Doree Lewak
DOREE LEWAK lives Panic-free in Manhattan. She is a full-time writer whose work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Time Out New York, Newsday, and New York Daily News, among other publications. Visit www.thepanicyears.com to learn ... [... more]
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Maryrose Wood
Meet Felicia, 14-year-old student at the Manhattan Free Children's School (also known as the Pound). In Felicia's world, she and her best friends, Jess and Kat, like to refer to themselves as the Sex Kittens, and the boys they know as the Horn Dawgs. [... more]
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John A. Stokes
John Stokes has waited more than 50 years to give his eyewitness account of "The Manhattan Project." This was the name he and a group of fellow students gave their strike at R.R. Moton High School that helped to end separate schooling for [... more]
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America's Hidden History
Four sisters, a Manhattan brownstone, and a tumultuous year of loss and courage are at the heart of Danielle Steel's new novel about a remarkable family, a stunning tragedy-and what happens when four very different young women come together under ... [... more]
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Dennis Bock
Emiko Amai is six years old in August 1945 when the Hiroshima bomb burns away half of her face. To Anton, a young German physicist involved in the Manhattan Project, that same bomb represents the pinnacle of scientific elegance. And for his ... [... more]
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Jill Kargman
Jill Kargman, who grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and now lives there with her husband and two daughters, is the ideal chronicler of the lives of New York's ultra-rich and ultra-ambitious. She captures the mores, the conversations, ... [... more]
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Anne Dayton
ANNE DAYTON graduated from Princeton University and is earning her master's degree in English literature at New York University. She works for a New York publishing company and lives in Brooklyn. A quirky and quick-witted girl moves to Manhattan ... [... more]
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Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott is the author of five previous novels, including On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first meets John Keane, she cannot know what lies ahead of her. A marriage, a fleeting season of romance, and the birth of four ... [... more]
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Patrick Ahern
Patrick Ahern, an auxiliary bishop of New York, is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on the spirituality of Saint Therese of Lisieux. He lives and works in Manhattan. As Saint Therese lay dying in the Carmel of Lisieux, she overheard ... [... more]
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Peeling the Onion
Wendy Orr wrote her very first draft of Nim's Island at age nine. An action-packed sequel, Nim at Sea, brings Nim to an even bigger island, when the intrepid island girl stows away on a cruise ship bound for Manhattan. Wendy Orr is also the ... [... more]
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Hortense Calisher
Fitzgerald's second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy. Published on the heels of This Side of ... [... more]
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Paul Warchol
The loft is increasingly the residential image most identified with New York. Originally popularized by artists and designers, the enormous raw spaces, most often in old industrial buildings in lower Manhattan, have been laboratories for the ... [... more]
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