From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet. Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and-because many have never been recorded-when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin,...

Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband’s venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the...

The gritty tales of New York’s five families returns for its fifth installment. Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and Caesar King feels weighted to the ground. The Five Families are in complete disarray, and Caesar realizes too late that stepping down was the wrong thing to do. It’s up to him to make the puzzle whole again. But when another war comes to their doorsteps and a past mistake comes back for blood, death rips through the boroughs...

Through scratchboard art and quotes from the subject's letters, this picture book biography follows the life of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, who served in the Union army disguised as a man. Back matter materials include an author's note, two glossaries, recommended reading, a timeline of events, and additional historical information--

With deadpan humor and a keen eye for the strangeness of our days, Negative Space follows a week in the life of a part-time high school English teacher. At home, her two children, increasingly restless in the wake of the pandemic, ask constant questions that flit from the weirdness of television shows to casual conversations about mortality. Her husband, always on business calls with Hong Kong at odd hours, shows up for meals only occasionally. At...

When their father takes a job in Japan, rambunctious, spontaneous, impulsive and disorganized sixteen-year-old Holly Tyler moves in with her twenty-eight-year-old organization freak sister, Valerie, in Manhattan-- and the sisters discover they may make better siblings than roomies.

Chandler moves in with Monica and Rachel moves in with Phoebe. Joey is on the hunt for a new roommate. Ross and Rachel seek annulment and, eventually, divorce with their typically hilarious amicable acrimony. Ross dates a student, Elizabeth. Her father in turn ends up wooing a willing Rachel. Monica's former beau, Richard confesses his lingering love for her. There is no cliff-hanger this time, though, and Monica and Chandler wind up agreeing to tie...

A gorgeous and lyrical story about Pura Belpre, a Puerto Rican librarian who changed the world-

Diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, an artist in her late twenties keeps a record of her year-one filled with a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters-as she reorients her relationship to the world while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.

Eater City Guide: New York is your go-to source for getting immersed in NYC's famously vibrant and diverse dining culture. Offering context on how the local scene has been shaped by history, immigration, agriculture, and tradition, the guides offers vibrant, incomparable insight into the City That Never Sleeps and its one-of-a-kind food destinations and personalities. Through a narrative lens, readers will explore the best restaurants, food trucks,...