New York City's Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers, Paperback - Michael T. Keene

Reducere. Just off the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound sits Hart Island, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves. Beginning ...

Reducere. THE YEAR WAS 1869, HER NAME WAS MARY ROTE. ...SHE ARRIVED BY STEAMBOAT AT OVID LANDING, SHACKLED AT THE WRISTS AND TRANSPORTED BY ARMED GUARDS........

Reducere. The women who serve as the subjects for this book, all share compelling stories. Most of the women in Keene's book are from North Central New York ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael T. Keene Eight boys from the rural community of Holley, New York, died fighting in Vietnam. All went to the same hi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael T. KeeneThe Erie Canal delivered people to important places for important reasons, like Susan Cady Stanton and Lucr...

Reducere. This thought provoking book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in ...

*Includes pictures of the various amusement parks and rides *Traces the history of Coney Island and includes accounts of the old amusement parks an...

Reducere. Non fiction account of thirteen true murder mysteries that occurred in 19th century New York including the Tourture Tree, the Batavia women who mur...

Reducere. Nancy and her friends take their detective skills on an Alaskan adventure in this second book of the Nancy Drew Diaries, a fresh approach to a clas...

Winner of the 2019 Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize, The Care of Strangers is a moving story about friendship set in a gritty Brooklyn hospital, wher...

One woman's incredible story of life on the front lines as an emergency medical worker in New York City. On the streets of New York City, EMTs and ...

Three hostages, one cafe - and a man on the brink

Reducere. This is the ultimate field guide to the trees and landscapes of Central Park, with a lively, authoritative text and over 900 color photographs, bot...

Reducere. Today the Port of New York is where container ships and tankers park while waiting to reload and be on their way around the world. Long black tanke...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Why do we give a damn about strangers?

Reducere. Before the popularity of the electric guitar and before every teenager with a rock 'n' roll dream had a band in their garage, Manny's Music in New ...

Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten Waterfront transports the reader into the extraordinary past and present embedded in New ...

DescriptionFor many years Alice railed against God for the persecution and suffering she had not deserved, and for the debilitating disease that re...

Reducere. Could a lifetime of memories...be a lifetime of lies?All her life Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never t...

Reducere. From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressAuthor(s): Regina GalassoIllustration(s): 9 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 216Collection: Cont...

Reducere. "Ferraris uses her firsthand knowledge to write books that open up a closed world." ---Nina Sankovitch, Huffington Post A secret grave is unearthed...

DescriptionDI Costello faces a disturbing child abduction case; a six-week-old has been stolen and replaced with another baby. The swap took cold a...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL)Level 2 - A1/A2 Starter (2)Word count: 4, 245Life can be difficult, but sometimes strangers help us. P...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the building written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of con...

DescriptionThe Statues of Central Park is the extraordinary photographic tribute to one of the world's most popular recreational destinations and p...

Reducere. The 3-0 is a thrilling, cat and mouse story that's based on the true story of the largest police corruption scandal in the history of the New York ...

Reducere. "A fine achievement."--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can DoA sweeping psychological history of human goodness...

The thrilling new novel from the author of The Night of the Mi'raj and City of Veils, a mystery set in Saudia Arabia's underworld.

Witty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, "America's best fishing writer" (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, has...