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Best-known for his classic memoir The Duke of Deception, Wolff is one of America's most elegant and perceptive writers about families. This powerful ... More

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This third book in the epic story of the Woods family that began in "In the Time of the Wolves" is set in the United States of 1850. The country is ... More

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Written in a fine, clear style that is not in the least dated, this is the riveting, comic, and ultimately very moving account of a man caught up in ... More

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In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she ... More

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It's 1910. You're a Jewish immigrant living on the Lower East Side. You should thank Columbus?

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Ben has always dreamed of becoming a cowboy, but after he and his family move from the West to New York City, they must give up their ranch. Then Ben ... More

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Originally published in 1950 by Farrar & Rinehart.

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In the tradition of The Alienist, Scarlet Women evokes the raffish depths beneath the prim Victorian facade of New York City in the 1870s. An ... More

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Kerr creates a compelling portrait of Depression-era America, in this story of an unlikely friendship between Elisa, a young girl whose home country ... More

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A 1940s NYC boy talks with Mondrian, known only as Mr. Orange, about the war, the future, creativity, and color.

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More than anything, Rosina wants to be a modern American girl. But how can she when everything around her on Mulberry Street is Italian. In this ... More

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Sent by the Fresh Air Fund from New York City to a small Vermont farm during the summer of 1910, Jewish immigrant Dossi (from "Faraway Summer") ... More

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Rebecca Rubin is a lively nine-year-old girl growing up in a big Jewish family in New York in 1914. She dreams of becoming an actress, but her ... More

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In 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy and his committee are throwing Americans in jail for being Communists. When the truth comes out about Jamie's father ... More

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Fiction. This collection of eleven short stories depicts poor, rural characters in upstate New York, struggling to maintain balance and personal ... More

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Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood.

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Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. ... More

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'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian Set in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the ... More

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An exploration of one man's ride to success and the price it exacts from him.

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The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When ... More

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Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a seedy section of Brooklyn. When Sophie is bitten by a possibly rabid cat, the threatening nature of the Bentwoods ... More

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