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  • A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

    • ASIN: 0767926889
    • ISBN: 0767926889
    • Brand: Brand: Broadway Books
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    “The girl with Bob Dylan on the cover of Freewheelin’ broke a forty-five-year silence with this affectionate and dignified recalling of a relationship doomed by Dylan’s growing fame.” –UNCUT magazine Suze Rotolo chronicles her coming of age in Greenwich Village during the 1960s and the early days of the folk music explosion, when Bob Dyla... [Read More]

  • Beat Generation in New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City

    • ASIN: 0872863255
    • ISBN: 0872863255
    • Brand: Brand: City Lights Publishers
    • Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

  • The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table

    • ASIN: 1400040418
    • ISBN: 1400040418
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-four mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic southern dishes passed down through genera... [Read More]

  • It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered

    • ASIN: 0718039858
    • ISBN: 0718039858
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

    New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst unveils her heart amid shattering circumstances and shows readers how to live assured when life doesn't turn out like they expected.What do you do when God’s timing seems questionable, His lack of intervention hurtful, and His promises doubtful?Life often looks so very different than we hoped or e... [Read More]

  • An African in Greenland (New York Review Books Classics)

    • ASIN: 0940322889
    • ISBN: 9780940322882
    • Brand: Brand: NYRB Classics
    • Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

    Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland—and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderf... [Read More]

  • An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City

    • ASIN: 0813033233
    • ISBN: 0813033233
    • Brand: Brand: University Press of Florida
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Florida

    In the mid-1980s, a relatively new immigrant stream from Brazil began to arrive in New York City. Like other immigrant populations, many of the new arrivals were undocumented, but, unlike other groups, most were from middle-class backgrounds and few wished to extend their stay beyond a few years.

  • To Be Young Was Very Heaven: Women in New York Before the First World War

    • ASIN: 0312223358
    • ISBN: 0312223358
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

    In the years before World War I, New York City's Greenwich Village was a place of great artistic and political ferment. Political causes attracted throngs of supporters. Artistic movements filled cafes and restaurants with boisterous conversation. And for the first time, women began to seize power and shape the landscape of the time: Margaret Sange... [Read More]

  • September 11, 2001: A Record of Tragedy, Heroism, and Hope

    • ASIN: 0810905620
    • ISBN: 0810905620
    • Brand: Brand: Harry N. Abrams
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    Chronicles the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the rescue efforts that followed.

  • The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village

    • UPC: 884234307643
    • ASIN: 0816645248
    • ISBN: 0816645248
    • Brand: Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press
    • Manufacturer: Univ Of Minnesota Press

    "A very moving, intensely fascinating literary biography from an extraordinary writer. Thoroughly admirable candor and luminous stylistic precision; the artist as a young man and a memorable picture of an age." -William Gibson"Absolutely central to any consideration of black manhood. . . . Delany's vision of the necessity for total social and polit... [Read More]

  • New York: 365 Days

    • ASIN: 0810949423
    • ISBN: 0810949423
    • Brand: Brand: Harry N. Abrams
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    Spanning more than 100 years, New York: 365 Days is a spectacular collection of then-and-now photographs that capture the rhythms and moods of the greatest city in the world. Selected from the vast archive of The New York Times, the extraordinary images in this book include many rarely-seen moments, with stops at famous landmarks and memorable even... [Read More]

  • A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics)

    • ASIN: 0940322471
    • ISBN: 0940322471
    • Brand: Brand: NYRB Classics
    • Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

  • The Forgotten Village: The most gripping, heartwrenching page-turner of summer 2019

    • ASIN: B07J2DY4KW
    • Manufacturer: Avon

    THE NUMBER ONE EBOOK BESTSELLERA timeless story of love and sacrifice. If you liked THE MISSING SISTER, you’ll love THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE.'I was so absorbed that I read it in a single day' KATE RIORDAN, author of The Girl in the Photograph1943: The world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give ... [Read More]

  • Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

    • ASIN: 0465026214
    • ISBN: 0465026214
    • Brand: Basic Books AZ
    • Manufacturer: Basic Books

    Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to ha... [Read More]

  • War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 (New York Review Books Classics)

    • ASIN: B077RJ5LGD
    • Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

    In the Second World War, Italy was torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the Allied invasion. In a corner of Tuscany, one woman—born in England, married to an Italian—kept a record of daily life in a country at war. Iris Origo’s powerful diary, War in Val d’Orcia, is the spare and vivid account of what happened when a peaceful fa... [Read More]

  • Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920 (Women in American History)

    • ASIN: 0252072820
    • ISBN: 0252072820
    • Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press

    Habits of Compassion is a study of Irish-Catholic Sisters'tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations inNew York City from the famine through the early 20th century.Maureen Fitzgerald argues that it was these nuns' championing of therights of the poor--especially poor women--that resulted in an explosionof state-supported serv... [Read More]

  • Murder in Greenwich Village (A Louise Faulk Mystery Book 1)

    • ASIN: B075C3LRDB
    • Manufacturer: Kensington Books

    A year before World War I breaks out, the sidewalks of Manhattan are crowded with restless newcomers chasing the fabled American Dream, including a sharp-witted young woman who discovers a talent for investigating murder . . . New York City, 1913. Twenty-year-old Louise Faulk has fled Altoona, Pennsylvania, to start a life under dizzying lights. I... [Read More]

  • The Houses of Greenwich Village

    • ASIN: 0810995204
    • ISBN: 0810995204
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    With its patchwork of secluded courtyards, gardens and narrow tree-lined streets, New York’s Greenwich Village is one of the very few neighborhoods that still retains the charm and timelessness of old New York. In this overview of houses from the early nineteenth century to contemporary Modernist examples, Kevin Murphy explores the architecture a... [Read More]

  • In and Out of Vogue

    • ASIN: 0385426135
    • ISBN: 0385426135
    • Manufacturer: Doubleday

    The author recounts her rise from Macy's saleswoman to creator of Mirabella magazine, describing her celebrated dismissal as editor of Vogue and offering a behind-the-scenes look at New York's beau monde. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

  • Notable New York: The West Side & Greenwich Village: A Walking Guide to the Historic Homes of Famous (and Infamous) New Yorkers (Notable New York series)

    • ASIN: 1892147114
    • ISBN: 1892147114
    • Brand: Brand: Marlor Press
    • Manufacturer: Marlor Press

    The excitement surrounding Manhattan's most memorable residents can be felt on almost any street in New York, as demonstrated in this guide to what-happened-where on the West Side. Featuring 34 walking tours that last from 15 to 90 minutes each, the book offers guide maps as well as brief anecdotes or descriptions of events featuring famous (or inf... [Read More]

  • Frommer's EasyGuide to New York City 2019

    • ASIN: B07BBQSLD6
    • Manufacturer: FrommerMedia - FrommerMedia - FrommerMedia

    Pauline Frommer's highly-personal guide to her own home city has, in previous editions, twice been named "Best Guidebook of the Year" by the North American Travel Journalists Association. It has been the best-selling guide to the city for the last four years. Though she deals with luxury choices as well as bargains, she makes a special effort to ov... [Read More]

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