This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains ... forever.Through the eyes of Cormac O'Connor—granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan—we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac's remarkable adventures in both love and war, we come to know the city's buried secre...

This award-winning anthology of original crime fiction exploring Brooklyn's many enclaves features new stories by Pete Hamill, Maggie Estep and others.New York's punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with this collection of stories from some of today's best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park Slope and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyn's historical ...

A disillusioned doctor in Depression-era Manhattan endures family troubles and threats from the mob in this novel by the author of Forever ."Hamill . . . has crafted a beautiful novel, rich in New York City detail and ambience, that showcases the power of human goodness and how love, in its many forms, can prevail in an unfair world."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A classic masterwork newly updatedThe electrifying true story of the rise and fall of New York's notorious Bonanno crime familyOn New York's Park Avenue on a rainy Tuesday night in October 1964, the famous Mafia chieftain Joseph Bonanno was kidnapped by two mobsters and reported by the police as dead on the following morning. More than a year later, Bonanno mysteriously reappeared, setting off a bloody mob feud that came to be known as the "Banana War."In this monum...

A "fast-paced [and] stylishly punchy" thriller about an assassin targeting the pope, by the New York Times-bestselling author of Snow in August ( The New York Times).The man in priest's garb gets out of the elevator at the top floor, leaving the gate ajar. He pulls out the loaded rifle he had hidden, and steps to the edge of the roof. St. Peter's Square is spread out before him like a great, colorful lake. There are more people than he ha...

An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—"engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise" ( Kirkus Reviews).Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America's greatest unsung literary form: the newspaper column. In this new Deadline Artists collection, some of America's greatest journalists take on the stories of sca...

A "street-smart, informative and occasionally hilarious" look at the places, personalities, and history that make New York one of a kind ( Publishers Weekly).Reporter Sam Roberts has covered the city in all its quirkiness, both in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts. In Only in New York, now updated with new stories, he writes about what makes this city tick and why things are the way they are in the greatest of all metropoli...

From a critically acclaimed author, a novel of an unlikely friendship in post-WWII NYC is "magic. . . . This page-turner of a fable has universal appeal." — New York Times Book ReviewBrooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague.

This collection of images from the Associated Press Saigon bureau is the ultimate photographic record of the drama and tragedy of the Vietnam War.To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the great photographic legacies of the 20th century. Collected here are images that tell the story of the war that left a deep and lasting impression on American life. These are p...

From New York Times bestselling author Pete Hamill, preeminent chronicler of New York City, comes the story of 24 hours in the lives of a kaleidoscope of characters.In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity surrounds their shocking deaths:The head of one of the city's last tabloids stops the presses. A cop investigates the killing. A reporter chases th...

"A vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction," the national bestselling memoir from the acclaimed New York City journalist ( New York Times ).As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy...

A collection of short stories about a long-gone Brooklyn from the legendary New York author of Forever ."Hamill, a master raconteur, mines his own roots in this enchanting new anthology." — New York Times"A veteran columnist at his best. . . . If you like O. Henry, you'll appreciate Hamill." — USA TodayPete Hamill's colle...