new york (n.y.)

Silvie Page, having started a new life for herself in New York, is drawn back into the grasp of her domineering mother by a family crisis.

Maria Violetta Rosario Dananay's happy life in the Philippines comes to an abrupt end when her father elopes with his pregnant mistress and her mother flees to New York.

Twenty-eight-year-old Maibelle returns to her home in New York's Chinatown searching for her identity and hoping to unravel the mystery behind family lies.

Sandra Berlin believes that her life is right on track with her job as a rising magazine editor and her engagement to her high-school sweetheart Bucky, a successful ad executive, but she is forced to reexamine her past and her plans for the future when she learns that Bucky has two other fiancees.

Chronicles the history of the first major crusade to cleanup New York City of crime after Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, a Presbyterian minister, went out into the city in diguise and gathered inforamtion against the corrupt police department.

With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America?s defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. These migrants have brought their hundreds of languages and distinct cultures to the city, and from there to the entire country. More immigrants have come to New York than all other entry points combined.

Marie Claire, aka the Rat, is a dancing, soccer-playing, fearless ten-year-old, often protected by her brother Bob. When their father dies, the two leave home in Winnipeg, Canada and head for New York, determined to find their uncle in America and discover a new life for themselves.

In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England. Based on the life of Master Juba.

"New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name a few--but the eccentric spirit of the Chelsea is alive and well. Meet the family Rips: father Michael, a lawyer turned writer with a penchant for fine tailoring; mother Sheila, a former model and renowned artist who matches her welding outfits with couture; and daughter Nicolaia, a precocious high school junior at work on a record of her peculiar seventeen years"--Jacket flap.

Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find.