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Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the New York City Police 1895-1897 (Hardcover) by H Paul Jeffers

9780471024071. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. In the Gay Nineties no place so fully embodied the outrageous lawlessness of turn-of-the-century America as New York City - until a... more

The road of the rough a simple story of life in New York City / by Maurice M. Minton. Illustrations by G. A. Traver and George Varian. Volume 1893 1893 [Leather Bound]

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Pre-Owned The Brave : A Story of New York City s Firefighters 9781883283377

9781883283377. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 246. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 246 p. Contains: Unspecified. Every so often a writer of substantive talent appears through the smokey background to... more

Three Score and Ten; the Story of St. Philips [Sic] Church New York City / Decosta B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) (1889) (1889) [Leather Bound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1889 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Pre-Owned Miracles in Manhattan: Stories of Hope and Faith From The Heart New York City Paperback Ron Lewis

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Pre-Owned Best Lesbian Love Stories: New York City (Paperback) 155583972X 9781555839727

Under the Brooklyn Bridge in the bars along the Hudson and on steamy subway platforms lesbians find romance true love and sometimes heartbreak. New York is the greatest city on earth - and the most promising place to find love as today s finest writers... more

Pre-Owned Arrested By Grace: The True Story of Death and Resurrection from the Streets of New York City Paperback

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Pre-Owned Brave: A Story of New York City s Firefighters Paperback

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Pre-Owned Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the New York City Police 1895-1897 Paperback

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The Gift of the Magi and Other New York City Stories (Paperback)

Table of Contents: The Voice Of The City The Making Of A New Yorker A Retrieved Reformation The Cop And The Anthem The Duplicity Of Hargraves The Gift Of The Magi The Last Leaf The Ransom Of Red Chief The Skylight Room The Trimmed Lamp The Whirligig Of... more

Pre-Owned The Mad Bomber of New York: Extraordinary True Story the Manhunt That Paralyzed a City Hardcover Michael M. Greenburg

9781402774348. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 316. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 316 p. Contains: Maps. Between 1940 and 1957 33 bombs--strategically placed in Grand Central Penn Station Radio... more

Pre-Owned Miracles in Manhattan: Stories of Hope and Faith From The Heart of New York City Paperback

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Pre-Owned Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the New York City Police 1895-1897 Paperback

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Fragments That Remain From the Ministry of Maltbie Davenport Babcock Pastor Brick Church New York City 1899-1901 (Paperback)

This book features the powerful and inspiring sermons of Maltbie Davenport Babcock a dedicated pastor at Brick Church in New York City. Babcock s sermons feature stories and lessons from the Bible and showcase his devotion to the church and his... more

Pre-Owned The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York (Hardcover 9780814719800) by Stephen Duncombe Andrew Mattson

9780814719800. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 394. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 394 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Illuminates the life and image of one of New York City s most... more

Footsteps : The Numerous Battles of Survival Bonding Childhood Friends Throughout New York City s Frenzied 1970s (Paperback)

Remorseful for the death of a boyhood friend seventeen-year-old Johnny recounts his footsteps through the past five years. Haunted by memories and unable to mend his luckless decisions Johnny desperately seeks something noble to cradle. Choosing to... more

The New York Stories of O. Henry 9780486833880 Used / Pre-owned

Thirty-three colorful tales -- including The Gift of the Magi The Cop and the Anthem and The Furnished Room -- recapture city life at the turn of the 20th century. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition:... more

The Heroic Gangster : The Story of Monk Eastman from the Streets of New York to the Battlefields of Europe and Back (Paperback)

A quirky study that intriguingly snapshots a city in times as well as a life. Kirkus... Monk Eastman was born in 1873 to a respectable New York family. By the age of eighteen he was running the streets of Lower Manhattan first starting as a bouncer and... more

The mysteries and miseries of New York a story of real life 1849

{Size: 11.43 x 17.78 cms} Lang: - English Pages 322 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2013 with the help of original edition published long back [1849]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour... more

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

The New York Times bestseller now available in paperback--an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge Tennessee and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb more

Pre-Owned Man Bites Log: Unlikely Stories from a City Guy in the Woods (Paperback) 0786714123 9780786714124

Max Alexander had been the executive editor of Variety and was the senior editor at People magazine in charge of all Hollywood coverage when he decided one day that the glitz of Tinseltown and the glamour of New York didn t quite hold the allure they... more

Pre-Owned In an Unrelated Story: A Compelling Collection of Newsworthy Tales (Hardcover) 1881939146 9781881939146

In an Unrelated Story: A Compelling Collection of Newsworthy Tales by Teller Hanoch more

Love War Stories 9781936932252 Used / Pre-owned

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Pre-Owned Everyday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers (Paperback) 0814793398 9780814793398

A developmental analysis of adolescents growing up in an inner-city working class life What does it mean to be a teenager in an American city at the close of the twentieth century? How do urban surroundings affect the ways in which teens grow up and... more

Pre-Owned Lost and Found New York: Oddballs Heroes Heartbreakers Scoundrels Thugs Mayors and Mysteries (Hardcover) 0061260630 9780061260636

Celebrate the lost histories unusual people and places and hidden treasures of New York City s glorious past with this delightful and engaging collection of original illustrations and stories by artist/writer James Stevenson. Featuring the series of... more

New York Review Books Classics: René Leys (Paperback)

In this entrancing story of spiritual adventure a Westerner in Peking seeks the mystery at the heart of the Forbidden City. He takes as a tutor in Chinese the young Belgian René Leys who claims to be in the know about strange goings-on in the Imperial... more

Napoleon Sarony s Living Pictures: The Celebrity Photograph in Gilded Age New York (Hardcover)

Napoleon Sarony was once one of the most famous names in American photography. During the Gilded Age his grand portrait studio with its one-story-high marquee reproducing the photographer s signature in golden letters was a New York City landmark... more

The Black Angels : The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis (Hardcover)

New York City 1929. A sanatorium a deadly disease and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people s darkest fears killing one in seven white nurses at Sea View New York s largest municipal hospital began... more

Love Under the Brooklyn Bridge : A Love Story Series (Paperback)

New York City; the City that never sleeps. At least that s the pace that Gemma Williams has grown accustomed to while working at the prestigious law Firm King Brother s and Associates. She knows all about keeping her head down and working her tail off.... more

Pre-Owned Saving Sin City: William Travers Jerome Stanford White and the Original Crime of the Century (Hardcover) 1681777460 9781681777467

An operatic story of jealousy obsession vast fortunes and moral crusaders set against the glittering backdrop of Gilded Age New York City. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover... more

Run With It: A True Story of Parkinson s Marathons the Pandemic and Love (Paperback)

COVID-19 disrupted the premier road races known as the World Marathon Majors (WMM) that take place annually in Berlin London Chicago Boston Tokyo and New York City. Normally spanning the calendar from March to November the pandemic forced a... more

Vivid Greene: and Other Unusual Stories (Paperback)

FIVE weird disturbing chilling tales. A young woman with a horrifying secret embarks on an erotic adventure punctuated with bloodshed...A displaced holiday figure enacts his messianic calling in the cavernous subway below New York City...Two brothers... more

Pre-Owned Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor (Paperback) 1929631871 9781929631872

As a young man Winston Churchill was greatly influenced by Bourke Cockran a charismatic New York City congressman who was Churchill s widowed mother s lover and friend. Cockran was a brilliant trial lawyer and adviser to American presidents. He took... more

Letters to Home: A Memoir (& Other Stories by an ABC) (Paperback)

Letters to Home: A Memoir (& Other Stories by an ABC) is a collection of letters and personal essays about a young ABC (American Born Chinese) growing up in New York City. In this vulnerable memoir author Janette Wu evokes humor and authenticity to... more

My Name Is Tani . . . and I Believe in Miracles: The Amazing True Story of One Boy s Journey from Refugee to Chess Champion (Hardcover)

In their escape from Boko Haram s reign of terror in Nigeria Tani s family s journey to the United States was nothing short of a miracle. Then 8-year-old Tani started competing with his public school in the ultra-exclusive chess clubs of New York City... more

Going Home : The Lost Story of Chief the Fire Dog (Hardcover)

Based on a little-known snippet of New York City history Going Home: The Lost Story of Chief the Fire Dog is the heartwarming story of a destitute dog s quest for home family and a sense of self. After the stock market crash of 1929 the dog s... more

Madness: Heroes Returning from the Front Lines: Baltic Street AEH Inc.: An Unlikely Story of Respect Empowerment and Recovery (Hardcover)

Instead of being defeated by madness the Baltic Street Advocacy Employment and Housing staff in New York City built an agency that understands how to help those diagnosed with mental illness. In Madness: Heroes Returning from the Front Lines author... more

Pre-Owned We Are Going to Be Lucky: A World War II Love Story in Letters (Paperback) 1438470584 9781438470580

Elizabeth L. Fox has served for more than twenty years in a leadership role on the National Board of Hadassah where her responsibilities include writing training and public speaking. She has a BA in history from the City College of New York and an MA... more