162 results for '"MAYOR,A"'

A Fascinating Biography of One City Block in Upper Manhattan, Bringing Buildings to Life through Stories Drawn from the Flesh-and-Blood Beings who Pass Through Them If only the walls could talk, what...

Princeton grew along a Leni Lenape Indian trail that was widened in the 1700s and eventually became part of the King's Highway through New Jersey. Right from its beginning, Princeton's history has...

Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable novel about the desolation of Hitler’s post-war Germany.Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and “moderate...

A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people’s interests—by the reporter who broke the storyIn a series of cover stories for The Nation...

In the tradition of The Wire, the “utterly absorbing” (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of America’s bustling cities—rife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning...

Trapped On A Remote Island By A Howling Storm, Nine People Sit Down To Dinner. One Of Them Is About To Die. A Group Of International Players Has Gathered In A Tiny Village Off The Coast Of Iceland...

Death in Rome tells the story of four members of a German family--a former SS officer, a young man preparing for the priesthood, a composer, and a government administrator--reunited by chance in the...

The award-winning translators bring us a new translation of an 1870 comic novel by Russia's greatest satirist—whose mockery of Russian autocracy is as relevant as ever.“Pevear and Volokhonsky [are...

Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure New York Times bestseller The Soprano State—back in trade paperback to tie-in with the release of the major documentary film.It's not a jokeNew Jersey leads the country in...

The scrublands of South Texas, the warm coastland of the Gulf of Mexico, a cinderblock flophouse near the produce fields of South Florida: all are borderlands of mixed blood and spilled blood, of...

How liberalism and one of the most dramatic eras in American history were shaped by an influential university president and his powerful circle of friendsYale’s Kingman Brewster was the first and...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Choose kindness with Horton the elephant and the Whos of Who-ville in Dr. Seuss’s classic picture book about caring for others!Don’t miss the Netflix original series Dr...

Everything you have been told about creativity is wrong.From line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, mayors, advertisers and even our friends and family, the message is...

From California Governor Gavin Newsom comes an intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics “Go slow,” his political elders advised...

The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade. Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its...

In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small...

The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics.Anniversaries, Volume 2 begins on April 20, 1968. Before...

An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood with an electric mix of humor and emotion.Acclaimed for the grace, wit, and magic of her novels,...

"This book will give you an entirely new perspective on work in America." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed In what has been described as "the crime wave no one talks about," billions...

A perfect detective for our time and for all time."--Stephen Fry "One of the most iconic British fictional detectives of the 21st century... a delight."--Daily Mail In the fourth book in Tim...