Kevin Bone
Edited by Kevin Bone and Gina Pollara, Contribution by Albert F. Appleton The Architecture and Engineering of the New York City Water Supply The fresh, clean taste of New York's water is legendary. Less well known is the fascinating story of the ... [... more]
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Susan Suffes
Susan Suffes is a writer and editor who lives in New York City. A renowned physical therapist helps you get rid of your pain in just 10 seconds. In this one-of-a-kind book, Peggy Brill, acclaimed author of Tell Me Where It Hurts and I'll Tell You ... [... more]
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Jane Mendelsohn
Jane Mendelsohn was born in New York City, July 4, 1965. She was graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale University in 1987, and attended Yale Law School for one year before beginning a career as a writer/journalist. In this ... [... more]
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Robert Stone
Robert Stone, a National Book Award-winner, lives in New York City. Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American ... [... more]
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Warren G. Harris
Warren G. Harris has written critically acclaimed biographies of Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, and Sophia Loren, among others. He lives in New York City. Clark Gable arrived in Hollywood after a rough-and-tumble youth, and his breezy, big-boned, ... [... more]
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Otto Penzler
Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He ... [... more]
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Tom Slaughter
Tom Slaughter was born in New York City in 1955. He is an artist whose work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Japan and Canada. His prints are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. ... [... more]
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Moises Kaufman
Moises Kaufman is the founder and artistic director of Tectonic Theater Project, a theater company based in New York City. His 1997 play Ten years after the brutal death of Matthew Shepard, Moisés Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theater ... [... more]
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Jordana Jacobs
Inveterate knitters since college, Julie Carles and Jordana Jacobs left their respective careers in the medical and legal worlds to assume ownership of the Yarn Company, New York City's landmark knitting store, in 1997. The store has become a ... [... more]
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James Gleick
James Gleick (www.around.com) was born in New York City in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times, founded an early Internet portal, the Pipeline, and wrote three previous books: Isaac Newton was born in a ... [... more]
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. When his father died, he was forced to leave school and find work. After passing through some minor clerical jobs, the eighteen-year-old young man shipped out to sea, first on a short cargo trip, ... [... more]
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Christopher Burge
Christopher L. Burge has been the faithful facilitator of a dynamic "thirty-something" bible study in New York City for the past 13 years. The midweek, midtown study now boasts a list of more than 600 attendees. Burge is a graduate of Rhema [... more]
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