Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic
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Would I Lie to You: A Gossip Girl Novel
$13.99 Add to cartWelcome to New York City’s Upper East Side where my friends and I live, and go to school, and play, and sleep – sometimes with each other. We all live in huge apartments with our own bedrooms and bath
- Series: Gossip Girl Novels (Paperback) #10
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0316011835
- Language: English
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Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
$24.99 Add to cartIn this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal and the memorable characters who turned a visionary … [more below]
- Author: Koeppel, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0306818620
- Language: English
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Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Benny Martinez walks into the offices of the Philadelphia Daily News in 2008 to speak with reporter Wendy Ruderman, the paper is on the brink of bankruptcy. What he tells Wendy and her colleague
- Author: Ruderman, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 006208545X
- Language: English
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The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
$40.50 Add to cartAn NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work–Non Fiction
James Beard award-winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1469647672
- Language: English
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American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
$18.99 Add to cart“American Ramble is a dazzling mixture of travelogue, memoir, and history. At times profound, funny, and heartbreaking, this is the story of a traveler intoxicated by life. I couldn’t put it down.” —
- Author: King, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0063352443
- Language: English
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First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York
$21.95 Add to cartA concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world’s most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sal
- Author: Grumet, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141638
- Language: English
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You’re the One That I Want
$14.99 Add to cartThe wickedly funny sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the new series coming to HBO Max’s Spring 2020 launch season (alongside hit series … [more below]
- Series: Gossip Girl Novels (Paperback) #6
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316735167
- Language: English
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Let Me Finish
$19.99 Add to cartWidely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiogra… [more below]
- Author: Angell, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2007
- ISBN10: 015603218X
- Language: English
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History Lover’s Guide to Baltimore
$43.99 Add to cartNeither southern nor northern, Baltimore has charted its own course through the American experience. The spires of the nation’s first cathedral rose into its sky, and the first blood of the Civil War … [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Jensen, Brennen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1540247988
- Language: English
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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
$21.95 Read moreAn unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today
America’s most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has- Author: Campanella, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0691208611
- Language: English
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Pennsylvania Scrapple: A Delectable History
$23.99 Add to cartJoin author Amy Strauss as she traces the sizzling history and culture of a beloved and sustaining Pennsylvania Dutch iconic dish, scrapple.
The name may remind you of a certain word-based board game,
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Strauss, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 162585885X
- Language: English
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Philadelphia Phillies
$31.99 Add to cartThe Philadelphia Phillies, one of the oldest teams in Major League Baseball, have maintained a strong, loyal fan base for over 125 years. Despite historic set backs, the franchise has proven resilient… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Seamus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1531648835
- Language: English
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House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address
$19.99 Add to cart“Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego… Even more c… [more below]
- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1451666209
- Language: English
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Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Noto
$23.00 Add to cartAll but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrif… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 143914155X
- Language: English
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Everyday Matters
$15.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Persepolis, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Our Cancer Year, an illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power, and beauty Danny Gregory and his wife, Patti, hadn’t been married lon… [more below]
- Author: Gregory, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1401307957
- Language: English
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Louise Blanchard Bethune: Every Woman Her Own Architect
$33.95 Add to cartThe trailblazing story of the life and career of Louise Blanchard Bethune, America’s first professional woman architect.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Hayes McAlonie, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 143849288X
- Language: English
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Trout Streams and Hatches of Pennsylvania: A Complete Fly-Fishing Guide to 140 Streams
$31.99 Add to cartMany of the 10,000 miles of classified trout water in the state is easily accessible from major population centers. But this massive, complete work also includes smaller “secret” streams in remote reg… [more below]
- Series: Trout Streams #0
- Author: Meck, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 088150453X
- Language: English
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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
$19.00 Add to cartEvery morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignore… [more below]
- Author: Sorkin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477574
- Language: English
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Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
$19.00 Add to cartOriginally published: c2007. With new afterword and interview.
- Author: Kraybill, Donald B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0470344040
- Language: English
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Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better: A Gossip Girl Novel
$13.99 Add to cartThe uptown girls are headed downtown as Serena and Jenny take on their new fabulous roles as rock-star model girlfriends of New York’s hottest band, The Raves. Meanwhile, Dan is to busy drowning his s… [more below]
- Series: Gossip Girl #7
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0316735124
- Language: English
