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Amy Odell takes readers behind the stage of New York's hottest fashion shows to meet the world's most influential models, designers, celebrities, editors, and photographers. She introduces an industry powered by larger-than-life characters: she meets the intimidating Anna Wintour and the surprisingly gracious Rachel Zoe, not to mention the hilarious Chelsea Handler, and more. Amy artfully layers in something else: ultimately this book is about how the fashion industry is an exaggerated mirror of human fallibility--reflecting our desperate desire to belong, to make a mark, to be included.

The inside story of the largest unrecovered cash haul in world history--the sensational Lufthansa robbery at Kennedy Airport--told by Henry Hill, the organizer. The heist was memorialized in the movie, Goodfellas. Henry Hill died in 2012, well before the book's publication in 2015. As the infamous heist continues to dominate national news with recent charges brought against five reputed gangsters who have hazy connections to the robbery, Henry Hill has the final say.

Reveals the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography that takes place in a New York restaurant kitchen.

The story of a young American with a dream who taught himself to be a secret double agent and helped the FBI bust a Russian spy in early-2000's New York.

Chronicles the history of New York City's oyster industry up until the early 1900s, exploring how the food influenced the city's culture, economy, cuisine, and inhabitants.

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?".

"Back in the bad old days, when Billy Graves worked for an anti-crime unit in Harlem known as the Wild Geese, the NYPD branded him as a cowboy. Now forty, he has somehow survived and become a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch. Mostly, his team of detectives conducts a series of holding actions--and after years in police purgatory, Billy is content simply to do his job. But soon after he gets a 3:00 a.m. call about the fatal knifing of a drunk in a Third Avenue pub, his investigation moves beyond the usual handoff to the day shift. And when he discovers that the victim was once a suspect in the unsolved murder of a 13-year-old girl, he finds himself drawn back to the late 1990s when the Wild Geese were at their most wayward. Before the case can be closed, it will severely test Billy's new sense of purpose and force him to accept that his troubled past isn't past at all"--Provided by publisher.

Fact-based narratives examine the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911 that killed 146 female workers.

Presents a selection of writings and drawings from the diary of Anne Elizabeth Rector, a twelve-year-old girl who lived in New York City in 1912, and includes sidebars that describe Rector's life and family, as well as notable people, places, and events of the time.