new york (n.y.)

Christina, Grant, Benjamin, and Katherine become gridlocked in a mystery that takes them on a hair-raising history tour of New York City's most famous landmarks to find a priceless missing part of history.

An analysis of the black American cultural renaissance of the 1920s. Covers political figures, painters and sculptors, jazzmen and musical comedy.

Contains hundreds of accurate line drawings depicting the growing buildings and infrastructure of Manhattan as it transformed from a small Dutch outpost to a commercial, financial, and cultural metropolis. Illustrates the techniques used to construct dozens of skyscrapers, subways, and bridges.

Celebrated American author Frank McCourt recounts his thirty-year teaching career, and describes some of his unconventional teaching methods that have left an impact on his students.

Seventeen-year-old Imogene scores an internship with Hautelaw and heads to Paris with her best friend Evie to spend the summer immersed in the fashion scene, but disaster looms when the high-fashion models go on strike just before Couture Week, and it is not until the girls discover a mysterious unnamed designer that things get back on course.

The story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties.

Chino, a young Puerto Rican man with a bright future, looks to Willie Bodega, the New York City drug pusher who rules Spanish Harlem, for a favor and becomes ensconced in a world of betrayal and violence.

A portrayal of New York society in the 1870s where money counted for less than manners and morals.

After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory's suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent.

Rebecca is excited to have her cousin Ana from Russia living with her family in New York City, but she fears that Ana's poor English-speaking skills will ruin her presentation at school.