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The author describes his and his family's experiences after his fifteen-year-old daughter Sally had her first manic episode in 1996 and had to be committed to a New York psychiatric facility for treatment.

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.

Patricia Volk shares the lessons she learned about life, love, and food while working in her family's restaurant.

Reprint of a 1964 novel which tells the story of Lucia Santa, an Italian immigrant who comes to New York in search of a better life for her family, only to find herself trapped in Hell's Kitchen, trying to raise six children, and losing them to romance, the mafia, and the lure of the American dream.

Memoir of the author's life growing up as an overachiever in an underpriviledged family, chronicling the blessed relationship she forged with her mother after her father deserted the family.

Fifteen-year-old Maya learns the cause of the rift she feels between her and her mother and is finally able to come to terms with her divided loyalties when she leaves New York to spend the summer with her grandmother in southern India, the land of her birth.

In this account of the 2001 rescue efforts at the World Trade Center, retired New York City firefighter Dennis Smith gives a remarkable eyewitness account of perhaps the most heroic and desperate collaborative disaster effort in recent history.

Examines the trials of Mahmoud Abouhalima, Ramzi Yousef, Mohammad Salameh, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, and others for their roles in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

Tells the story of the bombing of the World Trade Center by Islamic terrorists in 1993, discussing events leading up to the attack, the effect of the bomb, and the investigation and arrest of the perpetrators.

Presents color photos of firefighters, police officers, rescue workers, doctors, students, and World Trade Center employees who struggled to save lives in the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, and includes quotations from each on their experiences.