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	50 Hikes in the Lower Hudson Valley, Hikes and Walks from Westchester County to Albany • Stella Green • Neil Zimmerman • GUIDEBOOK • An expert, up-to-date guide to exploring parks and reserves, most close to New York City. (NYC90, $16.95)
	AAA Spiral Guide New York • AAA Publishing • GUIDEBOOK • A handy guide, aimed at first-time visitors to New York, covering the city's greatest hits in depth. (NYC74, $16.95)
	The Accidental Connoisseur, An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World • Lawrence Osborne • FOOD • With a winning wit and not a drop of pretense, Osborne sets out to discover what's what with wine, traveling through Sonoma and Napa, France, Italy and other European wine meccas, 11 adventures in all. He meets plenty of interesting characters along the way, revealing much about the pleasures of wine (and travel!). (TVL31, $14.00)
	The Age of Innocence • Louis Auchincloss • Edith Wharton • LITERATURE • A dazzling tale of social mores, infidelity and thwarted love in old New York. (NYC101, $9.95)
	AIA Guide to New York City • Noval White • Elliot Willensky • GUIDEBOOK • A quirky, digressive guide to the architecture of New York City, organized by neighborhood and bloated to 1,000 pages in this edition, last revised in 1987. (NYC03, $37.50)
	The Alienist • Caleb Carr • LITERATURE • A grisly page-turner set on the gas-lit streets of late Victorian Manhattan. The novel is especially strong on period detail, evoking the corrupt politics, raucous brothels and smoky train stations of turn-of-the-century New York. (NYC69, $7.99)
	All Rivers Run to the Sea, Memoirs • Elie Wiesel • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel recounts his remarkable life, from his childhood in Romania to the horrors of Auschwitz, his days as a young writer in post-war France and New York, and his many pilgrimages to Israel. (EUR153, $16.00)
	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay • Michael Chabon • LITERATURE • A dazzling tale that follows its heros from Nazi-occupied Prague to New York (and the Antarctic). (ANT175, $15.00)
	America in the Gilded Age, From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt • Sean Dennis Cashman • HISTORY • A scholarly, comprehensive history of America in the late 19th-century. (USA80, $23.00)
	American Prometheus, The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer • Kai Bird • Martin Sherwin • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A big, exhaustively researched biography of the all-too-short life of Robert J. Oppenheimer, many years in the making. The authors (a journalist and literature professor) re interested in the full arc of his life. (SCI99, $40.00)
	Andrew Carnegie • Joseph Frazier Wall • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A classic, hefty biography. (USE303, $24.95)
	Aquavit and the New Scandinavian Cuisine • Marcus Samuelsson • FOOD • A wonderfully illustrated cookbook from the renowned chef at Aquavit, New York's premier restaurant for haute Scandinavian cuisine. (SCN40, $45.00)
	The Architectural Guidebook to New York City • Francis Morrone • James Iska • ART & ARCHITECTURE • This architecture guidebook showcases some 600 Manhattan buildings. This most recent edition includes a section on Brooklyn. (NYC09, $21.95)
	Away for the Weekend, New York • Eleanor Berman • GUIDEBOOK • Suggestions for weekend getaways within 200 miles of New York City (USE131, $16.00)
	Ballet and Modern Dance • Susan Au • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An introduction to ballet and modern dance. (GEN245, $18.95)
	Before and After, Stories from New York • Tom Beller • LITERATURE • A beguiling collection of contemporary essays in two sections: before September 11, and after. Quite a few of New York's most distinctive voices are represented here, including Michael Cunningham and Luc Sante. (NYC55, $13.00)
	The Big Year, A Tale Of Man, Nature, And Fowl Obsession • Mark Obmascik • NATURAL HISTORY • Obmascik, himself an over-the-edge birder, recounts with glee and page-turning detail the race to see the most birds in North America in a year. It's an utterly compelling account of a three-way race (roofing contractor, tycoon, software nerd), likely never again to be equaled. (BRD29, $14.00)
	The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife • Christopher W. Leahy • Gordon Morrison • NATURAL HISTORY • A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching. (NAM21, $19.95)
	Blue Guide New York • Carol Von Pressentin Wright • GUIDEBOOK • An excellent, comprehensive guide to New York sights, including walking tours and a focus on art and architecture. (NYC29, $24.95)
	The Boys of Summer • Roger Kahn • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The biography of a baseball era -- the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s. (NYC70, $15.00)
	Breakfast at Tiffany's • Truman Capote • LITERATURE • The endearing novel of romantic New York. (NYC117, $12.95)
	Bright Lights, Big City • Jay McInerney • LITERATURE • McInerney's breakout debut novel, on the town in 1980's New York. (NYC84, $13.95)
	Building a Character • Constantine Stanislavski • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An actor's Bible, by the undeniably influential Stanislavski. (TTR21, $23.95)
	Catcher in the Rye • J. D. Salinger • LITERATURE • Salinger's remarkable, nearly perfect, and much loved first novel. Read it again. (NYC99, $13.99)
	Catskill Mountain Guide, Hiking Trails in the Catskills • Peter Kick • GUIDEBOOK • An authoritative, pocket guide to walks and hikes throughout the Catskills. (NYC91, $19.95)
	Charming Small Hotels in New England and New York City • Paul Wade • Kathy Arnold • GUIDEBOOK • A full page with a color photograph is dedicated to each entry in this guide focused on hotels with 20 bedrooms or less. (USE389, $15.95)
	The Cheap Bastard's Guide to New York City, A Native New Yorker's Secrets of Living the Good Life--For Free! • Rob Grader • GUIDEBOOK • A collection of ideas for cheap or entirely free eating, living, and entertainment in New York. With chapters on where to go and how to get access to free concerts, movies, haricuts, classes and transportation. (NYC161, $14.95)
	Christ in Concrete • Pietro Di Donato • LITERATURE • This poignant novel, originally published in 1939, deals with Italian immigrants making their way on New York's Lower East Side. (NYC138, $15.00)
	Christo and Jeanne-Claude On The Way to the Gates Central Park New York City • Jonathan Fineberg • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A richly illustrated overview of the project -- and companion volume to an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art-- with beautful color reproductions of the collages and drawings of The Gates. (NYC151, $65.00)
	City Secrets New York City • Robert Kahn • GUIDEBOOK • A connoisseur's guide to the city and its attractions, featuring the favorite haunts of artists, architects and local personalities. (NYC66, $24.95)
	A Clearing in the Distance, Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century • Witold Rybczynski • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A lovely biography of the creator of Central Park (Manhattan) and Prospect Park (Brooklyn), the largest parks in their respective boroughs. (NYC62, $15.95)
	The Collected Stories • Grace Paley • LITERATURE • Pure pleasure, Paley's stories manage to be down to earth, momentous and sweet all at the same time. Most are set in New York, where Paley lived for much of her long life. (NYC163, $17.00)
	The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts • Colin Whitehead • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A lyrical homage to New York in the form of thirteen eclectic and inventive vignettes. (NYC97, $12.00)
	Companion Guide New York • Michael Leapman • GUIDEBOOK • An eccentric, entertaining guidebook organized as a series of walking tours. (NYC54, $34.95)
	The Corrections • Jonathan Franzen • LITERATURE • A dazzling novel of life and love and family and holidays that follows the peregrinations of the Lamberts -- father, mother and offspring -- from New York to Philadelphia to Vilnius. (EUR122, $15.00)
	Crawling at Night • Nani Power • LITERATURE • Two nocturnal New Yorkers stumble through the nights in this atmospheric debut novel set in New York from a former sushi chef. (NYC83, $13.00)
	Crooklyn • Spike Lee • Lee's nostalgic ode to Brooklyn in the 1970s. (NYC128, $19.98)
	The Decoration of Houses • Edith Wharton • Ogden Codman • ART & ARCHITECTURE • The famed novelist and architect teamed up to write this classic on interior design. (ART36, $25.00)
	Delirious New York, A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan • Rem Koolhaas • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The Dutch architect's semi-classic meditation on marvelous, absurd and enchanting New York. (NYC18, $35.00)
	Dinosaurs in the Attic, An Excursion Into the American Museum of Natural History • Doug Preston • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Preston spins a tale of big personalities, big ambition, unbounding curiosity, greed and collecting fever in this engaging history of the museum. (NYC92, $15.95)
	Directors on Directing, A Source Book to Modern Theater • Toby Cole • Helen Krich Chinoy • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A guide to the art of directing theatrical productions, composed of a variety of essays from professionals in the industry. (TTR03, $109.20)
	The Dramatic Imagination, Reflections and Speculations on the Art of Theatre • Robert Edmond Jones • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A classic, heartfelt collection of essays on all aspects of the theater, from acting and directing to lighting and design. (TTR02, $24.95)
	Dreamland • Kevin Baker • LITERATURE • Immigrant Kid Twist and Trick the Dwarf encounter turn of the century New York City in all it's chaotic, corrupt glory as they flee a vengeful, local gangster. (NYC159, $14.95)
	Drown • Junot Diaz • LITERATURE • A collection of 10 stories from a young Dominican-American writer. (CRB91, $14.00)
	Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point • Stephen Ambrose • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Andrew J. Goodpaster • HISTORY • Starting with its formation during the Revolutionary War, renowned historian Ambrose follows the history of the United States Military Academy at West Point. First published in 1966, this updated edition brings the story of the academy into the present. (USE71, $20.95)
	Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933, Vol. 1 • Blanche Wiesen Cook • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A big, popular biography of the premiere First Lady of the 20th century, chronicling her life from her birth in New York City to her husband's inauguration. (NYC22, $18.00)
	The Empire State, A History of New York • Milton M. Klein • New York State Historical Society • Paula Baker • HISTORY • A clear, comprehensive history of New York State. (NYS23, $45.00)
	The Empty Space • Peter Brook • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A highly influential -- and highly readable -- treatise on the state of modern theater, first published in 1968 but still appropriate today. (TTR01, $11.95)
	The Encyclopedia of New York City • Kenneth T. Jackson • New York Historical Society • REFERENCE • A massive reference manual with entries on everything you've ever wanted to know about NYC, ranging from biographies to "New Yorkiana". (NYC12, $70.00)
	F.D.R: An Intimate History • Nathan Miller • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A popular biography first published in 1983. (USE307, $23.95)
	Fall on your Knees • Ann-Marie MacDonald • LITERATURE • A best-selling epic following the lives of a Lebanese-Canadian family from Cape Breton Island throughout the first half of the 20th century. (CND49, $16.00)
	Feeding a Yen, Savoring Local Specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco • Calvin Trillin • FOOD • A captivating, enthusiastic collection of essays on the subjects of food, life and local specialties. This slim book includes Trillin's priceless riff on bagels as bait to lure his daughters home from the West Coast, his quest for the best ceviche with Douglas Rodriguez, and 11 other ramblings. (WLD40, $13.95)
	The Fervent Years, The Group Theatre and the Thirties • Harold Clurman • ART & ARCHITECTURE • The history of a ten-year theater movement in the 1930s, which was focused on politics and method acting, and continues to influence the Broadway scene today. (TTR20, $18.00)
	A Field Guide to Eastern Trees • George Petrides • Roger Tory Peterson • FIELD GUIDE • The classic guide. (NAM09, $20.00)
	A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs • George Petrides • FIELD GUIDE • The classic Peterson guide to trees, shrubs and vines in Eastern, Central and Southeastern United States. (NAM08, $19.00)
	First Resorts, Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport and Coney Island • Jon Sterngrass • HISTORY • A history of the evolution of the country's top three 19th-century resort towns. (USE274, $40.00)
	Fodor's See It New York City • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • Fodor's vibrant and informative guide to touring New York City. (NYC145, $24.95)
	Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt • Arthur T. Vanderbilt • HISTORY • The remarkable history of the accumulation and loss of the family fortune, told by a descendent. (USE309, $19.95)
	The French Connection • William Friedkin • The seminal gritty New York police film, featuring Gene Hackman. (NYC132, $26.98)
	Frommer's New York City Day By Day • Hilary Davidson • GUIDEBOOK • A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center. (NYC166, $12.99)
	The Fun of It, Stories from the New Yorker's "The Talk of the Town" • Lillian Ross • LITERATURE • The life of the city, as reflected in 75 years of "New Yorker" columns. Funny and revealing, these pieces encapsulate three-quarters of a century in the life of the city. (NYC48, $16.95)
	The Garden Primer • Barbara Damrosch • NATURAL HISTORY • Damrosch has gone 100% organic for this new edition of her essential manual. Her reassuring tone and humor are among the many virtues of this sensible, exceedingly useful guide to garden planning. We turn to it for all our garden-related questions, from picking plants to compost, tools and pests. (USA71, $18.95)
	George Gaylord Simpson, Paleontologist and Evolutionist • L�o F. Laporte • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A well-considered biography of the influential evolutionary biologist. (SCI63, $29.00)
	The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today • Mark Twain • Charles Dudley Warner • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A satirical portrait of American life in the post-Civil War era. First published in 1873. (USA83, $15.00)
	The Gilded Age, Essays on the Origins of Modern America • Charles W. Calhoun • HISTORY • A collection of 14 historical essays on the Gilded Age. (USA79, $21.95)
	The Gilded Age, Treasures from the Smithsonian Art Museum • Elizabeth Prelinger • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated overview of the art of the era, with minimal text. (USA84, $19.95)
	The Gilded Age: Edith Wharton and Her Contemporaries • Eleanor Dwight • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A slim cultural history weaving together the art and literature of the era. (NYC103, $18.95)
	Go Tell It on the Mountain • James Baldwin • LITERATURE • The powerful, much-celebrated novel of a teen-age preacher In Harlem in the 1930s. (NYC124, $13.00)
	Gorilla, My Love • Toni Cade Bambara • LITERATURE • These interconnected stories, shot through with memorable characters, portray black life in mid-century New York and North Carolina. (NYC121, $12.95)
	The Great Bridge, The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge • David McCullough • HISTORY • McCullough's classic history set the gold standard for accounts of the Brooklyn Bridge, and makes walking across the old behemoth all the more enriching. (NYC30, $18.00)
	Great Fortune, The Epic of Rockefeller Center • Daniel Okrent • HISTORY • In this grand social history Okrent illuminates the remarkable cast of characters, the ambitions, and mind-bending complexity in creating the beloved New York City landmark. (NYC100, $16.00)
	The Great New York City Trivia & Fact Book • B. Kim Taylor • GUIDEBOOK • A compendium of New York history, neighborhoods, art & cultures, sure to appeal to the whole family. (NYC126, $10.95)
	Guggenheim Museum Collection, A to Z • Nancy Spector • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A compact, alphabetically organized guide to artists and works in the Guggenheim collection. (NYC36, $29.95)
	Guggenheim NY/Guggenheim Bilbao • Jeff Goldberg • Ezra Stoller • ART & ARCHITECTURE • The Guggenheim New York and the Guggenheim Bilbao are compared through photographs in this new, compact (small enough for your palm) book. (SPN115, $14.95)
	The Harlem Renaissance, Hub of African American Culture 1920-1930 • Stephen Watson • HISTORY • This book succinctly describes and illustrates the place, the people and the influence of the Harlem Renaissance through the writing and music of Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and others. (NYC57, $21.00)
	Heading South, Looking North • Ariel Dorfman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • In this exhilerating memoir, Dorman interweaves the wild story of his life before 1973 with an account of the coup that put the militrary dictator Pinochet into power. (CHI22, $15.00)
	Historic Watering Holes of Greenwich Village, With an Architecture-and-History Chaser • ListenUp Tours • GUIDEBOOK • This audio tour, complete with excellent map and an A-to-Z list, takes you on an odyssey across some of the city's most inviting streets. (NYC141, $14.99)
	Historical Atlas of New York City, A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York History • Eric Homberger • HISTORY • A short wonderfully illustrated overview of New York and its history. (NYC135, $22.00)
	Home Alone 2, Lost in New York • Christopher Columbus • Macaulay Caulkin is left behind again, but this time in the heart of New York City. (NYC134, $19.99)
	The Hours • Michael Cunningham • LITERATURE • A marvelous book -- deep, dark and full of hope, which interweaves three tales (set in London, New York and Los Angeles), each echoing Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, Mrs. Dalloway. (NYC67, $13.00)
	The Hours • Michael Cunningham • LITERATURE • A marvelous book -- deep, dark and full of hope, signed by the author. (NYC72, $23.00)
	The House of Mirth • Edith Wharton • LITERATURE • 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, $9.95)
	How I Became Hettie Jones • Hettie Jones • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A memoir of avant-garde New York in the 50s and 60s, by the former wife of Amiri Baraka. This tender, smart memoir captures all the foment of their New York milieu. (NYC40, $14.00)
	How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher • Simon Barnes • NATURAL HISTORY • According to Simon Barnes, the only good birdwatcher is a "bad" birdwatcher. A funny and refreshingly straight-talking guide to birdwatching from a London Times sportswriter. (BRD25, $17.95)
	How to Lose Friends and Alienate People • Toby Young • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A laugh-out-loud savaging of the Conde Nast empire by a young British turk who did time at Vanity Fair. The book has created quite a stir in the New York magazine world. (NYC81, $14.95)
	The Hudson • Carl Cramer • Edward J. McLaughlin • HISTORY • First published in the 1939, this is a folk history of the Hudson River from a writer who lived along its banks for much of his life. (NYS22, $25.00)
	The Hudson River in Literature, An Anthology • Arthur G. Adams • ANTHOLOGY • A collection of poems and excerpts from novels and essays about life, work and travel on and near the Hudson before the 20th century. With 65 period illustrations of sites and homes. (NYC20, $21.95)
	Hudson Valley Map • JIMAPCO • COMING IN AUGUST • 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)
	The Incorporation of America, Culture and Society in the Gilded Age • Alan Trachtenberg • HISTORY • A study of the expansion of American capitalism and its effects at the end of the 19th-century. (USA81, $14.00)
	Insiders' Guide New York Neighborhoods, A Food Lover's Walking, Eating, and Shopping Guide to Ethnic Enclaves throughout New • Eleanor Berman • John Coburn • GUIDEBOOK • (NYC162, $14.95)
	Insight Guide New York State • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A profusely illustrated overview of New York State, featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on history, nature and culture, hundreds of photos and excellent local maps. (USE176, $23.95)
	Jacob Riis • Jacob Riis • ART & ARCHITECTURE • 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 • A.J. Liebling • David Remnick • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A rewarding taste of Liebling's wide-ranging essays for the New Yorker, published in celebration of the centennial of his birth. (NYC146, $15.00)
	Kafka Was the Rage, A Greenwich Village Memoir • Anatole Broyard • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An affecting memoir of the intellectual life in Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. (NYC64, $13.00)
	Kingbird Highway, The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand • Kenn Kaufman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Kaufman's absorbing account of coming-of-age as a Wichita teenager on the road in 1973 with a summer's pay in his pocket and the goal of seeing as many birds as he could in a year. (BRD27, $14.00)
	Knights of the Brush, The Hudson River School and the Moral Landscape • James F. Cooper • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A critical study of the Hudson River School, looking at the moral obligations and concerns of artists such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Church. (USE198, $39.95)
	The Last Avant-Garde, The Making of the New York School of Poets • David Lehman • LITERATURE • An enjoyable, high spirited account of artistic friendship and collaboration between four poets of the New York School: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. (NYC75, $16.95)
	The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper • LITERATURE • The first of the Leatherstocking Tales, ames Fenimore Cooper's racially complex, anti-nationalist 1826 novel was set in rural New York State during the French and Indian War. (NYC24, $4.95)
	Lee Krasner • John J. Ewel • Robert Hobbs • B. H. Friedman • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Mr. Hobbs examines the work of renowned Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner, wife of Jackson Pollock. With 48 color and 67 black-and-white images of her art. (NYS36, $49.50)
	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories • Washington Irving • LITERATURE • Traveling to the Hudson River Valley? Stay awake nights with this great, suspenseful yarn -- or rest easy and read some of the American master's gentler short works. (NYC23, $8.95)
	Liar's Poker • Michael Lewis • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A memoir of the go-go 80's on Wall Street. Michael Lewis chronicles his own 4-year rise at Salomon Brothers, from trainee to high-paid trader. A modern classic. (NYC71, $15.00)
	Life Along the Hudson • Allan Keller • Alfred Marks • HISTORY • A brief, lively portrait of the Hudson from its discovery through modern times, with illustrations and tours through the region's stately mansions. (USE196, $26.95)
	Light Years • James Salter • LITERATURE • A shimmering novel of the disintegration of a perfect 1950s-era New York family set in an old estate along the Hudson. (NYC65, $14.95)
	Long Island Alive • Francine Silverman • GUIDEBOOK • A detailed, practical guide to Long Island. (USE282, $17.95)
	Low Life, Lures and Snares of Old New York • Luc Sante • HISTORY • A very engaging history of 19th-century New York's underbelly, the Lower East Side. It's a picture not only of particular neighborhoods, but of the life that was led within them: street culture, the saloons, the cops, the prostitutes, the money men, the poor. (NYC34, $17.00)
	The Magic of Opera • J. Merrill Knapp • MUSIC • An excellent introduction to opera. (GEN139, $18.95)
	Making the Mummies Dance, Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art • Thomas Hoving • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • As the controversial and enormously powerful director of the Met from 1967-1977, Hoving guided his museum to the top of the global heap. (NYC37, $21.95)
	Mammals of North America • Roland W. Kays • Don E. Wilson • FIELD GUIDE • The most comprehensive guide to mammals found north of Mexico. (NAM11, $19.95)
	Manhattan • Woody Allen • Diane Lane, Muriel Hemingway, and Woody Allen star in Allen's romantic comedy set in (where else?) New York City. (USE334, $19.98)
	Manhattan '45 • Jan Morris • HISTORY • A portrait of the era when New York City was at its apogee, blending history, memoir and meditation. (NYC51, $19.95)
	Manhattan Transfer • John Dos Passos • LITERATURE • An absorbing portrait fo life in 1920s New York. (NYC119, $15.00)
	Memoirs • David Rockefeller • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This autobiography spans Rockefeller's family, financial career and powerful friends. (NYC109, $17.95)
	The Merlot Murders, A Wine Country Mystery • Ellen Crosby • MYSTERY • (USE374, $24.00)
	The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide • Philippe De Montebello • GUIDEBOOK • A guide for museum-goers, covering 900 works representative of the breadth of the collection. (NYC38, $19.95)
	The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas • John Freeman • Beverly Sills • MUSIC • A two-volume, boxed collection of the complete plots for 225 operas, authorized by the Metropolitan Opera. (NYC15, $50.00)
	Minor Characters, A Young Woman's Coming of Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac • Joyce Johnson • LITERATURE • The vivid memoir of young love and art and the Beat Generation. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. (NYC77, $15.00)
	Modern Art, Impressionism to Post-Modernism • David Britt • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A thoroughly illustrated survey of European and American modern art. Revised edition. (ART09, $29.95)
	Moon Handbook New York State • Christiane Bird • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in the Moon series, packed not only with travel necessities (hotels, restaurants, sights), but also with a good overview of history and destinations throughout New York State, including New York City. (USE415, $21.95)
	Morgan, American Financier • Jean Strouse • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An award winning biography that humanizes the powerful turn-of-the-century banker. (USE304, $18.00)
	Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Power in a Gilded Age • Eric Homberger • HISTORY • An illustrated portrait of aristocratic life in New York's Gilded Age. (NYC106, $29.95)
	Nathaniel's Nutmeg, True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History • Giles Milton • HISTORY • A rousing tale of international competition, greed and exploitation in 17th-century Indonesia. The book revolves around Nathaniel Courthroupe, who held off Dutch marauders on a tiny nutmeg-producing island from 1616-1620. It's a great story, well told -- and all true. (INS73, $15.00)
	Native Universe, Voices of Indian America • Clifford E. Trafzer • ANTHOLOGY • This sumptuously illustrated cultural history, written exclusively by Native Americans, is published in celebration of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. (USA95, $40.00)
	The Navigator of New York • Wayne Johnston • LITERATURE • An absorbing novel interweaving details of the real-life race to the North Pole, and the tale of a young man drawn into their world. (ARC127, $15.95)
	New York Changing, Revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York • Douglas Levere • Bonnie Yochelson • Paul Goldberger • Susan Henshaw Jones • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Douglas Levere's meticulous reproductions of Berenice Abbott's photographs from her 1940 book "Changing New York," 64 years later. (NYC144, $40.00)
	New York City Trees, A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area • Edward Sibley Barnard • FIELD GUIDE • An illustrated guide to trees, tree watching and parks in New York. (NYC89, $19.95)
	New York City, A Cultural and Literary Companion • Eric Homberger • GUIDEBOOK • An illuminating guide to the city, its history and geography, as the inspiration for writers, artists, musicians and intellectuals. With chapters on Broadway, Greenwich Village, parks, Harlem, Brooklyn, immigration and Manahattan. (NYC82, $15.00)
	New York City: A Short History • George J. Lankevich • HISTORY • A concise history of New York from its days as a Dutch outpost to post September 11th. (NYC105, $18.95)
	New York Eats (More) • Ed Levene • GUIDEBOOK • Forget about the Zagat guide, this is the bible of food-loving New Yorkers, including the outer boroughs. He won our heart by declaring the lox at Russ & Daughters the best in town. (NYC01, $18.95)
	New York Exposed, Photographs from the Daily News • Sean O'Sullivan • Pete Hamill • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Tales of the city through the lens of Daily News photographers, 1919-2000. (NYC60, $19.98)
	New York Living Rooms • James Fenton • Dominique Nabokov • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A marvelous illustrated tour of New York society and tastes as revealed through 100 color portraits. Nabokov cannily chooses to feature each living room without its occupants. (NYC41, $29.95)
	New York New York • Richard Berenholtz • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A mini book of color photographs of the new York Skyline featuring 12 four-page panoramas. (NYC136, $14.95)
	The New York School • Dore Ashton • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A cultural and artistic history of the city during the age of Abstract Expressionism. Ashton is an estimable academic critic who can actually write!! (NYC35, $26.95)
	New York Then And Now • Marcia Reiss • HISTORY • An illuminating photo-essay, showing archival and contemporary photographs of streets, skylines bridges and buildings throughout Manhattan. (NYC165, $18.95)
	The New York Times Traveler's Guide to Art Museum Exhibitions 2005 • Susan Mermelstein • GUIDEBOOK • A guide to 350 U.S. museums and their scheduled exhibits for 2005. (NYC32, $17.95)
	The New York Yankees Illustrated History • The New York Times • SPORT • A history of the New York Yankees. (BBL08, $29.95)
	New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania Map • National Geographic • A double-sided regional map and itinerary planner. (USE255, $7.95)
	New York, New York: The City in Art and Literature • Metropolitan Museum of Art • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A celebration of the art and literature of New York from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's massive collections. (NYC27, $19.95)
	Noah's Garden, Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards • Sarah Stein • NATURAL HISTORY • Stein describes the transformation of her own backyard in Westchester from monoculture to haven for native plants and animals in this eloquent testimonial. (USE361, $14.00)
	Noguchi East and West • Dore Ashton • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A good biography, by a talented writer about art. (ART16, $25.95)
	Old New York • Edith Wharton • LITERATURE • Four novellas recalling New York society of the mid-nineteenth century. (NYC102, $15.00)
	On the Town • Stanley Donen • Frank Sinatra and his sailor friends do New York, on a 24-hour leave before they are shipped out to the Pacific. (NYC130, $19.98)
	One Universe, At Home in the Cosmos • Neil Degrasse Tyson • Charles Liu • Robert Irion • SCIENCE • A visually stunning, well-written introduction to the universe, featuring 400 color photos and an authoritative text by a team of experts. (SCI100, $40.00)
	Paradise Alley, A Novel • Kevin Baker • LITERATURE • The second novel in Baker's Dreamland trilogy, this book focuses on New York City during the draft riots of 1863. Speaking in the voice of many characters, including three Irish immigrants, a New York Tribune reporter, an escaped slave and an army private, Baker crafts a story around one of the worst civic disturbances in U.S. history. (NYC160, $14.95)
	Pauline Frommer's New York City • Pauline Frommer • GUIDEBOOK • A family-friendly, quirky practical guide by the daughter of travel guru Arthur Frommer. Her motto: "Spend Less, See More." (NYC168, $16.99)
	Picturing New York, The City from its Beginnings to the Present • Gloria Deak • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated chronicle of New York from its origins as a ragtag seaport to trading center and cultural capital. An entire, wonderful chapter is devoted to Broadway. (NYC14, $63.50)
	Poet in New York • Garcia Lorca • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A slim, evocative collection of 34 poems on urban life, modernity and exile, presented in a bilingual edition. Lorca wrote the book while a student at Columbia in 1929-30. (NYC46, $18.00)
	Portable Dorothy Parker • Dorothy Parker • LITERATURE • An illustrated collection of the poems, stories, reviews, and articles of Dorothy Parker, one of New York City's most sharp-tongued writers. (NYC07, $18.00)
	The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall of New York • Robert Caro • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A much-hailed biography of Robert Moses, the politician who left an indelible mark on physical New York. David Halberstam called this biography "surely the greatest book ever written about a city." (NYC53, $24.00)
	The Protestant Establishment, Aristocracy and Caste in America • E. Digby Baltzell • HISTORY • A readable, serious study of the American upper class, first published in 1964. (USA78, $26.00)
	The Puttermesser Papers • Cynthia Ozick • LITERATURE • A riotous collection of five stories representing episodes from the life of Ruth Puttermesser, a civil servant from the Bronx in New York. Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, and a finalist for the National Book Award. (NYC39, $13.95)
	Radio Days • Woody Allen • (NYC137, $14.98)
	Remarkable, Unspeakable New York, A Literary History • Shaun O'Connell • HISTORY • A history of New York's place in American letters. (NYC44, $20.00)
	Remember D-Day, Both Sides Tell Their Stories • Ronald J. Drez • David Eisenhower • HISTORY • YOUNG ADULTS • An engaging and well-constructed history of the D-Day invasion for readers in grades 5 to 8, complete with anecdotes from soldiers, black-and-white photographs and plenty of historical information. (USA96, $17.95)
	Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul • Scott Weidensaul • NATURAL HISTORY • An eye-opening trek in the footsteps of conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose 1953 journey across America resulted in the classic Wild America. (USA123, $15.00)
	The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt • Edmund Morris • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A celebrated biography of Teddy Roosevelt, from his birth in 1858 to his presidential inauguration in 1901. (USE308, $17.95)
	River of Mountains, A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson • Peter Lourie • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A detailed account of Lourie's three-week journey along the entire length of the Hudson River in a canoe from headwaters to the Statue of Liberty. Lourie interweaves history of the river with charming descriptions and anecdotes. (USE72, $19.95)
	The Roosevelt Women • Betty Boyd Caroli • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A group portrait of four generations of indominatable Roosevelts. (USE305, $22.00)
	Saturday Night Fever • John Badham • The tale of Brooklyn teenagers and dancing, evocative of the 1970s and the Bay Ridge. (NYC131, $14.98)
	The Search for Order, 1877-1920 • Robert H. Wiebe • HISTORY • A classic social history of the Progressive era first published in 1967. (USA82, $14.00)
	The Seasons of Beento Blackbird • Akosua Busia • LITERATURE • A provocative novel dissecting the issues of marriage and African identity by the daughter of a former Ghanaian prime minister. (WAF42, $21.95)
	Shostakovich, A Life Remembered • Elizabeth Wilson • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An engaging biography of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, drawing heavily on the accounts of his contemporaries. (RUS94, $25.95)
	The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America • David Sibley • FIELD GUIDE • A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks. (USE262, $19.95)
	Sidewalk Critic, Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York • Lewis Mumford • Robert Wojtowicz • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A collection of erudite, witty essays on architecture and life in New York spanning the years 1931-1940. (NYC42, $17.95)