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A look at the design and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.

In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.

As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?".

Three years ago an event destroyed the city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality there. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone.

American chef Anthony Bourdain chronicles his culinary career, describing his start as a dishwasher on Cape Cod, his years of drug use, and the often cutthroat atmosphere of the restaurant kitchen. Also includes an interview with the author.

"When Aliz?e Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends and fellow WPA painters ... And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who, while working at Christie's auction house, uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt?"--Provided by publisher.

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; includes historical note.

"Explores various perspectives on the process of building the Empire State Building. The reader's choices reveal the historical details"--.

The story of the competition between Boston and New York to build America's first subway system.

Four friends from New York's Hell's Kitchen suffer a year of humiliation, beatings, and sexual abuse at the hands of Sean Nokes and his flunkies at the Wilkinson Boy's Home, leaving lasting scars that haunt them into adulthood. When Nokes is murdered by two of the group, the other two enact a plot to twist the legal system to their advantage and not only free their friends, but get revenge on the men who had tortured them when they were helpless prisoners.