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50 Hikes in the Lower Hudson Valley, Hikes and Walks from Westchester County to Albany • Stella Green • Neil Zimmerman GUIDEBOOK • 2008 • PAPER • 256 PAGES An expert, up-to-date guide to walks and hikes, most within an hour of two of New York City, including Hudson Highlands, Rockland County and Harriman Park, the West Hudson Hills and Shawangunks. The authors are past president and vice-president of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. With 51 maps, black-and-white photographs and an excellent at-a-glance overview. (NYC90, $16.95)
AAA Spiral Guide New York • 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 and with 10 magazine-style articles, walking tours, and street plans. (NYC74, $16.95)
The Accidental Connoisseur, An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World • Lawrence Osborne FOOD • 2005 • PAPER • 262 PAGES Oh, what a quest -- and what great fun. Osborne journeys across the world to places like Provence, Tuscany and Sonoma on an animated quest of what makes wine and what makes it good. He stops by New York, San Francisco, Paris, Florence, and Rome to see what people are drinking. He meets plenty of interesting characters along the way (like Robert Mondavi), revealing much about the pleasures of wine (and travel!) We're hoping for a southern hemisphere sequel. (TVL31, $15.00)
The Age of Innocence • Louis Auchincloss • Edith Wharton LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 304 PAGES A dazzling tale of social mores, infidelity and thwarted love in old New York. It is a reflection on the Gilded Age, first published in 1920. Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for the book -- the first woman awarded this honor. (NYC101, $9.95)
The Alienist • Caleb Carr LITERATURE • 1995 • PAPER • 599 PAGES A grisly page-turner set on the gas-lit streets of late Victorian Manhattan. A reporter and psychologist (with a little help from Teddy Roosevelt) chase down a Jack-the-Ripperesque killer who's preying on boy prostitutes. Sensationalism (and contrived ending) aside, 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 in all their seedy glory. (NYC69, $7.99)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay • Michael Chabon LITERATURE • 2001 • PAPER • 656 PAGES A dazzling tale that follows its heros from Nazi-occupied Prague to New York and the Antarctic, where US forces are stationed to keep an eye on the Germans. Houdini, the Golem, Hitler, inventor of the superhero Stan Lee and other mostly historical figues make an appearance in the lives of Chabon's protagonists Joe and Sammy. Even if you're not much interested in New York or the golden age of comic books (and are puzzled by swoops and twists of the comic-book plot), you'll appreciate Chabon's flair for language and his characters. It won a Pulitzer. (ANT175, $17.00)
American Museum of Natural History, The Official Guide • AMNH GUIDEBOOK • 2008 • PAPER • 64 PAGES This pocket guide to the habitat groups and halls of the museum features 90 color photographs. (NYC198, $9.95)
Aquavit and the New Scandinavian Cuisine • 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. Marcus Samuelsson was born in Ethiopia, raised in Sweden and trained in France, a background which informs his innovative take on the traditions of Scandinavia. (SCN40, $45.00)
The Architectural Guidebook to New York City • Francis Morrone • James Iska ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1998 • PAPER • 432 PAGES Tour New York City's architectural icons in this expansive book, featuring some 600 Manhattan buildings. With his seasoned eye, Morrone highlights the aesthetic values of various buildings and teaches novices what to look for when strolling down Manhattan streets. Originally published in 1994, this most recent edition includes a section on Brooklyn and features the Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights neighborhoods. (NYC09, $21.95)
Away for the Weekend, New York • Eleanor Berman GUIDEBOOK • 2000 • PAPER • 304 PAGES A guide to myriad activities for both adults and children within striking distance of New York, from historical sites to casinos to the great outdoors. With driving directions and information on restaurants and accommodations. (USE131, $16.00)
Before and After, Stories from New York • Tom Beller LITERATURE • 2002 • PAPER • 224 PAGES A stylish collection of essays, most first published on Tom Beller's website devoted to New York writing and New York neighborhoods, mrbellersneighborhood.com. The book is in two parts (it's printed topsy-turvy, so there are two covers), the first just a collection from before September 11, and the second group (many by the same authors) written after the Trade Center tragedy. 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 • Aaron Starmer • Catharine Wells • Timothy Starmer GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • PAPER • 224 PAGES Written by former Longitude editor Aaron Starmer, his girlfriend and camping companion Cate Wells, and his master carpenter brother Tim Starmer, this is the final word in camping guides to the Empire State. Detailing the 50 best campgrounds from Long Island to the Hudson, St. Lawrence, Adriondacks and the Great Lakes, it is a handy resource for hikers and families who prefer scenic, quiet and convenient places to pitch a tent. (NYS55, $14.95)
The Big Oyster, History on the Half Shell • 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. During the golden age of the oyster boom, which lasted from the 1880s to 1910, the region's oyster beds were producing 700 million osyters a year. (NYC173, $16.00)
Bloom's Literary Guide to New York • 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 • 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 • Truman Capote LITERATURE • 1993 • PAPER • 192 PAGES In Capote's enduring novel, Manhattan is the island of down-at-the-heels dreamers: taxis and Tiffany's, the equipment of their dreams. Perhaps no book better evokes the romance of New York. It's perfectly written, too. (NYC117, $13.00)
Bright Lights, Big City • Jay McInerney LITERATURE • 1987 • PAPER • 208 PAGES McInerney's debut novel, on the town in 1980s New York. (NYC84, $15.00)
Call it Sleep • Henry Roth LITERATURE • 2005 • PAPER • 462 PAGES The classic novel of New York's Jewish lower eastside in the 1930s. This book was written in the 40's, but it's acclaim came later when it was republished in the 60's. It's not exactly uplifting, but its evocation of the lost world of the first-generation Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and the struggle of the 2nd generation to escape from the suffocating slums, are unmatched. (NYC68, $17.00)
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York • Cyru Patel ANTHOLOGY • 2010 • PAPER • 254 PAGES From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a unique perspective on American culture. This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city, celebrating Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Allen Ginsberg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history. Illustrated and featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is the ideal guide for students of American literature as well as for all who love New York and its writers. (NYC225, $24.99)
Catcher in the Rye • J. D. Salinger LITERATURE • 2001 • PAPER • 288 PAGES Ruminations and travels of 16-year-old Holden Caufield, in a handsome paper edition. It's Salinger's remarkable first novel. (NYC99, $13.99)
Charming Small Hotels in New England and New York City • 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! • 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. Winner of the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Travel Guidebook of the Year. (NYC161, $14.95)
Christ in Concrete • Pietro Di Donato LITERATURE • 2004 • PAPER • 223 PAGES A classic novel (often compared to Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath) of working class Italian-Americans on New York's Lower East Side in the days before WWII. Originally published in published in 1939. (NYC138, $16.00)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude On The Way to the Gates Central Park New York City • Jonathan Fineberg ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2004 • HARD COVER • 224 PAGES This richly illustrated overview of the project -- and companion volume to the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- features a collection of color reproductions of Christo's drawings and collages. The book includes a survey of the career of Christo and Jeanne-Claude by Fineberg, along with four interviews conducted from 1979 to 2003. (NYC151, $65.00)
City Secrets Manhattan • Robert Kahn GUIDEBOOK • 2011 • HARD COVER • 384 PAGES City Secrets New York collects dozens of the recommendations of where to go and what to do. It's a connoisseur's guide to the city and its attractions, with personal recommendations by artists, writers, architects and personalities of New York, including novelist Michael Cunningham, neurologist Oliver Sacks, journalist Anna Quindlen, folksinger Pete Seeger, and dozens of others. Organized by neighborhood, each contributor provides a brief profile of a favorite haunt. With detailed maps. Edited by architect and New Yorker Robert Kahn. (NYC66, $19.95)
A Clearing in the Distance, Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century • Witold Rybczynski BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2000 • PAPER • 480 PAGES With the possible exception of Robert Moses (see item NYC53), no one has had more impact on the New York City landscape than Frederick Law Olmsted. Two of his masterpieces, Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn, still exert an extraordinary pull on New York City. This is the very well told story of their creator, a 19th-century renaissance man, whose midlife vision of the integration of broad vistas into the urban landscape is very much still with us. (NYC62, $18.00)
The Collected Stories • Grace Paley LITERATURE • 2006 • PAPER • 386 PAGES This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection--a finalist for the National Book Award--demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again. Whether writing about the love (and conflict) between parents and children or between husband and wife, or about the struggles of aging single mothers or disheartened political organizers to make sense of the world, she brings the same unerring ear for the rhythm of life as it is actually lived. (NYC163, $18.00)
The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts • Colin Whitehead CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2004 • PAPER • 128 PAGES A lyrical homage to New York in the form of 13 eclectic and inventive vignettes. In the spirit of E.B. White, Whitehead taps the ebullient spirit of the city -- whether Coney Island or Port Authority. (NYC97, $14.95)
The Corrections • Jonathan Franzen LITERATURE • 2002 • PAPER • 592 PAGES It's really that good -- 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 (Lithuania). A big, heart wrenching, comic book (and pretty dead on about Eastern European politics). (EUR122, $16.00)
Crawling at Night • Nani Power LITERATURE • 2002 • PAPER • 240 PAGES Two nocturnal denizens of New York, a widower from Japan and a single mother from North Carolina, stumble through the city and their troubled pasts in this atmospheric debut novel from a former sushi chef. (NYC83, $13.00)
Crooklyn • Spike Lee 1994 • DVD Lee's nostalgic ode to Brooklyn in the 1970s, a semi-autobiographical (the main character is a young girl, not a boy) tale of growing up among the brownstones and bodegas of his beloved city. Infused with period music and with a keen eye for the social ills that plague the neighborhood, it's a heartfelt, honest depiction of an urban childhood. (NYC128, $19.98)
Delirious New York, A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan • 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 • 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. With chapters on Peary's exploits in the Arctic, dino digs in the west, Mongolia, and the many and various collections. (NYC92, $17.99)
Dreamland • Kevin Baker LITERATURE • 2006 • PAPER • 688 PAGES This first volume in the City of Fire trilogy depicts turn of the century New York in all it's chaotic, corrupt glory. When immigrant Kid Twist saves Trick the Dwarf from being murdered by a local gangster, the pair must seek safety in every corner of the city. Their ensuing adventures in Harlem, on the Lower East Side, at Coney Island and every place in between bring them into contact with characters of all kinds including midgets, hustlers, feminist strikers and even Freud. (NYC159, $14.99)
Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide New York • Eleanor Berman GUIDEBOOK • 2012 • PAPER • 192 PAGES A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions. (NYC218, $14.00)
Fall on your Knees • Ann-Marie MacDonald LITERATURE • 1998 • PAPER • 508 PAGES An epic novel following the lives of a Lebanese-Canadian family from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the first half of the 20th century. The story is wide in scope, taking place not only in coastal Canada, but also in Europe during World War I and New York City during the "Roaring 20s." Full of hidden family secrets and mounting tragedies, this is a powerful -- and often darkly humorous -- yarn, written by an award winning playwright and actress. (CND49, $16.00)
Feeding a Yen, Savoring Local Specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco • Calvin Trillin FOOD • 2004 • PAPER • 197 PAGES Boy, Trillin can really write -- and he drags the reader along in his enthusiasm for food and travel (not to mention his neighborhood in the West Village). This slim book, with many of the essays originally published elsewhere, 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 none other than Douglas Rodriguez, as well as 11 other ramblings, many in search of local foods. Trillin casually interweaves stories of his many friends, strong-minded daughters and beloved wife Alice, in whose memory the book is dedicated. (WLD40, $15.00)
Fierce Attachments • 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 GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 368 PAGES An inaugural volume in this new line of guides by Fodor's this book is notable for its especially vibrant presentation of the city. Each page displays full-color photos accompanied by much useful information on how to eat, sleep, shop, and sightsee in New York City. (NYC145, $24.99)
The French Connection • William Friedkin 1971 • DVD The seminal gritty New York police film, featuring Gene Hackman as a tough NYC detective trying to head off a heroin shipment from France. The Academy Award Winner includes perhaps the most famous chase scene on New York City streets. (NYC132, $26.98)
Frommer's New York City • 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 • 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" • Lillian Ross LITERATURE • 2001 • PAPER • 512 PAGES Longtime "Talk of the Town" reporter Lillian Ross selects standout columns from the section's first 75 years. Funny, revealing and consummately New York, these pieces encapsulate three-quarters of a century in the life of the city. James Thurber, E.B. White and Ross herself are among the featured authors. (NYC48, $27.00)
The Gangs of New York • 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 • 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 • 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 • Toni Cade Bambara LITERATURE • 1992 • PAPER • 177 PAGES Told from the viewpoint of a young black girl growing up in Manhattan and North Carolina at mid-century, these 15 interconnected short stories evoke the troubles and triumphs of a community. Included in this collection are the much-anthologized Raymond's Run and My Man Bovanne. Bambara was an unflagging advocate of justice and civil and human rights, and her stories are shot through with powerful social conscience. (NYC121, $14.00)
The Great Gatsby • 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 • B. Kim Taylor GUIDEBOOK • 1998 • PAPER • 320 PAGES A compendium of New York history, neighborhoods, art and culture, sure to appeal to the whole family. (NYC126, $10.95)
Guggenheim Museum Collection, A to Z • Nancy Spector ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2000 • HARD COVER • 325 PAGES An illustrated dictionary of artists represented in the Guggenheim's collections. Entries detail the artists' lives and works, from Max Beckmann to Bill Viola. It's a compact tour of the history of modern art and of the Guggenheim (although only a portion of the museum's collection is on view at any one time). (NYC36, $29.95)
A Hazard of New Fortunes • William Dean Howells LITERATURE • 2001 • PAPER • 449 PAGES A self-made millionaire and a social revolutionary are at odds with each other in a novel set against the background of a 19th-century New York streetcar strike. (NYC201, $17.00)
Historic Watering Holes of Greenwich Village, With an Architecture-and-History Chaser • ListenUp Tours GUIDEBOOK • 2004 • DVD This nifty package, featuring an insiders walking tour of the village (and particularly its historic taverns), includes an audio tour on DVD, an excellent map of the Village (East and West), recommended cafes and restaurants to stop en route along with interviews and good historical information. Best of all, it takes you on a 2 1/2 mile odyssey along some of the city's most historic, inviting streets from the venerable McSorley's Old Ale House to White Horse Tavern. For adults 21 and over, the feature is pubs! (NYC141, $14.99)
Historical Atlas of New York City, A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York History • Eric Homberger HISTORY • 1998 • PAPER • 192 PAGES Overflowing with maps, charts, and illustrations, this is a marvelous introduction to New York City's history. It's no small task to cover so much of NYC history in so relatively slim a book, but the drawings work wonders -- Homberger manages to condense things into bite-sized, yet very satisfying, pieces. (NYC135, $22.00)
Home Alone 2, Lost in New York • Christopher Columbus 1992 • DVD Macaulay Caulkin is left behind again, but this time in the heart of New York City. He gets into trouble, and saves the day, among the skyscrapers. (NYC134, $19.99)
The Hours • Michael Cunningham LITERATURE • 2000 • PAPER • 230 PAGES OK, we're biased, since Cunningham is a friend of Longitude's. But trust us, the 1999 Pulitzer-Prize committee was right on the mark. This book interweaves three tales, one in 1950's Los Angeles, another in contemporary New York, and the final in London (or outside) in the 1920's. Each echoes Viginia Woolf's masterpiece, Mrs. Dalloway. This is simply a marvelous read: deep, dark, yet wondrously full of hope. (NYC67, $14.00)
The Hours • Michael Cunningham LITERATURE • 1999 • HARD COVER • 230 PAGES A hard cover edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning (and magnificent) novel by friend of Longitude, Michael Cunningham. The book interweaves three tales, one in 1950's Los Angeles, another in contemporary New York, and the final in London (or outside) in the 1920's. Each echoes Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, Mrs. Dalloway. This is simply a marvelous read: deep, dark, yet wondrously full of hope. (NYC72, $23.00)
The House of Mirth • Edith Wharton LITERATURE • 1993 • PAPER • 368 PAGES Set in New York circa 1900, Edith Wharton's dark novel of the unraveling of restless, not-quite-conventional Lily Bart is an indictment of the city's grasping, cruel, snobbish upper classes. It's also a marvelous portrait of the turn-of-the-century city, its surrounding country estates and Byzantine formalities. (NYC43, $11.00)
How I Became Hettie Jones • Hettie Jones BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1996 • PAPER • 256 PAGES A memoir of 1950s New York by a woman who married into the midst of the American cultural maelstrom. As a mixed-race couple in lower Manhattan, Hettie and LeRoi Jones (she a leftist Jewish intellectual, he an increasingly militant black poet/playwright later known as Amiri Baraka) had an unusual yet iconic seven-year marriage. This tender, smart memoir captures all the foment of their New York milieu. (NYC40, $14.00)
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People • 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 • 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, $30.00)
Hudson Valley Map • 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. This is the map of the region we keep in the car. Two Sides. 38x25 inches. (USE199, $4.95)
Insight City Guide New York • 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 Guides GUIDEBOOK • 2011 • PAPER • 192 PAGES A handy pocket guide that provides over a hundred "secret gems" and "off-beat" itinerary ideas for a memorable stay in New York. Also includes a handpicked list of hotels for all tastes and budgets and a useful travel tips reference guide. (NYC236, $15.00)
Jacob Riis • Jacob Riis ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2001 • PAPER • 128 PAGES This pocket book, one in a series by Phaidon, reproduces 55 of Riis's seminal, policy-changing photographs of New York City's poor and immigrant classes at the turn of the 20th century. It functions as a window into the lives and lots of street children and the working poor. (NYC120, $7.95)
Just Enough Liebling, Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer • A.J. Liebling • David Remnick BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2005 • PAPER • 560 PAGES Food, boxing, war, Paris, literature, no matter what the subject, quintessential New Yorker essayist A. J. Liebling tackled it with style. Here's a rewarding (and cleverly titled) sampling, published in celebration of the centennial of his birth. As anyone who has read Liebling or read about Liebling would know, "just enough" isn't his style at all. This was a man with a healthy appetite. (NYC146, $20.00)
Kafka Was the Rage, A Greenwich Village Memoir • Anatole Broyard BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1997 • PAPER • 160 PAGES An affecting, intimate memoir of the intellectual Bohemian life in Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. The author was new to that life in 1946, having just been discharged from the army, and his wide-eyed attitude lends the memoir subdued hilarity. (NYC64, $15.00)
Knopf Guide New York • 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 • 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 • David Lehman LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 448 PAGES A tremendously entertaining, informative, and anecdotal portrait of the four poets of the New York School: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. A poet himslef, Lehman captures the Bohemian fervor of midcentury New York in this readable, high spirited account of artistic friendship and collaboration in Manhattan. (NYC75, $16.95)
Last Exit to Brooklyn • 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 • Washington Irving LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 638 PAGES 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, $10.00)
Liar's Poker • Michael Lewis BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1990 • PAPER • 249 PAGES A memoir of the go-go 80's on Wall Street. Michael Lewis, who turned out to be a much better writer than he could possibly have been a bond salesman, chronicles his own 4-year rise at Salomon Brothers (which is only coincidentally connected to Salomon's fall) , from trainee to high-paid trader. A modern classic. (NYC71, $16.00)
Light Years • James Salter LITERATURE • 1995 • PAPER A shimmering novel set in an old estate along the Hudson. Salter spins an absorbing story, rich in the details of daily life, of the unraveling of a perfect family. (NYC65, $16.00)
Lonely Planet Discover New York City • 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, featuring hundreds of color photographs and maps, includes suggested tours and itineraries along with not-to-be-missed places to stay, eat, shop and see. (NYC233, $21.99)
Lonely Planet New York City • 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 • Ginger Adams Otis GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 288 PAGES With a section of not-to-missed highlights and a calendar of annual events, this lively pocket guide organized by neighborhood includes suggested side trips, along what to see and where to shop, eat, drink and play. With a double-sided pullout map. (NYC179, $12.99)
Lucy • 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 • 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. This memoir of backroom brawls, blockbuster shows, financial maneuvers, theft, forgery and the never-mundane daily machinations of the museum world ushers readers behind-the-scenes of the Met's marble galleries. (NYC37, $28.95)
Man Gone Down • Michael Thomas LITERATURE • 2006 • PAPER • 432 PAGES Thomas's ambitious, vibrant debut novel, winner of the International Impac Dublin Literary Award, 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 • Woody Allen 1979 • DVD Classic Woody Allen, from the all-Gershwin soundtrack to the list of Things that Make Life Worth Living. Meryl Streep, Muriel Hemingway, and of course Allen himself star in this romantic comedy about infidelity, dating younger (much younger) women, and the continuing love affair with New York City. (USE334, $19.98)
Manhattan Transfer • John Dos Passos LITERATURE • 2003 • PAPER • 352 PAGES In this book, Dos Passos takes on New York City in the 1920s, its upper and lower classes, the hopes it inspires in them, the difficulties they endure, and the mood of an era. It's a great big, plumy novel, chock full of incident and opinion. (NYC119, $15.00)
Memoirs • David Rockefeller BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2003 • PAPER • 560 PAGES This autobiography of John D. Rockefeller Jr. 's youngest son spans David's family, financial career and powerful friends. (NYC109, $17.95)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide • Philippe De Montebello GUIDEBOOK • 1995 • HARD COVER • 470 PAGES A compact guide to the galleries and holdings of the Metropolitan Museum, with descriptions of 900 works culled from every department, plus 829 full-color illustrations. There's even a section on the Cloisters, the Met's uptown outpost. (NYC38, $19.95)
The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas • 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. For each opera, the author provides the composer's biographical information, a list of characters and premiere dates. (NYC15, $50.00)
Michelin Green Guide New York City • 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 • Jonath Gilbert GUIDEBOOK • 2011 • PAPER • 192 PAGES A compact guide to the sights of New York City, organized thematically. With practical advice on what to do for fun, where to stay, where to eat and what to do with kids. More for visitors with an agenda than those who want to leisurely explore the city. (NYC228, $11.99)
Minor Characters, A Young Woman's Coming of Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac • Joyce Johnson LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 288 PAGES The vivid memoir of young love and art and the Beat Generation in New York by a noted writer and critic -- and once-upon-a-time lover of Jack Kerouac. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. (NYC77, $16.00)
Mobil Travel Guide City Guide New York • 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 • Martin Amis LITERATURE • 2010 • PAPER • 256 PAGES While simultaneously shooting his first feature film in New York and living a decadent lifestyle, John Self, one of London's top commercial directors, discovers how distasteful the pursuit of pleasure can be. (NYC200, $15.00)
Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Power in a Gilded Age • 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 • 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 • 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 • Douglas Levere • Bonnie Yochelson • Paul Goldberger • Susan Henshaw Jones ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2004 • HARD COVER • 192 PAGES In 1935, the photographer Berenice Abbott photographed New York City over a period of five years, in a WPA-funded project which led to the publication of her book "New York Changing." In 2004, New York photographer Douglas Levere retraced Abbott's steps and meticulously reproduced each of her photographs, using the same types of camera at the same time of day and the same time of year. The result is a captivating black-and-white study of the changing atmosphere and architecture of New York City. (NYC144, $40.00)
New York City Trees, A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area • Edward Sibley Barnard FIELD GUIDE • 2002 • PAPER • 240 PAGES Published in conjunction with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, this illustrated guide describes 125 local species, including plenty of lore on particular trees and information on tree-watching in the city. Divided into four parts: places to see trees, great trees, a field guide and a section on local resources. (NYC89, $19.95)
New York City: A Short History • 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 • James Fenton • Dominique Nabokov CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1998 • HARD COVER • 128 PAGES How do they live? Dominique Nabokov snapped color Polaroids of 100 mostly famous New Yorkers' living rooms for this curiously fascinating book. Julian Schnabel, Al Sharpton, Elizabeth Hardwick, Louise Bourgeois and Philip Glass all put their possessions and tastes on display in this absorbing portrait of New York's diverse literati (and glitterati). She cannily chose to exclude the people, heightening the voyeuristic pleasure of the book. (NYC41, $29.95)
A New York Memoir • 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 • Richard Berenholtz CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2003 • HARD COVER • 240 PAGES A mini version of Richard Bernholtz' celebrated photographs of the New York skyline. The book features 220 color photographs, including 12 four-page, fold-out panoramas. The handy book measures just seven by five inches. (NYC136, $14.95)
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton • 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 • 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 • Susan Mermelstein GUIDEBOOK • 2004 • PAPER • 500 PAGES A guide to 350 U.S. museums and their scheduled exhibits for 2005 written by a team at the "New York Times." With information and dates for traveling exhibitions. (NYC32, $17.95)
The New York Yankees Illustrated History • The New York Times SPORT • 2002 • HARD COVER • 288 PAGES A history of the New York Yankees featuring archival photographs from the New York Times and the Baseball Hall of Fame. (BBL08, $29.95)
New York, Five Points • 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 • MAP This double-sided regional map and itinerary planner, published by National Geographic, provides good detail as well as an overview of geographic features, historical highlights and other local attractions. It includes all of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania on a scale of 1:1,270,000. (USE255, $7.95)
New York, New York: The City in Art and Literature • Metropolitan Museum of Art ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2000 • HARD COVER • 201 PAGES A celebration of the art and literature of New York. The book brings together paintings, prints, photographs, postcards and other works of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's encyclopedic collections along with poems, letters, fiction and memoirs by diverse writers. (NYC27, $19.95)
New York, Portrait of a City • 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 • 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 • Craig Nelson GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 221 PAGES The little black book of Queens, organized by neighborhood, with adjacent maps and listings of everything from retaurants to post offices. Also includes a foldout transportation map, a street index, a listing of arts and entertainment, information on getting to the airport and much more. (NYC229, $14.99)
Not for Tourists Guide New York City GUIDEBOOK • 2009 • PAPER • 475 PAGES The little black book of New York City, organized by neighborhood, with adjacent maps and listings of everything from retaurants to post offices. Also includes a foldout transportation map, a street index, a listing of arts and entertainment, information on getting to the airport and much more. (NYC231, $16.99)
Not for Tourists Guide Queens • Craig Nelson GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 184 PAGES The little black book of Queens, organized by neighborhood, with adjacent maps and listings of everything from retaurants to post offices. Also includes a foldout transportation map, a street index, a listing of arts and entertainment, information on getting to the airport and much more. (NYC230, $12.99)
Old New York • Edith Wharton LITERATURE • 1995 • PAPER • 320 PAGES Four novellas recalling New York society of the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1924, the pieces include "False Dawn," "The Old Maid," "The Spark," and "New Year's Day." (NYC102, $16.00)
On the Town • Stanley Donen 1949 • DVD Frank Sinatra and his sailor pals do New York, on a 24-hour leave during WW II before they are shipped out to the Pacific. One of the first Hollywood movies ever to be shot on location, it sure made the most of the great New York City sites -- and with the great Leonard Bernstein score, you can't go wrong. (NYC130, $19.98)
Paradise Alley, A Novel • Kevin Baker LITERATURE • 2003 • PAPER • 688 PAGES The second novel in Baker's City of Fire 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 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." An updated edition of the North American Travel Journalists Association's Best Guidebook for 2006 by the North American. (NYC168, $16.99)
Picturing New York, The City from its Beginnings to the Present • Gloria Deak ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2000 • HARD COVER • 415 PAGES An illustrated chronicle of the transformation of New York from a ragtag seaport to trading center and cultural capital. With well integrated drawings, maps and photographs throughout, mostly drawn from the Museum of the City of New York. Organized thematically, the book focuses on the explosive growth of the city in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Deak is particularly interested in the multi-religious, multi-ethnic and international character of the city. An entire, wonderful chapter is devoted to Broadway. (NYC14, $70.00)
Pocket Rough Guide New York City • Martin Dunford GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 206 PAGES Neither too big nor too slight, these handy guides include just the right amount of information on neighborhoods, shops, hotels, restaruants and sites (or should we say sights?) for a short visit. Well-organized and with an excellent pullout map. (NYC237, $12.99)
Poet in New York • 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, $23.00)
The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall of New York • Robert Caro BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1975 • PAPER • 1246 PAGES This big, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography brings Robert Moses, his city and his oversize ego to life. Moses got his start as an anti-Tammany Hall Democrat and went on to create his own unique role in New York government; neither Mayor nor Governor, he was more powerful than either official for upwards of 40 years, and countless public works bear his mark (including the much-hated ugly New York expressway system and glorious Jones Beach) David Halberstam called this biography "surely the greatest book ever written about a city." (NYC53, $25.00)
The Puttermesser Papers • Cynthia Ozick LITERATURE • 1998 • PAPER • 236 PAGES A brilliant, hilarious fiction by Ozick, chronicling the life and times of Ruth Puttermesser, a Bronx resident and civil servant who spends most afternoons at the Metropolitan Museum. At one point "Puttermesser", as Ozick impersonally refers to her, creates her very own Golem, who then aids her in winning the mayoralty of New York City. The book takes a dark turn as it details Puttermesser's violent demise, but by the last chapter her Honor the Mayor is happily dead and in Paradise. This was a finalist for the National Book Award, and was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly (NYC39, $13.95)
Radio Days • Woody Allen 1987 • DVD A love poem not only to the days of radio, but also New York City. The setting is Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, in the 1940's -- a house full of colorful characters whose dreams are reflected perfectly in the radio, and radio personalities of the day. The story shifts frequently to glittery Manhattan, where Mia Farrow is an aspiring radio actress. (NYC137, $14.98)
Remarkable, Unspeakable New York, A Literary History • Shaun O'Connell HISTORY • 1997 • PAPER • 400 PAGES A consideration of New York's literary history, its resident writers, writerly visitors and role in American letters from 1776 to 1997. The author, a professor of English, draws on works of fiction, poetry, memoir and travel writing. (NYC44, $20.00)
Rough Guide New York City • 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 • John Badham 1977 • DVD The movie that launched John Travolta's career is much more than disco dances -- though its disco dancing is fairly spectacular. It's the story of a group of Brooklyn teenagers, and very evocative of both the times and the Bay Ridge setting. Manhattan looms as an escape-hatch across the river. (NYC131, $14.98)
The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay • 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 • Lewis Mumford • Robert Wojtowicz ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2000 • PAPER • 288 PAGES A collection of Mumford's "New Yorker" columns from the years 1931-1940. A confirmed Manhattanite, wit and scholar, Lewis Mumford was the premiere architectural critic of his day, and his influence on New York's urban spaces was inestimable. (NYC42, $17.95)
The Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient Forests of the Northeast • Bruce Kershner • Robert T. Leverett GUIDEBOOK • 2004 • PAPER • 292 PAGES A handy guide to the old-growth forests of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Organized geographically, each forest gest a brief descritpion with highlights, driving directions and contact information. (USE336, $16.95)
Sleeping Arrangements • Laura Cunningham BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2000 • PAPER • 240 PAGES A cheery, quirky memoir of the author's childhood in the Bronx apartment of her two bachelor uncles. The uncles' notions of child-rearing in the 1950s are unorthodox but fun, and Cunningham recalls their escapades with much humor. (NYC116, $15.00)
Sleepless Nights • Elizabeth Hardwick LITERATURE • 2001 • PAPER • 128 PAGES Harwick's luminous 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 (and the exquisite appeal of the city for an intelligent woman of letters). Originally published in 1979. (NYC21, $14.00)
Strivers Row • Kevin Baker LITERATURE • 2007 • PAPER • 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 the chief researcher for Harry Evans's The American Century. (NYC158, $14.95)
Tabloid City, A Novel • 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 • 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 • 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 • Sydney Pollack 1982 • DVD The classic comedy, featuring Dustin Hoffman who, as a New York actor desperate to prove he can get a part, dresses as a woman, and lands a job on a soap opera, where his character, Miss Dorothy Michaels, becomes a big star. (NYC129, $19.95)
Treasures from Olana, Landscapes by Frederick Edwin Church • 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. Chronicles the full range of Church's career chronologically and thematically. (NYS60, $27.00)
Tropic of Capricorn • Henry Miller BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1989 • PAPER • 348 PAGES Miller's take on a youth spent in New York, an honest, sexually provacative tour of life in the city and the mind of a struggling artist. (NYC111, $14.00)
Twin Towers Remembered • Camilo Jose Vergara ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2001 • HARD COVER • 96 PAGES Vergara had been photographing the WTC from its construction right up to the recent tragedy. This small book, from Princeton Architectural Press, collects these lovely photos, taken as New Yorkers always viewed the towers, from various angles in both Manhattan and the boroughs. 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • Jerry Patterson BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1989 • HARD COVER • 304 PAGES A popular history -- and survey of the opulence -- of the powerful Vanderbilt family. Nicely illustrated. (NYC108, $57.50)
Walkabout Lower Manhattan • Walkabout New York GUIDEBOOK • 2004 • AUDIO CD A 60-munite audio walking tour of Wall Street, Battery park, Trinity and St. Paul's churches, the World Trade Center site, Woolworth Building, City Hall and other sites in downtown New York. The CD is packaged with a full-color map and directions. The tour itself winds its way north from Battery Park along historic Whitehall and Broad streets along Trinity Place to City Hall Park. Walkabout New York was conceived and produced by Elissa Marton and Nikki James -- and Nikki provides the enthusiastic, informative narration for the tour. (NYC152, $19.95)
A Walker in the City • 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. Marvelous. (NYC114, $14.95)
Where New York / Eat, Great Meals Wherever You Are • 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 Magazine GUIDEBOOK • 2008 • HARD COVER • 64 PAGES A sturdy pocket guide to city neighborhoods, hotels, shops, restaurants, entertainment venues, cultural events and other top 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 • 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 • Susan Choi • David Remnick ANTHOLOGY • 2001 • PAPER • 480 PAGES This collection of 43 stories spans seven decades of literary excellence at the "New Yorker." Allow writers such as John Updike, Dorothy Parker, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, J. D. Salinger, Jean Stafford, Vladimir Nabokov and John Cheever to introduce you to New York as seen through the eyes of their memorable characters. (NYC05, $18.00)
The Works, Anatomy of a City • 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. Contains innovative graphic images combined with short, clear text explanations to answer all the questions about the systems that keep the city functioning. (NYC178, $22.00)
The World in My Kitchen, The Adventures of a (Mostly) French Woman in America • Colette Rossant BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2007 • HARD COVER Rossant picks up in 1955 with her life in as a young wife, accomplished cook and food writer, much of it revolving around her house on Sullivan Street, in this in this third and final installment of her memoir. (NYC180, $22.00)
World's Fair • E. L. Doctorow LITERATURE • 1996 • PAPER • 304 PAGES • YOUNG ADULTS In this richly historical novel, Doctorow's nine-year-old protagonist visits the World's Fair. It's the tale of a boy's life in 1930's New York, set against the turmoil of the depression and war in Europe. (NYC115, $15.00)
A Yankee Century, A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team • 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 • James Thurber BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2001 • PAPER • 336 PAGES As editor and founder of the "New Yorker," Harold Ross was a literary and civic force to be reckoned with. Personally, too, he was a whirlwind -- at least according to Thurber, who was part of Ross's dream team of writer/humorists during the 30s, 40s and 50s. This memoir is a fine and reliably hilarious memoir of the man and his era. (NYC49, $14.99)

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