Locality/New York
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Weird But True New York City: 300 Bizarre Facts about the Big Apple
$9.99 Add to cartThink you know the Big Apple? Think again!
Or that astronauts can see the lights of Times Square from space? And get this: In New York,
Did you know that 25 species of shark swim off NYC’s coastline?- Series: Weird But True
- Author: National Geographic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1426372329
- Language: English
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Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
$17.99 Add to cartAs featured on Humans of New York
“Hartland’s joyful folk-art illustrations bop from the gray-toned jazzy vibrancy of a bustling city neighborhood to the colorful harvest of a lush urban farm.” —The- Series: Harlem Grown
- Author: Hillery, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 18, 2020
- ISBN10: 1534402314
- Language: English
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Passing
$15.00 Add to cartA NETFLIX BOOK CLUB PICK
Nella Larsen’s powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. A New York Times Editors’ Choice. Now a major motio- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437271
- Language: English
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Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown Ups
$19.99 Read moreEloise has been delighting readers for more than sixty years–though she’s still not a day over six!
Eloise is a very special little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. She may not be- Series: Eloise
- Author: Thompson, Kay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 65
- Publish Date: April 30 1969
- ISBN10: 067122350X
- Language: English
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The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden
$9.99 Add to cartReturn to Harlem’s “wildly entertaining” family in this funny, heartwarming sequel. When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most
- Series: Vanderbeekers #2
- Author: Glaser, Karina Yan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17, 2019
- ISBN10: 0358117348
- Language: English
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Chains
$8.99 Add to cartFrom acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling first novel in the historical middle grade The Seeds of America trilogy that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both
- Series: Seeds of America Trilogy
- Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05, 2010
- ISBN10: 1416905863
- Language: English
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Banana Fish, Vol. 1
$11.99 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
- Author: Yoshida, Akimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 03 2004
- ISBN10: 1569319723
- Language: English
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And Tango Makes Three
$19.99 Add to cartAnd Tango Makes Three is the bestselling, heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family.
At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were- Author: Richardson, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0689878451
- Language: English
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I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 (I Survived #6): Volume 6
$5.99 Add to cartOn the day that shocks the world, one boy just wants to find his family. A powerful addition to the gripping I Survived series.
The only thing Lucas loves more than football is his Uncle Benny, his dad
- Series: I Survived #06
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0545207002
- Language: English
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Ground Zero
$17.99 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
In time for the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, master storyteller Alan Gratz (Refugee) delivers a pulse-pounding and unforgettable take on history and hope, re
- Author: Gratz, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1338245759
- Language: English
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Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade
$18.99 Add to cartFrom Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet comes the perfect Thanksgiving Day picture book. Let’s have a parade!
Meet the master puppeteer who invented the first balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
- Author: Sweet, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 0547199457
- Language: English
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The Christmas Owl: Based on the True Story of a Little Owl Named Rockefeller
$18.99 Read moreA New York Times bestseller (with a special sparkly cover)! Experience the beautiful story that captivated the country about a little owl found in the world’s most famous Christmas tree.
When Little … [more below]
- Author: Sterer, Gideon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 031629912X
- Language: English
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The Catcher in the Rye
$9.99 Add to cartThe “brilliant, funny, meaningful novel” (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature–and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a li… [more below]
- Author: Salinger, J. D.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0316769487
- Language: English
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Gossip Girl: A Novel by Cecily Von Ziegesar
$12.99 Add to cartSerena van der Woodsen is back from boarding school, but is she still the Upper East Side’s It Girl? The wickedly funny first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the origina… [more below]
- Series: Gossip Girl #1
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0316499102
- Language: English
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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (the Inspiration for the NBC Drama New Amsterdam)
$19.99 Add to cartIn the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this intensely involving memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients’ lives and … [more below]
- Author: Manheimer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1455503878
- Language: English
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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
$19.99 Add to cartThe first book in the bestselling series that the New York Times Book Review hails as “delightful and heartwarming.”
The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It’s practica
- Series: Vanderbeekers #1
- Author: Glaser, Karina Yan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 03, 2017
- ISBN10: 0544876393
- Language: English
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What Was Ellis Island?
$7.99 Add to cartFrom 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not res… [more below]
- Series: What Was…
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2014
- ISBN10: 044847915X
- Language: English
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I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001: A Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novel #4): Volume 4
$25.99 Add to cartA gripping graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis’s bestselling I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001, in time for the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
The only thing Lucas loves more than football
- Series: I Survived Graphic Novels
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1338680498
- Language: English
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
$17.99 Add to cart“Guaranteed to make blood boil.” –Janet Maslin, New York Times
In Michael Lewis’s game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351599
- Language: English
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The Princess Diaries
$15.99 Add to cartThe first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot.
Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there’s nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who al
- Series: Princess Diaries #1
- Author: Cabot, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0061479934
- Language: English
