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It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City. Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is ripe with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman’s department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante... (more)

Chronicles: Volume One (Chronicles)

by Bob Dylan

"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else." So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York... (more)

Molly Murphy Series: Book 2

Death of Riley: A Molly Murphy Mystery

by Rhys Bowen

Molly Murphy has finally begun to forget the unpleasant murder of a would-be rapist back in Ireland, not to mention her investigation into the murder of a fellow recent Irish immigrant, and is finally free to begin her life in New York City. Given her experiences so far in the New World, Molly has decided that her first order of business is to become a private investigator, a people finder of sorts, working for... (more)

The Ballad of West Tenth Street: A Novel (P.S.)

The Ballad of West Tenth Street: A Novel (P.S.)

by Marjorie Kernan

Once upon a time in Manhattan . . . . . . there stood a pair of fine old brick townhouses on West Tenth Street. One had a blue door with a tarnished brass knocker in the shape of a dolphin. The other was empty. Behind the blue door lived Sadie, the widow of a famous British rocker who died of an overdose, and two of her children, Hamish and Deen. The children manage to muddle along as best they can with a... (more)

Lady Sings The Blues

Out of This Century : Confessions of an Art Addict

Out of This Century : Confessions of an Art Addict

by Peggy Guggenheim

In this autobiography, noted art collector Guggenheim offers outspoken, tart, somewhat embarrassing personal reminiscences. But PW recommended the work for the author's "interesting information about several of the major artists of the 20th century" and about her "role discovering, promoting and financially aiding" them. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Molly Murphy Series: Book 1

Murphy's Law (A Molly Murphy Mystery)

by Rhys Bowen

Molly Murphy always knew she'd end up in trouble, just as her mother predicted. So, when she commits murder in self-defense, she flees her cherished Ireland, and her identity, for the anonymous shores of America. When she arrives in new York and sees the welcoming promise of freedom in the Statue of Liberty, Molly begins to breathe easier. But when a man is murdered on Ellis Island, a man Molly was seen arguing... (more)

In Like Flynn: A Molly Murphy Series (A Molly Murphy Mystery)

In Like Flynn: A Molly Murphy Series (A Molly Murphy Mystery)

by Rhys Bowen

A woman private eye in a man’s world, Molly Murphy is having a hard time succeeding as a New York shamus. That’s why she agrees to go undercover for the NYPD to expose a pair of spiritualist sisters as con-artists even though the offer comes from police captain Daniel Sullivan. Sullivan had once won Molly’s heart—until she discovered he already had a socialite fiancé and an upcoming wedding. Now Molly’s... (more)

For the Love of Mike (A Molly Murphy Mystery)

For the Love of Mike (A Molly Murphy Mystery)

by Rhys Bowen

A woman ahead of her time, Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective. Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor, Paddy Reilly, she's following philandering husbands, tracking down a runaway Dublin debutante, and working in a sweatshop to discover who's purloining dress designs. None of her jobs seem dangerous...at first. When a woman's body is fished out of the East River, Molly fears it's the... (more)

Letters from BohemiaBen Hecht

Letters from Bohemia

by Ben Hecht

Edie

by Jean Stein, George Plimpton

When Edie was first published a decade ago, it quickly became an international bestseller. In the sixties Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet--aristocratic, glamorous, and Andy Warhol's superstar. Then at 28 her light fizzled and died from a drug overdose. Alternately thrilling, tragic and horrifying, this book shatters many myths about the American sixties. Photographs.

Moving Through Here

by Don McNeill

This is a "greatest hits" collection of the best journalism of McNeill, a Village Voice reporter who died at age 23 in 1968. "A wonderfully readable, kindly and perceptive family album of the turned-on cats and chix who kicked the lid off the 1960s," grooved PW. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Pope of Greenwich Village (Coronet Books)

Pope of Greenwich Village (Coronet Books)

by Vincent Patrick

A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

by Suze Rotolo

A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion, when Dylan was honing his skills and she was in the ring with him. A shy girl from... (more)

They Can't Hide Us Anymore

by Richie Havens

In this warm, highly personal narrative, Richie Havens recounts a musical career that began on the streets of Bed-Stuy and matured amidst the creative explosion that was Greenwich Village in the Sixties, where he joined other blazing talents in bringing lush poetry and a social conscience to popular music. From Richie's unique vantage point, we watch the emerging careers of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, Lou... (more)

Memoirs of a Beatnik

by Diana Di Prima, Diane DiPrima

Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a powerful woman artist coming of age sensually and intellectually in a movement dominated by a small confederacy of men, many of whom she lived with and loved. Filled with anecdotes about her adventures in New York City, Diane di Prima's memoir shows her learning... (more)

The Portrait

by Megan Chance

Struggling with a devastating past and his own fierce nature, New York art master Jonas Whitaker resists his original impulse to dismiss Imogene Carter, an aspiring artist who seeks Jonas's instruction.

Oh Danny Boy (Molly Murphy Mysteries)

by Rhys Bowen

While Irish immigrant Molly Murphy contemplates giving up PI work in New York to move West, she+s determined to avoid the handsome but deceiving NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan. That is, until Daniel is accused of accepting bribes and lands himself in the Tombs, the notorious city jail. When Daniel asks Molly to help prove he was framed, she finds herself drawn into the case-and to the case of a serial killer who+s... (more)

On What Grounds (Coffeehouse Mysteries)

by Cleo Coyle

"The perfect cup of coffee is a mystifying thing. To many of my customers, the entire process seems like some sort of alchemy they dare not try at home...." Ten years ago, Clare Cosi left an unhappy marriage along with a job she loved: managing the historic Village Blend coffeehouse in New York's Greenwich Village. For a decade, she was happy raising her daughter in the quiet suburbs of New Jersey; but now that... (more)

All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930

All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930

by Andrea Barnet

They were smart. Sassy. Daring. Exotic. Eclectic. Sexy. And influential. One could call them the first divas--and they ran absolutely wild. They were poets, actresses, singers, artists, journalists, publishers, baronesses, and benefactresses. They were thinkers and they were drinkers. They eschewed the social conventions expected of them--to be wives and mothers--and decided to live on their own terms. In the... (more)

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