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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Rudy Giuliani	Andrew Kirtzman	"During his reign as the mayor of New York, the controversial Giuliani has been called many names. But after September 11, 2001, New York had new words to describe him. In this edition, political rep…	OL15839614W
Folklore and Legends of Rochester	Michael T. Keene	"Born from the chilly waters of Lake Ontario and the Genesee River, Rochester, New York, has been the cradle of the modern spiritualist an anti-Masonic movements and religious sects and communes. Thi…	OL15979901W
'Tis	Frank McCourt	A sequel to Angela's Ashes, following on the memoirs of Frank McCourt. The story of Frank continues from when he first arrives in America.	OL16050892W
Scribblin' for a Livin'	Thomas J. Reigstad	In August 1869, 33-year-old journalist Samuel Clemens -- or as he was later known, Mark Twain -- moved to Buffalo, New York. At the time, he had high hopes of establishing himself as a successful new…	OL17187838W
Mrs. Astor regrets	Meryl Gordon	Details the later years of Brooke Astor, an American socialite and philanthropist, and describes how her grandson Philip took legal action against his father, Anthony Marshall Astor, in order to remo…	OL17744997W
After Woodstock	Elliot Tiber	During the summer of 69, Elliot Tiber helped start the gay liberation movement and saved the Woodstock Festival from cancellation. But some of the best and most significant events of Tiber s life did…	OL17873426W
My ambulance education	Joseph F. Clark	This is the brutally honest story of an emergency medical technician. At 18, the author started working as an ambulance attendant to pay his way through college. For the next seven years he worked Ne…	OL18727461W
Surpassing certainty	Janet Mock	"Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world--without a road map to guide her. The journey begins a few m…	OL19712272W
Arbitrary Stupid Goal	Tamara Shopsin	"'Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world--when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York…	OL19713215W
Street warrior	Friedman, Ralph (Police detective)	x, 262 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm	OL19713262W
The stowaway	Julie Sibony,Laurie Gwen Shapiro	The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica. It …	OL19729654W
Honky	Dalton Conley	"This memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the de…	OL1998365W
He killed them all	Jeanine Pirro	"Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro offers the transfixing true story of her tireless fifteen-year investigation into accused murderer Robert Durst for the disappearance of his wife Kathleen Durst"--	OL20017306W
The butler's child	Lewis M. Steel	"The Butler's Child is the personal story of a Warner Brothers family grandson who spent more than fifty years as a fighting, no holds barred civil rights lawyer. Lewis explores why he, a privileged …	OL20030083W
Scream	Tama Janowitz	"In Scream, her first memoir, Janowitz recalls the quirky literary world of young downtown New York in the go-go 1980s and reflects on her life today far away from the city indelible to her work. As …	OL20036678W
Almost a woman	Esmeralda Santiago	"Author's third novel and a long-awaited sequel to her first autobiographical novel, Cuando era puertorriqueña. She continues to chronicle her life as she leaves her childhood behind and enters adul…	OL20541W
Where there's smoke, there's dinner	Regi Carpenter	These honest tales - some hilarious, some heartbreaking - celebrate the glorious and gut-wrenching lives of four generations of Carpenters raised on the St. Lawrence River in Clayton, New York.	OL20868559W
Cleaving	Julie Powell	Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher shop where sh…	OL21423962W
Panther Baby	Jamal Joseph	One of the many stories of the Black Panther Party by a New York City member.	OL21465013W
Freedom journey	Edythe Ann Quinn	"The story of thirty-six African American men who drew upon their shared community of The Hills for support as they fought in the Civil War. Through wonderfully detailed letters, recruit rosters, and…	OL23186009W