Geographic Orientation/New York
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The Dead and the Gone
$15.99 Add to cartBest-selling author, Susan Beth Pfeffer, delivers a riveting companion to Life As We Knew It in this enthralling tale that follows seventeen-year-old Alex Morales as he fights to survive in the afterm
- Series: Life as We Knew It #2
- Author: Pfeffer, Susan Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0547258550
- Language: English
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The Women Who Made New York
$30.00 Add to cartAn illuminating, elegant history of New York City, told through the stories of the women who made it the most exciting and influential metropolis in the world
Read any history of New York City and yo- Author: Scelfo, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1580056539
- Language: English
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The Van Alen Legacy
$10.99 Read moreFrom NYT bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, this steamy vampire series is full of secrets, intrigue and blood sucking, perfect for fans of Chloe Gong and Tracy Wolff!
With the stunning revelation- Series: Blue Bloods
- Author: de la Cruz, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1368094171
- Language: English
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Corre! Nicky, Corre!
$16.99 Add to cart?sta es la historia emocionante de c?mo Nicky Cruz se escap? de los barrios bajos en un esfuerzo desesperado para una vida mejor.
Es la biograf?a de un joven que venci? el alcoholismo y los cr?menes de
- Author: Cruz, Nicky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19 1972
- ISBN10: 0829704345
- Language: Spanish
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Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote’s “”Black and White Dance”” in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, C. Z. Guest, Kennedys, Rockefellers, a… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 047009821X
- Language: English
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City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York, 1900 – Present
$31.65 Add to cartBUFFALO, NEW YORK IS ENJOYING A RESURGENCE, AND HAS BECOME A RECOMMENDED TRAVEL DESTINATION. THIS BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF HOW IT GOT HERE.In a sweeping narrative that speaks to the serious student of … [more below]
- Author: Goldman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591024579
- Language: English
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
$16.95 Add to cartThousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, i… [more below]
- Author: Toth, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 155652241X
- Language: English
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Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity from the Jewish Book Council
The history of an iconic food in Jewish American culture For much of the twentieth century,- Author: Merwin, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1479872555
- Language: English
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Rural Hours
$19.95 Add to cartNature and the mid nineteenth-century American landscape is beautifully revealed in this journal of the seasons. Susan Fennimore Cooper, daughter of the great American novelist, wrote this book in 185
- Series: New York State
- Author: Cooper, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0815603177
- Language: English
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The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
$20.00 Add to cartRediscover the Gems of Antiquity in The Artificial River
Woven from a rich tapestry of research, The Artificial River is more than just a historical account of the Erie Canal–it encapsulates a pivota- Author: Sheriff, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 12 1997
- ISBN10: 809016052
- Language: English
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It’s Not Easy Being Mean: A Clique Novel
$13.99 Add to cartMassie Block: Getting back into Octavian Country Day was a piece of sugar-free cake, compared to Massie’s next goal-finding the key that unlocks an ah-mazing legendary secret room at OCD! Alpha eighth
- Series: Clique (Quality) #7
- Author: Harrison, Lisi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0316115053
- Language: English
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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner
$35.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and
- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 006621131X
- Language: English
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The Princess Diaries, Volume VI: Princess in Training
$10.99 Add to cartThe sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot.
Student body president, that is–nominated by her power-mad best friend, Lilly. This is not how Mia imagined ki
- Series: Princess Diaries #6
- Author: Cabot, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0061543659
- Language: English
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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
$27.99 Read moreTwo unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them
In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and- Author: Cope, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1641604522
- Language: English
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
$19.99 Add to cartIn the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.
Liz Murray was born to lo… [more below]- Author: Murray, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 1401310591
- Language: English
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The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
$21.99 Add to cart“An impressive, meticulously reported postmortem. . . . The Wizard of Lies is the definitive book on what Madoff did and how he did it.” –Bloomberg Businessweek
Who was Bernie Madoff, and how did he- Author: Henriques, Diana B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250007437
- Language: English
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Explorer’s Guide 50 Hikes in Western New York: Walks and Day Hikes from the Cattaraugus Hills to the Genessee Valley
$22.99 Add to cartEhling guides you to plunge-pools and glacial caves, past fossil beds and through “rock cities”-all the results of the area’s distinctive geological history. Many of the hikes described here follow ma… [more below]
- Series: Explorer’s 50 Hikes #0
- Author: Ehling, William P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0881501646
- Language: English
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
$24.00 Add to cart“Meticulous . . . [Nagle’s] passion for the subject really comes to life.” —The New York Times
New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quick- Author: Nagle, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534276
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Lives
$24.95 Add to cartJacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of Ne… [more below]
- Author: Riis, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0486220125
- Language: English
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Lost in Time
$10.99 Read moreFrom NYT bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, this steamy vampire series is full of secrets, intrigue and blood sucking, perfect for fans of Chloe Gong and Tracy Wolff!
The stakes have never been hi- Series: Blue Bloods
- Author: de la Cruz, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1368094198
- Language: English
