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provide proof of Irving’s intuition. I… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Lamonica, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1626190119
- Language: English
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American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods
$15.00 Add to cartThe mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for “something different” in its narrow lanes and fish mar… [more below]
- Author: Tsui, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416557245
- Language: English
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Poet in New York/Poeta En Nueva York
$16.00 Add to cart“The definitive version of Lorca’s masterpiece, in language that is as alive and molten today as was the original.”–John Ashbery
Newly translated for the first time in ten years, Federico Garc?acute;- Author: Lorca, Federico GarcÃa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0802143539
- Language: English
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The Park and the People: An Introduction
$32.95 Read moreThis “exemplary social history” (Kirkus Reviews) is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig tell the story of Central Park’s people–the merc
- Author: Rosenzweig, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801497515
- Language: English
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Mets Fan Book
$19.99 Add to cartYa Gotta Believe!: The 40th Anniversary New York Mets Fan Book is the perfect gift for the ultimate fan
Are you a true Mets fan? Were you there when they won the 1986 World Series in the seventh game?- Author: Lichtenstein, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 20 2002
- ISBN10: 0312286864
- Language: English
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Jinx
$9.99 Add to cartIt’s not easy being Jinx.
Jean Honeychurch hates her boring name (not Jean Marie, or Jeanette, just . . . Jean). What’s worse? Her all-too-appropriate nickname, Jinx. Misfortune seems to follow her ev
- Author: Cabot, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0060837667
- Language: English
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Long Island’s Vanished Heiress: The Unsolved Alice Parsons Kidnapping
$24.99 Add to cartAlice McDonell Parsons was the heir to a vast fortune among Long Island’s wealthy elite when she was kidnapped from Long Meadow Farm in Stony Brook in 1937. The crime shocked the nation and was front-… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Drielak, Steven C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 03 2020
- ISBN10: 146714679X
- Language: English
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Silver-Wheeled City: New York By Bicycle & Camera
$19.95 Add to cartAn exploration of the contemporaneous birth of the safety bicycle and box camera in the 1890s in New York City, by way of 9 illustrated historical bike tours. The routes include: a run up the Hudson R
- Author: Dann, Kevin Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: May 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1597315079
- Language: English
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The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy
$14.95 Add to cartThe gripping account of an extraordinary international narcotics case, as it unfolds on the streets of New York City.
- Author: Moore, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1592280447
- Language: English
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Lake George Shipwrecks and Sunken History
$33.99 Add to cartLake George is bustling with boaters, swimmers, fishermen and many others, enjoying its scenic, quintessentially Adirondack shores. But the depths below hide a whole other world–one of shipwrecks and… [more below]
- Author: Zarzynski, Joseph W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1540205754
- Language: English
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The Desperate Hours: One Hospital’s Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic’s Front Lines
$19.99 Add to cartAWARD-WINNING VANITY FAIR WRITER Marie Brenner shares a remarkable depiction of New York–a city in crisis–based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting that captures the resilience, peril, and compassio
- Author: Brenner, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1250837154
- Language: English
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The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
$24.95 Add to cartIn this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the li… [more below]
- Author: Parham, Claire Puccia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0815610734
- Language: English
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Erie Canal
$24.99 Add to cartTravel back in time through the heyday of the old Erie Canal and see how it unleashed the growth of the United States.
The building of the Erie Canal was spearheaded by the vision of Gov. Dewitt Clinto
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Erie Canal Museum
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0738508691
- Language: English
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
$20.99 Add to cartIn the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would la… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McMillen, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195393333
- Language: English
