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In her long-awaited memoir, Mary Higgins Clark, America's beloved and bestselling Queen of Suspense, recounts the early experiences that shaped her as a person and influenced her as a writer. Even as a young girl, growing up in the Bronx, Mary Higgins Clark knew she wanted to be a writer. The gift of storytelling was a part of her Irish ancestry, so it followed naturally that she would later use her sharp eye,... (more)

Sleeping Arrangements

by Laura Cunningham

A moving, funny memoir of a wildly unorthodox Bronx childhood in the 1950's--the story of a girl who starts out fatherless, is orphaned at 8, is raised by two extremely odd strangers who happen to be her uncles, and slowly accumulates for herself a strong and--no matter how eccentric--deeply loving family.

Murder 101

by Maggie Barbieri

Safely away from the chaos of Manhattan, St. Thomas, a small college on the banks of the Hudson River in the Bronx, is supposed to be tranquil, bucolic, and serene. Unfortunately, English professor Alison Bergeron has found it to be anything but. Recently divorced from a fellow professor and even more recently without a car---it was stolen---she has been hoofing it to school. One Friday evening, two NYPD homicide... (more)

Supernatural: Nevermore

by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America...and he taught them how to kill it. Sam and Dean have hit New York City to check out a local rocker's haunted house. But before they can figure out why a... (more)

Do Not Give Way To Evil: Photographs of the South Bronx, 1979-1987

Do Not Give Way To Evil: Photographs of the South Bronx, 1979-1987

by Lisa Kahane

The Bronx had almost stopped burning by 1979. The intensity and extent of the devastation permeated the landscape. It was an awesome mess, not just another neighborhood, but another realm, visible but incomprehensible. The Bronx came undone in a confluence of unfortunate circumstances: the life cycle of community, rampant city planning, economic change, racism, poverty, failed hopes, drugs, crime,... (more)

The Nia Trilogy - Book #1: The Age of Innocence

The Nia Trilogy - Book #1: The Age of Innocence

by Kimberly Ware

Downtown (My Manhattan)

by Pete Hamill

In Downtown, Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to Times Square, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people.

Catholic Boys

by Philip Cioffari

English professor Cioffari has a few lyrical flashes in this 1960s Bronx thriller, but never manages to sustain them. Tormented detective Alex Ramsey is still shattered by the death two years before in a traffic accident of his 11-year-old son, Evan, a loss that also cost him his job with the NYPD. Ramsey's ghosts return with a vengeance when his current position as head of security for a Bronx housing project... (more)

Underworld: A Novel

by Don Delillo

Our lives, our half-century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game... (more)

Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

by Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. In his most personal and optimistic book to date, Jonathan returns to the South Bronx to spend another four years with the children who have come to be his friends at P.S. 30 and St. Ann's. A fascinating narrative of daily urban life seem through the eyes of children, Ordinary Resurrections gives the human face to Northern segregation... (more)

Legs

by William Kennedy

A fictionalized narrative of the erratic, stylish life and deadly career of notorious twenties gangster Legs Diamond, told with equivocal disbelief by his attorney, Marcus Gorman.

Sewer Balls

by Steven Schindler

No balls? No money? No problem. Just have your buddy hold you by the ankles and lower you into a sewer, armed with a bent coat hanger. There are plenty of balls down there for ready for scooping. And odds are, a couple of them are perfectly good for stick-ball or king-queen. So what if they're sewer balls. Oh, and one more thing: You better trust the guy who's holding you. I mean really trust him. JFK was shot... (more)

From The Block

by Steven Schindler

From the wild Irish pubs of the Bronx, to the bizarre world of the underground video art scene in SoHo, to the sleazy battle-zone known as television news, FROM THE BLOCK captures the hearts, minds, and souls of best friends and worst enemies as they each pursue their own visions of heaven and hell. Every journey begins with a first step, but Jerry Pellicano's began with an ice-ball right in the kisser. And what... (more)

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Kitchen Privileges

by Mary Higgins Clark

Sleeping Arrangements

by Laura Cunningham

Murder 101

by Maggie Barbieri

Supernatural: Nevermore

by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Do Not Give Way To Evil: Photographs of the South Bronx, 1979-1987

by Lisa Kahane

The Nia Trilogy - Book #1: The Age of Innocence

by Kimberly Ware

Downtown (My Manhattan)

by Pete Hamill

Catholic Boys

by Philip Cioffari

Underworld: A Novel

by Don Delillo

Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

by Jonathan Kozol

Legs

by William Kennedy

Sewer Balls

by Steven Schindler

From The Block

by Steven Schindler