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50 Hikes in the Lower Hudson Valley, Hikes and Walks from Westchester County to Albany

50 Hikes in the Lower Hudson Valley, Hikes and Walks from Westchester County to Albany


by Stella Green | Neil Zimmerman

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

An expert, up-to-date guide to exploring parks and reserves, most close to New York City. (NYC90, $16.95)

AAA Spiral Guide New York


by AAA Publishing

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2005
  • FLEXI-BOUND
  • 208 PAGES

A handy guide, aimed at first-time visitors to New York, covering the city's greatest hits in depth. (NYC74, $16.95)

The Accidental Connoisseur, An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World

The Accidental Connoisseur, An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World


by Lawrence Osborne

  • FOOD
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 262 PAGES

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, $15.00)

The Age of Innocence


by Louis Auchincloss | Edith Wharton

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

A dazzling tale of social mores, infidelity and thwarted love in old New York. (NYC101, $9.95)

The Alienist


by Caleb Carr

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 599 PAGES

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)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay


by Michael Chabon

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 656 PAGES

A dazzling tale that follows its heros from Nazi-occupied Prague to New York (and the Antarctic). (ANT175, $17.00)

American Museum of Natural History, The Official Guide


by AMNH

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 64 PAGES

A pocket guide with 90 color photographs. (NYC198, $9.95)

Aquavit and the New Scandinavian Cuisine


by Marcus Samuelsson

  • FOOD
  • 2003
  • HARD COVER
  • 302 PAGES

A wonderfully illustrated cookbook from the renowned chef at Aquavit, New York's premier restaurant for haute Scandinavian cuisine. (SCN40, $45.00)

The Architectural Guidebook to New York City


by Francis Morrone | James Iska

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

This architecture guidebook showcases some 600 Manhattan buildings. This most recent edition includes a section on Brooklyn. (NYC09, $21.95)

Away for the Weekend, New York


by Eleanor Berman

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

Suggestions for weekend getaways within 200 miles of New York City (USE131, $16.00)

Before and After, Stories from New York


by Tom Beller

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

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)

The Best in Tent Camping, New York

The Best in Tent Camping, New York


by Aaron Starmer | Catharine Wells | Timothy Starmer

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

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)

The Big Oyster, History on the Half Shell

The Big Oyster, History on the Half Shell


by Mark Kurlansky

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 307 PAGES

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, $16.00)

Bloom's Literary Guide to New York


by Jesse Zuba

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 222 PAGES

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)

The Boys of Summer


by Roger Kahn

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

The biography of a baseball era -- the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s. (NYC70, $15.00)

Breakfast at Tiffany's


by Truman Capote

  • LITERATURE
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

The endearing novel of romantic New York. (NYC117, $13.00)

Bright Lights, Big City


by Jay McInerney

  • LITERATURE
  • 1987
  • PAPER
  • 208 PAGES

McInerney's breakout debut novel, on the town in 1980's New York. (NYC84, $15.00)

Call it Sleep


by Henry Roth

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 462 PAGES

Classic novel of the Jewish Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1930s. (NYC68, $16.00)

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York


by Cyru Patel

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 254 PAGES

A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of the city from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present. (NYC225, $24.99)

Catcher in the Rye


by J. D. Salinger

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Salinger's remarkable, nearly perfect, and much loved first novel. Read it again. (NYC99, $13.99)

Charming Small Hotels in New England and New York City


by Paul Wade | Kathy Arnold

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 191 PAGES

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)

The Cheap Bastard's Guide to New York City, A Native New Yorker's Secrets of Living the Good Life--For Free!

The Cheap Bastard's Guide to New York City, A Native New Yorker's Secrets of Living the Good Life--For Free!


by Rob Grader

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

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)

Christ in Concrete


by Pietro Di Donato

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 223 PAGES

This poignant novel, originally published in 1939, deals with Italian immigrants making their way on New York's Lower East Side. (NYC138, $16.00)

Christo and Jeanne-Claude On The Way to the Gates Central Park New York City


by Jonathan Fineberg

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2004
  • HARD COVER
  • 224 PAGES

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)

City Secrets Manhattan

City Secrets Manhattan


by Robert Kahn

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 384 PAGES

A connoisseur's guide to the city and its attractions, featuring the favorite haunts of artists, architects and local personalities. (NYC66, $19.95)

A Clearing in the Distance, Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century


by Witold Rybczynski

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

A lovely biography of the creator of Central Park (Manhattan) and Prospect Park (Brooklyn), the largest parks in their respective boroughs. (NYC62, $18.00)

The Collected Stories

The Collected Stories


by Grace Paley

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 386 PAGES

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, $18.00)

The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts


by Colin Whitehead

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 128 PAGES

A lyrical homage to New York in the form of thirteen eclectic and inventive vignettes. (NYC97, $14.00)

The Corrections

The Corrections


by Jonathan Franzen

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 592 PAGES

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. It's a madcap, tour de force of Christmas homecomings gone awry, cruise-ship follies, self-deluded academics, breast-obsessed screenwriters, stodgy old farts and edgy Tribeca bohemians equally at sea in their lives. (EUR122, $16.00)

Crawling at Night


by Nani Power

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

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)

Crooklyn


by Spike Lee

  • 1994
  • DVD

Lee's nostalgic ode to Brooklyn in the 1970s. (NYC128, $19.98)

Delirious New York, A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan


by Rem Koolhaas

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

The Dutch architect's semi-classic meditation on marvelous, absurd and enchanting New York. (NYC18, $35.00)

Dinosaurs in the Attic, An Excursion Into the American Museum of Natural History


by Doug Preston

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1994
  • PAPER

Preston spins a tale of big personalities, big ambition, unbounding curiosity, greed and collecting fever in this engaging history of the museum. (NYC92, $17.99)

Dreamland

Dreamland


by Kevin Baker

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 688 PAGES

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, $14.99)

Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide New York

Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide New York


by Eleanor Berman

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions. (NYC218, $14.00)

Fall on your Knees

Fall on your Knees


by Ann-Marie MacDonald

  • LITERATURE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 508 PAGES

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)

Feeding a Yen, Savoring Local Specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco

Feeding a Yen, Savoring Local Specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco


by Calvin Trillin

  • FOOD
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 197 PAGES

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, $15.00)

Fierce Attachments

Fierce Attachments


by Vivian Gornick

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 216 PAGES

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, $15.00)

Fodor's See It New York City

Fodor's See It New York City


by Fodor's

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

Fodor's vibrant and informative guide to touring New York City. (NYC145, $24.99)

The French Connection


by William Friedkin

  • 1971
  • DVD

The seminal gritty New York police film, featuring Gene Hackman. (NYC132, $26.98)

Frommer's New York City


by Brian Silverman

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER

A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout. (NYC209, $19.99)

Frommer's New York City Day By Day

Frommer's New York City Day By Day


by Hilary Davidson

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

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)

The Fun of It, Stories from the New Yorker's "The Talk of the Town"


by Lillian Ross

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 512 PAGES

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, $27.00)

The Gangs of New York


by Herbert Asbury

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 420 PAGES

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)

The Gilded Age: Edith Wharton and Her Contemporaries


by Eleanor Dwight

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1996
  • HARD COVER
  • 80 PAGES

A slim cultural history weaving together the art and literature of the era. (NYC103, $18.95)

Go Tell It on the Mountain


by James Baldwin

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

The powerful, much-celebrated novel of a teen-age preacher In Harlem in the 1930s. (NYC124, $14.00)

Gorilla, My Love


by Toni Cade Bambara

  • LITERATURE
  • 1992
  • PAPER
  • 177 PAGES

These interconnected stories, shot through with memorable characters, portray black life in mid-century New York and North Carolina. (NYC121, $14.00)

The Great Gatsby


by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 180 PAGES

Set in 1920s New York, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel portrays the Jazz Age in all of its decandence and excess. (USE411, $15.00)

The Great New York City Trivia & Fact Book


by B. Kim Taylor

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

A compendium of New York history, neighborhoods, art & cultures, sure to appeal to the whole family. (NYC126, $10.95)

Guggenheim Museum Collection, A to Z


by Nancy Spector

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2000
  • HARD COVER
  • 325 PAGES

A compact, alphabetically organized guide to artists and works in the Guggenheim collection. (NYC36, $29.95)

A Hazard of New Fortunes


by William Dean Howells

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 449 PAGES

A self-made millionaire and a social revolutionary are at odds with each other in Howell's novel set against the backdrop of a 19th-century New York streetcar strike. (NYC201, $17.00)

Historic Watering Holes of Greenwich Village, With an Architecture-and-History Chaser

Historic Watering Holes of Greenwich Village, With an Architecture-and-History Chaser


by ListenUp Tours

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2004
  • DVD

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)

Historical Atlas of New York City, A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York History


by Eric Homberger

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

A short wonderfully illustrated overview of New York and its history. (NYC135, $22.00)

Home Alone 2, Lost in New York


by Christopher Columbus

  • 1992
  • DVD

Macaulay Caulkin is left behind again, but this time in the heart of New York City. (NYC134, $19.99)

The Hours


by Michael Cunningham

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 230 PAGES

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, $14.00)

The Hours


by Michael Cunningham

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • HARD COVER
  • 230 PAGES

A marvelous book -- deep, dark and full of hope, signed by the author. (NYC72, $23.00)

The House of Mirth


by Edith Wharton

  • LITERATURE
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

The classic turn-of-the-century novel of one beautiful New Yorker's demise. It's also a marvelous portrait of the city circa 1900, its surrounding country estates and Byzantine formalities. (NYC43, $11.00)

How I Became Hettie Jones


by Hettie Jones

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

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)

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People


by Toby Young

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 340 PAGES

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)

The Hudson


by Carl Cramer | Edward J. McLaughlin

  • HISTORY
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 338 PAGES

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, $27.00)

Hudson Valley Map

Hudson Valley Map


by JIMAPCO

  • MAP

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)

Insight City Guide New York

Insight City Guide New York


by Insight Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

Combines insightful writing and lavish full-color photography in a portable format with an emphasis on practical information. (NYC197, $19.99)

Insight Select New York

Insight Select New York


by Insight Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

This pocket guide may even lure us away from downtown to Audubon Terrace or one of the very many choice places we've never visited. (NYC236, $15.00)

Jacob Riis


by Jacob Riis

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 128 PAGES

A collection of significant black-and-white photographs of immigrant new York. (NYC120, $7.95)

Just Enough Liebling, Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer


by A.J. Liebling | David Remnick

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 560 PAGES

A rewarding taste of Liebling's wide-ranging essays for the New Yorker, published in celebration of the centennial of his birth. (NYC146, $20.00)

Kafka Was the Rage, A Greenwich Village Memoir


by Anatole Broyard

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 160 PAGES

An affecting memoir of the intellectual life in Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. (NYC64, $15.00)

Knopf Guide New York


by Knopf Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

This lavishly illustrated, compact guide covers the history, culture and sights of New York in style. (NYC220, $25.00)

La Storia, Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience


by Jerre Mangione

  • HISTORY
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 560 PAGES

A history of the Italian immigrant experience in America. (NYC187, $18.99)

The Last Avant-Garde, The Making of the New York School of Poets


by David Lehman

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

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)

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn


by Hubert Selby, Jr.

  • LITERATURE
  • 1988
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

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)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories


by Washington Irving

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 638 PAGES

Traveling to the Hudson River Valley? Stay awake at night with this great, suspenseful yarn -- or rest easy and read some of the American master's gentler short works. (NYC23, $10.00)

Liar's Poker


by Michael Lewis

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1990
  • PAPER
  • 249 PAGES

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, $16.00)

Light Years


by James Salter

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER

A shimmering novel of the disintegration of a perfect 1950s-era New York family set in an old estate along the Hudson. (NYC65, $16.00)

Lonely Planet Discover New York City

Lonely Planet Discover New York City


by Lonely Planet Publications

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 296 PAGES

Focusing on must-see and memorable places and experiences, this all color guide by the discerning editors at Lonely Planet features hundreds of color photographs and maps. (NYC233, $21.99)

Lonely Planet New York City


by Lonely Planet

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

A comprehensive city guide with good full-color maps, a few photographs and excellent information on what to do and where to go. (NYC211, $19.99)

Lonely Planet New York Encounter

Lonely Planet New York Encounter


by Ginger Adams Otis

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map. (NYC179, $12.99)

Lucy


by Jamaica Kincaid

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 176 PAGES

Kincaid's transporting tale of a young au pair from the West Indies coming of age in New York. (NYC202, $14.00)

Making the Mummies Dance, Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art


by Thomas Hoving

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 429 PAGES

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)

Man Gone Down

Man Gone Down


by Michael Thomas

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

Thomas's vibrant debut novel follows a young black father in a biracial marriage as he tries to salvage his family -- and his dreams -- over the course of four increasingly frantic days in New York City. (NYC208, $14.00)

Manhattan


by Woody Allen

  • 1979
  • DVD

Diane Lane, Muriel Hemingway, and Woody Allen star in Allen's romantic comedy set in (where else?) New York City. (USE334, $19.98)

Manhattan Transfer

Manhattan Transfer


by John Dos Passos

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

An absorbing portrait fo life in 1920s New York. (NYC119, $15.00)

Memoirs


by David Rockefeller

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 560 PAGES

This autobiography spans Rockefeller's family, financial career and powerful friends. (NYC109, $17.95)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide


by Philippe De Montebello

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 1995
  • HARD COVER
  • 470 PAGES

A guide for museum-goers, covering 900 works representative of the breadth of the collection. (NYC38, $19.95)

The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas


by John Freeman | Beverly Sills

  • MUSIC
  • 1997
  • HARD COVER
  • 1017 PAGES

A two-volume, boxed collection of the complete plots for 225 operas, authorized by the Metropolitan Opera. (NYC15, $50.00)

Michelin Green Guide New York City


by Michelin

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

With the same focus on driving tours, detailed maps and the Michelin star system, the venerable Green Guides are even better -- organized regionally, in color and with an overview of history, art and culture. (NYC239, $19.99)

Michelin New York City, Must Sees

Michelin New York City, Must Sees


by Jonath Gilbert

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

A compact guide to the sights of New York City, organized thematically. (NYC228, $11.99)

Minor Characters, A Young Woman's Coming of Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac


by Joyce Johnson

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

The vivid memoir of young love and art and the Beat Generation. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. (NYC77, $16.00)

Mobil Travel Guide City Guide New York

Mobil Travel Guide City Guide New York


by Mobil Travel Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

Celebrating 50 years, these practical guides feature the same Mobil star rating system. (NYS76, $14.99)

Money, A Suicide Note

Money, A Suicide Note


by Martin Amis

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

John Self discovers how distasteful the pursuit of pleasure in decadent New York can be. (NYC200, $15.00)

Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Power in a Gilded Age


by Eric Homberger

  • HISTORY
  • 2002
  • HARD COVER
  • 336 PAGES

An illustrated portrait of aristocratic life in New York's Gilded Age. (NYC106, $29.95)

My Ears Are Bent


by Joseph Mitchell

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

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, $14.00)

National Geographic New York

National Geographic New York


by Michael Durham

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

A compact guide featuring National Geographic's usual attention to maps and color photography. (NYS100, $22.95)

New York Changing, Revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York


by Douglas Levere | Bonnie Yochelson | Paul Goldberger | Susan Henshaw Jones

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2004
  • HARD COVER
  • 192 PAGES

Douglas Levere's meticulous reproductions of Berenice Abbott's photographs from her 1940 book "Changing New York," 64 years later. (NYC144, $40.00)

New York City Trees, A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area


by Edward Sibley Barnard

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

An illustrated guide to trees, tree watching and parks in New York. (NYC89, $19.95)

New York City: A Short History


by George J. Lankevich

  • HISTORY
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

A concise history of New York from its days as a Dutch outpost to post September 11th. (NYC105, $19.95)

New York Living Rooms


by James Fenton | Dominique Nabokov

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1998
  • HARD COVER
  • 128 PAGES

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)

A New York Memoir


by Richard Goodman

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 143 PAGES

Goodman (French Dirt) uses the energy of New York City to drive his memoir, beginning in 1975 with his arrival and following the ups and downs he and the city have faced over thirty years. (NYC226, $29.95)

New York New York


by Richard Berenholtz

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2003
  • HARD COVER
  • 240 PAGES

A mini book of color photographs of the new York Skyline featuring 12 four-page panoramas. (NYC136, $14.95)

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton


by Edith Wharton

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 464 PAGES

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)

New York Then And Now

New York Then And Now


by Marcia Reiss

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • HARD COVER
  • 144 PAGES

An illuminating photo-essay, showing archival and contemporary photographs of streets, skylines bridges and buildings throughout Manhattan. (NYC165, $19.95)

The New York Times Traveler's Guide to Art Museum Exhibitions 2005


by Susan Mermelstein

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 500 PAGES

A guide to 350 U.S. museums and their scheduled exhibits for 2005. (NYC32, $17.95)

The New York Yankees Illustrated History


by The New York Times

  • SPORT
  • 2002
  • HARD COVER
  • 288 PAGES

A history of the New York Yankees. (BBL08, $29.95)

New York, Five Points


by L. P. C.

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 140 PAGES

The unusual WhaiWhai guidebook series takes readers on a historical treasure hunt through the city discovering monuments and hidden corners through fictional scenerios. To play, you need to have a cell phone on hand to receive clues. (NYC234, $21.95)

New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania Map

New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania Map


by

  • MAP

A double-sided regional map and itinerary planner. (USE255, $7.95)

New York, New York: The City in Art and Literature


by Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2000
  • HARD COVER
  • 201 PAGES

A celebration of the art and literature of New York from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's massive collections. (NYC27, $19.95)

New York, Portrait of a City

New York, Portrait of a City


by Reuel Golden

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 560 PAGES

A photographic tribute to New York featuring the work of over150 photographers who have captured the city, from the first known photo to the present. (NYC227, $69.99)

New York, Washington DC & the Mid-Atlantic Trips

New York, Washington DC & the Mid-Atlantic Trips


by Lonely Planet | Adam Karlin

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

A compact and practical guide to visiting the region, with 50 themed itineraries and over 1,000 local attractions. Trips are divided into categories by theme: iconic, food & drink, history & culture, route, offbeat, city, and day trips. (USE465, $19.99)

Not for Tourists Guide Brooklyn


by Craig Nelson

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 221 PAGES

The little black book of Queens, organized by neighborhood, with adjacent maps and listings. (NYC229, $14.99)

Not for Tourists Guide New York City


by

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 475 PAGES

The little black book of New York City, organized by neighborhood, with adjacent maps and listings. (NYC231, $16.99)

Not for Tourists Guide Queens


by Craig Nelson

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 184 PAGES

The little black book of Queens, organized by neighborhood, with adjacent maps and listings. (NYC230, $12.99)

Old New York


by Edith Wharton

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Four novellas recalling New York society of the mid-nineteenth century. (NYC102, $16.00)

On the Town


by Stanley Donen

  • 1949
  • DVD

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)

Paradise Alley, A Novel

Paradise Alley, A Novel


by Kevin Baker

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 688 PAGES

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)

Pauline Frommer's New York City

Pauline Frommer's New York City


by Pauline Frommer

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

A family-friendly, quirky practical guide by the daughter of travel guru Arthur Frommer. Her motto: "Spend Less, See More." (NYC168, $16.99)

Picturing New York, The City from its Beginnings to the Present

Picturing New York, The City from its Beginnings to the Present


by Gloria Deak

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2000
  • HARD COVER
  • 415 PAGES

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, $70.00)

Pocket Rough Guide New York City

Pocket Rough Guide New York City


by Martin Dunford

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 206 PAGES

The founder of Rough Guides Martin Dunford and New York-based editor Andrew Rosenberg authored this savvy and well-organized guide to the city, its neighborhoods and attractions. As a bonus, the guide is bundled with a map of Manhattan and adjacent Brooklyn and Queens. (NYC237, $12.99)

Poet in New York


by Garcia Lorca

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

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)

The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall of New York


by Robert Caro

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1975
  • PAPER
  • 1246 PAGES

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, $25.00)

The Puttermesser Papers


by Cynthia Ozick

  • LITERATURE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 236 PAGES

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)

Radio Days


by Woody Allen

  • 1987
  • DVD

A love poem not only to the days of radio, but also New York City set in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, in the 1940's. (NYC137, $14.98)

Remarkable, Unspeakable New York, A Literary History


by Shaun O'Connell

  • HISTORY
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES

A history of New York's place in American letters. (NYC44, $20.00)

Rough Guide New York City


by Martin Dunford

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 544 PAGES

This comprehensive guide in the British series nicely balances a historical and cultural overview with practical travel information. (NYC206, $21.99)

Saturday Night Fever


by John Badham

  • 1977
  • DVD

The tale of Brooklyn teenagers and dancing, evocative of the 1970s and the Bay Ridge. (NYC131, $14.98)

The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay


by Edna St. Vincent Millay | Nancy Milford

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

A sample of work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning bohemian poet. Includes Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from This-tles, Second April and eight sonnets. (NYC177, $13.95)

Sidewalk Critic, Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York


by Lewis Mumford | Robert Wojtowicz

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

A collection of erudite, witty essays on architecture and life in New York spanning the years 1931-1940. (NYC42, $17.95)

The Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient Forests of the Northeast

The Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient Forests of the Northeast


by Bruce Kershner | Robert T. Leverett

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 292 PAGES

A handy guide to the old-growth forests of New England and the mid-Atlantic states. (USE336, $16.95)

Sleeping Arrangements


by Laura Cunningham

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

A humorous, down-t-earth memoir of growing up in the Bronx in the 1950s. (NYC116, $15.00)

Sleepless Nights

Sleepless Nights


by Elizabeth Hardwick

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 128 PAGES

Harwick's luminous 1979 novel of longing, desolation, New York City and Billie Holiday, thankfully returned to print. Read it for the extraordinary language, the flavor of 1940s New York. (NYC21, $14.00)

Strivers Row

Strivers Row


by Kevin Baker

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • HARD COVER
  • 560 PAGES

The third novel in Baker's City of Fire trilogy, this book recreates Harlem in 1943 and reimagines the life of Malcolm Little, the man who became Malcom X . Baker was formerly the chief researcher for Harry Evans's The American Century. (NYC158, $26.95)

Tabloid City, A Novel


by Pete Hamill

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 288 PAGES

In Hamill's latest thriller, the kaleidoscopic flurry of activity in the aftermath of a wealthy socialite's murder paints a surprising and multiplex portrait of today's New York City. (NYC235, $26.99)

Time Out New York

Time Out New York


by Killian Jordan

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES

An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine. (NYC157, $19.99)

Time Out New York Eating & Drinking

Time Out New York Eating & Drinking


by Ric Koss

  • FOOD
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 311 PAGES

An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine. (NYC189, $9.99)

Tootsie


by Sydney Pollack

  • 1982
  • DVD

The marvelous comedy of Dustin Hoffman desperate to make it as an actor in New York. (NYC129, $19.95)

Treasures from Olana, Landscapes by Frederick Edwin Church


by Kevin J. Avery

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2005
  • HARD COVER
  • 71 PAGES

This extraordinary selection of Church's paintings from his collection at Olana puts his most cherished works on full display in a volume that includes eighty color plates. (NYS60, $27.00)

Tropic of Capricorn


by Henry Miller

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1989
  • PAPER
  • 348 PAGES

Miller's take on a youth spent in New York. (NYC111, $14.00)

Twin Towers Remembered


by Camilo Jose Vergara

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 96 PAGES

A small, mesmerizing collection of photos illustrating the life of the twin towers. The book ends with some harrowing shots of the towers' destruction, but its focus is on the life of the towers, not their death. (NYC63, $19.95)

Ulster County Atlas


by Hagstrom

  • 1997
  • MAP
  • 77 PAGES

A comprehensive atlas of Ulster country with detailed maps at the very good scale of 1:32,000. (NYC17, $9.96)

Ulster County New York Map


by JIMAPCO

  • 2001
  • MAP

A detailed map of Kingston, Saugerties, New Palz and surrounding areas in Ulster County at a scale of 1:96,000. With index and tour information. (NYC16, $4.50)

The Union Square Cafe Cookbook


by Danny Meyer | Michael Romano

  • FOOD
  • 1994
  • HARD COVER
  • 352 PAGES

Winner of the 1995 "Julia Child Cookbook Award," this is a collection of recipes from New York's renowned Union Square Cafe. (NYC04, $37.95)

The Vanderbilts


by Jerry Patterson

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1989
  • HARD COVER
  • 304 PAGES

A lavish history -- and survey of the opulence -- of the powerful Vanderbilt family. (NYC108, $57.50)

Walkabout Lower Manhattan

Walkabout Lower Manhattan


by Walkabout New York

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2004
  • AUDIO CD

A 60-minute audio tour of downtown Manhattan from historic Battery Park to City Hall. (NYC152, $19.95)

A Walker in the City


by Alfred Kazin

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1969
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

Kazin reels in his childhood haunts and the city itself in this short memoir, opening with a walk from his tenement home in Jewish Brownsville in the Bronx. (NYC114, $14.95)

Where New York / Eat, Great Meals Wherever You Are

Where New York / Eat, Great Meals Wherever You Are


by Where Magazine

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 64 PAGES

A sturdy pocket guide to 200 diverse restaurants and eateries, organized by neighborhood and helpfully keyed to overview maps. (NYC182, $9.95)

Where New York Cityguide

Where New York Cityguide


by Where Magazine

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • HARD COVER
  • 64 PAGES

A sturdy pocket guide to top city sights, helpfully keyed to overview maps and featuring a detailed downtown PopOut map. (NYC183, $9.95)

Windows on Nature, The Great Habitat Dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History


by Stephen Christopher Quinn

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2006
  • HARD COVER
  • 180 PAGES

With oversized, full-color photographs, Quinn displays the habitat dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History. He also provides an inside look at how they were created. (NYC164, $45.00)

Wonderful Town, New York Stories from the The New Yorker


by Susan Choi | David Remnick

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

Collection of 43 stories taken from the past seven decades of short stories published in The New Yorker. Featuring John Updike, Dorothy Parker, Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov and John Cheever. (NYC05, $18.00)

The Works, Anatomy of a City


by Kate Ascher

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER

This explanation of New York City's inner infrastructure offers everything you have ever wondered about the way things work in a modern city. (NYC178, $22.00)

The World in My Kitchen, The Adventures of a (Mostly) French Woman in America


by Colette Rossant

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2007
  • HARD COVER

In this third memoir, Rossant picks up in 1955 with her life in as a young wife, accomplished cook and food writer living on Sullivan Street in New York City. (NYC180, $22.00)

World's Fair


by E. L. Doctorow

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

The tale of a boy's life in 1930's New York. (NYC115, $15.00)

A Yankee Century, A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team


by Paul O'Neill | Harvey Frommer

  • SPORT
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

A comprehensive volume of New York Yankee photographs, interviews, statistics, and trivia. (BBL09, $24.00)

The Years with Ross


by James Thurber

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

Thurber's funny, affectionate memoir of the "New Yorker" and its founder, Harold Ross; this is a fine and highly amusing picture of the man and his era. (NYC49, $14.99)

 

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