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The 9/11 Reportby Thomas H. Kean, Lee Hamilton, Nat'L Commission on Terrorist Attacks, New York Times StaffISBN 0312935544 (0-312-93554-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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What happened on 9/11 and how? Have we learned any lessons? Are we safer now?The questions every American wants answered.
Since September 11, 2001, Americans have wondered how the tragic events of that day could have occurred. This is the complete report of the circumstances surrounding the attacts, including:
*Al Qaeda and the organization of the 9/11 attack
*Intelligence collection, analysis, and management
*International counterterrorism policy*The inner workings of terrorist financing
*The security of American borders
*Law enforcement inside the U.S.
*Commercial aviation and transportation safety* Personal interviews with Presidents Clinton and Bush on their roles[via]
Supplemented with analysis and reporting by The New York Times, this edition of The 9/11 Report also makes recommendations as to how to prevent terrorist attacks in the future.More editions of The 9/11 Report:
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Almost a Womanby Esmerelda SantiagoISBN 037570521X (0-375-70521-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost a Woman'Book summary:"Not only for readers who share [Santiago's] experiences but for North Americans who seek to understand what it means to be the other."--The Boston Globe
In her new memoir, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the theaters of Manhattan.
"Negi," as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macún in 1961 to live in a three-room tenement apartment with seven young siblings, an inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At thirteen, Negi yearns for her own bed, privacy, and a life with her father, who remains in Puerto Rico. Translating for Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York's prestigious Performing Arts High School in the afternoons, and dancing salsa all night, she yearns to find balance between being American and being Puerto Rican. When Negi defies her mother by going on a series of hilarious dates, she finds that independence brings its own set of challenges.
At once a universally poignant coming-of-age tale and a brave and heartfelt immigrant's story, Almost a Woman is Santiago's triumphant journey into womanhood.
"A universal tale familiar to thousands of immigrants to this country, but made special by Santiago's simplicity and honesty."
--The Miami Herald
"A courageous memoir. . . . One witnesses. . .the blessings, contradictions and restraints of Puerto Rican culture."
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The Beautiful Room Is Emptyby Edmund WhiteISBN 0345351517 (0-345-35151-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shellby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0345476395 (0-345-47639-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Burning Cityby Ariel Dorfman, Joaquin DorfmanISBN 0375832033 (0-375-83203-3)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Moviesby James SandersISBN 0375710272 (0-375-71027-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The first is a real city, an urban agglomeration of millions. The second is a mythic city, so rich in memory and association and sense of place that to people everywhere it has come to seem real: the New York of such films such as 42nd Street, Rear Window, King Kong, Dead End, The Naked City, Ghostbusters, Annie Hall, Taxi Driver, and Do the Right Thing a magical city of the imagination that is as complex, dynamic, and familiar as its namesake of stone and steel.
As James Sanders shows in this deeply original work, the dream city of the movies created by more than a century of films, from the very dawn of the medium itself may hold the secret to the allure and excitement of the actual place. Here are the cocktail parties and power lunches, the subway chases and opening nights, the playground rumbles and rooftop romances. Here is an invented Gotham, a place designed specifically for action, drama, and adventure, a city of bright avenues and mysterious side streets, of soaring towers and intimate corners, where remarkable people do exciting, amusing, romantic, scary things. Sanders takes us from the tenement to the penthouse, from New York to Hollywood and back again, from 1896 to the present, all the while showing how the real and mythic cities reflected, changed, and taught each other.
Lavishly illustrated with scores of rare and unusual production images culled from Sanders's decade-long research in studio archives and private collections around the country, Celluloid Skyline offers a new way to see not only Americas greatest metropolis, but cities the world over.
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Clubland : The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Cultureby Frank OwenISBN 0312287666 (0-312-28766-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940by Max PageISBN 0226644693 (0-226-64469-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Deadly Affairsby Brenda JoyceISBN 0312982623 (0-312-98262-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Deadly Caressby Brenda JoyceISBN 0312989431 (0-312-98943-1)
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Brenda Joyce's New York Times best-selling novels have thrilled millions of readers. Now, in her latest Francesca Cahill novel, return to the lush mansions and teeming streets of New York City's Gilded Age, where intrigue and seduction lie on every corner...
The year is 1902. The place is New York City. A famous stage actress has been found strangled in an artist's studio, and the artist herself has vanished. Francesca Cahill, the city's most unconventional heiress and famous amateur sleuth, is once again on the case-for the murder victim is none other than her brother's mistress. And when the sole witness to the crime is also found strangled and only one clue is left behind-a silk stocking-it becomes evident that a madman is on the loose.
Now more than ever, Francesca is determined to find The City Strangler and bring him to justice. But the trail is a twisted one, and she'll need the help of handsome, dynamic Police Commissioner, Rick Bragg-even though she must attempt to end their star-crossed romantic liaison. But now, she also finds herself fending off the advances of his notorious rival, his powerful half-brother, Calder Hart. Ruthlessly pursued by Hart, hopelessly enamored with Bragg, Francesca races against the clock before The City Strangler strikes again, never realizing the consequences that will come when danger and desire become one...More editions of Deadly Caress:
Deadly Desireby Brenda JoyceISBN 0312982631 (0-312-98263-1)
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Deadly Loveby Brenda JoyceISBN 0312977670 (0-312-97767-0)
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Deadly Pleasureby Brenda JoyceISBN 0312977689 (0-312-97768-9)
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Deadly Promiseby Brenda JoyceISBN 0312989873 (0-312-98987-3)
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The Devil Knows You're Deadby Lawrence BlockISBN 038072023X (0-380-72023-X)
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Dinosaurs in the Atticby Douglas J. PrestonISBN 0312104561 (0-312-10456-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinosaurs in the Attic'Book summary:Dinosaurs in the Attic is a chronicle of the expeditions, discoveries, and scientists behind the greatest natural history collection every assembled. Written by former Natural History columnist Douglas Preston, who worked at the American Museum of Natural History for seven years, this is a celebration of the best-known and best-loved museum in the United States.[via]More editions of Dinosaurs in the Attic:
Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural Historyby Douglas PrestonISBN 0345347323 (0-345-34732-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Drinking Life: A Memoirby Pete HamillISBN 0316341029 (0-316-34102-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Eight Million Ways to Dieby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380715732 (0-380-71573-2)
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Empire Risingby Thomas KellyISBN 0312425740 (0-312-42574-0)
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The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmarkby John TauranacISBN 0312148240 (0-312-14824-0)
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Everybody Diesby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380725355 (0-380-72535-5)
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Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York Cityby Craig D. TownsendISBN 0231134681 (0-231-13468-1)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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For Kings and Planetsby Ethan CaninISBN 0312241259 (0-312-24125-9)
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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trashby Elizabeth RoyteISBN 031615461X (0-316-15461-X)
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Garlic And Sapphiresby Ruth ReichlISBN 0375435468 (0-375-43546-8)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Garlic And Sapphires'Book summary:Fans of Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples know that Ruth Reichl is a wonderful memoirist--a funny, poignant, and candid storyteller whose books contain a happy mix of memories, recipes, and personal revelations.
What they might not fully appreciate is that Reichl is an absolute marvel when it comes to writing about food--she can describe a dish in such satisfying detail that it becomes unnecessary for readers to eat. In her third memoir, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Reichl focuses on her life as a food critic, dishing up a feast of fabulous meals enjoyed during her tenure at The New York Times. As a critic, Reichl was determined to review the "true" nature of each restaurant she visited, so she often dined incognito--each chapter of her book highlights a new disguise, a different restaurant (including the original reviews from the Times), and a fresh culinary adventure. Garlic and Sapphires is another delicious and delightful book, sure to satisfy Reichl's foodie fans and leave admirerers looking forward to her next book, hopefully about her life with Gourmet. --Daphne DurhamAmazon.com Interview
We chewed the fat with Ruth. Read our interview.
More from Ruth Reichl
Tender at the Bone
Comfort Me with Apples
The Gourmet Cookbook
Remembrance of Things Paris
Endless Feasts
Gourmet magazine
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Ruth Reichl answers the seven questions we ask every author.
Q: What book has had the most significant impact on your life?
A: Kate Simons New York Places and Pleasures. I read it as a little girl and then went out and wandered the city. She was a wonderful writer, and she taught me not only to see New York in a whole new way, but to look, and taste, beneath the surface.
Q: You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?
A: Ulysses by James Joyce. What better place to finally get through it?
Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert. If youre going to listen to one piece over and over, this is one that doesnt get tiresome.
How to Build a Boat in Five Easy Steps. Since Im going to be watching one movie over and over, it might as well be useful.
Q: What is the worst lie you've ever told?
A: Im such a good liar, I wouldnt know where to begin.
Q: Describe the perfect writing environment.
A: I can write pretty much anywhere. But I prefer small, cozy spaces, with a good view over a lake or a forest, and room for the cats to curl up.
Q: If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?
A: "Shell be right back."
Q: Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?
A: Elizabeth I. She fascinates me. She had a great mind, enormous appetites--and she was a survivor. The most interesting woman of an interesting time, and I have a million questions Id like to ask her.
Q: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
A: You mean after creating world peace? This is a hard one. But Ive always wanted to be able to fly.
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I Like It Like That: A Gossip Girl Novelby Cecily Von ZiegesarISBN 0316735183 (0-316-73518-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Like It Like That: A Gossip Girl Novel'Book summary:It's spring break and love is in the air. Or is that a blend of Chanel no. 9 and Gucci Rush? Is there a difference?Blair moves in with Serena and they're back to being best friends. But will the love-fest last or will they end up tearing out one anothers newly highlighted hair? And speaking of new, Nate is on the straight and narrow, playing Nate-in-shining-armor to his crazy new girlfriend, Georgie. But he will definitely get more than he bargained for when he, Georgie, Blair, and Serena end up hanging out together in Sun Valley, Idaho. Back in Manhattan, Jenny is spending time with a mysteriously nice new boyfriend and Dan is spending time crying in the office of the Red Letter literary journal. And Vanessa, wait, is that Vanessa shopping at Barneys with a guy in a Lacoste shirt?The long cold winter is over and the sun is finally shining along Fifth Avenue. The trees are in bloom and NYC's most fabulous are ready for a truly outrageous vacation! [via]
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James and the Giant Peachby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0375814248 (0-375-81424-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Jew of New Yorkby Ben KatchorISBN 0375700978 (0-375-70097-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jew of New York'Book summary:Whether chronicling the metropolitan peregrinations of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, or weaving together history and fantasy in 19th- century New York, Ben Katchor's comics, filled with scratchy figures moving through gray-washed streets, feel like the relics of a half- forgotten dream. The Jew of New York takes an obscure historical footnote--an attempt in 1825 to establish a Jewish homeland in upstate New York--and spins it into an intricate tale of a rapidly developing city and its diverse inhabitants, from one-legged actresses, to wandering Jews, to masked anti-Semites. The plot wanders from place to place, never predictable, but always fascinating. The result is a like a story by Paul Auster, rewritten by Charles Dickens, as Katchor gradually draws the reader into his bizarre but precisely imagined world. Weird conspiracies, religious fanaticism, and a plan to carbonate Lake Erie are just three of the threads which Katchor weaves together, creating a version of 1830's New York that captures the spirit of the times in a way that history cannot. The reader is never quite sure what is true, yet this powerfully imagined work is irresistibly compelling. Katchor's disturbing, deeply layered historical palimpsest transforms his collection of misfit characters and the city that they inhabit into something rich and strange. [via]
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Julie And Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, And Her Sanity to Master the Art of Livingby Julie PowellISBN 031610969X (0-316-10969-X)
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When we first meet Julie, she's a frustrated temp-to-perm secretary who slaves away at a thankless job, only to return to an equally demoralizing apartment in the outer boroughs of Manhattan each evening. At the urging of Eric, her devoted and slightly geeky husband, she decides to start a blog that will chronicle what she dubs the "Julie/Julia Project." What follows is a year of butter-drenched meals that will both necessitate the wearing of an unbearably uncomfortable girdle on the hottest night of the year, as well as the realization that life is what you make of it and joy is not as impossible a quest as it may seem, even when it's -10 degrees out and your pipes are frozen.
Powell is a natural when it comes to connecting with her readers, which is probably why her blog generated so much buzz, both from readers and media alike. And while her self-deprecating sense of humor can sometimes dissolve into whininess, she never really loses her edge, or her sense of purpose. Even on day 365, she's working her way through Mayonnaise Collee and ending the evening "back exactly where we started--just Eric and me, three cats and Buffy...sitting on a couch in the outer boroughs, eating, with Julia chortling alongside us...."
Inspired and encouraging, Julie and Julia is a unique opportunity to join one woman's attempt to change her life, and have a laugh, or ten, along the way. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerouslyby Julie PowellISBN 0316013269 (0-316-01326-9)
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When we first meet Julie, she's a frustrated temp-to-perm secretary who slaves away at a thankless job, only to return to an equally demoralizing apartment in the outer boroughs of Manhattan each evening. At the urging of Eric, her devoted and slightly geeky husband, she decides to start a blog that will chronicle what she dubs the "Julie/Julia Project." What follows is a year of butter-drenched meals that will both necessitate the wearing of an unbearably uncomfortable girdle on the hottest night of the year, as well as the realization that life is what you make of it and joy is not as impossible a quest as it may seem, even when it's -10 degrees out and your pipes are frozen.
Powell is a natural when it comes to connecting with her readers, which is probably why her blog generated so much buzz, both from readers and media alike. And while her self-deprecating sense of humor can sometimes dissolve into whininess, she never really loses her edge, or her sense of purpose. Even on day 365, she's working her way through Mayonnaise Collee and ending the evening "back exactly where we started--just Eric and me, three cats and Buffy...sitting on a couch in the outer boroughs, eating, with Julia chortling alongside us...."
Inspired and encouraging, Julie and Julia is a unique opportunity to join one woman's attempt to change her life, and have a laugh, or ten, along the way. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographerby Ben KatchorISBN 0316482943 (0-316-48294-3)
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Knopf Guide New Yorkby Knopf GuidesISBN 0307263797 (0-307-26379-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knopf Guide New York'Book summary:Completely revised and updated [via]
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- Knopf Mapguide: New York: ISBN 0307263894 (0-307-26389-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Knopf Citymap New York: ISBN 0375709517 (0-375-70951-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Knopf Guide New York: ISBN 0375710264 (0-375-71026-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Knopf Mapguide New York: The City in Section-By-Section Maps: ISBN 0375710639 (0-375-71063-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Knopf Guide New York: ISBN 0307263797 (0-307-26379-7)
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- Knopf Mapguide: New York: ISBN 0307263894 (0-307-26389-4)
The Last of Her Kindby Sigrid NunezISBN 0312425945 (0-312-42594-5)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last of Her Kind'Book summary:[via]The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Drayton, and her obsessive disdain for the ruling class into which she was born. She is mortified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class, which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her to escape. After the violent fight that ends their friendship, Georgette wants only to forget Ann and to turn her attention to the troubled runaway kid sister who has reappeared after years on the road. Then, in 1976, Ann is convicted of murder. At first, Ann's fate appears to be the inevitable outcome of her belief in the moral imperative to "make justice" in a world where "there are no innocent white people." But, searching for answers to the riddle of this friend of her youth, Georgette finds more complicated and mysterious forces at work. As the novel's narrator, Georgette illuminates the terrifying life of this difficult, doomed woman, and in the process discovers how much their early encounter has determined her own path, and why, decades later, as she tells us, "I have never stopped thinking about her."
Let's Go New York Cityby Let's Go, Inc. StaffISBN 0312335547 (0-312-33554-7)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Let's Go 2000 New York CityISBN 0312244770 (0-312-24477-0)
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Let's Go 2001 New York Cityby Valerie De CharetteISBN 0312246846 (0-312-24684-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr Special
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Let's Go 2002 New York Cityby Eric TodrysISBN 0312270496 (0-312-27049-6)
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A Long Line of Dead Menby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380720248 (0-380-72024-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Mask Market: A Burke Novelby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0375424229 (0-375-42422-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Morningside Heightsby Cheryl MendelsonISBN 0375760687 (0-375-76068-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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New Yorkby Christine Silva, Knopf Guides StaffISBN 0375702547 (0-375-70254-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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New York Cityby Let's Go, Inc. StaffISBN 0312305850 (0-312-30585-0)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New York City 2003'Book summary:The Resource for the Independent Traveler[via]
For over forty years Let's Go Travel Guides have brought budget-savvy travelers closer to the world and its diverse cultures by providing the most up-to-date information.
Includes:
· Entries at all price levels for lodging, food, attractions, and more
· Must-have tips for planning your trip, getting around, and staying safe
· Advice on hidden gems straight from a former Parks Commissioner
· Expanded coverage of what's hot in Brooklyn and Queens
· The best bars, clubs, scenes, and events
· Detailed neighborhood maps, walking tours, and photos throughout
Featuring not-to-be-missed Experiences
Cultural Connections: Attend an art show inside the Brooklyn Bridge
Inside Scoops & Hidden Deals: Hunt for high fashion at the best bargain stores
Off the Beaten Path: Test your luck on a fishing trip off the coast of Brooklyn
Get advice, read up, and book tickets at www.letsgo.com
New York Eats: The Food Shoppers Guide to the Freshest Ingredients, the Best Takeout and Baked Goods and the Most Unsual Marketplaces in All of N Yby Ed LevineISBN 0312156057 (0-312-15605-7)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Only Child : A Burke Novelby Andrew VachssISBN 0375414878 (0-375-41487-8)
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Out on the Cutting Edgeby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380709937 (0-380-70993-7)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Schudder is the bestand now the ex-cop-turned-p.i. is scouring the hell called Hell's Kitchen looking for anything that might resemble a lead. And in this neighborhood of the lost, he's finding loveand deathin the worst possible places.
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hallby William L. Riordon, Terrence J. McDonaldISBN 0312096666 (0-312-09666-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politicsby Terrence J. McDonald, William L. RiordonISBN 0312084447 (0-312-08444-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Poshby Lucy JacksonISBN 0312363893 (0-312-36389-3)
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farinaby David HajduISBN 0374281998 (0-374-28199-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina'Book summary:David Hajdu (pronounced HAY-doo), the prizewinning author of the magisterial jazz biography Lush Life, now steam-cleans the legend of the lost folk generation in Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña. What a ripping read! It's like an invitation to the wildest party Greenwich Village ever saw. You feel swept up in the coffeehouse culture that transformed ordinary suburban kids into ragged, radiant avatars of a traditional yet bewilderingly new music. Hajdu's sociomusical analysis is as scholarly as (though less arty than) Greil Marcus's work; he deftly sketches the sources and evolving styles of his ambitious, rather calculating subjects, proving in the process that genius is not individual--it's rooted in a time and place. Hajdu says Dylan heisted many early tunes (e.g., "Maggie's Farm" from Pete Seeger's "Down on Penny's Farm"): "Dylan [told] a radio interviewer that he felt as if his music had always existed and he just wrote it down ... [in fact], much of his early work had existed as other writers' melodies, chord structures, or thematic ideas." But Dylan and company made it all their own, and Hajdu vividly evokes the scenes they made.
Positively 4th Street is very much a group portrait. When something amazing happens, Hajdu puts you right there. The unknown Baez barefoot in the rain, bedazzling the Newport Jazz Festival and becoming immortal overnight. The irresistibly irresponsible Fariña talking his folk-star wife out of shooting him dead with his own pistol. The "little spastic gnome" Dylan transmogrified into greatness onstage, bashing Joan with the searing lyrics of "She Belongs to Me." A stoned Fariña advising Dylan to cynically hitch his wagon to Joan's rising star and "start a whole new genre. Poetry set to music, but not chamber music or beatnik jazz, man... poetry you can dance to."
The book is as delectably gossipy as Vanity Fair (one of Hajdu's employers). Richard married the exceedingly young beauty Mimi and helmed their career, but he might have dumped her for big sister Joan, whose madcap humor and verbal wit harmonized with his--except that he ineptly killed himself on a motorcycle first. Bob mumblingly courted both sisters, but when he cruelly taunted the insecure Joan, Mimi yanked his hair back until he cried. The account of Bob and Joan's musical-erotic passion is first-rate music history and uproarious soap opera. Hajdu's research is prodigious--even Fariña's close chum Thomas Pynchon granted interviews--and his anecdotes are often off-the-cuff funny: "[Rock manager Albert Grossman] was easy to deal with.... It wasn't till maybe two days after you would see Albert that you'd realize your underwear had been stolen." Full disclosure: Hajdu was one of my long-ago bosses at Entertainment Weekly, but that's certainly not why I heartily endorse this book. It's scholarship with a human face, akin to "poetry you can dance to." --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Princess Diariesby Meg CabotISBN 0380814021 (0-380-81402-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess Diaries'Book summary:Mia Thermopolis is your average urban ninth grader. Even though she lives in Greenwich Village with a single mom who is a semifamous painter, Mia still puts on her Doc Martens one at a time, and the most exciting things she ever dreams about are smacking lips with sexy senior Josh Richter, "six feet of unadulterated hotness," and passing Algebra I. Then Mia's dad comes to town, and drops a major bomb. Turns out he's not just a European politician as he's always lead her to believe, but actually the prince of a small country! And Mia, his only heir, is now considered the crown princess of Genovia! She doesn't even know how to begin to cope: "I am so NOT a princess.... You never saw anyone who looked less like a princess than I do. I mean, I have really bad hair... and... a really big mouth and no breasts and feet that look like skis." And if this news wasn't bad enough, Mia's mom has started dating her algebra teacher, the paparazzi is showing up at school, and she's in a huge fight with her best friend, Lilly. How much more can this reluctant Cinderella handle?
Offbeat Mia will automatically win the heart of every teenage girl who's ever just wanted to fit in with as little fuss as possible. Debut author Meg Cabot's writing is silly and entertaining, with tons of pop culture references that will make teens feel right at home within her pages. This is a wonderfully wacky read. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913by Carl W. Condit, Sarah Bradford LandauISBN 0300077394 (0-300-07739-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Rise of Theodore Rooseveltby Edmund MorrisISBN 0375756787 (0-375-75678-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt'Book summary:Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
This is Morris's highly acclaimed account of Theodore Roosevelt's life, encompassing the years from Roosevelt's birth to his service in the White House.
He was one of our most vibrant presidents; his image still haunts our past and our present. This fascinating and comprehensive biography of the extraordinary naturalist, adventurer, soldier, and politician, tells the improbable, but very real, story of a man determined to get what he wanted, an American who helped define our century and our very character. [via]More editions of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt:
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Safe Houseby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0375700749 (0-375-70074-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Safe House'Book summary:Safe House, the latest in Andrew Vachss's series of Burke novels, begins when Burke's "brother," Hercules, is paid to scare off a neo-nazi stalker and accidentally kills the wrong guy. Burke finds himself unwittingly drawn into a world of white supremacists, stalkers, and safe house networks. What ensues is an intense rush to cover Hercules' tracks and, at the same time, bring down a New York City white supremacy ring.
Safe House offers up Vachss's repertoire of repeat characters. The most fascinating are Burke's prison "family," the Prof, Max the silent, the Mole, Michelle, Clarence, Mama, and, of course, Burke himself, who is as hard-edged as ever. The family's willingness to help one another, even die for one another, is the emotional string that ties the books together. There are also two new female characters, Vyra, the affluent Jewish housewife and Crystal Beth, half Inuit, half Irish safe house madam. Though not as believable as their male counterparts, Vyra and Crystal Beth have powerful secrets of their own and add a soft, human element to the story.
Like other Vachss novels, Safe House embraces the dirty, grim life of the ex-con for hire. The most compelling aspect of Safe House is Vachss's no-holds-barred writing style. He spares nobody's feeling and minces no words in this rough, gritty and often painfully raw crime story. --Mara Friedman [via]
A Severed Waspby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374261318 (0-374-26131-8)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Sleepersby Lorenzo CarcaterraISBN 0345404114 (0-345-40411-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sleepers'Book summary:"Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story." --The Washington Post Book World "A GUT-WRENCHING PIECE OF WORK. . . Carcaterra's graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley." --The Atlanta Journal & Constitution "In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembers harrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaborate vengeance he and his friends exacted against the guards. He tells it all in spare, stylish prose . . . [with] relentless momentum and sheer drama. . . . SLEEPERS is a thriller, to be sure, but it is equally a wistful hymn to another age." --The Washington Post Book World "A TERRIFYING ACCOUNT OF BRUTALITY AND RETRIBUTION, searing in its emotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, but biblical in its passion and scope." --People "SLEEPERS is so many things: a Dickensian portrait of coming of age in Hell's Kitchen, a terrifying and heartbreaking account of the brutalization of youth, a shocking--and disturbingly satisfying--climax worthy of the finest suspense novel. A brilliant, troubling, important book." --Jonathan Kellerman "COMPELLING." --USA Today [via]
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Snow in Augustby Pete HamillISBN 0316340944 (0-316-34094-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow in August'Book summary:In 1940s Brooklyn, friendship between an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish rabbi might seem as unlikely as, well, snow in August. But the relationship between young Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch is only one of the many miracles large and small contained in Pete Hamill's novel. Michael finds himself in trouble when he witnesses the 17-year-old leader of the dreaded Falcons gang beating an elderly shopkeeper. For Michael, 1940s Brooklyn is a world still shaped by life in the Old Country, a world where informing on a fellow Irishman is the worst crime imaginable--worse even than the violent crimes committed by some of those fellows. So Michael keeps silent, finding solace in the company of Rabbi Hirsch, a Czech refuge whom he meets by chance. From this serendipitous beginning blossoms a unique friendship--one that proves perilous to both when the Falcons catch up with them.
Interlaced with Hamill's realistic descriptions of violence and fear are scenes of remarkable poignancy: the rabbi's first baseball game, where he sees Jackie Robinson play for the Dodgers; Michael's introduction into the mystical world of the Cabbala and the book's miraculous ending. Hamill is not a lyrical writer, but he is a heartfelt one, and this story of courage in the face of great odds is one of his best. [via]
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Specimen Daysby Michael CunninghamISBN 0312425023 (0-312-42502-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Specimen Days'Book summary:Book Description: In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution, as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade," set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band that is detonating bombs, seemingly at random, around the city. The third part, "Like Beauty," evokes a New York 150 years into the future, when the city is all but overwhelmed by refugees from the first inhabited planet to be contacted by the people of Earth.
Presiding over each episode of this interrelated whole is the prophetic figure of the poet Walt Whitman, who promised his future readers, "It avails not, neither time or place ... I am with you, and know how it is." Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city and a meditation on the direction and meaning of America's destiny. It is a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.
More from Michael Cunningham 
The Hours
A Home at the End of the World
Flesh and BloodWhitman Sampler 
The Portable Walt Whitman
Specimen Days & Collect
Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose
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A Stab in the Darkby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380715740 (0-380-71574-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Stab in the Dark'Book summary:Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous...and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the p.i. is determined to avenge. [via]
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Tepper Isn't Going Outby Calvin TrillinISBN 0375758518 (0-375-75851-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tepper Isn't Going Out'Book summary:New York City and America's car culture smash together in Calvin Trillin's Tepper Isn't Going Out, a humorous tale of the urban quest for an open parking space. When a mailing-list broker, Murray Tepper, decides to spend his days plugging meters so he can sit in his car reading newspapers and waive off suitors hopeful of gaining his spot, little does he know that his odd behavior (even by New York standards) will set off a media buzz, provide him with cult-hero status, and incur reproach from the paranoid, dour Mayor Frank Ducavelli, who focuses on curtailing Tepper's "abuse" of the parking meter system.
Granted, the plot of this novel is quite thin, but, while not leaving you in stitches, Trillin provokes many smirks and smiles with his wit. For instance, he writes of magazines titled Beautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking and the potential of Spin: The Magazine of Salad Drying. When Tepper suggests that his friend Jack leave his car's flashers on while parked illegally, Jack responds:
And draw attention to myself? Not a chance. I always park in front of hydrants. The secret is to park smack in front of them rather than just too near them. You have to go all the way. If you're smack in front of them, the cop rolling down the street can't see that there's a hydrant there at all. You have to be brazen. That's my motto, in parking and in life: be brazen.
Trillin's book should appeal to commuters and city dwellers everywhere, and anyone else looking for a chuckle. --Michael Ferch [via]
This Side of Brightnessby Colum McCannISBN 0312421974 (0-312-42197-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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A Ticket to the Boneyardby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380709945 (0-380-70994-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Time to Murder and Createby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380763656 (0-380-76365-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Up the Down Staircaseby Bel KaufmanISBN 0380015986 (0-380-01598-6)
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A Walk Among the Tombstonesby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380713756 (0-380-71375-6)
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When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoirby Esmeralda SantiagoISBN 0306814528 (0-306-81452-8)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Wonderful Townby David Remnick, Susan ChoiISBN 037575752X (0-375-75752-X)
Softcover, Modern Library
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You're The One That I Want: A Gossip Girlby Cecily Von ZiegesarISBN 0316735167 (0-316-73516-7)
Softcover, Poppy
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Casi Una Mujer / Almost a Womanby Esmeralda Santiago, Nina Torres-VidalISBN 0375705260 (0-375-70526-0)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Casi Una Mujer / Almost a Woman'Book summary:A simultaneous Spanish-language edition, originally translated for Vintage by
Nina Torres-Vidal
In her new memior, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her life.
"Negi," as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macun in 1961 to live in a three-bedroom tenement apartment with seven siblings, and inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At thirteen, Negi yearns for her own bed, for privacy, and her father, who remains in Puerto Rico. Translating for Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York's Performing Arts High School in the afternoon, and dancing salsa all night, she also seeks to find balance between being an American and Puerto Rican. When Negi defies her mother by going on a series of dates, she finds that independence brings challenges.
At once a universally poignant coming-of-age tale and a heartfelt immigrant's story, Almost a Woman is Santiago's triumphant journey into womanhood. [via]More editions of Casi Una Mujer / Almost a Woman:
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