Geographic Orientation/New York
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The Carpenter’s Gift: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree
$19.99 Add to cartThis modern classic Christmas story teaches children the spirit of the season by bringing together two great New York City traditions: the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and the neighbor-helping-ne
- Author: Rubel, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0375869220
- Language: English
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Valentina Salazar Is Not a Monster Hunter
$9.99 Add to cartEleven-and-a-half-year-old Valentina Salazar grew up as a monster protector until her father’s loss, but when a video of a mythical egg appears, Valentina convinces her older brother and sister to hel… [more below]
- Author: C?rdova, Zoraida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1339039532
- Language: English
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Brooklyn
$18.00 Add to cartColm Tb匤’s New York Times bestselling novel–now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture–is “a moving, deeply satisfyi… [more below]
- Series: Eilis Lacey
- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 2, 2010
- ISBN10: 1439148953
- Language: English
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If You Come Softly
$12.99 Add to cartA lyrical story of star-crossed love perfect for readers of The Hate U Give, by National Ambassador for Children’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson
Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when- Author: Woodson, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0142415227
- Language: English
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The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves 1: Egypt’s Fire
$10.99 Add to cartHilarious, non-stop adventure, a mysterious jewel heist, and a detective team like no other make this a must-have middle grade series starter. Perfect for fans of A Series of Unfortunate Events and En… [more below]
- Series: The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves
- Author: Phillips, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1645951065
- Language: English
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The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Editors’ Choice
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Winner of the Gotham Book Prize
Winner of the New York Society Library’s New York City Book Award
Journal of- Author: Sweet, John Wood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871484
- Language: English
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Passing
$7.95 Add to cart“Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.” — Alice Walker
“A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel.” –… [more below]- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437132
- Language: English
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Farmer Boy
$13.99 Add to cartImmerse yourself in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House series, now featuring Garth Williams’ classic art in vibrant full-color
While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western p
- Series: Little House #2
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: 11-May-04
- ISBN10: 0060581824
- Language: English
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Ragtime
$18.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the s- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Doctorow, E. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0812978188
- Language: English
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One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
$10.99 Add to cart“One Last Word is the work of a master poet.” – Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover
From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Gri- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1681196026
- Language: English
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The Hours
$18.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare.
In The Hours, Michae- Series: Picador Modern Classics #1
- Author: Cunningham, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: 15-Jan-00
- ISBN10: 0312243022
- Language: English
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The Vanderbeekers Make a Wish
$9.99 Add to cartWitness the power of family history and family love in this funny, poignant addition to a series that the New York Times Book Review hails as “delightful and heartwarming.”
It’s summer on 141st Street,
- Series: Vanderbeekers #5
- Author: Glaser, Karina Yan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0358721466
- Language: English
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The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
$19.99 Add to cartThis singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.
The Women’s House of Dete- Author: Ryan, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1645036650
- Language: English
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Uprising
$13.99 Add to cartThe fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the
- Author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18, 2011
- ISBN10: 1416911723
- Language: English
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
$9.99 Add to cartA Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Fran
- Author: Konigsburg, E. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 1416949755
- Language: English
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Okay for Now: A National Book Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartBeloved author Gary D. Schmidt expertly blends comedy and tragedy in the story of Doug Swieteck, an unhappy “teenage thug” first introduced in The Wednesday Wars, who finds consolation and a sense of
- Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 5-Feb-13
- ISBN10: 0544022807
- Language: English
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Stacey’s Mistake (the Baby-Sitters Club #18): Volume 18
$6.99 Add to cartAmerica’s favorite series returns with a new look and a Netflix tv show.
Stacey’s so excited She’s invited her friends from the Baby-sitters Club down to New York City for a long weekend. It’s going t
- Series: Baby-Sitters Club
- Author: Martin, Ann M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: 7-Dec-21
- ISBN10: 1338755536
- Language: English
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Yolk
$13.99 Add to cart“Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” —Entertainment WeeklyFrom
New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how fa- Author: Choi, Mary H. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 153444601X
- Language: English
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Motherless Brooklyn
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America’s most inventive novelist.
“A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a h- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Lethem, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 24 2000
- ISBN10: 0375724834
- Language: English
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Eloise at Christmastime
$19.99 Add to cartYes
Here she is at Christmastime
Complete with tinsel and holly
Singing fa la la la lolly
And over the roar of the jingle bells
You can hear hear hear her say
It’s absolutely Christmas
But I don’t min… [more below]- Series: Eloise
- Author: Thompson, Kay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0689830394
- Language: English
