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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
$23.00 Add to cart“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”
“A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowl
-The New York Times- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0345476395
- Language: English
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The Winthrop Agreement
$18.99 Read moreA captivating historical novel set in Gilded Age New York City about an immigrant daughter’s ascent from a miserable tenement to the heights of haute couture, driven by an insatiable hunger for a plac
- Author: Simpson, Alice Sherman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063304082
- Language: English
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How Little Lori Visited Times Square
$19.99 Add to cartA Sendak treasure long out of print available for the first time in decades.
- Author: Vogel, Amos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 22 2001
- ISBN10: 0060284625
- Language: English
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The Best of Everything
$21.00 Add to cartRona Jaffe’s beloved novel about 1950s NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Sex and the City and Mad Men, now for the first time i… [more below]
- Author: Jaffe, Rona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 014313731X
- Language: English
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Brooklyn Mermaid (Choose Your Own Adventure)
$7.99 Add to cart4th Bestselling Children’s Book Series of all Time –The New Yorker
In this loose sequel to CYOA bestseller Journey Under the Sea, YOU are a mermaid living on the outskirts of the city of Atlantis wit
- Author: Simpson, C. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 195423208X
- Language: English
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Tar Beach
$8.99 Add to cartCORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD WINNER – CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK – A NEW YORK TIMES BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK
Acclaimed artist Faith Ringgold seamless weaves fiction, autobiography, and African American history into… [more below]- Author: Ringgold, Faith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0517885441
- Language: English
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What Were the Twin Towers?
$7.99 Add to cartDiscover the true story of the Twin Towers–how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed.
When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architec- Series: What Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0448487853
- Language: English
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Banana Fish, Vol. 4
$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: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1591161339
- Language: English
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Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story
$7.99 Add to cartFrom the critically acclaimed author of Anything But Typical comes a “tense…and thought-provoking” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) look at the days leading up to the tragic events of September 11, … [more below]
- Author: Baskin, Nora Raleigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 16, 2017
- ISBN10: 1442485078
- Language: English
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The New York Trilogy: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$20.00 Add to cartThe remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1: A Novel
The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039830
- Language: English
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Just Above My Head
$17.00 Add to cartJames Baldwin’s final novel is “the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers” (The New York Times Book Review).
“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abd- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 13, 2000
- ISBN10: 0385334567
- Language: English
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The House of Mirth
$12.00 Add to cartA black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City – people… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140187294
- Language: English
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Carl Weber’s Kingpins: Harlem
$15.95 Read moreKleigh never wanted Tron to fall in love with her, or vice versa. She isn’t who he thinks she is, but how can she tell him that the kingpin he is gunning for, Kevin “Klax” Turner, is her big brother? … [more below]
- Author: Phillips, C. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 189319602X
- Language: English
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five: Last Olympian, The-Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five
$19.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times best-selling author, Rick Riordan, comes the momentous final book in the blockbuster Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle … [more below]- Series: Percy Jackson & the Olympians #5
- Author: Riordan, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1423101472
- Language: English
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Bike Path Rapist: A Cop’s Firsthand Account Of Catching The Killer Who Terrorized A Community
$17.95 Add to cartFor nearly three decades, a series of rapes and murders occurred around Western New York by a nameless, faceless man dubbed “The Bike Path Rapist” by local media. Authorities had his DNA and knew his
- Author: Schober, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159921606X
- Language: English
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Around the Way Girls 8
$21.00 Add to cartGet ready for the latest streetwise installment of this off-the-hook street series, with sizzling stories told by three of your favorite authors In Got Me Twisted, New York diva Ebony Queen heads sou
- Series: Around the Way Girls #8
- Author: Brooks McKinney, Tina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 1601624514
- Language: English
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Bad Apple: The Baddest Chick
$19.05 Add to cartYoung and beautiful, seventeen-year-old Apple believes there’s one thing she can do better than anyone — herself. Her selfish actions turn fatal in a New York minute when she gets tangled up with a r
- Series: Baddest Chick #1
- Author: Santiago, Nisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: October 06, 2011
- ISBN10: 1934157457
- Language: English
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Allure of the Game
$19.99 Add to cartA superstar in urban lit, Essence bestselling author Danielle Santiago concludes her gripping Harlem trilogy with a sizzling, streetwise novel about an all-female drug cartel.
Twenty-year-old Arnessa- Author: Santiago, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 24, 2011
- ISBN10: 0743277627
- Language: English
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Around the Way Girls
$18.00 Add to cartFollowing in the successful footsteps of its predecessors, Around the Way Girls 6 features three popular Urban Books authors presenting their versions of the tough, street-smart girls that everyone lo
- Series: Around the Way Girls #06
- Author: Camm, Meisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 1601621531
- Language: English
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In Five Years
$17.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick “In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” –Chlo- Author: Serle, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982137452
- Language: English
