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The author documents one year with the competitive Edward R. Murrow High School chess team through to the Super Nationals in Nashville.

Two orphaned teenage girls in New York's tenements in 1883 realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly-built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a nearby settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and stealing.

Reconciled with her friends and enjoying life with her father in New York City, fifteen-year-old Mimi hopes for a happier second term at the progressive Baldwin School but soon finds herself drawn into complications involving the school's finances, her father's new girlfriend, and her own romantic entanglements.

A collection of anecdotes by immigrant workers living in New York that describes their jobs, living conditions, and emotions.

Against his will Asher returns to Brooklyn and faces the conflict of the culture he was born into and the culture he forged for himself.

NYPD Detective Schaefer, one of the few people on Earth to have fought the Predators and lived, forms an alliance with a young female lieutenant from the Russian army in an attempt to stop a new invasion of the murderous aliens.

Contains a collection of poems from over one hundred fifty young writers who share their thoughts and feelings about ongoing global violence and solutions for peace.

In 1989, Trisha Meili, jogging in New York's Central Park, was raped and left for dead. The brutality of the assault shocked America. In this candid memoir, Meili, anonymous for 13 years, reflects on the attack and her subsequent recovery.

Tells the story of the people, forces, and events that led to the terrorist attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2001, looking at the life of Osama bin Laden, the evolution and activities of Al Qaeda, and the training of terrorists, detailing the attacks themselves, and describing some of the human dramas that took place in the midst of the tragedy.