David Koepp launches his new book Aurora
In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out—not just in Aurora[read more...]
In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out—not just in Aurora[read more...]
In an era of “hot takes” and easy generalizations, this collection reclaims the absurdities and paradoxes of life as it is actually lived from the American fantasy of “niceness”. In[read more...]
The Honorable Alice D. McKerrity is no stranger to violence. From the bench at Manhattan Supreme, she has seen the most hardened killers pass through her courtroom. But there’s something[read more...]
When did “parenting” become a verb? Why is it so hard to parent, and so rife with the possibility of failure? In Long Days, Short Years, Andrew Bomback—physician, writer, and father[read more...]
Seen through the eyes of four generations of a firefighter family, Five Floors Up the story of the modern New York City Fire Department. From the days just after the horse-drawn firetruck,[read more...]
What if you could write your dreams into reality with the stroke of a pen? Sixth grade is off to a difficult start for Josephine Rose Silver. Her best friend,[read more...]
Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. In Barred, legal scholar Daniel S. Medwed argues that our justice system’s stringent procedural rules are largely to blame for the ongoing[read more...]
*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS CO-SPONSORED BY CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS AND WILL HAPPEN OFFSITE AT WETHERBY-PEMBRIDGE SCHOOL 7 EAST 96th STREET* RSVP to: events@chneighbors.org Steel City is the story of[read more...]
It’s Not What You Think is a wry, incisive account of working in Saudi Arabia that offers insight into that insular patriarchal society, what is so attractive to expatriates living there,[read more...]
Best friends Billy and Rose, an industrious sheep and a laid-back pig, sometimes see things differently. When they play catch, Rose insists that Billy throws too high, and he counters[read more...]