Locality/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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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
$21.99 Read more“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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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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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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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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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
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Up in the Old Hotel
$24.00 Add to cartSaloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old “seafoodetarian” who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades.
- Author: Mitchell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0679746315
- Language: English
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El Padrino / The Godfather
$22.95 Read moreEl gran cl?sico de la literatura del siglo XX.
La publicaci?n en 1969 de El Padrino convulsion? el mundo literario. Por primera vez, la Mafia protagonizaba una novela y era retratada desde dentro. Mar… [more below]- Author: Puzo, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 6073179189
- Language: Spanish
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
$17.95 Read morePulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner
In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhatta- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 1400032261
- Language: English
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Sci-Fu Vol. 1
$12.99 Add to cart“Old school hip hop meets old school science fiction in this fun comic.” — Polygon
Set in 1980s Brooklyn, a young DJ accidentally summons a UFO that transports his family, best friend, and current cr- Series: Sci-Fu #1
- Author: Mercado, Yehudi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1620104725
- Language: English
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Bolivar
$14.99 Read moreGoing extinct isn’t for everyone. Sybil knows that there is something off about her next door neighbor, but she can’t seem to get anyone to believe her. Everyone is so busy going about their days in t… [more below]
- Series: Bolivar
- Author: Rubin, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1684155924
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories
$20.00 Read moreThis reissue of Grace Paley’s classic collection–a finalist for the National Book Award–demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her charact
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Paley, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530289
- Language: English
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Why Is Everybody Yelling?: Growing Up in My Immigrant Family
$17.99 Read more“A wonderful book about figuring out who we are and who we want to be when we grow up. It’s also about being an American–especially a first-generation American.” –Roz Chast
This graphic-novel debut- Author: Russo, Marisabina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1250894573
- Language: English
