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When her father dies in 1939, Mary's indomitable Irish mother puts a classified ad in the "Bronx Home News": "Furnished rooms! Kitchen Privileges!" ... More

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Among the facets of novelist and critic Jerome Charyn's literary career is his status as an observer and historian of the cinema. In this ... More

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A remembrance of a neighborhood with all vignettes radiating from a bakery.

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Growing from a piece in "The New Yorker, " this heartbreaking story tells of a paper mill project derailed by everything from international finance ... More

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With this engaging and thoughtful examination of her difficult early years, the author breathes messy life into the issues of poverty and welfare ... More

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Jerome Charyn's three-part memoir of his boyhood in the Bronx has all the imagery and color of an enchanting and entertaining novel -- someone has ... More

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Gordon's powerful, poignant saga goes behind the gates of a powerful American dynasty--the Astors--to tell of three generations' worth of longing and ... More

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Written by the co-owner of the construction company which built the World Trade Center, this fascinating account tells of the Karl Koch Erecting ... More

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Beckerman takes a wry, poignant look at one woman's life, as seen through the clothes that expressed her hopes and dreams--from a Brownie uniform to ... More

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The inspiring true story of Clara Lemlich, a young immigrant girl in early 20th-century New York who led the biggest strike of women workers in U.S. ... More

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Title: The old merchants of New York City.Author: Joseph Alfred ScovillePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed ... More

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In the 1960s he exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground. Today he's chair of their School of the Arts film ... More

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The authorized, illustrated "social" history of New York's legendary Upper East Side watering hole and stomping ground of the world's top literati ... More

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Mary Cantwell, who has been a writer and editor at Mademoiselle and Vogue and a writer at the New York Times, gives us an elegant and lyrical ... More

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With this engaging and thoughtful examination of her difficult early years, the author breathes messy life into the issues of poverty and welfare ... More

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The first biography of business mastermind and ubermayor Michael Bloomberg, written by an award-winning veteran "New York Times" reporter

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This is the true story of Staten Island bad boy Louis Pasciuto's meteoric rise to the top of Wall Street's chop houses--by the award-winning ... More

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Sarena Straus was a prosecutor in the Office of the Bronx District Attorney's office, one of approximately 400 Assistant District Attorneys working ... More

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