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Students can access the full-text encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, as well as the Lands and People series - an excellent source of information for country reports, and the America the Beautiful series - a great resource for state reports.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An epic tale of the lives of two New York gangsters from the period of the early 1900's through prohibition, and climaxing in their subsequent reunion in the 1960's. Friends from childhood, they entered a life of crime together that inevitably led to tragedy and death.
3) The namesake
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The grown son of Indian immigrants is torn between finding his own cultural identity amongst his New York friends and respecting his parents' traditional ways.
Author
Publisher
Juniper Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Whether you are already a fan or on your first trip to the Big Apple, this book will (re)kindle your love for the city that never sleeps. It will introduce you to a New York that is as unique and diverse as its wide array of neighborhoods and local treasures. Journalist Marie-Joëlle Parent shares her best New York finds: where to grab a quick bite to eat or sip a Cosmopolitan; how to find a reasonably-priced hotel room; the best spots to watch the...
5) Giant
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
New York, early 1930s. A mysterious, laconic Irish colossus known as 'Giant' sweats blood, along with his fellow immigrants, to build the skyscrapers of Rockefeller Center. For a while, he has not received a reply to the typewritten letters he continues to send, as well as money, to the other side of the ocean, to Mary Ann, the wife of one of his colleagues who died accidentally. Giant, who seems to be afraid of nothing, still has not found the courage...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter. Born in 1937 in a small town in the north of England, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After leaving his home in Bradford for the Royal College of Art in London, his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be decriminalized,...
7) Bootblack
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On the German front, in the spring of 1945: the war leaves only death and destruction in its wake. To escape the horror of the present, Al, an American soldier, the only survivor of his unit, immerses himself in the memories of his New York life. Son of German immigrants, born in the United States, he was not yet ten years old when, in one night, under the approving eyes of anti-immigrant Americans, he lost his parents and his home in a terrible...
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