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Breaking ground, breaking silence
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Joyce Hansen |
Describes the discovery and study of the African burial site found in Manhattan in 1991, while excavating for a new building, and what it reveals about the lives of black people in Colonial times. |
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl
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Daniel Stashower |
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later… |
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A trap for fools
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Amanda Cross |
Murder in the academy |
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After all these years
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Susan Isaacs |
E-book extra: "To the Mystery!," a speech to the Mystery Writers of America by Susan Isaacs.Another model marriage ends with a corpse in the kitchen, and a spouse on the run. People magazine: "Isaacs… |
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Lion dancer
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Kate Waters,Madeline Slovenz-Low |
Describes six-year-old Ernie Wong's preparations, at home and in school, for the Chinese New Year celebrations and his first public performance of the lion dance. |
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Mantle
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Tony Castro |
MOVE OVER BABE, THE MICK IS THE GREATEST * From Tony Castro, the *New York Times* bestselling author, comes the concluding book of his brilliant biographical trilogy of Mickey Mantle -- of whom even … |
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New York
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Benjamin Blom |
An exceptionally large number of the over 750 photographs reproduced in New York are published for the first time. In this respect New York is a radical departure from books on the subject, as is its… |
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Death has a small voice
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Frances Louise Davis Lockridge,Richard Lockridge |
When Pam North receives a Dictaphone record in the mail, he naturally assumes it is a message from her husband, Jerry, who is in San Francisco on business. She goes to his office to play it back and … |
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The Old Neighborhood
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Avery Corman |
***Moving from the corner office to the corner candy store, Steven Robbins is willing to forsake everything he's earned to get back a piece of his past.*** Growing up in the Bronx in the 1940s, Steve… |
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The Red Trailer Mystery (Trixie Belden (Audio))
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Julie Campbell |
Jim Frayne has run away again-this time to upstate New York-to avoid capture by his cruel stepfather. Can Trixie Belden and her friend Honey Wheeler track him down and help give him the life he deser… |
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Trixie Belden #2
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Julie Campbell |
Jim Frayne has run away again-this time to upstate New York-to avoid capture by his cruel stepfather. Can Trixie Belden and her friend Honey Wheeler track him down and help give him the life he deser… |
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American anthem
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American Folk Art Museum.,Brook Davis Anderson,Stacy C. Hollander |
"A song of praise to the nation, American Anthem celebrates the symbols of liberty, ingenuity, and refuge indelibly embedded in American folk art from colonial days through the present. This glorious… |
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Camps and Trails
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Henry Abbott |
Camps and Trails is one of the small and rare, self-published, "Birch Bark Books" written by Henry Abbott. It is a true story about the author, and his partner Bige, and the camps they built and sta… |
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More all-of-a-kind family
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Sydney Taylor |
The story of five young Jewish girls growing up in New York's lower east side before the first World War |
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Polly what's-her-name
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Edith Bishop Sherman |
This is a lovely story of an orphan girl who finds a home in New York. I recommend this for pre-teens. |
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The Confessions of a Magdalen
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Experience Borgia |
A very good read. Some passages from letters written by Experience Borgia to Forgiveness Mandeville, Esq. It is a narrative of her extraordinary life filled with her experiences good and bad, her l… |
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Garbage Land
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Elizabeth Royte |
Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do t… |
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Wild Fear
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Jack Dave |
Poughkeepsie, a small town harbors a monstrous terror. An unearthly legend hides deep in its woods. Dan Bergman, senior forest ranger, encounters this horror in the woods. Pamella, a high school seni… |
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Hooked up for murder
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Michael Benson,Robert Mladinich,Robert Mladinlch |
In this true account, Mark Fisher, a nineteen-year-old college student and star football player, unaware of the dark side of New York City night life, attends a party with a stranger, which leads to … |
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Burning New York: Graffiti Nyc
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James T. Murray,Karla L. Murray |
A sequel to the best-selling Broken Windows, Burning New York is sure to please an eager audience clamoring for more. New York is the undisputed graffiti capital of the world, the epicenter of a vibr… |
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