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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
$34.00 Add to cartThe beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the century.
From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of
- Author: Smith, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 830
- Publish Date: January 18, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060745940
- Language: English
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Open City
$17.00 Add to cart“Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole’s novel asks what it means to roam freely.”–The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years)
“Influential . . . mak… [more below]- Author: Cole, Teju
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0812980093
- Language: English
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Rick Riordan Presents City of the Plague God (the Adventures of Sik Aziz Book 1)
$16.99 Read moreBest-selling author Rick Riordan presents an adventure based on ancient Mesopotamian mythology by Sarwat Chadda, author of the Ash Mistry series.
“An epic worthy of Gilgamesh. Chadda brings attention- Author: Chadda, Sarwat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 1368051502
- Language: English
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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
$19.99 Add to cartIn the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voic
- Author: Taylor, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021993
- Language: English
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The Last of the Mohicans
$6.95 Add to cartThe wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New Y
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Cooper, James Fenimore
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: June 01, 1982
- ISBN10: 0553213296
- Language: English
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Going Home
$10.99 Add to cartFrom Danielle Steel, one of the world’s bestselling authors, comes a special reissue of her very first novel, in which a woman is forced to flee her past and come to terms with the truth.
In the sun s- Author: Steel, Danielle
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0671749412
- Language: English
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Boogie Boogie, Y’all
$19.99 Read moreAuthor-illustrator C. G. Esperanza delivers a celebratory ode to graffiti and the Boogie Down Bronx through an infectious read-aloud beat and colorful illustrations that leap right off the page! Perfe
- Author: Esperanza, C. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 62976222
- Language: English
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The Pinstripe Ghost
$6.99 Add to cartBatting second–and perfect for Halloween—book #2 in an early chapter book mystery series where each book is set in a different American ballpark
Mike and Kate are waiting for Kate’s mom at a borin- Series: Ballpark Mysteries (Paperback) #2
- Author: Kelly, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 22 2011
- ISBN10: 037586704X
- Language: English
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The Saturdays
$9.99 Add to cartMeet the Melendys The four Melendy children live with their father and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, in a worn but comfortable brownstone in New York City. There’s thirteen-year-old Mona, who has
- Series: Melendy Quartet #1
- Author: Enright, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0312375980
- Language: English
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartNow 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 to beco… [more below]
- Author: Moehringer, J. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0786888768
- Language: English
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Banana Fish, Vol. 15
$9.99 Add to cartNature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer!
VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s… Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted hei- Series: Banana Fish #15
- Author: Yoshida, Akimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1421505258
- Language: English
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When I Was the Greatest
$11.99 Add to cartFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds, a “funny and rewarding” (Publishers Weekly) coming-of-age novel about friendship and loyalty across neighborhood lines and the hardship of lif… [more below]
- Author: Reynolds, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 1442459484
- Language: English
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The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities
$15.95 Add to cartEach of Siegel’s three urban portraits–New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, — shows the desperate remedies undertaken by cities searching for a lifeline back to the future whose promise they… [more below]
- Author: Siegel, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554104
- Language: English
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A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion
$19.99 Add to cartDiscover how the Lane Bryant clothing brand changed the way we buy clothes forever by celebrating bodies of all shapes and sizes in this inclusive picture book biography of a Lithuanian immigrant with… [more below]
- Author: Rockliff, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 035812543X
- Language: English
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Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City
$45.00 Add to cartMore than a history, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is a book of science, natural history, and imagination, a call for us to stretch our thoughts back to 1609 when Henry Hudson first s… [more below]
- Author: Sanderson, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1419707485
- Language: English
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The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
$12.99 Add to cartOne of America’s most influential Hispanics — ‘Maria’ on Sesame Street — presents a powerful novel set in New York’s El Barrio in 1969.
There are two secrets Evelyn Serrano is keeping from her Mami a… [more below]
- Author: Manzano, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0545325064
- Language: English
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The Thin Man
$17.00 Add to cartNick Charles seems to find trouble wherever he goes. He thinks his sleuthing days are behind him when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, turns up dead. Nick–thanks to some persuasion from his enchant… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- Author: Hammett, Dashiell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 17 1989
- ISBN10: 0679722637
- Language: English
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The Disco Files 1973-78: New York’s Underground, Week by Week
$39.95 Add to cartA new edition of the essential chronicle of disco culture
In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout
- Author: Aletti, Vince
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 474
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1942884303
- Language: English
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Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
$30.99 Add to cartIn George Appo’s world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as m… [more below]
- Author: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329895
- Language: English
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Someone
$18.00 Add to cartAn ordinary life–its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion–lived by an ordinary, but unforgettable woman: This is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott’s
- Author: McDermott, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1250888387
- Language: English
