new york (n.y.)

"Set in the years 1950-1970 in a changing America and London, follow[s] two married couples--ministers and academics--whose intricate bonds of faith and friendship, jealousy and understanding, are tested by the birth of an autistic child"--Provided by publisher.

In graphic novel format looks at the life of American painter and draftsman Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Fifteen-year-old Ana Canci?n never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights.

"In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside it. What was once New Amsterdam became New York, and farmlands gradually gave way to department stores, theaters, hotels, and, finally, the perpetual traffic of the twentieth century's Great White Way. From Bowling Green all the way up to Marble Hill, . . . takes us on a mile-by-mile journey up America's most vibrant and complex thoroughfare, through the history at theheart of Manhattan"--Provided by publisher.

"The extraordinary orphans Sam, Philippa, Thomas, and Max have just started to recover from their capture and subsequent escape from the evil Nicholas Rattigan. But the childrens' lives don't stay quiet for ling. A slew of bank robberies is terrorizing the city. And when General Farnum, the ringmaster of the museum's now immensely popular flea circus, is charged with murder, the search for the real killer uncovers a plot much bigger than any individual crime, a plot that can only be the work of Nicholas Rattigan"--Provided by publisher.

Phil, Jim, and Harry, the peacocks that live at St. John the Divine Church in New York City, grow tired of eating nothing but sunflower seeds and set out to find something different.

Text and illustrations explore the Empire State Building and discuss its historical significance.

"Brimming with curiosity, Trouble can't wait to explore the world beyond Singing Creek. So one morning the coyote pup stows away in the back of a truck and ends up lost in the heart of New York City. While Trouble misses his siblings, he quickly makes friends in Central Park's Ramble: [with] a prankster crow, a timid opossum, and a poetic poodle."--OCLC.

Readers will aspire to see the Empire State Building this architectural wonder in person.

"Twins Finn and Molly Parker are whisked away in their magical RV to compete in a scavenger hunt in New York City"--Provided by publisher.