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The Statue of Liberty
$23.99 Read moreFeel the power of Lady Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is an awesome visual journey that begins with the fantastic proposal of a French professor to give the United States a monument to commemorate the
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Moreno, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 073853689X
- Language: English
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A Block in Time: A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street
$28.00 Read moreGotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present.
This is the story of New York City, told through- Author: Bird, Christiane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1632867427
- Language: English
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The High Line: A Park to Look Up to
$19.99 Read moreAn illustrated history of New York City’s internationally famous High Line, one of the world’s most innovative and inspiring public parks.
Imagine a very different New York City–one whose streets ar- Author: Tentler-Krylov, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1419756702
- Language: English
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Where Is the Brooklyn Bridge?
$7.99 Read moreYoung readers will connect with the story of this National Historic Landmark–the Brooklyn Bridge
Building the Brooklyn Bridge was no simple feat. Despite a brilliant plan from a father-son team of e- Series: Where Is?
- Author: Stine, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0448484242
- Language: English
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?Qu? Es La Estatua de la Libertad?
$7.99 Read moreA symbol of freedom, democracy, and friendship, the Statue of Liberty now takes her place as the latest subject in the What Was? series.
S?mbolo de libertad, democracia y amistad, la Estatua de la Lib- Series: ?Qu? Fue?
- Author: Holub, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0593658205
- Language: Spanish
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Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island
$22.99 Add to cartTold in dazzling maps and informative sidebars, critically acclaimed author-illustrator Jennifer Thermes’s Manhattan explores the 400+ year history of Manhattan Island.
From before its earliest settl- Author: Thermes, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1419736558
- Language: English
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Four Streets and a Square: A History of Manhattan and the New York Idea
$29.99 Read moreFrom a Sibert Medalist comes the epic story of Manhattan–a magical, maddening island “for all” and a microcosm of America.
A veteran nonfiction storyteller dives deep into the four-hundred-year hist- Author: Aronson, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: December 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0763651370
- Language: English
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The Snow Walker
$8.99 Add to cartOne morning in March 1888, twelve-year-old Milton Daub awoke to find the world buried in snow. The blizzard was like nothing Milton and his neighbors in the Bronx had ever seen. No one dared go out in
- Series: On My Own History
- Author: Wetterer, Charles M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 087614959X
- Language: English
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Freedomland: Co-Op City and the Story of New York
$32.95 Add to cartIn Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City’s story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideal
- Author: Sammartino, Annemarie H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501716433
- Language: English
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The Park and the People: An Introduction
$39.95 Add to cartThis “exemplary social history” (Kirkus Reviews) is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig tell the story of Central Park’s people–the merc
- Author: Rosenzweig, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801497515
- Language: English
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Long Island City in 1776: The Revolution Comes to Queens
$23.99 Read more1775 belonged to Boston but after April of 1776, the Revolutionary War’s focus became New York City and the highly strategic Long Island, from Brooklyn’s terminal moraine high ground to Queens’s Hell … [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: Melnick, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1467140953
- Language: English
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Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
$18.00 Add to cartThe Statue of Liberty has become one of the most recognizable monuments in the world: a symbol of freedom and the American Dream. But the story of the creation of the statue has been obscured by myth…. [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0802123791
- Language: English
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Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change
$39.95 Read moreThe illuminating evolution of the iconic space of Times Square.
What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of- Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
- Author: Sagalyn, Lynne B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 026204854X
- Language: English
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Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto
$26.98 Add to cartWORDS WITH MUSIC: CREATING THE BROADWAY MUSICAL LIBRETTO
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Engel, Lehman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1557835543
- Language: English
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Where Is Broadway?
$7.99 Add to cartTake your seats, because Where Is Broadway? is ready to take center stage
In a lively and engaging style, authors Douglas Yacka and Francesco Sedita cover the development of the first theaters and th- Series: Where Is?
- Author: Yacka, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1524786500
- Language: English
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When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World
$18.99 Add to cartThe triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre–and the world–forever.
“This musical introduced Black excellence to the Great White Way. Broadway was forever c
- Author: Gaines, Caseen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1728259398
- Language: English
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Mumbo Jumbo
$17.99 Add to cartNamed one of the GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS of the last 100 years by The Atlantic
The 50th anniversary edition of the classic, freewheeling novel by one of the most iconic satirists of our time–now with a- Series: Scribner Paperback Fiction
- Author: Reed, Ishmael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 1996
- ISBN10: 0684824779
- Language: English
