Locality/New York
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Fort Apache: New York’s Most Violent Precinct
$15.95 Add to cartOVER THIRTY YEARS AFTER its publication, Fort Apache: New York’s Most Violent Precinct remains the definitive account of the vicious cycle of violence that has griped urban America over the past centu… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: February 23 2009
- ISBN10: 1935278398
- Language: English
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Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartAn instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Primates of Park Avenue is an “amusing, perceptive and…deliciously evil” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the most secretive and elite tribe–Manha… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Wednesday
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1476762716
- Language: English
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel
$19.99 Add to cartJournalist Julie Satow’s thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today’s Billiona… [more below]
- Author: Satow, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1455566659
- Language: English
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Last Man Down: A Firefighter’s Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center
$7.99 Read moreA first responder’s harrowing account of 9/11–the inspirational true story of an American hero who gave nearly everything for others during one of New York City’s darkest hours.
On September 11, 2001- Author: Picciotto, Richard
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0425189880
- Language: English
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
$24.99 Read moreBy an acclaimed historian, a sweeping history of the peoples who have come to New York for four centuries: a defining American story of millions of immigrants, hundreds of languages, and one great cit… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1328745511
- Language: English
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In the Age of Love and Chocolate
$23.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin’s In the Age of Love and Chocolate is the story of growing up a
- Series: Birthright (Farrar Strauss Giroux) #3
- Author: Zevin, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250050715
- Language: English
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Would I Lie to You: A Gossip Girl Novel
$13.99 Add to cartWelcome to New York City’s Upper East Side where my friends and I live, and go to school, and play, and sleep – sometimes with each other. We all live in huge apartments with our own bedrooms and bath
- Series: Gossip Girl Novels (Paperback) #10
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0316011835
- Language: English
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Bratfest at Tiffany’s
$12.99 Add to cartMassie Block: The Briarwood boys have invaded OCD and are taking over everything. Worse, the soccer boys have become so popular that the Pretty Committee’s alpha status is in serious jeopardy. So Mas… [more below]
- Series: Clique (Quality) #9
- Author: Harrison, Lisi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0316006807
- Language: English
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You’re the One That I Want
$14.99 Add to cartThe wickedly funny sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the new series coming to HBO Max’s Spring 2020 launch season (alongside hit series … [more below]
- Series: Gossip Girl Novels (Paperback) #6
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316735167
- Language: English
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Let Me Finish
$19.99 Add to cartWidely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiogra… [more below]
- Author: Angell, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2007
- ISBN10: 015603218X
- Language: English
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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
$21.95 Add to cartAn unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today
America’s most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has- Author: Campanella, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0691208611
- Language: English
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House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address
$19.99 Add to cart“Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego… Even more c… [more below]
- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1451666209
- Language: English
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Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Noto
$23.00 Add to cartAll but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrif… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 143914155X
- Language: English
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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
$19.00 Add to cartEvery morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignore… [more below]
- Author: Sorkin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477574
- Language: English
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Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better: A Gossip Girl Novel
$13.99 Add to cartThe uptown girls are headed downtown as Serena and Jenny take on their new fabulous roles as rock-star model girlfriends of New York’s hottest band, The Raves. Meanwhile, Dan is to busy drowning his s… [more below]
- Series: Gossip Girl #7
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0316735124
- Language: English
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The Dream Bearer
$8.99 Add to cartPrintz Award winner Walter Dean Myers deftly draws a compassionate portrait of a boy’s odyssey of self-discovery and the acceptance and empathy for others he learns along the way.
David doesn’t know wh
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0064472892
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Broadway: New York Theater 1850-1970
$47.99 Add to cartThe history of theater in New York is captured in the images of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. From this valuable archive, author Leonard Jacob
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Jacobs, Leonard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: June 18, 2008
- ISBN10: 1683369548
- Language: English
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Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
$24.00 Add to cartA frank and entertaining memoir–from the daughter of Edward Said–now in paperback.
The daughter of the famous intellectual and outspoken Palestinian advocate Edward Said and a sophisticated Lebanese- Author: Said, Najla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1594632758
- Language: English
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The Princess Diaries, Volume VII: Party Princess
$15.99 Add to cartThe seventh book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot.
Princesses just want to have fun. . . . And Mia does too, despite the fact that the student government over w
- Series: Princess Diaries #7
- Author: Cabot, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0061543748
- Language: English
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
$22.00 Add to cartA passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harro
- Author: Mahler, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312424302
- Language: English
