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"Presents the story of how one mental health professional deals with his own personal problems and those of the people he treats. Part expos? and part memoir, it reveals what therapists really think about their profession, their colleagues, their patients, and their own lives"--Provided by publisher.

Journalist Matt Pittman is pulled back from the brink of suicide when he agrees to write obituaries as a favor to his old friend and editor at the "New York Chronicle," but his research for the obituary of the influential Jonathan Millgate, a man not yet dead, draws him into an international conspiracy that may cost him his life anyway.

During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpre, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.

This book explores the purpose of the construction of the World Trade Center, the court challenges of merchants who opposed the World Trade Center, the construction of the twin towers and other buildings, the settling in of more than 400 businesses, and the 2001 destruction of the towers.

Set in an Irish American neighborhood at the end of World War II, Billy Lynch's friends and family have gathered to mourn him and reflect on the mysteries of love, fate and the terrible result of lies told to spare a friend pain.

An updated edition of Teun Voeten's book exploring the homeless population that lived in the tunnel systems of New York City at the end of the millennium, describing what has happened to the original tunnel dwellers in the years since they were evicted by Amtrak and city officials.