Geographic Orientation/New York
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Calling the Water Drum
$10.95 Add to cartA moving story about a family’s attempt to flee Haiti in a boat, and a young boy who bravely learns to navigate a new world through playing his drum.
Henri and his parents leave their homeland, Haiti,
- Author: Redding, Latisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1643795996
- Language: English
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Subway
$19.99 Add to cartSpeed. Color. Sound. Numbers. Maps. Connections. Navigation. Subway systems may be specific to certain cities around the world, but the pure thrill of a subway ride is universal to all young children.
- Author: Niemann, Christoph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0061577790
- Language: English
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Sector 7
$19.99 Add to cartThe Caldecott Honor-winning adventure of a young boy and a mischievous cloud in a funny, touching story about art, friendship, and the weather by three-time Caldecott Medalist David Wiesner.
Only the- Author: Wiesner, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 20 1999
- ISBN10: 0395746566
- Language: English
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The Bone Collector
$10.99 Add to cartDON’T MISS THE NBC TELEVISION SERIES LINCOLN RHYME: HUNT FOR THE BONE COLLECTOR
The first novel in the New York Times bestselling series featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme–from the author of- Series: Lincoln Rhyme Novels #1
- Author: Deaver, Jeffery
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0451469798
- Language: English
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Hither & Nigh
$18.99 Read moreMagic and mystery abound when a young girl discovers a secret, parallel New York City that may help her find her missing brother in this middle grade fantasy adventure that’s a “thrilling page-turner”… [more below]
- Series: Hither & Nigh #1
- Author: Potter, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1665910380
- Language: English
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
$30.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics–soon to be a Showtime limited series
… [more below]- Author: Chabon, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0679450041
- Language: English
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Ask Me No Questions
$12.99 Add to cartA Muslim immigrant teen struggles to hold her family together in the wake of 9/11 in this poignant novel from acclaimed author Marina Budhos.You forget. You forget you don’t really exist here, that th… [more below]
- Author: Budhos, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1416949208
- Language: English
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving … [more below]
- Author: Moehringer, J. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0306828057
- Language: English
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Wish You Were Here
$20.00 Add to cartAward-winning writer Stewart O’Nan has been acclaimed by critics as one of the most accomplished novelists writing today. Now comes his finest and most complete novel to date.
A year after the death o
- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0802139892
- Language: English
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Dactyl Hill Squad (Dactyl Hill Squad #1): Volume 1
$6.99 Read more“An unforgettable historical, high-octane adventure.” — Dav Pilkey, author-illustrator of the Dog Man series
It’s 1863 and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War rages between raptor-… [more below]
- Series: Dactyl Hill Squad #1
- Author: Older, Daniel José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1338268821
- Language: English
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Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City
$27.95 Read moreNew York City’s favorite naturalist is back with a guided tour of the Big Apple that unveils the beautiful birds living in its midst.
Winner of the Hardcover Nonfiction (Design) of The New York Book Sh
- Author: Day, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 31 2015
- ISBN10: 1421416182
- Language: English
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Empire Rising
$27.00 Add to cartIt is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his
- Author: Kelly, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425740
- Language: English
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Don’t Stop the Carnival
$19.99 Add to cartThe “compulsively and clock-racingly readable” novel (New York Times Book Review) that captures the comedy and tragedy of island life and inspired a Jimmy Buffett musical.
It’s every parrothead’s dre… [more below]- Author: Wouk, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 15 1992
- ISBN10: 316955124
- Language: English
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The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
$17.00 Add to cartLegendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America.
Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little siste- Author: Trevanian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 06 2006
- ISBN10: 1400080371
- Language: English
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Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood
$9.99 Add to cartFour-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a “Little Man” with big dreams, TJ face… [more below]
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 24 2018
- ISBN10: 147800004X
- Language: English
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Ashes of Roses
$11.99 Add to cartWhen Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, she is looking for a land of opportunities; what she finds is far from all she’d dreamed. Stubborn and tenacious, she r
- Author: Auch, Mj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0312535805
- Language: English
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The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland
$34.95 Add to cartToday the Borscht Belt is recalled through the nostalgic lens of summer swims, Saturday night dances, and comedy performances. But its current state, like that of many other formerly glorious regions,
- Author: Scheinfeld, Marisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1501700596
- Language: English
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At Weddings and Wakes
$18.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize finalist At Weddings and Wakes is “a brilliant, highly complex, extraordinary piece of fiction” (Chicago Tribune)
Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia twice a week with her three children in tow,- Author: McDermott, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1250888360
- Language: English
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Iconic New York Coloring Book: 24 Sights to Fill in and Frame
$12.99 Read moreThe Statue of Liberty, Grand Central Station, Central Park, the Empire State Building . . . these are some of the symbolic images of New York City captured in Iconic New York Coloring Book. Twenty-fou… [more below]
- Series: Iconic Coloring Books
- Author: Isabella, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1579657397
- Language: English
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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909
$19.99 Add to cartThe true story of the young immigrant who led the largest strike of women workers in U.S. history. This picture book biography about the plight of immigrants in America in the early 1900s and the time
- Author: Markel, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0061804428
- Language: English
