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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2011
A DECADE OF HOPE: STORIES OF GRIEF AND ENDURANCE FROM 9/11 FAMILIES AND FRIENDS
by Dennis Smith
"A stirring tapestry of real-life heroes."
The 10th anniversary of 9/11 is memorialized through 25 heartrending accounts of loss and resilience. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 2, 2010
A VOICE FROM OLD NEW YORK: A MEMOIR OF MY YOUTH
by Louis Auchincloss
"An anthropological guide to the phantom politesse of Old New York, rendered as neatly as ever."
The prolific author's last book is a farewell to a way of life that was gone before he was. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 5, 2008
SCHOOLED
by Anisha Lakhani
"A fun read that could use more snap."
A young Manhattan teacher falls in love with all the glitz that other people's money can buy in this debut novel from Lakhani, a one-time teacher at an elite Upper East Side school. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 3, 2005
GONE TO NEW YORK: ADVENTURES IN THE CITY
by Ian Frazier
"A vivid collection of essays expertly blending reporting, history, humor and one man's abiding affection for a city's quirks. "
Generous slices of New York wry, from humorist/essayist Frazier (The Fish's Eye, 2002, etc.). Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2004
Kirkus Star THE PROPHET OF LOVE: AND OTHER TALES OF POWER AND DECEIT
by Elizabeth Kolbert
"Choice political journalism. "
Observant, quicksilver explorations of the Big Apple's political landscape. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 21, 2003
Kirkus Star THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK: A CITY IN THIRTEEN PARTS
by Colson Whitehead
"Poetry in paragraphs."
As ebullient as Walt Whitman and as succinct as Emily Dickinson, a young novelist (John Henry Days, 2001, etc.) looses his five senses on his native New York City--and allows the sixth some play, as well. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 4, 2002
SHOPAHOLIC TAKES MANHATTAN
by Sophie Kinsella
"Lackluster."
Rebecca Bloomwood is back, and she still owes everybody money: a rehash of the much funnier Confessions of a Shopaholic (2001). Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2001
THE POST’S NEW YORK: CELEBRATING 200 YEARS OF NEW YORK CITY AS SEEN THROUGH THE PAGES OF THE NEW YORK POST
edited by Antonia Felix
"History doesn't get easier to take than this."
Top-notch compilation celebrating 200 years of New York City news as seen in the pages of the New York Post, with half-tones and line art throughout. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2001
Kirkus Star THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN’S PIER
by Ann Packer
"Lucid prose limns complicated people whose dilemmas illuminate crucial moral choices, large and small. Very fine fiction indeed."
From short-story author Packer (Mendocino, 1994), a reflective and probing first novel about a young woman reassessing her life after her fiancé is crippled. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 9, 1998
THE KGB BAR READER
edited by Ken Foster
"A round from one of New York's newest literary lions' dens."
Short stories and essays, original publications, reprints; and selections from the KGB reading series itself all belly up to the literary bar in this anthology. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 1996
SEX AND THE CITY
by Candace Bushnell

 Fascinating and haunting insights into the love lives of the rich and randy in New York. Read full book review >