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"Chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen."--Publisher.

The real-life puzzle of what happened to the generation of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust in hiding. This book tells the story through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries--among the less than 10 percent of Jewish children in Europe to survived World War II.

Stanford White was one of New York's most famous architects. As he became more popular and in-demand, he also became quite self-indulgent. When he met young Evelyn Nesbit, a Broadway show girl, he knew he had to get to know her better. He began to take care of her widowed mother and her family and as he did so, his attachment to Evelyn grew. Although White was years older than Evelyn, she continued the friendship. But realizing that White would never leave his wife, Evelyn eventually married a young Pittsburgh heir with a dark side who developed a deep hatred for White and what he may or may not have done to Evelyn, setting up the most scandalous murder case of the time.

New Yorker Catherine "Kitty" Genovese became the face of crime in America in 1964 when she was stabbed to death on her front door stoop--and bystanders did nothing. Thirty-eight of her neighbors watched the crime but "didn't want to get involved." But is this the whole story? On the fiftieth anniversary of her murder, author Kevin Cook presents the real Kitty Genovese and reconstructs the crime itself. His account of what really happened on the night she died is the most accurate and chilling to date.

"In Harlem Nocturne, eminent scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin tells the stories of three black female artists who emerged during this period of unprecedented openness, flourishing professionally while also making enormous political strides for their fellow women and African Americans. Novelist Ann Petry, choreographer and dancer Pearl Primus, and composer and pianist Mary Lou Williams all achieved great fame during the 1940s. Like many African Americans in New York at the time, they weren't native to the city; Petry, a fourth generation New Englander, was born in Connecticut and arrived in Harlem as a newlywed, while Williams was born in Atlanta and only settled in Harlem after years on the road. Primus, for her part, was born in Trinidad and emigrated to New York when she was three years old. All three of these women would make significant contributions to their fields. Petry joined Richard Wright as a major new literary voice; through her work, especially her acclaimed novel The Street, she wrote about the complexities of life for working class black women. Mary Lou Williams became a major figure in the emergence of Be-Bop, and as a keyboardist and composer defied the notion that women could only contribute to jazz as vocalists. Pearl Primus, meanwhile, was a favorite of New York Times dance critic John Martin and performed across the globe and in front of enormous crowds, including at the 1943 Negro Freedom Rally at Madison Square Garden to an audience of 20,000"--.

Examines the findings of the University of Arizona's Garbage Project for the past twenty years.

Matt Scudder wields his own brand of guerilla justice against kidnappers who have taken a drug dealer's wife.

Mitchell Hundred, a civil engineer who became a superhero after gaining incredible powers in a freak accident, leaves his work as a masked crime fighter to become New York City's mayor and finds himself in the midst of dangerous political intrigue related to a controversial work of art.