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From a New York Times–bestselling author, short stories of the privileged class, spanning a century of New York history: "Urbane, humorous... a treat to read." —Library Journal. Sublime master of manners, exquisite critic of the upper crust, and beloved American author Louis Auchincloss is at his wry, brilliant best with this collection of ten short stories about New York aristocracy. Drawing on a century of Manhattan high society, Auchincloss weaves a set of perfectly crafted, intimate portrayals of the struggles and dramas of the elite.

Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, Lauren Manning, a wife, the mother of a ten-month-old son, and a senior vice president and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, came to work as always at One World Trade Center. As she stepped into the lobby, a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft, and in that split second, her life was changed forever. Lauren was burned over 82.5 percent of her body. As he watched his wife lie in a drug-induced coma in the ICU of the Burn Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Greg Manning began writing a daily journal.

New York Times bestseller. Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the Financial Times, the New York Post, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London). An "exquisite" (The Washington Post) "hauntingly beautiful" (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year, but only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny.

An NPR Best Book of the Year. The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention. From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society.

A New York Times best seller • The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world—an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent • A Today Show #ReadwithJenna pick In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive.

Chaos, guerre, corruption emportent dans la tourmente tous les personnages de cette fabuleuse saga. Ce roman bouleversant qui se lit comme un thriller offre une sublime méditation sur les séquelles de la guerre du Vietnam. Le récit débute dans le Saigon de 1966 et se termine dans le New York d'aujourd'hui. C'est l'histoire captivante de deux amies. L'une flirte dans les bars bruyants du boulevard Catinat fréquentés par des GI, tandis que l'autre s'engage dans la résistance communiste.

Ira Levin's Broadway triumph Deathtrap melds gasp-out-loud thrills with laugh-out-loud laughs in a murderously entertaining "who'll-do-it" of a play, within a play, within a... Once-successful Sidney Bruhl has only a string of recent flops to his credit when he's sent an instant hit of a thriller written by a former student. Is Sidney desperate enough to kill in order to claim the work as his own?

“Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.”—Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere. TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023, San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction, Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023, Winner of the Chinese American Librarians Association Best Non-Fiction Book Prize, Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023, One of Elle's Best Memoirs of 2023 (So Far), An ALA Notable Book. “The Angela’s Ashes for Chinese Americans.”—Miwa Messer, Poured Over podcast.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times bestseller • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author. “It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World. One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Decade • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

A debut novel full of magic, adventure, and romance, The Book of Doors opens up a thrilling world of contemporary fantasy for readers of The Midnight Library, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Night Circus, and any modern story that mixes the wonder of the unknown with just a tinge of darkness. Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers—a lonely yet charming old man—dies right in front of her. Cassie is devastated.