new york

After suffering a fainting spell while visiting her boyfriend at college, twenty-year-old Franny Glass comes home to recover and sort out a number of personal conflicts.

He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But something made her turn around and go back. They met nearly every week for years, and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.

Follows the beats and adventures with the sergeants, detectives, and patrol officers of Jokertown's Fifth Precinct, "Fort Freak, " where the person seated behind every other desk is not quite human.

Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels, and soon finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus.

A memoir of the author's childhood in the Bronx during World War II, where his father was an air-raid warden and made fur-lined vests for the Navy, and his mother, a Russian immigrant, became a poker dealer to a cicle of powerful Bronx politicians who dealt in the blackmarket.

Tells the story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company from the strike to the fire that forever changed Labor laws and safety regulation in American business.

A biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, an artist in New York City who rose to fame in the 1980s.

Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.

While celebrating her brother's Bar Mitzvah on Coney Island, nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin disobeys by going off on her own, leaving her cousin Ana, a recent immigrant, alone.