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Inside the helmet
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Michael Strahan,Jay Glazer,Michael Strahan |
Just in time for the 2007 season: One of the finest defensive players ever to wear an NFL uniform delivers the first truly authentic, hard-hitting, revelatory portrait of America's most popular sport… |
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The New York Colony
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Dennis B. Fradin |
Traces the history of the Dutch colony beginning with the years it was inhabited only by Indians to the time it became the eleventh state. Includes biographical sketches on famous New Yorkers such as… |
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The council of dads
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Bruce Feiler |
Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would the… |
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Them
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Francine du Plessix Gray |
At the height of their fame, Alexander Liberman and Tatiana du Plessix Gray were the grandest power couple in the New York City fashion world, gifted Russian emigres who consorted with Dali and Dietr… |
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I am not myself these days
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Josh Kilmer-Purcell |
An advertising executive describes how he moonlighted as a drag queen performing in nighclubs, detailing a surreal odyssey into Manhattan's dark underbelly as it chronicles his relationship with his … |
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Katie up and down the hall
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Glenn Plaskin |
"The heartwarming true story of how one special cocker spaniel turned four strangers into family"--Provided by publisher. |
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The misadventures of Marvin
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Marvin Druger |
xi, 181 p. : 20 cm |
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Village of immigrants
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Diana R. Gordon |
"Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, exemplifies a little-noted national trend--that of immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural populati… |
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The broken and the whole
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Charles S. Sherman |
"A wise, uplifting memoir about a rabbi's search for understanding and his discovery of hope and joy after his young son suffered a catastrophic brain-stem stroke that left him a quadriplegic and dep… |
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Saving Simon
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Jon Katz |
In the spring of 2011, Jon Katz received a phone call from an animal control officer who had found a neglected donkey on a farm in upstate New York. She hoped that Jon and his wife, Maria, would be w… |
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Too close to the falls
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Catherine Gildiner |
"Meet Cathy - she started full-time work at four to cure her hyperactivity. Her best friend is 30 years older and obsessed with gambling; her mother looks the part of a perfect 50s housewife but refu… |
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weiter leben
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Ruth Klüger |
Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence destroyed. Despite her shattered childhood, Kluger eventually reclaimed her life. A coming-o… |
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Pagan time
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Micah Perks |
""Sometimes it seems like I've spent my life searching for the words that will open my childhood for you. It's always the same - even as I'm trying to use my story to knock down the wall between us, … |
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The Girl I Left Behind
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Judith Nies |
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the spee… |
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Mrs. Harris
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Diana Trilling |
Chronicles the trial of Jean Harris for the murder of her long-time lover, the author of the Scarsdale diet. |
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Pied Piper
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James Gollin |
"Noah Greenberg's life story reads like a gritty Jack London or Theodore Dreiser romance, set against the backdrop of New York's political and cultural scene. Born and raised in the Bronx, the child … |
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Number Phonics
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Karen Louise Davidson |
Karen Louise Davidson is a public school teacher, a homeschooling mother to her seven children, and a tutor of remedial reading. She searched for many years for a program that would best help her stu… |
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How Starbucks Saved My Life
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Michael Gates Gill,Michael Gill |
In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a big house in the suburbs, a loving family, and a top job at an ad agency with a six-figure salary. By the time he turned sixty, he had lost everything… |
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The Birthday Party
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Stanley N. Alpert |
On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley N. Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan by a car full of gun-toting thugs looking to use his … |
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The Mighty Queens of Freeville
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Amy Dickinson |
Millions of Americans know and love Amy Dickinson from reading her syndicated advice column “Ask Amy” and from hearing her wit and wisdom weekly on National Public Radio. Amy’s audience loves her for… |
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