great nostalgic nyc read. pages are aged but works with the theme of the book :)

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New Jersey

The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted and the Velvet Underground wailed. Ada Calhoun tells the "Fascinating" (Village Voice) many-layered history of the street--from its beginnings as a pear orchard to today's hipster playground--organised around the pivotal moments when critics declared "St. Marks is dead".

In this "timely, provocative, and stylishly written book." (The Atlantic), enriched by interviews and rare images, Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W.H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys. St. Marks has variously been an elite address, an immigrants' haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise and a backdrop to the film Kids--but it has always been a place that outsiders call home.

St. Marks Is Dead

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A Memoir

In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn's daughter's birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those photos. Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with his unsteady father, and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this memoir passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and his growing obsession--a questioning of terror, torture, and the political crimes we can neither see nor understand in post-9/11 American life. The time bomb of the title becomes an unlikely metaphor and vehicle for exploring the fears and joys of becoming a father. Here is a memoir of profound self-discovery--of being lost and found, of painful family memories and losses, of the need to run from love, and of the ability to embrace it again.

The Ticking Is the Bomb

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jacket is a little torn and the pages are warped. but the words are still awesome!!!

An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating and Irrepressible City

No one denies that New York City is unique—but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts for years. In Only in New York, he writes about what makes New York tick and why things are the way they are in the greatest of all cities on earth. The forty essays in this book cover a variety of topics, including:
• Why do we have doormen?
• Is it noisier in the city or in the country?
• Are New Yorkers really as liberal as the rest of the country thinks they are?
• Why wasn’t Manhattan’s cross-town street grid oriented by the points of the compass?
• If a neighborhood loses its tony zipcode, does it lose its cachet?
A winning and informative gift book for every fan of “the city”, Only in New York is elegantly written and solidly reported.

Only in New York

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Thich Nhat Hanh

Journals, 1962-1966

Best known for his Buddhist teachings, Thich Nhat Hanh has lived in exile from his native Vietnam since 1966. These remarkable early journals reveal not only an exquisite portrait of the Zen master as a young man, but the emergence of a great poet and literary voice of Vietnam. From his years as a student and teaching assistant at Princeton and Columbia, to his efforts to negotiate peace and a better life for the Vietnamese, Fragrant Palm Leaves offers an elegant and profound glimpse into the heart and mind of one of the world's most beloved spiritual teachers.

Fragrant Palm Leaves

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The Way That You Felt about Yourself When You First Fell in Love Is the Way You Can Feel All the Time

This book precisely maps a unique journey that turns the problems and conflicts that inevitably arise in relationships into opportunities for deeper connection. Illuminating case studies, guided self-inquiries, and challenging exercises help you discover how to engage your partner in a deeper dialogue and find ways of expressing the most profound and untamed aspects of your nature.

Undefended Love

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As Sarah Lyall has written in the New York Times Book Review, "[Craig Taylor] is a master.... In [his] patient and sympathetic hands, regular people become poets, philosophers, orators." With New Yorkers, the best-selling author of Londoners returns with a magnificent portrait of contemporary New York. Here are more than 75 diverse voices of those who propel the city each day-nurse, bodega cashier, subway conductor, recent immigrant, and many more-as well as intimate glimpses of landmarks from the Empire State Building to the Statue of Liberty. Vibrant and bursting with life, New Yorkers is a symphony of the city that captures the extraordinary resilience of its people. Book jacket.

New Yorkers - a City and Its People in Our Time

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cover jacket has dents. see pic. otherwise unread. 

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When Nick Flynn was seven years old, his mother set fire to their house. The event loomed large in his imagination for years, but it's only after having a child of his own that he understands why. He returns with his young daughter to the landscape of his youth, reflecting on how his feral childhood has him still in its reins, and forms his memories into lyrical bedtime stories populated by the both sinister and wounded Mister Mann.With the spare lyricism and dark irony of his classic, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Flynn excavates the terrain of his traumatic upbringing and his mother's suicide. This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire unravels the story of the fire that Flynn had to escape, and the ways in which, as an adult, he has carried that fire with him until it threatens to burn down his own house. Here Nick confronts his failings with fierce candor, even as they threaten to tear his family apart. His marriage in crisis, Flynn seeks answers from his therapist, who tells him he has "the ethics of a drowning man."This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire takes us on the journey of a man struggling to hold himself together in prose that is raw and moving, sharp-edged and wry. Alternating literary analysis and philosophy with intimate memoir, Flynn probes his deepest ethical dilemmas.

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Ada Calhoun

St. Marks Is Dead

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The Ticking Is the Bomb

Sam Roberts; Pete Hamill (Foreword by)

Only in New York

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Undefended Love

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New Yorkers - a City and Its People in Our Time

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This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire

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