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50 Hikes in the Lower Hudson Valley, Hikes and Walks from Westchester County to Albany
Stella Green
Neil Zimmerman
GUIDEBOOK
An expert, up-to-date guide to exploring parks and reserves, most close to New York City.
(NYC90, $16.95) |
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AAA Spiral Guide New York
AAA Publishing
GUIDEBOOK
A handy guide, aimed at first-time visitors to New York, covering the city's greatest hits in depth.
(NYC74, $16.95) |
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The Accidental Connoisseur, An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
Lawrence Osborne
FOOD
With a winning wit and not a drop of pretense, Osborne sets out to discover what's what with wine, traveling through Sonoma and Napa, France, Italy and other European wine meccas, 11 adventures in all. He meets plenty of interesting characters along the way, revealing much about the pleasures of wine (and travel!).
(TVL31, $14.00) |
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The Age of Innocence
Louis Auchincloss
Edith Wharton
LITERATURE
A dazzling tale of social mores, infidelity and thwarted love in old New York.
(NYC101, $9.95) |
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The Alienist
Caleb Carr
LITERATURE
A grisly page-turner set on the gas-lit streets of late Victorian Manhattan. The novel is especially strong on period detail, evoking the corrupt politics, raucous brothels and smoky train stations of turn-of-the-century New York.
(NYC69, $7.99) |
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All Rivers Run to the Sea
Elie Wiesel
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel recounts his remarkable life, from his childhood in Romania to the horrors of Auschwitz, his days as a young writer in post-war France and New York and his many pilgrimages to Israel.
(EUR153, $16.00) |
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All Things Reconsidered, My Birding Adventures
Roger Tory Peterson
NATURAL HISTORY
This lovely selection from Bird Watcher's Digest includes Perterson's grand adventures in Alaska, Russia, Kenya and New York City.
(BRD46, $14.95) |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
LITERATURE
A dazzling tale that follows its heros from Nazi-occupied Prague to New York (and the Antarctic).
(ANT175, $15.00) |
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America in the Gilded Age, From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Sean Dennis Cashman
HISTORY
A scholarly, comprehensive history of America in the late 19th-century.
(USA80, $23.00) |
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American Museum of Natural History, The Official Guide
AMNH
GUIDEBOOK
A pocket guide with 90 color photographs.
(NYC198, $9.95) |
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American Prometheus, The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird
Martin Sherwin
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A big, exhaustively researched biography of the all-too-short life of Robert J. Oppenheimer, many years in the making. The authors (a journalist and literature professor) re interested in the full arc of his life.
(SCI99, $40.00) |
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Andrew Carnegie
Joseph Frazier Wall
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A classic, hefty biography.
(USE303, $24.95) |
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Aquavit and the New Scandinavian Cuisine
Marcus Samuelsson
FOOD
A wonderfully illustrated cookbook from the renowned chef at Aquavit, New York's premier restaurant for haute Scandinavian cuisine.
(SCN40, $45.00) |
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The Architectural Guidebook to New York City
Francis Morrone
James Iska
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This architecture guidebook showcases some 600 Manhattan buildings. This most recent edition includes a section on Brooklyn.
(NYC09, $21.95) |
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Away for the Weekend, New York
Eleanor Berman
GUIDEBOOK
Suggestions for weekend getaways within 200 miles of New York City
(USE131, $16.00) |
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Away, A Novel
Amy Bloom
LITERATURE
With spare, stunning prose, Bloom draws the reader into 1920s Yiddish New York, rough-and-tough Seattle and the Alaskan wilderness in this tender, absorbing tale of a young Russian immigrant's quest to reunite with her daughter in Siberia.
(USA162, $14.00) |
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Ballet and Modern Dance
Susan Au
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An introduction to ballet and modern dance.
(GEN245, $18.95) |
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Before and After, Stories from New York
Tom Beller
LITERATURE
A beguiling collection of contemporary essays in two sections: before September 11, and after. Quite a few of New York's most distinctive voices are represented here, including Michael Cunningham and Luc Sante.
(NYC55, $13.00) |
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The Best in Tent Camping, New York
Aaron Starmer
Catharine Wells
Timothy Starmer
GUIDEBOOK
Detailing the 50 best campgrounds from Long Island to the Hudson, St. Lawrence, Adriondacks and the Great Lakes, this handy guide by former Longitude editor Aaron Starmer, his brother Tim and girlfriend Cate, is an essential resource for hikers in search of scenic, quiet and convenient places to pitch a tent in New York State.
(NYS55, $14.95) |
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The Big Oyster, History on the Half Shell
Mark Kurlansky
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This cultural history of New York, equal parts erudite and entertaining, traces the arc of the city from its founding by the Dutch though the 19th century as seen through the developemnt fo the oyster industry.
(NYC173, $14.95) |
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The Big Year, A Tale Of Man, Nature, And Fowl Obsession
Mark Obmascik
NATURAL HISTORY
Obmascik, himself an over-the-edge birder, recounts with glee and page-turning detail the race to see the most birds in North America in a year. It's an utterly compelling account of a three-way race (roofing contractor, tycoon, software nerd), likely never again to be equaled.
(BRD29, $14.00) |
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The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife
Christopher W. Leahy
Gordon Morrison
NATURAL HISTORY
A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching.
(NAM21, $19.95) |
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Bloom's Literary Guide to New York
Jesse Zuba
GUIDEBOOK
The setting for numerous modern classics, New York is described here by its literary history, examining both the writers it has produced, and its role as a setting in modern literature.
(NYS59, $40.00) |
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The Boys of Summer
Roger Kahn
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The biography of a baseball era -- the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s.
(NYC70, $15.00) |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
LITERATURE
The endearing novel of romantic New York.
(NYC117, $12.95) |
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Bright Lights, Big City
Jay McInerney
LITERATURE
McInerney's breakout debut novel, on the town in 1980's New York.
(NYC84, $13.95) |
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The Bronfmans, The Rise And Fall of the House of Seagram
Nicholas Faith
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
(USE406, $25.95) |
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Building a Character
Constantine Stanislavski
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An actor's Bible, by the undeniably influential Stanislavski.
(TTR21, $23.95) |
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Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
LITERATURE
Salinger's remarkable, nearly perfect, and much loved first novel. Read it again.
(NYC99, $13.99) |
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Catskill Mountain Guide, Hiking Trails in the Catskills
Peter Kick
GUIDEBOOK
An authoritative, pocket guide to walks and hikes throughout the Catskills.
(NYC91, $19.95) |
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Charming Small Hotels in New England and New York City
Paul Wade
Kathy Arnold
GUIDEBOOK
A full page with a color photograph is dedicated to each entry in this guide focused on hotels with 20 bedrooms or less.
(USE389, $15.95) |
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The Cheap Bastard's Guide to New York City, A Native New Yorker's Secrets of Living the Good Life--For Free!
Rob Grader
GUIDEBOOK
A collection of ideas for cheap or entirely free eating, living, and entertainment in New York. With chapters on where to go and how to get access to free concerts, movies, haricuts, classes and transportation.
(NYC161, $14.95) |
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Christ in Concrete
Pietro Di Donato
LITERATURE
This poignant novel, originally published in 1939, deals with Italian immigrants making their way on New York's Lower East Side.
(NYC138, $15.00) |
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude On The Way to the Gates Central Park New York City
Jonathan Fineberg
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A richly illustrated overview of the project -- and companion volume to an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art-- with beautful color reproductions of the collages and drawings of The Gates.
(NYC151, $65.00) |
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City Secrets New York City
Robert Kahn
GUIDEBOOK
A connoisseur's guide to the city and its attractions, featuring the favorite haunts of artists, architects and local personalities.
(NYC66, $24.95) |
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A Clearing in the Distance, Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
Witold Rybczynski
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A lovely biography of the creator of Central Park (Manhattan) and Prospect Park (Brooklyn), the largest parks in their respective boroughs.
(NYC62, $15.95) |
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The Collected Stories
Grace Paley
LITERATURE
Pure pleasure, Paley's stories manage to be down to earth, momentous and sweet all at the same time. Most are set in New York, where Paley lived for much of her long life.
(NYC163, $17.00) |
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The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts
Colin Whitehead
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A lyrical homage to New York in the form of thirteen eclectic and inventive vignettes.
(NYC97, $13.00) |
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Companion Guide New York
Michael Leapman
GUIDEBOOK
An eccentric, entertaining guidebook organized as a series of walking tours.
(NYC54, $34.95) |
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
LITERATURE
A dazzling novel of life and love and family and holidays that follows the peregrinations of the Lamberts -- father, mother and offspring -- from New York to Philadelphia to Vilnius.
(EUR122, $15.00) |
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Crawling at Night
Nani Power
LITERATURE
Two nocturnal New Yorkers stumble through the nights in this atmospheric debut novel set in New York from a former sushi chef.
(NYC83, $13.00) |
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Crooklyn
Spike Lee
Lee's nostalgic ode to Brooklyn in the 1970s.
(NYC128, $19.98) |
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The Decoration of Houses
Edith Wharton
Ogden Codman
ART & ARCHITECTURE
The famed novelist and architect teamed up to write this classic on interior design.
(ART36, $25.00) |
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Delirious New York, A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Rem Koolhaas
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
The Dutch architect's semi-classic meditation on marvelous, absurd and enchanting New York.
(NYC18, $35.00) |
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Dinosaurs in the Attic, An Excursion Into the American Museum of Natural History
Doug Preston
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Preston spins a tale of big personalities, big ambition, unbounding curiosity, greed and collecting fever in this engaging history of the museum.
(NYC92, $15.95) |
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Directors on Directing, A Source Book to Modern Theater
Toby Cole
Helen Krich Chinoy
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A guide to the art of directing theatrical productions, composed of a variety of essays from professionals in the industry.
(TTR03, $109.20) |
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The Dramatic Imagination, Reflections and Speculations on the Art of Theatre
Robert Edmond Jones
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A classic, heartfelt collection of essays on all aspects of the theater, from acting and directing to lighting and design.
(TTR02, $24.95) |
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Dreamland
Kevin Baker
LITERATURE
Immigrant Kid Twist and Trick the Dwarf encounter turn of the century New York City in all it's chaotic, corrupt glory as they flee a vengeful, local gangster.
(NYC159, $14.95) |
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Drown
Junot Diaz
LITERATURE
A collection of 10 stories from a young Dominican-American writer.
(CRB91, $14.00) |
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Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point
Stephen Ambrose
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Andrew J. Goodpaster
HISTORY
Starting with its formation during the Revolutionary War, renowned historian Ambrose follows the history of the United States Military Academy at West Point. First published in 1966, this updated edition brings the story of the academy into the present.
(USE71, $20.95) |
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Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933, Vol. 1
Blanche Wiesen Cook
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A big, popular biography of the premiere First Lady of the 20th century, chronicling her life from her birth in New York City to her husband's inauguration.
(NYC22, $18.00) |
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The Empire State, A History of New York
Milton M. Klein
New York State Historical Society
Paula Baker
HISTORY
A clear, comprehensive history of New York State.
(NYS23, $45.00) |
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The Empty Space
Peter Brook
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A highly influential -- and highly readable -- treatise on the state of modern theater, first published in 1968 but still appropriate today.
(TTR01, $11.95) |
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Eyewitness New York City Pocket Map & Guide
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This superb guide to New York features color photography, easy-to-use foldout maps and top attractions. Convenient and up-to-date with an unbeatable price, this is the guide to carry.
(NYC169, $6.99) |
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Eyewitness Real City New York
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
With up-to-date information on what's hot in the Big Apple, this chic guide lists the trendiest local spots to eat, shop, party and relax. Supported by a website so you'll always be on the inside track.
(NYC170, $15.00) |
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F.D.R: An Intimate History
Nathan Miller
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A popular biography first published in 1983.
(USE307, $23.95) |
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Fall on your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald
LITERATURE
A best-selling epic following the lives of a Lebanese-Canadian family from Cape Breton Island throughout the first half of the 20th century.
(CND49, $16.00) |
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FDR
Jean Edward Smith
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Half of this blockbuster bio of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is devoted to his presidential years..
(USE409, $35.00) |
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Feeding a Yen, Savoring Local Specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco
Calvin Trillin
FOOD
A captivating, enthusiastic collection of essays on the subjects of food, life and local specialties. This slim book includes Trillin's priceless riff on bagels as bait to lure his daughters home from the West Coast, his quest for the best ceviche with Douglas Rodriguez, and 11 other ramblings.
(WLD40, $13.95) |
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The Fervent Years, The Group Theatre and the Thirties
Harold Clurman
ART & ARCHITECTURE
The history of a ten-year theater movement in the 1930s, which was focused on politics and method acting, and continues to influence the Broadway scene today.
(TTR20, $18.00) |
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A Field Guide to Eastern Trees
George Petrides
Roger Tory Peterson
FIELD GUIDE
The classic guide.
(NAM09, $20.00) |
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A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs
George Petrides
FIELD GUIDE
The classic Peterson guide to trees, shrubs and vines in Eastern, Central and Southeastern United States.
(NAM08, $19.00) |
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Fierce Attachments
Vivian Gornick
LITERATURE
Gornick weaves together memories of her volatile relationship with her mother and her childhood in the Bronx in this acclaimed memoir, first published in 1987.
(USE421, $14.00) |
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First Resorts, Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport and Coney Island
Jon Sterngrass
HISTORY
A history of the evolution of the country's top three 19th-century resort towns.
(USE274, $40.00) |
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Fodor's See It New York City
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
Fodor's vibrant and informative guide to touring New York City.
(NYC145, $24.95) |
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Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
Arthur T. Vanderbilt
HISTORY
The remarkable history of the accumulation and loss of the family fortune, told by a descendent.
(USE309, $19.95) |
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The French Connection
William Friedkin
The seminal gritty New York police film, featuring Gene Hackman.
(NYC132, $26.98) |
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Frommer's New York City Day By Day
Hilary Davidson
GUIDEBOOK
A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center.
(NYC166, $12.99) |
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The Fun of It, Stories from the New Yorker's "The Talk of the Town"
Lillian Ross
LITERATURE
The life of the city, as reflected in 75 years of "New Yorker" columns. Funny and revealing, these pieces encapsulate three-quarters of a century in the life of the city.
(NYC48, $16.95) |
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The Gangs of New York
Herbert Asbury
HISTORY
An engaging, gritty history of New York City's underbelly of crime and gangs in the 19th and early 20th century by veteran journalist Herbert Asbury.
(NYC186, $15.95) |
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The Garden Primer
Barbara Damrosch
NATURAL HISTORY
Damrosch has gone 100% organic for this new edition of her essential manual. Her reassuring tone and humor are among the many virtues of this sensible, exceedingly useful guide to garden planning. We turn to it for all our garden-related questions, from picking plants to compost, tools and pests.
(USA71, $18.95) |
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George Gaylord Simpson, Paleontologist and Evolutionist
Léo F. Laporte
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A well-considered biography of the influential evolutionary biologist.
(SCI63, $29.00) |
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The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today
Mark Twain
Charles Dudley Warner
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A satirical portrait of American life in the post-Civil War era. First published in 1873.
(USA83, $15.00) |
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The Gilded Age, Essays on the Origins of Modern America
Charles W. Calhoun
HISTORY
A collection of 14 historical essays on the Gilded Age.
(USA79, $21.95) |
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The Gilded Age, Treasures from the Smithsonian Art Museum
Elizabeth Prelinger
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An illustrated overview of the art of the era, with minimal text.
(USA84, $19.95) |
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The Gilded Age: Edith Wharton and Her Contemporaries
Eleanor Dwight
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A slim cultural history weaving together the art and literature of the era.
(NYC103, $18.95) |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
LITERATURE
The powerful, much-celebrated novel of a teen-age preacher In Harlem in the 1930s.
(NYC124, $13.00) |
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Gorilla, My Love
Toni Cade Bambara
LITERATURE
These interconnected stories, shot through with memorable characters, portray black life in mid-century New York and North Carolina.
(NYC121, $12.95) |
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
LITERATURE
Set in 1920s New York, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel portrays the Jazz Age in all of its decandence and excess.
(USE411, $14.00) |
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The Great New York City Trivia & Fact Book
B. Kim Taylor
GUIDEBOOK
A compendium of New York history, neighborhoods, art & cultures, sure to appeal to the whole family.
(NYC126, $10.95) |
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Guggenheim Museum Collection, A to Z
Nancy Spector
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A compact, alphabetically organized guide to artists and works in the Guggenheim collection.
(NYC36, $29.95) |
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Guggenheim NY/Guggenheim Bilbao
Jeff Goldberg
Ezra Stoller
ART & ARCHITECTURE
The Guggenheim New York and the Guggenheim Bilbao are compared through photographs in this new, compact (small enough for your palm) book.
(SPN115, $14.95) |
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Heading South, Looking North
Ariel Dorfman
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
In this exhilerating memoir, Dorman interweaves the wild story of his life before 1973 with an account of the coup that put the militrary dictator Pinochet into power.
(CHI22, $15.00) |
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Historic Watering Holes of Greenwich Village, With an Architecture-and-History Chaser
ListenUp Tours
GUIDEBOOK
This audio tour, complete with excellent map and an A-to-Z list, takes you on an odyssey across some of the city's most inviting streets.
(NYC141, $14.99) |
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Historical Atlas of New York City, A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York History
Eric Homberger
HISTORY
A short wonderfully illustrated overview of New York and its history.
(NYC135, $22.00) |
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Home Alone 2, Lost in New York
Christopher Columbus
Macaulay Caulkin is left behind again, but this time in the heart of New York City.
(NYC134, $19.99) |
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The Hours
Michael Cunningham
LITERATURE
A marvelous book -- deep, dark and full of hope, which interweaves three tales (set in London, New York and Los Angeles), each echoing Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, Mrs. Dalloway.
(NYC67, $13.00) |
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The Hours
Michael Cunningham
LITERATURE
A marvelous book -- deep, dark and full of hope, signed by the author.
(NYC72, $23.00) |
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How I Became Hettie Jones
Hettie Jones
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A memoir of avant-garde New York in the 50s and 60s, by the former wife of Amiri Baraka. This tender, smart memoir captures all the foment of their New York milieu.
(NYC40, $14.00) |
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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Toby Young
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A laugh-out-loud savaging of the Conde Nast empire by a young British turk who did time at Vanity Fair. The book has created quite a stir in the New York magazine world.
(NYC81, $14.95) |
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The Hudson
Carl Cramer
Edward J. McLaughlin
HISTORY
First published in the 1939, this is a folk history of the Hudson River from a writer who lived along its banks for much of his life.
(NYS22, $25.00) |
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The Hudson Through the Years
Arthur G. Adams
HISTORY
OUT OF PRINT
A history of the Hudson River.
(USE159, $27.95) |
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Hudson Valley Map
JIMAPCO
A road map of the Hudson River Valley from Albany to New York City, at a scale of 1:270,000. With a detailed view of the Catskills, much of Dutchess County, Hudson and other areas of interest.
(USE199, $4.95) |
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The Incorporation of America, Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
Alan Trachtenberg
HISTORY
A study of the expansion of American capitalism and its effects at the end of the 19th-century.
(USA81, $14.00) |
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Insiders' Guide New York Neighborhoods, A Food Lover's Walking, Eating, and Shopping Guide to Ethnic Enclaves throughout New
Eleanor Berman
John Coburn
GUIDEBOOK
(NYC162, $14.95) |
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Insight City Guide New York
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
(NYC197, $16.95) |
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Insight Guide New York State
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A profusely illustrated overview of New York State, featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on history, nature and culture, hundreds of photos and excellent local maps.
(USE176, $23.95) |
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Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A collection of significant black-and-white photographs of immigrant new York.
(NYC120, $7.95) |
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Just Enough Liebling, Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer
A.J. Liebling
David Remnick
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A rewarding taste of Liebling's wide-ranging essays for the New Yorker, published in celebration of the centennial of his birth.
(NYC146, $15.00) |
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Kafka Was the Rage, A Greenwich Village Memoir
Anatole Broyard
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An affecting memoir of the intellectual life in Greenwich Village in the late 1940s.
(NYC64, $13.00) |
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Kingbird Highway, The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand
Kenn Kaufman
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Kaufman's absorbing account of coming-of-age as a Wichita teenager on the road in 1973 with a summer's pay in his pocket and the goal of seeing as many birds as he could in a year.
(BRD27, $14.00) |
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Knights of the Brush, The Hudson River School and the Moral Landscape
James F. Cooper
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A critical study of the Hudson River School, looking at the moral obligations and concerns of artists such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Church.
(USE198, $39.95) |
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Knopf Mapguide New York
Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK
(NYC171, $9.95) |
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La Storia, Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience
Jerre Mangione
HISTORY
A history of the Italian immigrant experience in America.
(NYC187, $18.95) |
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The Last Avant-Garde, The Making of the New York School of Poets
David Lehman
LITERATURE
An enjoyable, high spirited account of artistic friendship and collaboration between four poets of the New York School: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler.
(NYC75, $16.95) |
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby, Jr.
LITERATURE
A landmark, explosive collection of loosely connected short stories depicting the sordid criminal underbelly of 1950s Brooklyn. With wonderfully inventive low-life characters and innovative stream-of-consciousness style prose, Last Exit to Brooklyn has become one of the most important and influential American cult classics of the mid-20th century. With gritty sex, drugs, and violence galore, the book was banned in several countries upon its initial publication in 1964.
(NYC175, $14.00) |
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The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
LITERATURE
The first of the Leatherstocking Tales, ames Fenimore Cooper's racially complex, anti-nationalist 1826 novel was set in rural New York State during the French and Indian War.
(NYC24, $4.95) |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Washington Irving
LITERATURE
Traveling to the Hudson River Valley? Stay awake nights with this great, suspenseful yarn -- or rest easy and read some of the American master's gentler short works.
(NYC23, $8.95) |
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Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A memoir of the go-go 80's on Wall Street. Michael Lewis chronicles his own 4-year rise at Salomon Brothers, from trainee to high-paid trader. A modern classic.
(NYC71, $15.00) |
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Life Along the Hudson
Allan Keller
Alfred Marks
HISTORY
A brief, lively portrait of the Hudson from its discovery through modern times, with illustrations and tours through the region's stately mansions.
(USE196, $26.95) |
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Light Years
James Salter
LITERATURE
A shimmering novel of the disintegration of a perfect 1950s-era New York family set in an old estate along the Hudson.
(NYC65, $14.95) |
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Lonely Planet New York Encounter
Ginger Adams Otis
GUIDEBOOK
This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map.
(NYC179, $11.99) |
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Long Island Alive
Francine Silverman
GUIDEBOOK
A detailed, practical guide to Long Island.
(USE282, $17.95) |
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The Magic of Opera
J. Merrill Knapp
MUSIC
An excellent introduction to opera.
(GEN139, $18.95) |
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Making the Mummies Dance, Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thomas Hoving
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
As the controversial and enormously powerful director of the Met from 1967-1977, Hoving guided his museum to the top of the global heap.
(NYC37, $28.95) |
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Mammals of North America
Roland W. Kays
Don E. Wilson
FIELD GUIDE
The most comprehensive guide to mammals found north of Mexico.
(NAM11, $19.95) |
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Manhattan
Woody Allen
Diane Lane, Muriel Hemingway, and Woody Allen star in Allen's romantic comedy set in (where else?) New York City.
(USE334, $19.98) |
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Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos
LITERATURE
An absorbing portrait fo life in 1920s New York.
(NYC119, $15.00) |
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Memoirs
David Rockefeller
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
This autobiography spans Rockefeller's family, financial career and powerful friends.
(NYC109, $17.95) |
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The Merlot Murders, A Wine Country Mystery
Ellen Crosby
MYSTERY
(USE374, $24.00) |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
Philippe De Montebello
GUIDEBOOK
A guide for museum-goers, covering 900 works representative of the breadth of the collection.
(NYC38, $19.95) |
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The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas
John Freeman
Beverly Sills
MUSIC
A two-volume, boxed collection of the complete plots for 225 operas, authorized by the Metropolitan Opera.
(NYC15, $50.00) |
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Minor Characters, A Young Woman's Coming of Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac
Joyce Johnson
LITERATURE
The vivid memoir of young love and art and the Beat Generation. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
(NYC77, $15.00) |
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Modern Art, Impressionism to Post-Modernism
David Britt
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A thoroughly illustrated survey of European and American modern art. Revised edition.
(ART09, $29.95) |
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The Moment It Clicks, Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters
Joe McNally
ART & ARCHITECTURE
McNally combines his tips for capturing the perfect shot with hundreds of rich, stunning images in this gorgeous coffee table book.
(ART104, $54.99) |
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Morgan, American Financier
Jean Strouse
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An award winning biography that humanizes the powerful turn-of-the-century banker.
(USE304, $18.00) |
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Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Power in a Gilded Age
Eric Homberger
HISTORY
An illustrated portrait of aristocratic life in New York's Gilded Age.
(NYC106, $29.95) |
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My Ears Are Bent
Joseph Mitchell
LITERATURE
The definitive collection of Mitchell's pre-New Yorker columns. These pieces deftly articulate the character and characters of nineteen thirties New York City.
(NYC191, $13.95) |
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg, True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
Giles Milton
HISTORY
A rousing tale of international competition, greed and exploitation in 17th-century Indonesia. The book revolves around Nathaniel Courthroupe, who held off Dutch marauders on a tiny nutmeg-producing island from 1616-1620. It's a great story, well told -- and all true.
(INS73, $15.00) |
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The Navigator of New York
Wayne Johnston
LITERATURE
An absorbing novel interweaving details of the real-life race to the North Pole, and the tale of a young man drawn into their world.
(ARC127, $15.95) |
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New York Changing, Revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York
Douglas Levere
Bonnie Yochelson
Paul Goldberger
Susan Henshaw Jones
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Douglas Levere's meticulous reproductions of Berenice Abbott's photographs from her 1940 book "Changing New York," 64 years later.
(NYC144, $40.00) |
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New York City Trees, A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area
Edward Sibley Barnard
FIELD GUIDE
An illustrated guide to trees, tree watching and parks in New York.
(NYC89, $19.95) |
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New York City: A Short History
George J. Lankevich
HISTORY
A concise history of New York from its days as a Dutch outpost to post September 11th.
(NYC105, $18.95) |
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New York Eats (More)
Ed Levene
GUIDEBOOK
Forget about the Zagat guide, this is the bible of food-loving New Yorkers, including the outer boroughs. He won our heart by declaring the lox at Russ & Daughters the best in town.
(NYC01, $18.95) |
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New York Living Rooms
James Fenton
Dominique Nabokov
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A marvelous illustrated tour of New York society and tastes as revealed through 100 color portraits. Nabokov cannily chooses to feature each living room without its occupants.
(NYC41, $29.95) |
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New York New York
Richard Berenholtz
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A mini book of color photographs of the new York Skyline featuring 12 four-page panoramas.
(NYC136, $14.95) |
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The New York School
Dore Ashton
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A cultural and artistic history of the city during the age of Abstract Expressionism. Ashton is an estimable academic critic who can actually write!!
(NYC35, $26.95) |
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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
LITERATURE
Few understood turn-of-the-century New York as well, and none depicted the social rituals of its elite better. Here are Edith Wharton's finest New York tales--including "The Dilettante," The Long Run" and "The Rembrandt"-- collected in a single volume.
(NYC184, $16.95) |
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New York Then And Now
Marcia Reiss
HISTORY
An illuminating photo-essay, showing archival and contemporary photographs of streets, skylines bridges and buildings throughout Manhattan.
(NYC165, $18.95) |
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The New York Times Traveler's Guide to Art Museum Exhibitions 2005
Susan Mermelstein
GUIDEBOOK
A guide to 350 U.S. museums and their scheduled exhibits for 2005.
(NYC32, $17.95) |
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The New York Yankees Illustrated History
The New York Times
SPORT
A history of the New York Yankees.
(BBL08, $29.95) |
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New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania Map
National Geographic
A double-sided regional map and itinerary planner.
(USE255, $7.95) |
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New York, New York: The City in Art and Literature
Metropolitan Museum of Art
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A celebration of the art and literature of New York from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's massive collections.
(NYC27, $19.95) |
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Noah's Garden, Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards
Sarah Stein
NATURAL HISTORY
Stein describes the transformation of her own backyard in Westchester from monoculture to haven for native plants and animals in this eloquent testimonial.
(USE361, $14.00) |
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Noguchi East and West
Dore Ashton
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A good biography, by a talented writer about art.
(ART16, $25.95) |
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Old New York
Edith Wharton
LITERATURE
Four novellas recalling New York society of the mid-nineteenth century.
(NYC102, $15.00) |
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On the Town
Stanley Donen
Frank Sinatra and his sailor friends do New York, on a 24-hour leave before they are shipped out to the Pacific.
(NYC130, $19.98) |
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One Universe, At Home in the Cosmos
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Charles Liu
Robert Irion
SCIENCE
A visually stunning, well-written introduction to the universe, featuring 400 color photos and an authoritative text by a team of experts.
(SCI100, $40.00) |
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Paradise Alley, A Novel
Kevin Baker
LITERATURE
The second novel in Baker's Dreamland trilogy, this book focuses on New York City during the draft riots of 1863. Speaking in the voice of many characters, including three Irish immigrants, a New York Tribune reporter, an escaped slave and an army private, Baker crafts a story around one of the worst civic disturbances in U.S. history.
(NYC160, $14.95) |
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Pauline Frommer's New York City
Pauline Frommer
GUIDEBOOK
A family-friendly, quirky practical guide by the daughter of travel guru Arthur Frommer. Her motto: "Spend Less, See More."
(NYC168, $16.99) |
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Picturing New York, The City from its Beginnings to the Present
Gloria Deak
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An illustrated chronicle of New York from its origins as a ragtag seaport to trading center and cultural capital. An entire, wonderful chapter is devoted to Broadway.
(NYC14, $65.50) |
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Poet in New York
Garcia Lorca
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A slim, evocative collection of 34 poems on urban life, modernity and exile, presented in a bilingual edition. Lorca wrote the book while a student at Columbia in 1929-30.
(NYC46, $18.00) |
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The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert Caro
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A much-hailed biography of Robert Moses, the politician who left an indelible mark on physical New York. David Halberstam called this biography "surely the greatest book ever written about a city."
(NYC53, $24.00) |
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The Protestant Establishment, Aristocracy and Caste in America
E. Digby Baltzell
HISTORY
A readable, serious study of the American upper class, first published in 1964.
(USA78, $26.00) |
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The Puttermesser Papers
Cynthia Ozick
LITERATURE
A riotous collection of five stories representing episodes from the life of Ruth Puttermesser, a civil servant from the Bronx in New York. Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, and a finalist for the National Book Award.
(NYC39, $13.95) |
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Radio Days
Woody Allen
(NYC137, $14.98) |
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Remarkable, Unspeakable New York, A Literary History
Shaun O'Connell
HISTORY
A history of New York's place in American letters.
(NYC44, $20.00) |
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Remember D-Day, Both Sides Tell Their Stories
Ronald J. Drez
David Eisenhower
HISTORY
YOUNG ADULTS
An engaging and well-constructed history of the D-Day invasion for readers in grades 5 to 8, complete with anecdotes from soldiers, black-and-white photographs and plenty of historical information.
(USA96, $17.95) |
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Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
Scott Weidensaul
NATURAL HISTORY
An eye-opening trek in the footsteps of conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose 1953 journey across America resulted in the classic Wild America.
(USA123, $15.00) |
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A celebrated biography of Teddy Roosevelt, from his birth in 1858 to his presidential inauguration in 1901.
(USE308, $17.95) |
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River of Mountains, A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson
Peter Lourie
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A detailed account of Lourie's three-week journey along the entire length of the Hudson River in a canoe from headwaters to the Statue of Liberty. Lourie interweaves history of the river with charming descriptions and anecdotes.
(USE72, $19.95) |
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The Roosevelt Women
Betty Boyd Caroli
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A group portrait of four generations of indominatable Roosevelts.
(USE305, $22.00) |
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Saturday Night Fever
John Badham
The tale of Brooklyn teenagers and dancing, evocative of the 1970s and the Bay Ridge.
(NYC131, $14.98) |
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The Search for Order, 1877-1920
Robert H. Wiebe
HISTORY
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