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Malamud's classic 1957 story of a young Gentile hoodlum who works at a family-owned Jewish grocery store in exchange for a place to stay. What the family doesn't know is that he was one of the boys responsible for a previous robbery of their store.

Eagerly anticipating her Quincea?era, the fifteenth birthday celebration that will signify her adulthood, Marisol is troubled by a lack of money, her mother's new boyfriend, changes in her best friend, and the absence of the father she never knew.

A collection of poems by teen poets who participated online or in person at workshops sponsored by The New York Public Library and Poets House.

An alphabetically arranged collection of photographs and brief biographical sketches from the "Portaits of Grief" feature of the "New York Times, " which for several months profiled men and women who died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Also includes lists of all those who were killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 on that day.

It was 1933, four long years after Wall Street crashed and took the rest of the world with it, and the Great Depression was just getting started. And so was the Goblin. A master at turning hopelessness into a commodity, the corrupt mob bossled a colorful gang of circus sideshow freaks--including the cannibalistic Vulture--in a corrupt stranglehold on the city. Peter Parker came of age during this time of struggle and hardship. Raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May, two stemwinding Socialists commited to positive change for the people, Peter would have been a boyis beacon of optimism in any other era. But in this world of noir, he was an embittered angry young man in search of justice. And then along came a s[pider After a fated meeting with a mystical arachnid and its life-changing bite, he may have just inherited the force to honor the phrase, "If those in power can't be trusted, it's the responsibility of the people to remove them"--dust jacket back cover.

Includes works of 45 Renaissance writers including Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Marcus Garvey, Gwendolyn Bennett and Nella Larson.

Details the later years of Brooke Astor, an American socialite and philanthropist, and describes how her grandson Philip took legal action against his father, Anthony Marshall Astor, in order to remove him as Brooke's legal guardian, claiming that his grandmother was receiving unfit treatment, despite the wealth of her estate.

A chronicle of episodes covering more than 100 years. These events culminate in the year 2000 when New York becomes the golden city people have always wanted it to be.

Describes one year in the life of children in the poorest congressional district in the United States, the South Bronx.