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Above New Yorkby Robert W. Cameron, George Plimpton, Paul GoldbergerISBN 0918684420 (0-918684-42-0)
Hardcover, Cameron & Company Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Above New York'Book summary:Spectacular views of New York from high above it all. A collection of aerial photographs from then and now.[via]More editions of Above New York:
All Around the Town: Murder, Scandal, Riot and Mayhem in Old New Yorkby Herbert AsburyISBN 1560255218 (1-56025-521-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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American Psychoby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679735771 (0-679-73577-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Psycho'Book summary:Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).
In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. [via]More editions of American Psycho:
Berenice Abbott: Changing New Yorkby Bonnie YochelsonISBN 1565845560 (1-56584-556-0)
Softcover, New Press, The
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Boss Tweed's New Yorkby Seymour J. MandelbaumISBN 0929587200 (0-929587-20-0)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhoodby Kate SimonISBN 0670192392 (0-670-19239-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Brooklyn Folliesby Paul AusterISBN 0805077146 (0-8050-7714-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Chaim Potok's the Chosenby Harold BloomISBN 0791081737 (0-7910-8173-7)
Hardcover, Facts On File, Inc.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chaim Potok's the Chosen'Book summary:Enjoy a comprehensive analysis and summary of The Chosen. Includes biographical sketches, summaries, an annotated bibliography, contributor profiles and index. [via]
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The Chosenby Chaim PotokISBN 1568493193 (1-56849-319-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chosen'Book summary:Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom, or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, their friendship, and the chaotic times in which they live. Though on the surface it explores religious faith--the intellectually committed as well as the passionately observant--the struggles addressed in The Chosen are familiar to families of all faiths and in all nations.
In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a secular Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss, love, and the journey to adulthood. The intellectual and spiritual clashes between fathers, between each son and his own father, and between the two young men, provide a unique backdrop for this exploration of fathers, sons, faith, loyalty, and, ultimately, the power of love. (This is not a conventional children's book, although it will move any wise child age 12 or older, and often appears on summer reading lists for high school students.) [via]
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- The Chosen: ISBN 0449213447 (0-449-21344-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Chosen: ISBN 0449911543 (0-449-91154-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Chosen: ISBN 0395881455 (0-395-88145-5)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin - The Chosen: ISBN 0449209628 (0-449-20962-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Chosen: ISBN 0679402225 (0-679-40222-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Chosen: ISBN 1568493193 (1-56849-319-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
- The Chosen: ISBN 0449213447 (0-449-21344-7)
City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattanby Beverly SwerlingISBN 0684871734 (0-684-87173-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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City Walks New York: 50 Adventures on Footby Christina Henry De TessanISBN 0811838447 (0-8118-3844-7)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Cosmopolis: A Novelby Don DeLilloISBN 0743244257 (0-7432-4425-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmopolis: A Novel'Book summary:Cosmopolis is Don DeLillo's 13th novel. His reputation as one of the most provocative and innovative of American writers is assured, thanks to such books as Underworld and Americana, but this new outing is as likely to challenge the author's legion of admirers as much as it will exhilarate them--and there's nothing wrong with that.
DeLillo's protagonist this time is a well-heeled American, Eric Packer, who sets out one eventful day for a haircut. Gazing through the windows of his white limousine (and availing himself of its state-of-the-art technology), this self-made millionaire takes in the spectacle of financiers being murdered, the funeral of a rapper and some violent anti-globalisation protests. As we come to know DeLillo's anti-hero, we realise that Eric Packer is by no means the most ingratiating of individuals. Cheating on his new wife, he specialises in using people in a cynical and exploitative way. And as this self-serving captain of industry takes an ever-more dangerous journey through a bizarrely rendered New York, it's inevitable that comparisons with Tom Wolfe's classic Bonfire of the Vanities will spring to mind. Resemblances of plot aside, however, the book is a very different animal. Wolfe's narrative had the epic spread of a latter-day War and Peace, whereas DeLillo sharpens and condenses his prose in Cosmopolis to produce an altogether more concise novel.
There are two ways to approach Cosmopolis: as a rudely pointed dissection of the American Dream, or as a surreal, symbolic (and disturbing) road trip. This is not a comforting book, but a bracing and caustic one. --Barry Forshaw [via]
A Dance at the Slaughterhouseby Lawrence BlockISBN 0688103499 (0-688-10349-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Dancer from the Danceby Andrew HolleranISBN 0452261295 (0-452-26129-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancer from the Dance'Book summary:Set in the 1970s, this book tells the tragic story of Malone, the most beautiful man in gay New York. The author has also written "Eight Nights in Arabia" and "Ground Zero". [via]
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Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Centerby Eric DartonISBN 0465017274 (0-465-01727-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center'Book summary:When the World Trade Towers in New York City were erected at the Hudsons edge, they led the way to a real estate boom that was truly astonishing. Divided We Stand reveals the coming together and eruption of four volatile elements: super-tall buildings, financial speculation, globalization, and terrorism. The Trade Center serves as a potent symbol of the disastrous consequences of undemocratic planning and development.This book is a history of that skyscraping ambition and the impact it had on New York and international life. It is a portrait of a building complex that lives at the convergence point of social and economic realities central not only to New York City but to all industrial cities and suburbs. A meticulously researched historical account based on primary documents, Divided We Stand is a contemporary indictment of the prevailing urban order in the spirit of Jane Jacobss mid-century classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities.[via]More editions of Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center:
Eloise Takes a Bawthby Kay Thompson, Hilary Knight, Mart CrowleyISBN 0689842880 (0-689-84288-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Even the Wickedby Lawrence BlockISBN 0688141811 (0-688-14181-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Fablesby Bill WillinghamISBN 0613667662 (0-613-66766-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fables'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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Fall on Your Kneesby Ann-Marie MacDonaldISBN 1587242583 (1-58724-258-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fall on Your Knees: Library Edition'Book summary:Fall on Your Knees, award-winning actor and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald's sprawling and powerful first novel, reads like a literary soap opera, but one whose mature themes are far from the pulp and clichés of daytime television. Its episodic rises and falls have the same sort of page-turning, cliff-hanging appeal of that lesser medium. It never drags, never over-burdens the reader, and, most importantly, remains likeable and believable despite the many--and sometimes magical--twists and turns of its tale.
Fall on Your Knees tells the story of several generations of the Piper family of Cape Breton, beginning with the marriage of James Piper, the controlling, emotionally stunted son of Gaelic-speaking Scottish Canadians, and Materia Mahmoud, the 13-year-old daughter of wealthy Lebanese immigrants. Materia's father cuts her off from her family for marrying James, and James in turn forces her to deny both her heritage and her emotions. James, out of a spite even he fails to comprehend, focuses all his attention on Kathleen, his first-born and a musical prodigy. He dotes on her and sends her away to study opera in New York. However, Kathleen's unexpected return from New York, where she has made some discoveries that will ultimately turn her father against her, becomes the centre of an intricately plotted series of tragedies involving each of the Piper sisters. In a startlingly skilful manipulation of prose, MacDonald teases out clues, secrets, and revelations that are both delightful to discover and disturbing to consider. --Jonathan Dewar [via]
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- Fall on Your Knees: ISBN 0684838680 (0-684-83868-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Fall on Your Knees: ISBN 0743237188 (0-7432-3718-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Fall on Your Knees: ISBN 0743466527 (0-7434-6652-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated - Fall on Your Knees: ISBN 0684833204 (0-684-83320-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Fall on Your Knees: Library Edition: ISBN 0743237196 (0-7432-3719-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Fall on Your Knees: Library Edition: ISBN 1587242583 (1-58724-258-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Fat Kid Rules the Worldby K. L. GoingISBN 0399239901 (0-399-23990-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat Kid Rules the World'Book summary:[via]Troy Billings at 6'1", 296 pounds, is standing at the edge of a subway platform seriously contemplating suicide when he meets Curt MacCrae -a sage-like, semi-homeless punk guitar genius who also happens to be a drop-out legend at Troy's school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
"I saved your life. You owe me lunch," Curt tells Troy, and Troy can't imagine refusing; after all, think of the headline: FAT KID ARGUES WITH PIECE OF TWINE.
But with Curt, Troy gets more than he bargained for and soon finds himself recruited as Curt's drummer. "We'll be called Rage/Tectonic. Sort of a punk rock, Clash sort of thing," Curt informs him.
There's only one problem. Troy can't play the drums. Oh yes, and his father thinks Curt's a drug addict. And his brother thinks Troy's a loser. But with Curt, anything is possible. "You'll see," says Curt. "We're going to be HUGE."
In an outstanding, funny, edgy debut, K. L. Going presents two unlikely friends who ultimately save each other.
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Foley's Luck: Storiesby Tom ChiarellaISBN 0679409653 (0-679-40965-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foley's Luck: Stories'Book summary:A collection of eleven connected stories follows Dan Foley as he is initiated into his family's funeral business, attends college in St. Petersburg, Florida, transforms his brother's war tales into his own, and becomes obsessed with the girl at the theater's ticket window. A first collection. [via]
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Frommer's New York City for Free and Dirt Cheapby Ethan WolffISBN 076455932X (0-7645-5932-X)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Fury: A Novelby Salman RushdieISBN 0679783504 (0-679-78350-4)
Softcover, Random House, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fury: A Novel'Book summary:life is fury. Fury-sexual, oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb." malik solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees london for new york. There's a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in new york at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of america's wealth and power, seeking to "erase" himself. Eat me, america, he prays, and give me peace.but fury is all around him. Cabdrivers spout invective. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. His own thoughts, emotions, and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. A tall, green-eyed young blonde in a d'angelo voodoo baseball cap is in store for him. As is another woman, with whom he will fall in love and be drawn toward a different fury, whose roots lie on the far side of the world. Fury is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force. It is also an astonishing portrait of new york. Not since the bombay of midnight's children have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel. In his eighth novel, salman rushdie brilliantly entwines moments of anger and frenzy with those of humor, honesty, and intimacy. Fury is, above all, a masterly chronicle of the human condition [via]
Grand Central Winterby Lee StringerISBN 0671036548 (0-671-03654-8)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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The Great Bridgeby David G. McCulloughISBN 0671212133 (0-671-21213-3)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Bridge'Book summary:In the 19th century, the Brooklyn Bridge was viewed as the greatest engineering feat of mankind. The Roeblings--father and son--toiled for decades, fighting competitors, corrupt politicians, and the laws of nature to fabricate a bridge which, after 100 years, still provides one of the major avenues of access to one of the world's busiest cities--as compared to many bridges built at the same time which collapsed within decades or even years. It is refreshing to read such a magnificent story of real architecture and engineering in an era where these words refer to tiny bits and bytes that inspire awe only in their abstract consequences, and not in their tangible physical magnificence. [via]
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The Great Bridge Classic Editionby David McCulloughISBN 0743217373 (0-7432-1737-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Bridge Classic Edition'Book summary:In the 19th century, the Brooklyn Bridge was viewed as the greatest engineering feat of mankind. The Roeblings--father and son--toiled for decades, fighting competitors, corrupt politicians, and the laws of nature to fabricate a bridge which, after 100 years, still provides one of the major avenues of access to one of the world's busiest cities--as compared to many bridges built at the same time which collapsed within decades or even years. It is refreshing to read such a magnificent story of real architecture and engineering in an era where these words refer to tiny bits and bytes that inspire awe only in their abstract consequences, and not in their tangible physical magnificence. [via]
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridgeby David McCulloughISBN 067145711X (0-671-45711-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge'Book summary:In the 19th century, the Brooklyn Bridge was viewed as the greatest engineering feat of mankind. The Roeblings--father and son--toiled for decades, fighting competitors, corrupt politicians, and the laws of nature to fabricate a bridge which, after 100 years, still provides one of the major avenues of access to one of the world's busiest cities--as compared to many bridges built at the same time which collapsed within decades or even years. It is refreshing to read such a magnificent story of real architecture and engineering in an era where these words refer to tiny bits and bytes that inspire awe only in their abstract consequences, and not in their tangible physical magnificence. [via]
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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Centerby Daniel OkrentISBN 0670031690 (0-670-03169-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscanyby Bill BufordISBN 1400041201 (1-4000-4120-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heat: An Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany'Book summary:Bill Buford's funny and engaging book Heat offers readers a rare glimpse behind the scenes in Mario Batali's kitchen. Who better to review the book for Amazon.com, than Anthony Bourdain, the man who first introduced readers to the wide array of lusty and colorful characters in the restaurant business? We asked Anthony Bourdain to read Heat and give us his take. We loved it. So did he. Check out his review below. --Daphne Durham
Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain is host of the Discovery Channel's No Reservations, executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan, and author of the bestselling and groundbreaking Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, A Cook's Tour, Bone in the Throat, and many others. His latest book, The Nasty Bits will be released on May 16, 2006.
Heat is a remarkable work on a number of fronts--and for a number of reasons. First, watching the author, an untrained, inexperienced and middle-aged desk jockey slowly transform into not just a useful line cook--but an extraordinarily knowledgable one is pure pleasure. That he chooses to do so primarily in the notoriously difficult, cramped kitchens of New York's three star Babbo provides further sado-masochistic fun. Buford not only accurately and hilariously describes the painfully acquired techniques of the professional cook (and his own humiations), but chronicles as well the mental changes--the "kitchen awareness" and peculiar world view necessary to the kitchen dweller. By end of book, he's even talking like a line cook.Secondly, the book is a long overdue portrait of the real Mario Batali and of the real Marco Pierre White--two complicated and brilliant chefs whose coverage in the press--while appropriately fawning--has never described them in their fully debauched, delightful glory. Buford has--for the first time--managed to explain White's peculiar--almost freakish brilliance--while humanizing a man known for terrorizing cooks, customers (and Batali). As for Mario--he is finally revealed for the Falstaffian, larger than life, mercurial, frighteningly intelligent chef/enterpreneur he really is. No small accomplishment. Other cooks, chefs, butchers, artisans and restaurant lifers are described with similar insight.
Thirdly, Heat reveals a dead-on understanding--rare among non-chef writers--of the pleasures of "making" food; the real human cost, the real requirements and the real adrenelin-rush-inducing pleasures of cranking out hundreds of high quality meals. One is left with a truly unique appreciation of not only what is truly good about food--but as importantly, who cooks--and why. I can't think of another book which takes such an unsparing, uncompromising and ultimately thrilling look at the quest for culinary excellence. Heat brims with fascinating observations on cooking, incredible characters, useful discourse and argument-ending arcania. I read my copy and immediately started reading it again. It's going right in between Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and Zola's The Belly of Paris on my bookshelf. --Anthony Bourdain
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- Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany: ISBN 0786290579 (0-7862-9057-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press - Heat: An Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany: ISBN 1400041201 (1-4000-4120-1)
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Homelandsby Bill Willingham, David Hahn, Mark Buckingham, Lan MedinaISBN 1401205003 (1-4012-0500-3)
Softcover, DC Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homelands'Book summary:Collecting issues #34-41 of writer Bill Willingham's Eisner Award-winning creation, HOMELANDS follows Boy Blue on a mission of revenge as he uncovers the Adversary's true identity! Plus, the 2-part story of Jack's adventures in Hollywood and the one-shot story of Mowgli's return to Fabletown. [via]
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It's Kind of a Funny Story: A Novelby Ned VizziniISBN 078685197X (0-7868-5197-X)
Softcover, Talk Miramax Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It's Kind of a Funny Story: A Novel'Book summary:Like many smart, ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner seeks entry into Manhattans most prestigious school, Executive Pre-Professional High School. With single-minded determination, he works night and day to ace the entrance exam and gets in. Thats when everything starts to unravel. [via]
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The Killsby Linda FairsteinISBN 0743436687 (0-7434-3668-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kills'Book summary:From New York Times bestselling author and former top prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes an electrifying new thriller rich with the riveting behind-the-scenes authenticity that only she can offer....
It's going to be a tough trial. Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper's case, involving an attack on investment banker Paige Vallis, would be difficult to prove even without the latest development -- it seems that Paige has something to hide.
Most of her story is clear. She'd had dinner with New York consultant Andrew Tripping three times before the March evening when she accepted his invitation to accompany him to his apartment. But what occurred that night? Why didn't she leave the apartment when he started to act strangely? What about Tripping's little boy, Dulles? What happened to the child that fateful evening? And who is the strange man whose appearance in the courtroom seems to terrify Paige?
While Alex's police detective friend Mercer Wallace helps her learn more of the sad details behind the increasingly puzzling rape case, colleague Mike Chapman is uptown in a decaying Harlem brownstone where eighty-two-year-old McQueen Ransome has been murdered, her apartment ransacked.
What could this impoverished, elderly woman have possessed that could have inspired such violence? Photographs on the wall suggest that "Queenie" was once a beautiful and voluptuous young woman who traveled to faraway places. Could there be a clue to her murder in her exotic background?
Her murder will be only the first. Others follow, as the tragic strands of the Paige Vallis and McQueen Ransome cases begin to converge in a poignant alliance of two women from very different worlds.
Faced with formidable personal and professional choices, Alex must learn the old lesson that appearances can deceive, even as she heads for a showdown in which her wits and her courage will be tested as never before.
With its winning combination of courtroom drama, historical detail, and the intriguing lore of a rare object whose fabled provenance provides a glistening thread through the story, The Kills is powerful, stylish writing from a hugely appealing crime-writing star. [via]
Legends in Exileby Bill Willingham, Lan MedinaISBN 1563899426 (1-56389-942-6)
Softcover, DC Comics
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Love and Other Four-Letter Wordsby Carolyn MacklerISBN 044022831X (0-440-22831-X)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love and Other Four-Letter Words'Book summary:Until this summer, the biggest problems 16-year-old Samantha Davis faced were her embarrassingly large breasts, (nicknamed "the Grand Tetons after those mountains in Wyoming,") and the fact that her gorgeous best friend, Kitty, always made her feel like a Plain Jane: "It sounds awful, but if you saw a Jaguar and a Ford Taurus parked next to each other, which one would you want to drive?" But now Sammie's parents are splitting, and suddenly she is being assaulted by changes from every direction. She is forced to move from upstate New York to Manhattan, play nursemaid to her depressed mother, and suffer the utter boredom of not knowing anyone in a city of 8 million. But then she meets Eli, the cute "crunchy granola" son of her mom's friend, and Phoebe, the quirky girl in Central Park who categorizes people by the dog breed they resemble. Exposure to the urban scene, new friendships, and a developing sense of self cause Sammie to realize "that along with love comes other four-letter words. Like hate, obviously.... And gain. And most important, grow."
Like other recently published first novelists Lori Aurelia Williams (When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune) and Cat Bauer, (Harley: Like a Person), Carolyn Mackler convincingly captures all the drama, longing, and humor of 21st-century female adolescence. Fresh, funny, and completely irreverent, Love and Other Four-Letter Words is destined to find a place in the hearts of teenaged girls. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Lucia, Lucia: A Novelby Adriana TrigianiISBN 1400060052 (1-4000-6005-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucia, Lucia: A Novel'Book summary:It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City. Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is ripe with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altmans department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the society pages. Forced to choose between duty to her family and her own dreams, Lucia finds herself in the midst of a sizzling scandal in which secrets are revealed, her beloved career is jeopardized, and the Sartoris honor is tested. [via]
Magic or Madnessby Justine LarbalestierISBN 1595140220 (1-59514-022-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic or Madness'Book summary:For fifteen years, Reason Cansino has lived a life on the run. Together with her mother, Sarafina, she has moved from one place to another in the Australian countryside, desperate not to be found by Reason's grandmother Esmeralda, a dangerous woman who believes in magic. But when Sarafina suffers a breakdown, Reason is forced to move in with her grandmother in Sydney. The moment Reason walks through Esmeralda's back door and finds herself on a New York City street, she's confronted by an unavoidable truth-magic is real.[via]
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Manhattan Transferby John Dos PassosISBN 0395574234 (0-395-57423-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manhattan Transfer'Book summary:Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it.[via]
More than seventy-five years after its first publication, Manhattan Transfer still stands as "a novel of the very first importance" (Sinclair Lewis). It is a masterpeice of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream.
The Murder of Helen Jewettby Patricia Cline CohenISBN 0679740759 (0-679-74075-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New Yorkby Patricia Cline CohenISBN 0679412913 (0-679-41291-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York'Book summary:In 1836, the murder of young New York City prostitute Helen Jewett and the ensuing trial of her lover captivated the nation. Jewett (her real name was Dorcas Doyen; Jewett used many pseudonyms during her short life) was an archetypal 1830s model of fallen virtue. A bright, literate girl who worked as a servant for a respected Maine family, Jewett became "disgraced," losing her virginity outside of wedlock, and eventually taking up work as a prostitute in bustling New York City. One of her clients, Richard Robinson, was a young clerk of uncommon literary talent. The two exchanged a long series of letters, often loving and careful, then as quickly as a summer storm, they turned violent and angry. Early on the morning of April 10, 1836, Robinson stabbed Jewett to death in her brothel room and set fire to her bed. Robinson was eventually acquitted of the crime despite an overwhelming amount of evidence that both placed him at the scene and his hand on the murder weapon. The decision was universally reviled, and Robinson became an outcast who eventually exiled himself to Texas.
Cohen ably places this rather ordinary crime within the context of 19th-century urban life and the development of a fledgling tabloid journalism, showing just how people throughout America came to be shocked by a crime that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. The Murder of Helen Jewett is as much about mores and customs as it is about a lost soul. --Tjames Madison [via]
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New Art Cityby Jed PerlISBN 1400041317 (1-4000-4131-7)
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New York, New York: Apartmentsby Elizabeth B. HawesISBN 0805032584 (0-8050-3258-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattanby Jill LeporeISBN 1400032261 (1-4000-3226-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan'Book summary:New York Burning is a well-told tale of a once-notorious episode that took place in Manhattan in 1741. Though, as Jill Lepore writes, New York's "slave past has long been buried," for most of the 18th century one in five inhabitants of Manhattan were enslaved, making it second only to Charleston, South Carolina, "in a wretched calculus of urban unfreedom." Over the course of a few weeks in 1741, ten fires burned across Manhattan, sparking hysteria and numerous conspiracy rumors. Initially, rival politicians blamed each other for the blazes, but they soon found a common enemy. Based solely on the testimony of one white woman, some 200 slaves were accused of conspiring to burn down the city, murder the resident whites, and take over the local government. Under duress, 80 slaves confessed to the crimes and were forced to implicate others. When the trial was over, 13 black men were burned at the stake, 17 more were hanged (along with four whites accused of working with them), and 70 others were shipped off to the Caribbean where slavery conditions were even worse.
By necessity, Jill Lepore bases much of her research on a journal written in 1744 by New York Supreme Court Justice Daniel Horsmanden, which she describes as "one of the most startling and vexing documents in early American history" and "a diary, a mystery, a history, and maybe one of English literature's first detective stories." Adding cultural and political context to the available evidence, Lepore questions whether there was a conspiracy at all, or if it was blind fear run amok that led to the guilty verdicts for so many slaves. As she points out, fear of slave revolt was a real and consistent theme throughout the early days of the colonies. Crisply written and meticulously researched (the book includes several detailed appendices), New York Burning is a gripping narrative of events that led to what one colonist referred to as the "bonfires of the Negroes." --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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New York City Audubon Society Guide to Finding Birds in the Metropolitan Areaby Marcia T. Fowle, Paul Kerlinger, New York City Audubon Society StaffISBN 0801485657 (0-8014-8565-7)
Softcover, Cornell University Press
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New York Underground: The Anatomy of a Cityby Julia SolisISBN 0415950139 (0-415-95013-9)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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New York's 50 Best Places to Find Peace and Quietby Allan IshacISBN 0789308347 (0-7893-0834-7)
Softcover, Universe Publishing
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The Night Inspectorby Frederick BuschISBN 0449006158 (0-449-00615-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Inspector'Book summary:In his fiction, at least, Frederick Busch is no stranger to the Victorian era: his 1978 novel The Mutual Friend was a meticulous reconstruction of the Dickensian universe, right down to the last wisp of pea-soup fog. In The Night Inspector, he ventures an equally deep immersion in the past. This time, however, Busch takes us to post-Civil-War Manhattan, where a disfigured veteran named William Bartholomew rages against the Gilded Age--even as he demands remuneration for his own losses.
And what exactly has the narrator lost? As we learn in a sequence of flashbacks, Bartholomew served as a Union sniper, picking off stray Confederate soldiers in an extended bout of psychological warfare. Eventually, though, he received a taste of his own medicine, when a enemy bullet destroyed most of his face. Outfitted with an eerie papier-mâché mask, Bartholomew tends to shock postwar observers into silence:
I imagine I understand their reaction: the bright white mask, its profound deadness, the living eyes beneath--within--the holes, the sketched brows and gashed mouth, airholes embellished, a painting of a nose.... Nevertheless. I won this on your behalf, I am tempted to cry, or pretend to. The specie of the nation, the coin of the realm, our dyspeptic economy, the glister and gauge of American gold: I was hired to wear it!
Bartholomew has, it should be obvious, a formidable mastery of rhetoric. It's appropriate, then, that he should hook up with that supreme exponent of the American baroque, Herman Melville--who at this point is a burnt-out customs inspector (and candidate for some Victorian 12-step plan). Together these outcasts embark upon a plan to rescue a group of black children from their Florida servitude. This caper--along with Bartholomew's attachment to a gold-hearted, elaborately tattooed prostitute--allows the novel to veer in the direction of the penny dreadful. Yet Busch's mastery of period detail, and of the very shape of century-old syntax, remains extraordinary on every page. And true to its title, The Night Inspector is a superb investigation of darkness--in both the physical and psychological sense. "I was reckless," the narrator insists, "and born with great vision though not, alas, of the interior, spiritual sort." By the end of the novel, most readers will decide that he's undersold himself. --Bob Brandeis [via]
Peepsby Scott WesterfeldISBN 159514031X (1-59514-031-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Plays Well With Othersby Allan GurganusISBN 0394589149 (0-394-58914-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Parkby Marie WinnISBN 0679758461 (0-679-75846-1)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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Report from Ground Zeroby Dennis SmithISBN 0452283957 (0-452-28395-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Report from Ground Zero'Republic of Dreams : Greenwich Village: the American Bohemia, 1910-1960by Ross WetzsteonISBN 0684869950 (0-684-86995-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Republic of Dreams : Greenwich Village: the American Bohemia, 1910-1960'Book summary:New York's Greenwich Village, "the most significant square mile in American cultural history" and "home of half the talent and half the eccentricity in the country," is the subject of Ross Wetzsteon's Republic of Dreams, an enthusiastic and rigorous biography of place. From the Village sprung American socialism, gay liberation, the YMCA, the American Civil Liberties Union, The Reader's Digest, the phrase "I heard it through the grapevine," the Colt .45 revolver, and America's first night court, for starters. It was in the Village where Kahlil Gibran wrote The Prophet and the buffalo nickel was designed. Wetzsteon is primarily interested in the place between the years 1910 (when, he says, it became a "self-conscious bohemian and radical community") and 1960, when cultural boundaries "blurred" and the "hegemony of 'the normal'" disappeared. This is not a "walking tour" of famous hangouts so much as a portrait built on a chronological series of richly detailed biographies of Village denizens renowned, notorious, and relatively obscure, including Max Eastman, E.E. Cummings, Jackson Pollock and other abstract expressionists, a Who's Who of American feminists, Eugene O'Neill, and Mabel Dodge. Wetzsteon, who died in 1998, revels in the Village's inherent chaos, contradictions, and mutation, and never succumbs to "golden age" nostalgia. As his daughter writes in an afterword, "the Village is dead; long live the Village." Republic of Dreams, eminently readable, unflaggingly perceptive, and immaculately researched, is, arguably, the seminal study to date of America's most fertile literary, artistic, and political geographical dot. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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Republic of Dreams : Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1915-1950by Ross WetzsteonISBN 0684869969 (0-684-86996-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squadby Stacy HornISBN 0670034193 (0-670-03419-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Shopaholic Takes Manhattanby Sophie KinsellaISBN 0440241812 (0-440-24181-2)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shopaholic Takes Manhattan'Book summary:The irresistible heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot is back! And this time Becky Bloomwood and her credit cards are headed across the Atlantic.... With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky's biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. And worse, figuring out how to pack light. But packing takes on a whole new meaning when Luke announces he's moving to New York for business-and he asks Becky to go with him! Before you can say "Prada sample sale," Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury boutiques. Surely it's only a matter of time until she becomes an American TV celebrity, and she and Luke are the toast of Gotham society. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Becky's bills miles away in London. But then an unexpected disaster threatens her career prospects, her relationship with Luke, and her available credit line! Shopaholic Takes Manhattan-but will she have to return it? [via]
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The Sins of the Fathersby Lawrence BlockISBN 0913165662 (0-913165-66-2)
Hardcover, Dark Harvest Books
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Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0679736379 (0-679-73637-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophie's Choice'Book summary:Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make. [via]
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The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Originsby Henry MoscowISBN 0823212750 (0-8232-1275-0)
Softcover, Fordham University Press
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Taxi Driver Wisdomby Risa Mickenberg, Joanna DuganISBN 0811811654 (0-8118-1165-4)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taxi Driver Wisdom'Book summary:Hail a taxi cab, open the door to a burst of easy listening music, breathe in the poppy air freshener, lean over the seat, and say hello to the next Jean Paul Sartre or Kahlil Gibran. Taxi Driver Wisdom takes readers behind the Plexiglass curtain with pearls of wisdom from the most multicultural, multiethnic, multireligious group of philosophers ever assembled: New York Cab drivers. Atmospheric black and white photographs are paired with pithy quotes from downtown Descartes and freeway Foucaults-and bound with a faux leather cover just like the finest cab upholstery. Cheaper than an ashram and less of a hassle than Freudian analysis, Taxi Driver Wisdom is the shortest possible route to enlightenment. You may never want to take the bus again. [via]
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Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerieby Holly BlackISBN 0689868235 (0-689-86823-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie'Book summary:When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet. When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming. Bestselling author Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love. [via]
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When the Sacred Ginmill Closesby Lawrence BlockISBN 0816142440 (0-8161-4244-0)
Hardcover, Thomson Gale
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The Young Unicornsby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0440999197 (0-440-99919-7)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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