NYC Nook

Think you know the Big Apple? Think again!Did you know that 25 species of shark swim off NYC's coastline?Or that astronauts can see the lights of T...

A pocket-sized guide to goings-on in New York City―now in its fourth year!This attractive little volume offers a day-by-day guide to the coming yea...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from t...

Ian Frazier’s magnum opus: a love song to New York City’s most heterogeneous and alive borough.For the past fifteen years, Ian Frazier has been wal...

It's time to turn out the lights and say "night-night" to New York City with this bedtime baby book featuring landmarks and locations in the Big Ap...

Count to Sleep New York City features the Statue of Liberty, hot dog stands, taxi cabs, Central Park, Broadway theaters, library lions, bridges, Ro...

Good Night Central Park explores the Central Park Zoo, street performers, statues, the various pools and ponds, Lasker Rink and Pool, Conservatory ...

Based on the beautiful designs of Mr. Boddington's Studio, this board book is the perfect introduction to the ABCs of NYC.This board book teaches t...

This memoir from the influential art dealer and author offers an up close and personal perspective on New York’s vibrant art scene of the sixties a...

An evocative coming-of-age memoir—the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found ref...

I am glad I have the radiance. This time I am wiser. No one will know... The radiance drifts blue circles around my head. If I wanted to I could fl...

This fresh and whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice—from the authors of the “great beach read” (Bookreporter) E...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York ...

A Newsweek and Reader's Digest most-anticipated read of 2023. In the thrilling first crime novel from the former director of the FBI, a murder inve...

A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing ...

Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shape...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incre...

What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amuseme...

"No American fiction of the year merits recognition more than this Russian's stories of Yiddish life. … [Mr. Cahan] is a humorist, and his humor do...

In this classic rags-to-riches tale, discover the exhilarating story of one boy’s metamorphosis from a street urchin in New York City to a handsome...

"An essential text for all students of design . . . [and] inspiration and intel for those simply interested in the art and practice." --Alexa Hampt...

A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stori...

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is th...

Since its publication - Delirious New York (1978) has attained mythic status. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city ...

"The black experience in the antebellum South has been thoroughly documented. But histories set in the North are few. In the Shadow of Slavery, the...

Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award WinnerIn New York Burning,Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic eve...

As perhaps never before in its extraordinary history, New York has captured the American imagination. This major anthology brings together not only...

Winner of the 2017 Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society of New York"The maps themselves are things of beauty . . . A document of its ...

This absorbing anthology features in-depth portraits of diverse ethnic populations, revealing the surprising new realities of immigrant life in twe...

In the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers disappeared without a trace from her New York City boarding house. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and...

Covering the expanse of arts featured in The Times, from orchestral music and museum exhibitions to video games and hip-hop, this Reader makes no h...

The bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together i...

Enter the lush world of 1950s New York City, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors live side by side in the glamorous Bar...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue comes the compelling national bestselling novel about the thin lines betwee...

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and a New York Times bestseller! “A page-turner for book lovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, the...

In this captivating novel, New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Term...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel abo...

From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Magnolia Palace: A thrilling story about love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of dreams, set amidst t...