new york (state)

A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home. She had found a family that truly seemed to care about her. But something happened that forced her to run.

Presents ten riddles and answers related to the state of New York.

Illustrations and text present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of the Empire State.

Lucy Jarrett returns from Japan to her home in Lake of Dreams, New York, where she becomes caught up in solving the mystery of her father's death ten years earlier, and reignites the flame with her first love, glass artist Keegan Fall.

Contains thousands of entries organized by year chronicling the history of New York City with information on politics, commerce, science, the arts, business, and everyday life.

Corey Sifter is befriended by the wealthy Metarey family, a politically powerful dynasty in New York, and becomes an aide to New York senator Henry Bonwiller as he runs for the Democratic presidential nomination during the Nixon era.