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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 Girl Through Glass: A Novel (Paperback) 0062497707 9780062497703

An enthralling literary debut that tells the story of a young girl s coming of age in the cutthroat world of New York City ballet a story of obsession and the quest for perfection trust and betrayal beauty and lost innocence. In the roiling summer... more

Greenwood Biographies Colin Powell: A Biography (Hardcover)

Colin Powell epitomizes the American success story yet his heroism is uncommon and unique. Born in New York City to Jamaican-immigrant parents Powell entered a recently desegregated army rising to become its highest-ranking member. He is a... more

Regional Interest: Northern Nurse (Paperback)

The public agreed keeping it on the New York Times bestseller list for 17 weeks. Now a new edition of this classic is available from The Countryman Press. By turns lyrical comic and genuinely moving Northern Nurse tells the story of Australian nurse... more

Pre-Owned Memoirs of an Invisible Man (Penguin fiction) (Paperback) 0140099980 9780140099980

Here is the story of a man made invisible and forced to cope with life in New York City. A sensational first novel that will be a very high-profile bestseller as a Dell paperback. A BOMC Main Selection and a national bestseller on The San Francisco... 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... more

Pre-Owned In This Way I Was Saved (Hardcover) 1439103135 9781439103135

Exciting new literary talent: At just twenty-nine years old Brian DeLeeuw has worked in publishing in both London and New York City where he is an editor at the literary magazine Tin House . Haunting subject: A dark compelling story that skirts the... more

Pre-Owned We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family a Store and a Neighborhood (Paperback) 1732300003 9781732300002

The best political stories are the human ones and Jen Rubin recognizes this...Anyone who cares about urban policy the history and the future of New York City and of a country that suffers from so much division yet has the potential still to unite... more

Pre-Owned Paris: The Novel (Hardcover) 0385676190 9780385676199

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Edward Rutherfurd the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic about the magnificent city of Paris. Moving back and forth in time the story unfolds through intimate and thrilling tales of... more

Short Story Press Presents Barren (Hardcover)

Four years ago Nick Laverdi left his hometown of Barren in northern New Jersey and moved directly east to the city of New York. After the well-publicized collapse of the only famous person to ever come from Barren the town picked up a crippling... more

Pre-Owned A Life in Motion : A Memoir (Paperback) 9781558616974

Founder of the Feminist Press tells her life story as an activist scholar and publisher.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)... more

Pre-Owned Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War (Hardcover) 0062092898 9780062092892

Karen Abbott the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and pioneer of sizzle history (USA Today) tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. Karen Abbott... more

Pre-Owned The Last Coach: A Life of Paul Bear Bryant (Hardcover) 0393059820 9780393059823

When Paul William Bear Bryant died on January 26 1983 it was the lead story on the all three networks evening news. New York City newspapers reported his death on their front pages. ( Crimson Tears read the headline in the New York Post Nation weeps... more

Pre-Owned Stories My Father Told Me: Notes from the Lyons Den (Hardcover) 0789211025 9780789211026

This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife when top restaurants like Toots Shor s 21 and Sardi s as well as glittering nightclubs like the Stork Club Latin Quarter and El Morocco were... 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... 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... 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

A Brooklyn Memoir : My Life as a Boy (Edition 2) (Paperback)

Brooklyn 1955-64: A Jewish boy learns about life and death from the W.W. II vets and Holocaust survivors who surround him. A darkly comic and deeply moving story of a New York City lost to time. From the final days of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the... 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

The Prodigal Women: A Novel Paperback 1598537490 9781598537499 Nancy Hale

Rediscover the sensational 1942 bestseller that unveiled the Jazz Age as women lived it Ranging from posh Beacon Hill to go-go New York City to stately Virginia a sweeping coming-of-age story of three women s lives loves and ambitions in the 1920s... more

Pre-Owned American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee (Hardcover) 1400066913 9781400066919

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With the critically acclaimed Sin in the Second City bestselling author Karen Abbott pioneered sizzle history ( USA Today ). Now she returns with the gripping and expansive story of America s coming-of-age--told through the... 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

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]

Select Your Preferred Color at No Additional Cost! Explore More Options by Clicking on More Images and Notify Us of Your Choice via Email. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition expertly crafted by the prestigious organization “Rare... more

The Last Miracle : My 18-Year Journey with the Amazin New York Mets (Hardcover)

No origin story of the New York Mets is complete without Ed Kranepool. The lefty first baseman known as Steady Eddie made his major-league debut at age 17 during the team s inaugural season and would eventually depart nearly two decades later with... more

Pre-Owned High Latitudes : The Incredible True Story of an Arctic Journey by Master Storyteller Farley Mowat (17 Million Books Sold) 9781616086022

A master storyteller. --The New York... 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... more

Washington s Farewell to His Officers after Victory in the Revolution 9781884592201 Used / Pre-owned

This is the story of George Washington s emotional parting with his most loyal officers on December 4 1783 just days after final victory in the Revolution. In a moving and utterly silent occasion at Fraunces Tavern in New York City officer after... more

Pre-Owned Pin Action: Small-Time Gangsters High-Stakes Gambling and the Teenage Hustler Who Became a Bowling Champion Paperback

The Color of Money meets The Big Lebowski. Pin Action is an inspiring and improbable story of transcendence redemption survival and one of the greatest forgotten sports legends in New York City sports history. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are... more

Pre-Owned 84 Charing Cross Road. (Mass Market Paperback) 038042200X 9780380422005

This charming classic love story first published in 1970 brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff at the time a freelance writer living in New York City and a used-book dealer in London at 84 Charing Cross Road. Through... more

The Third Alarm; a Story of the New York Fire Department with an Introduction on the Life and Career of John James Bresnan a Batallion Chief of the New York City Fire (1908) [Leather Bound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1908 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 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

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... 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

Nothing Else But Miracles (Hardcover)

From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy siblings on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. When 12-year-old Dory Byrne s pop left New York City s Lower East Side to fight Hitler he promised her... more

Immigrant to the Top of the World: Memoir by the Biggest Muse in History (Paperback) by B B

9781543773996. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 214. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 214 p. The book tells her the story from birth until she left New York City at 36. She was an all A student a math genius attended... more

The Long Way Home -- Richard Chizmar

9781587677151. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 504. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 504 p. Gathered here for the first time ever are seventeen short stories two essays and a short script by award-winning and New York... more

Pre-Owned The Shroud of the Thwacker Hardcover Chris Elliott

9781401352455. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 360. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 360 p. Contains: Illustrations. Set in New York City in 1882 this hilarious story chronicles the adventures of... 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 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... more