new york (ny)

"The Roaring 20s are in high gear, and so is skyscraper fever in New York City. People are fascinated by the plans to build the Empire State Building, the world's tallest building yet. Will you: Be an eager young assistant at the architecture firm Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, the firm designing the Empire State Building? Join the project as a construction worker high atop the building as it rises above the city? Work as a water boy who carries water to the thirsty construction workers on the project? Experience situations taken from real life. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you and the project to success or to failure"--Provided by the publisher.

Anna's grandfather is bored with city life until he and Anna are stranded on the Third Avenue El during the blizzard of 1888.

"For every girl who's ever endured a long, hot urban summer on her own, Slightly Single is the summer breeze you've been waiting for!"--back cover.

It all begins on a perfect Thanksgiving morning. A gunman takes aim on the crowd gathered for Manhattan's world-famous parade. Only one man in the throng sees it happening. Fortunately for the parade-goers, he's just the right man for the job...Fritz Malone is a P.I. who knows City Hall's power brokers but abhors its politics--a man who knows the rules just well enough to work around them. But when he risks his life and ruins his Thanksgiving morning, Fritz walks right into a whole new game that involves coldhearted criminals, dirty copes, and a long-buried secret that implicates the city's most powerful players.

An original novel based on the Wolf Films and Universal Network television series "Law & Order" created by Dick Wolf. --cover.

When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging. Includes criticism of Wright's fiction.