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2023/2024
Dancing in the Darkness: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times
Simon & Schuster
Who Killed Marta Ugarte?: Poems in memory of the victims of Augusto Pinochet
Broadstone Books
Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your Own
Bloomsbury Academic
2021/2022
2020
2019
2018
Downward Spiral: El Helicoide’s Descent from Mall to Prison
Terreform/Urban Research
The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence
Oxford University Press
2017
The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
Princeton University Press
2016
Proofread or Die!: Writings by Former Students & Colleagues of David Foster Wallace
Lit Fest Press
2015
FUDS: A Complete Encyclofoodia from Tickling Shrimp to Not Dying in a Restaurant
Bloomsbury
Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City
Cornell University Press
Anarchic Sexual Desires of Plain Unmarried Schoolteachers
Selected Press 2015
2014
Empty Hands, Open Arms: The Race to Save Bonobos in the Congo and Make Conservation Go Viral
Milkweed
Gentlemen, Scientists, and Revolutionaries: The Founding Fathers in the Age of Enlightenment
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
Design Brooklyn: Renovation, Restoration, Innovation, Industry
Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
Viking Penguin
Solitary: The History and Current Reality of Torture as a Means of Social Control within Prisons
Smashwords
Sapphire’s Literary Breakthrough: Erotic Literacies, Feminist Pedagogies, Environmental Justice Perspectives
Palgrave Macmillan
2012
The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure
Harper Perennial
Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism
Zone Books
Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression
Lawrence Hill Books
Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model
Palgrave Macmillan
Adirondack Mysteries And Other Mountain Tales: Volume 2
North Country Books
2011
Lost on Treasure Island: A Memoir of Longing, Love, and Lousy Choices in New York City
Arcade Publishing
The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe
Broadway
Building Tall: My Life and the Invention of Construction Management
University of Michigan Press
2010
The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
Nation Books
The Brooklyn Rail Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics, and Culture (April 2010)
The Brooklyn Rail
Flights of Imagination: Extraordinary Writing About Birds
Greystone Books
The Guide to Odd New York: Unusual Places, Weird Attractions. and the City’s Most Curious Sights
Allan Ishac LLC
Know What Makes Them Tick: How to Successfully Negotiate Almost Any Situation
HarperCollins Publishers
Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America
Encounter Books
New York City Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities, & Other Offbeat Stuff
Globe Pequot
Ep;phany - A Literary Journal: Evasions & Exposés
West Chester University
Silver Threads: 25 Years of Fiction from Xavier Review
Xavier University Press
2009
No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Everywhere and All at Once: An Anthology of Writings on Performa 07
JRP Ringier
The New Age of Adventure: 10 Years of Great Writing
National Geographic Books
Love is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts
Plume
Old World Daughter, New World Mother: An Education in Love and Freedom
W.W. Norton & Co.
The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama
HarperCollins
Airlift to America: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours
St. Martin’s Press
The Play That Changed My Life: America’s Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them
Applause Books
Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak by Writers Famous & Obscure
Harper Perennial
The Prosecution Rests: New Stories about Courtrooms, Criminals, and the Law
Back Bay Books
2008
The Girl with the Crooked Nose: A Tale of Murder, Obsession, and Forensic Artistry
Random House
Rock and Roll Cage Match: Music's Greatest Rivalries, Decided
Random House
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure & Urban Culture in Nigeria
Duke University Press
How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
Harper
Reading Dance: A Gathering of Memoirs, Reportage, Criticism, Profiles, Interviews, and Some Uncategorizable Extras
Pantheon Books
The Girl From Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home
The Penguin Press
How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel: And Other Misadventures Traveling with Kids
Seal Press
The Big Book of Personality Tests for Women: 100 Fun-to-Take, Easy-to-Score Quizzes that Reveal Your Hidden Potential in Life, Love, and Work
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
2007
The Big Question: A Novel of Reality Television by the Author of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Simon & Schuster
Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
Municipal Art Society of New York and Princeton Architectural Press
One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets
Little Brown and Company
The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940
Duke University Press
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
Riverhead Books
Greyston Bakery Cookbook: More Than 80 Recipes to Inspire the Way You Cook and Live
Rodale Books
The Honeymoon's Over: True Stories of Love, Marriage and Divorce
Grand Central Publishing
What You Don't Know Can Keep You Out of College: A Top Consultant Explains the 13 Fatal Application Mistakes and Why Character Is the Key to College Admissions
Avery
The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President
Three Rivers Press
Cookie Craft: From Baking to Luster Dust, Designs and Techniques for Creative Cookie Occasions
Storey Publishing
Cat Women: Female Writers on their Feline Friends
Seal Press
Damage Control: Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies
Avon A
The Bridal Wave: A Survival Guide to the Everyone-I-Know-Is-Getting-Married Years
Villard
Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories About the Men We Used to Love
Ballantine Books
2006
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Beacon Press
Before: Short Stories About Pregnancy from our Top Writers
Overlook Press
The Complete Book of Core Training: The Definitive Resource for Shaping and Strengthening the ‘‘Core’’ — The Muscles of the Abdomen, Butt, Hips, and Lower Back
Hyperion
Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty
Doubleday
Claire Fontaine, Crime Fighter: A Novel of Life and Death… and Shoes
St. Martin's Minotaur
Three Plays: Mother Caldwell / The Last Days of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, In Exile / Suffering the Witch
Oberon Books
This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers
Random House
Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Non-fiction Collects New Essays by Italian American Writers
Other Press
Up is Up, But So is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992
NYU Press
Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office
Regan Books
Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theaters and Their Legacies
University of Michigan Press
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Doubleday
2005
City Baby Brooklyn: The Ultimate Guide for Parents from Pregnancy to Preschool
Rizzoli/Universe
2004
The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or a Sister at any Age
Scribner
What It Takes: Speak Up, Step Up, Move Up (by Amy Henry)
St. Martins Press
Pen and Brush: POETS, Celebrating Ourselves, We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Acquainted With The Night: A Parent’s Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children
Broadway Books
2003
Once Upon a Tart: Tart: Soups, Salads, Muffins and More from New York City's Favorite Bakeshop Cafe
Knopf
Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism
Encounter Books
Laboratory Warriors: How Allied Science and Technology Tipped the Balance in World War II
Harper Perennial
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers
Basic Civitas Books
It Looks Better on You: New Zealand Women Writers on Their Friendships
Longacre Press
2002
Sex and the Single Parent: A Guide for Parents who find themselves Back in the Dating Game
Penguin Putnam Perigee
The Best American Crime Writing: 2002 Edition: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting
Vintage Books
Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate Icon
Anthology Editions, Los Angeles
Poems for America 125 poems that celebrate the American Experience
Scribner Book Company
Terrors & Marvels: How Science & Technology Changed the Character and Outcome of World War II
William Morrow
The Women's Project & Productions: Rowing to America & 16 Other Plays
Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
2000
Were You Always an Italian? Ancestors & Other Icons of Italian America
W. W. Norton Company
Machu Picchu: The Story of the Amazing Inkas and Their City in the Clouds
Mikaya Press
The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Wolf
Greenwood Press
Economy Hall
The Historic New Orleans Collection