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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
by Jane Leavy
Publisher: Thorndike Press 2003
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In an era when too many heroes have been toppled from too many pedestals, Sandy Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declined his own celebrity. As a pitcher, he was sublime, the ace of baseball lore. As a human being, he aspired to be the one... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Short Sweet Dream Of Eduardo Gutierrez
by Jimmy Breslin
Publisher: Crown Publishers 2002
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The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez is Jimmy Breslin’s most passionate and hard-hitting book to date. A work of conscience that travels from San Matías Cuatchatyotla, a small dusty town in central Mexico, to the cold and wet streets of... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Snow in August
by Pete Hamill
Publisher: Warner Books 1998
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A young Irish Catholic boy growing up in Brooklyn makes a deal with a rabbi in his neighborhood: Michael will teach Rabbi Hirsch about baseball and help him improve his English; in return, the rabbi will teach the boy Yiddish. This strange compact ends... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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State Of The Union: New York And The Civil War
by Harold Holzer
Publisher: Fordham University Press and New York State Archives Partnership Trust 2002
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This book pays long-needed attention to the neglected subject of New York's role in the Civil War with a series of compelling essays by top Civil War historians. Chapters focus on such diverse subjects as changing race and gender relations on the home... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Stories Of Freedom In Black New York
by Shane White
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2002
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Stories of Freedom in Black New York recreates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black community strove to realize what freedom meant, to find a new... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Street Graphics New York
by Barry Dawson
Publisher: Thames & Hudson 2003
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New York is the world capital of street graphics--a creative kalcidoscope of urban ephemera in the form of signs, symbols, graffiti, murals, and advertising. Its innovative ideas, styles, and mediums quickly become international. Street Graphics New York... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Sunday Jews
by Hortense Calisher
Publisher: Harcourt 2002
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Hortense Calisher has been hailed as "stand[ing] vividly with Cather and Fitzgerald" (Cynthia Ozick). In this, her latest and most lauded novel, she explores a family united in blood yet divided by ideas. Son Charles hopes to be a Supreme Court justice;... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Sylvia's Violin: The Amber Eye
by David Manning
Publisher: dhm imPRESSions 2010
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Sylvia Solo is a seventh-grade student at an ultra-expensive private school that she attends by virtue of a violin scholarship. As part of a class assignment, Sylvia visits the Metropolitan Museum's ancient Egyptian collection. While there in Perneb’s... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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A Thing (or Two) about Curtis and Camilla
by Nick Fowler
Publisher: Vintage Books USA 2003
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From the moment her daschund humped his leg on a Soho street, aspiring rock star/subway performer Curtis Birnbaum knew he was a goner. He sensed Camilla was a woman who would equally inspire and terrify him. And, miraculously, his ploys for her affection... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Time and Again
by Jack Finney
Publisher: Touchstone Books 1995
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"Sleep. And when you awake everything you know of the twentieth century will be gone from your mind. Tonight is January 21, 1882. There are no such things as automobiles, no planes, computers, television. 'Nuclear' appears in no dictionary. You have... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Publisher: Perennial (HarperCollins) 1998
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The American classic about a young girl's coming of age at the turn of the century.
"A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life...If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
by David Von Drehle
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press 2003
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On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it spread to consume the building's upper three stories. Firemen at the scene were... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
by Michael Sorkin
Publisher: Reaktion Books 2009
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The walk from my apartment in Greenwich Village to my studio in Tribeca takes about twenty minutes, depending upon the route and whether I stop for a coffee and the Times. Invariably, though, it begins with a trip down the stairs.
And so sets out... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Under the Cope of Heaven
by Patricia U. Bonomi
Publisher: Oxford University Press 2003
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In this pathbreaking study, Patricia Bonomi argues that religion was as instrumental as either politics or the economy in shaping early American life and values. Looking at the middle and southern colonies as well as at Puritan New England, Bonomi finds... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Underneath New York
by Harry Granick
Publisher: Fordham University Press 1991
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This 1947 classic, the first book to describe the anatomy of a modern city, has been reissued with an up-to-date introduction. The fact that the text itself is dated (describing for example, the city's telegraph infrastructure) makes this book all the... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Unexpected New York
by Sandy Miller
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group 2010
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This well-written and sumptuously illustrated book is filled with surprises that add texture and richness to life in the Big Apple. Wild peacocks, parrots, and raccoons rather than the Bronx Zoo; cricket, lawn bowling, surfboarding, and pistol shooting... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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The Upper West Side
by Michael Susi
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing 2009
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The Upper West Side of Manhattan, the residential and retail neighborhood between Central Park and the Hudson River, is famous for its liberalism, cosmopolitan culture, and appetizing. It is a neighborhood as diverse in its population as it is in its... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Voices from the Harlem Renaissance
by Nathan Irvi Huggins
Publisher: Oxford University Press 1995
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The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s symbolized black liberation and sophistication - the final shaking off of slavery from the minds, spirits, and characters of African Americans. It was a period when the African American came of age - when the "New... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Walt Whitman: A Life
by Justin Kaplan
Publisher: HarperCollins 2003
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Whitman's genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Kaplan examines the mysterious selves of the enigmatic man who celebrated the... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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War At Home: A Novel
by Nora Eisenberg
Publisher: Leapfrog Press ; Distributed in the U.S. by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution 2002
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Billed as a "memoir novel," this book by Bronx native Eisenberg is a tenderly written yet harrowing portrayal of a family's disintegration in the years after World War II. Lucy Lehman is just a child when her father returns from the war. According to... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Water for Gotham: A History
by Gerard T. Koeppel
Publisher: Princeton University Press 2001
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Water for Gothamtells the spirited story of New York's evolution as a great city by examining its struggle for that vital and basic element--clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal narratives, and anecdotes, Gerard Koeppel demonstrates how... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan
by Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Crown Publishers 2004
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Fusing history, lore, politics, culture, and on-site adventures, esteemed essayist and author Phillip Lopate takes us on an exuberant, affectionate, and eye-opening excursion around Manhattan’s shoreline. Waterfront captures the ever-changing character... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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The Waterworks
by E. L. Doctorow
Publisher: Plume Books 1997
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In 1871, Martin Pemberton disappeared after seeing his father, long presumed dead, ride by on an omnibus. Embarking on a search for the missing man 20 years after the fact, a gruff newspaperman searches through the seamy underside of New York City. Read Reviews | Write a Review
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When Boxing was a Jewish Sport
by Allen Bodner
Publisher: Praeger 1997
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This is a splendid oral history of a time between World War I and World War II when Jewish athletes were the dominant ethnic group in professional boxing in the United States. The author draws on his own personal experience in New York City's fight... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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When Brooklyn was the world
by Wilensky, Elliot
Publisher: Harmony 1986
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Around the corner. The next block. Across the At the end of the line. Borough Park. Gowanus. Flatbush. Canarsie. Ridgewood. Greenpoint. Brownsville. Bay Ridge. Bensonhurst. City Line. What was the place called Brooklyn really like back then... when... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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When Harlem Was in Vogue
by David Leverin Lewis
Publisher: Penguin Books 1997
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The decade and a half that followed World War I was a time of tremendous optimism in Harlem. It was a time when Langston Hughes, Eubie Blake, Marcus Garvey, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, and countless others made their indelible mark on the landscape... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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When Sex Was Dirty
by Josh Alan Friedman
Publisher: Feral House 2004
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From the author of the revered Tales of Times Square, here's reporting from licentious New York City of the 1980s-a compelling assortment of pimp laureates, porn starlets, evangelical starlets, bizarre 42nd Street inhabitants, "the Strikeout King," and... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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White Boy: A Memoir
by Mark Naison
Publisher: Temple University Press 2002
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For our generation, writes Fordham University African-American studies professor Naison, part of becoming American was becoming culturally black.' In this forthright and thoughtful memoir, Naison (Communists in Harlem During the Depression), who became,... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Who Needs Donuts?
by Mark Alan Stamaty
Publisher: Random House Children's Books 2003
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First published 30 years ago, and out of print for almost that long, this masterpiece of the absurd by the noted "The New York Times Book Review" political cartoonist is reissued. Illustrations. Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Winter's Tale
by Mark Helprin
Publisher: Harvest Books 1995
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A bestseller that takes readers on a journey to New York of the Belle Epoque, where Peter Lake attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between the middle-aged Irishman and Beverly Penn, a... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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World's Fair
by E. L. Doctorow
Publisher: Plume Books 1996
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New York is the setting and a central character in this wonderfully moving and evocative novel of a boy growing up and a family surviving in the 1930s. Told in the voices of its young protoganist, his mother, and his older brother, the story unfolds... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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The WPA Guide to New York City
by William H Whyte
Publisher: New Press 1995
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This marvelous guide to New York was hailed by the New York Times in 1995 as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. Originally published in 1939 at the time of the World's Fair, the book was reviewed as "useful, broadly informative, and... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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