Sixteen-year-old Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island in 1911 in the hopes of starting a new life, but after most of her family is sent back to Ireland, she must find her own way in a new country and fend for herself and her younger sister.
A collection of essays written by the author from age fifteen to seventeen in which he shares impressions of school, sports, cool people, boring people, friends, family, money, music, and obsessions.
After two robots help her escape from jail, cosmonaut Nicole des Jardins is reunited with her husband Richard. Joined by their children and other rebels from the Earth sector, they enter New York's labyrinthine underground hoping to find Rama III's secret inner workings.
Chronicles the life of George Washington Appo, a career criminal who served as leader of New York's underworld in Gilded Age New York and describes the social, economic, and cultural atmosphere of the city during his life.
A columnist describes her adolescence as a runaway in New York City, explaining why she exchanged her home for life on the city streets, her struggle to balance school, the shelter system, and her battle to rescue herself from street life.
my journey from organized crime to independent woman
Giovino, Andrea
2004
Andrea Giovino chronicles her struggle to break free from her family's involvement in the Mob, recounting her parents' and siblings' criminal activities and the impact they had on her own life.
Presents a republication of the graphic novel first published in 1978 that depicts the lives and dreams of a group of people living in a Bronx tenement.
An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant across the street from the United Nations, and together with a strange group of artists, waitresses, and friends, they await the end of the world.
Tom Wingo is a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling. He flies to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. He realizes that while trying to save her, this may be his last chance to save himself as well.
