Locality/New York
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Snow White: A Graphic Novel
$15.99 Add to cart“Phelan’s noir-esque adaptation of the classic fairy tale is atmospheric, clever, and touching. . . . A stunning, genre-bending graphic novel.” — School Library Journal (starred review)
The curtain r- Author: Phelan, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1536200557
- Language: English
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Light for All
$17.99 Add to cartA lyrical and unifying picture book that “will inspire young readers” and “magnificently showcases the immigrant experience” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) in America from Newbery Honoree Margarita … [more below]
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1534457275
- Language: English
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Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
$19.99 Add to cart* “A hundred years from now, when people want to know what we told our children about 9/11, Kalman’s book should be among the first answers.”–Booklist, starred review
* “Intelligently conveys those- Author: Kalman, Maira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0399239537
- Language: English
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Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge
$19.99 Read moreOn a warm spring day in 1883, a woman rode across the Brooklyn Bridge with a rooster on her lap.
It was the first trip across an engineering marvel that had taken nearly fourteen years to construct. T- Author: Dougherty, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1250155320
- Language: English
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Ellis Island
$5.99 Add to cartExplore the history of Ellis Island, one of the most recognized landmarks in American history. Kids will learn about its early history as a Mohegan island and rest spot for fishermen through its time … [more below]
- Series: Readers
- Author: Carney, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1426323417
- Language: English
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
$21.99 Add to cart“Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” —New York Journal of Books
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lun… [more below]- Author: Horn, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209356
- Language: English
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The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World
$19.95 Add to cartNow in paperback, the inside story–from the organizer himself–of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account that brings the reader behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas th… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 149302664X
- Language: English
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Inside the Dream Palace
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing
“Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea’s artists, but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing, narrative: that of t- Author: Tippins, Sherill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0544334477
- Language: English
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The Geography of You and Me
$18.99 Add to cartLucy lives on the twenty-fourth floor. Owen lives in the basement. It’s fitting, then, that they meet in the middle — stuck between two floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator re… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Jennifer E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0316254762
- Language: English
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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
$23.00 Add to cartDavid Carter’s Stonewall is the basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising.
In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City- Author: Carter, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0312671938
- Language: English
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When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Boys of Summer and The Bronx Is Burning, New York Times sports columnist Harvey Araton delivers a fascinating look at the 1970s New York Knicks–part autobiography, part sports… [more below]
- Author: Araton, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0061956244
- Language: English
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The 50 Greatest Players in New England Patriots Football History
$31.58 Add to cartPerhaps even more than the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots are the team of the entire northeast from Rhode Island to Canada. Here, sports historian Robert W. Cohen ranks the 50 best players t… [more below]
- Series: 50 Greatest Players
- Author: Cohen, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493033573
- Language: English
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How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn
$18.99 Add to cartA “funny, poignant, dishy, and even enlightening” adventure through a tight-knit world of drag performers making art, mayhem, and dreaming of making it big, this book is “the story of America now” (Al… [more below]
- Author: Pasulka, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1982115807
- Language: English
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The Guys: A Play
$18.00 Add to cartFirst performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production, and soon to be a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia, The Guys is a timeless drama about the surprising truths people can discover… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 13 2002
- ISBN10: 0812967291
- Language: English
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Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
$26.99 Add to cartNew York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen.
In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York’s dining
- Author: Grimes, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532494
- Language: English
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
$53.00 Add to cartIn this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers’ Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repre… [more below]
- Series: History of NYC
- Author: Wallace, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1196
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0195116356
- Language: English
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Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era
$25.00 Add to cart- Author: Emerson, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037773
- Language: English
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Ellis Island
$23.99 Add to cartThe United States is considered the world’s foremost refuge for foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than Ellis Island.
Through Ellis Island’s halls and corridors more than twe
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Moreno, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0738513040
- Language: English
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Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
$25.99 Add to cartThe fabulous life of Brooke Astor, a pioneer of philanthropy and for decades a luminary of New York society. Hers is a story out of Edith Wharton. After a disastrous early marriage, Brooke Astor wedde
- Author: Kiernan, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331601
- Language: English
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The Young World
$19.99 Add to cart“Chris Weitz has made a beautiful transition from writing and directing films to novels. The Young World is populated with characters you won’t forget and a story as fresh and urgent as Divergent.”–J… [more below]
- Series: Young World #1
- Author: Weitz, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0316226289
- Language: English
