Geographic Orientation/New York
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Gossip Girl: Don’t You Forget about Me: A Gossip Girl Novel
$16.99 Add to cartDon’t You Forget About Me continues the #1 New York Times bestselling series about the provocative lives of New York City’s most prestigious private school young adults. Sharp wit, intriguing characte… [more below]
- Series: Gossip Girl Novels (Paperback) #11
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0316011843
- Language: English
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Paul Tough’s Whatever It Takes is “one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa” (The Washington Post).
What would it take?… [more below]
- Author: Tough, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247966
- Language: English
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The Closer
$40.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0316404608
- Language: English
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street
$19.99 Add to cartSt. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of mi
- Author: Calhoun, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353303
- Language: English
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New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area
$19.95 Add to cartIf you’re not a tree lover now, this pocket-sized gem–dedicated to the idea that every species of tree has a story and every individual tree has a history–will make you one. Produced in consultation
- Author: Barnard, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0231128355
- Language: English
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Tis: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartA #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela’s Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immi… [more below]
- Series: Frank McCourt Memoirs
- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865742
- Language: English
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Gossip Girl: Only in Your Dreams: A Gossip Girl Novel
$14.99 Add to cartWelcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where the girls are dazzling, the guys are gorgeous, and the summer heat is the perfect excuse to throw a fabulous roof-deck pool party. As if we need a rea… [more below]
- Series: Gossip Girl Novels (Paperback) #9
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0316011827
- Language: English
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100 Things Yankees Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
$18.95 Read moreMost Yankees fans have taken in a game or two at Yankee Stadium, have seen highlights of stars like Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio, and can tell the story of Babe Ruth’s called-shot home run in 1932. … [more below]
- Series: 100 Things…Fans Should Know
- Author: Fischer, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1629375470
- Language: English
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If God is God Then Why?: Letters from New York City
$9.99 Add to cartWhat was God doing the morning of September 11? Was He watching but not caring? Did He choose to just sit on His hands?
- Author: Truesdale, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0834119668
- Language: English
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Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance (National Book Award Finalist)
$19.99 Read moreThis Black History month, celebrate the Harlem Renaissance! This National Book Award Finalist takes a breathtaking, in-depth look at the art, poetry, and fiction that came out of one of America’s most… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Laban Carrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0316496332
- Language: English
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
$20.00 Add to cart“A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves.”
―John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city,- Author: Sante, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528993
- Language: English
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The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and t
$19.99 Add to cart“Jeff Pearlman has captured the swagger of the ’86 Mets. You don’t have to be a Mets fan to enjoy this book–it’s a great read for all baseball enthusiasts.” –Philadelphia Daily News
Award-winning Spo
- Author: Pearlman, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0062097636
- Language: English
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Adirondack Outlaws: Bad Boys and Lawless Ladies
$14.95 Add to cartLocal author and historian Niki Kourofsky exposes the North Country’s shadowy past of crime and dark deeds. Her wry, lively storytelling puts readers right in the thick of shootouts, jewel heists, ban… [more below]
- Series: The Rowdy Bunch
- Author: Kourofsky, Niki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1560376112
- Language: English
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All These Things I’ve Done
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Gabrielle Zevin–the New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry—comes the first book in the Birthright series, All These Thing
- Series: Birthright (Zevin (Quality) #1
- Author: Zevin, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250010284
- Language: English
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Report from Engine Co. 82
$18.99 Add to cartFrom his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0446675520
- Language: English
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
$27.95 Add to cartThe pandemic lockdown of 2020 launched an unprecedented urban experiment. Traffic disappeared from the streets. Times Square fell silent. And half a million residents fled the most crowded city in Ame
- Author: Moss, Jeremiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393868478
- Language: English
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I Rise
$18.99 Read more“A love letter to Harlem and hope. I Rise is smart and funny and full of heart.*”
Fourteen-year-old Ayo who has to decide whether to take on her mother’s activist role when her mom is shot by police. A
- Author: Arnold, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02, 2022
- ISBN10: 0358449049
- Language: English
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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
$35.00 Read moreSince its publication – Delirious New York (1978) has attained mythic status. Rem Koolhaas’s celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the variety of human behavior
At the
- Author: Koolhaas, Rem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1885254008
- Language: English
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The Soul of Central New York: Syracuse Stories
$15.95 Add to cartA group of strangers risk death along the New York State Thruway to save a soldier from a burning truck. The true story, as told by football legend Jim Brown, of how the number 44 rose to prominence a
- Author: Kirst, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0815610831
- Language: English
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Rao’s Cookbook: Over 100 Years of Italian Home Cooking
$40.00 Add to cartRao’s, the hundred-year-old restaurant with a mere ten tables tucked in a corner of East Harlem in what was once a legendary Italian neighborhood, is one of the most sought-after restaurants in all of… [more below]
- Author: Pellegrino, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0679457496
- Language: English
