Geographic Orientation/New York
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My New York
$20.99 Add to cartThe beloved classic celebration of New York City by Kathy Jakobsen.
A young New Yorker writes to her friend from the Midwest to tell about the things they will see in the city… and gives a seek-and- Author: Jakobsen, Kathy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0316927112
- Language: English
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Lost in Yonkers
$18.00 Read moreNeil Simon’s inimitable play about the trials and tribulations that test family ties–winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
What happens to children in the absence of love? That is the question- Series: Drama, Plume
- Author: Simon, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0452268834
- Language: English
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Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York
$19.95 Read moreTo be stewards of the earth, not owners: this was the way of the Lenape. Considering themselves sacred land keepers, they walked gently; they preserved the world they inhabited. Drawing on a wide rang… [more below]
- Author: Pritchard, Evan T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1571781358
- Language: English
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
$21.99 Add to cart“Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062275658
- Language: English
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Glamorama
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero delivers a gripping and brilliant dissection of our celebrity obsessed culture. – “Arguably the novel of the 1990’s…Should… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 21 2000
- ISBN10: 0375703845
- Language: English
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Sister Carrie
$13.95 Add to cartWhen a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dreiser, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539081
- Language: English
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Murder on Gramercy Park
$9.99 Read moreAs a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen her share of suffering and joy, birth and death. Now, she learns that crime doesn’t discriminate, when the hig… [more below]
- Series: Gaslight Mystery #3
- Author: Thompson, Victoria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0425178862
- Language: English
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Yankees Baseball: The Golden Age
$23.99 Read moreBetween 1920 and 1964, the Bronx Bombers dominated the game of baseball. In this striking and nostalgic volume featuring many rarely seen photographs, we meet the heroes that were the New York Yankees
- Series: Sports History
- Author: Bak, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0738502448
- Language: English
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Blue Bloods
$10.99 Read moreWithin New York City’s most elite families, there lurks a secret society of celebrated Americans. They are the powerful and the wealthy–and, they are not human. They are the Blue Bloods.
Schuyler Van- Series: Blue Bloods
- Author: de la Cruz, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1368081754
- Language: English
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Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Story of the Intrepid Reporter
$7.95 Read moreAt the age of 23, pioneering reporter Nellie Bly faked dementia in order to expose abuses of patients in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York City. Such investigative journalism was unusual in… [more below]
- Author: Bly, Nellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0486835448
- Language: English
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Peppe the Lamplighter: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
$8.99 Add to cartThis Caldecott Honor-winning picture book is a touching snapshot of American history and the immigrant experience.
This is the story of Peppe, who becomes a lamplighter to help support his immigrant fa
- Author: Bartone, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0688154697
- Language: English
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Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider
$8.99 Read moreMeet the brave girl whose midnight ride, like Paul Revere’s, made her a hero of the American Revolution, in this middle grade historical fiction novel, part of the Based on a True Story series.
What w- Series: Based on a True Story
- Author: Abbott, E. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1250104122
- Language: English
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La Formasombras (Shadowshaper): Volume 1
$9.99 Read morePaint a mural. Start a battle. Change the world.
La versi n en espa ol de Shadowshaper Sierra Santiago planeaba tener unas vacaciones tranquilas haciendo arte y saliendo con sus amigos. Sin embargo, u… [more below]
- Series: Shadowshaper Cypher
- Author: Older, Daniel Jos?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1338359177
- Language: Spanish
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The Scriptures: End of Days
$29.99 Read moreFOR FANS OF LEFT BEHIND -The Scriptures is a thrilling debut about the end of the world following a nuclear attack on New York.
It is the end of days. A nuclear strike hits New York. Alfie, a young b… [more below]- Series: Illuminati Novel
- Author: Green, Dekker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1733304126
- Language: English
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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon,
- Author: Bernstein, Peter L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327957
- Language: English
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The Statue of Liberty
$5.99 Read moreOver 125 years ago our beloved Statue of Liberty made its way to New York Harbor. This Step 2 non-fiction reader uses illustrations and photographs to tell the story of how Lady Liberty was sculpted,
- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Penner, Lucille Recht
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 067986928X
- Language: English
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Journey Around New York from A to Z
$17.95 Read moreA fact-filled, alphabetical journey through the five boroughs of the city. A pigeon serves as a tour guide of sorts, appearing on every page in either the small inset illustration or in one of the sma… [more below]
- Series: Journey Around A to Z
- Author: Zschock, Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1889833320
- Language: English
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Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream
$9.95 Read moreRafael Guastavino Sr. was 39 when he left a successful career as an architect in Barcelona. American cities–densely packed and built largely of wood–were experiencing horrific fires, and Guastavino
- Author: de Miguel, Berta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0884488136
- Language: English
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Rebecca: Lights, Camera, Rebecca!
$7.99 Read moreFor her tenth birthday, Rebecca is invited to visit her cousin Max’s movie studio! When the cameras begin to roll, she finds herself unexpectedly presented with a part to play. Rebecca doesn’t have th… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Greene, Jacqueline Dembar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371453
- Language: English
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I Rise
$15.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0063312662
- Language: English
