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	Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough by Ian Frazier List Price: $35.00 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $8.01 (23%) Hardcover Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Kindle price: $16.99	THIS BOOK IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST-HAVE, MUST-READ for any and all who grew up in the Bronx and wish to enjoy a brilliantly crafted, comprehensive and in-depth portrait of the Bronx in history, in American culture, and in our collective "borough" personalities. For the past fifteen years, Ian Frazier has been walking the Bronx, and his book reveals the amazingly rich and tumultuous history of the only borough that's part of the U.S. mainland. From Jonas Bronck, who bought land from the local Native Americans, through the Revolutionary War, to the formerly gang-wracked South Bronx that gave birth to hip-hop, Frazier's loving exploration is a moving tour de force about the polyglot culture that is America today. Frazier shows us how the coming of the railroads and the subways drove the settling of the Bronx by various waves of immigration - Irish, Italian, Jewish, African American, Caribbean, Puerto Rican. The romance of the Yankees, the disaster of the Cross Bronx Expressway, the invention of rap and hip-hop, the resurgence of community as the borough's communities learn mutual aid. All are investigated, recounted, and celebrated in Frazier's inimitable voice.
	Cross Bronx: A Writing Life by Peter Quinn Our Price: $29.95 Hardcover Availability: Usually ships within 1 week Kindle price: $14.99	Master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball. The first 76 pages of the book, "The Bronx, Yes Thonx," provide a cache of reminiscences familiar to most ex-Bronxites, especially to those who share Quinn's kindergarten-through-college BIC, parochial cultivation.
	Tales from The Widow's Walk c/o The Bronx by Danny Hofer Our Price: $17.00 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 2 days Kindle price: $7.99	From a former NYPD officer of the Bronx's famed 44th Precinct comes this collection of mostly humorous but heartfelt tales of a group of eccentric bar patrons, centered around St. Brendan’s Parish in the Bronx.
	Blood Oaths: Sumus Quasi Mortui (We Are As Dead Men) by Robert Parker Our Price: $16.99 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 1 week Kindle price: $8.99	In the heart of the burning Bronx, Bobby D., a young street hustler and unwitting orphan, is about to discover a legacy he never knew he carried. Blood Oaths thrusts readers into a gripping tale set against the backdrop of a city in turmoil. Unaware of his noble lineage, Bobby becomes the unwitting guardian of a centuries-old secret, a responsibility he's ill- prepared to bear. As the flames of the city mirror the inferno within his destiny, Bobby must face enemies entrenched in a war that spans two centuries. The novel weaves a tapestry of history, seamlessly connecting the past to the present, revealing a message that transcends time.
	If Anyone Asks, Say I Died of the Heartbreaking Blues by Philip Cioffari Our Price: $17.95 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 2 days Kindle price: $8.95	This fictional, coming-of-age novel follows Joey Hunter, a Bronx teen, on his eighteenth birthday as he negotiates the highs and lows of first love, vendettas from a Bronx gang, and the haunting memories of his younger brother's untimely death.
	Meatloaf for Breakfast: Bronx Logic for Building Strength in America's Youth by Gerard Azzari Our Price: $14.99 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 2 days Kindle price: $3.99	This non-fiction work offers an unusual perspective on childhood development based on the author's own Bronx-based childhood as well as interactions of many other families that lived in and around a Bronx housing project. It is a heartfelt guide for parents hoping to see their children find love, decency and success in the same fashion that Azzari's Bronx community guided him. The appendix includes several Bronx photographs as well as a few nostalgic lists of songs and movies from the 60s and 70s.
	Bronxland by Paul Thaler Our Price: $10.34 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 2 days Kindle price: $3.99	Set against the turbulent history of the times, Bronxland tugs on a kaleidoscope of emotions as an uproarious and heartrending coming-of-age tale. It is also the story of a place, a Bronx long gone yet still vivid in the collective memory of those who once called these streets their home. A place of the heart known to each of us, with our own story to tell of growing up, of trying to make sense of our life, with everything that comes along. Welcome to Bronxland.
	14 Stories in the Bronx: Stickball, Skelly and Spaldeens by Carlo Frank Calo Our Price: $9.99 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 1 week Kindle price: $4.99	This book offers the author's personal experiences and historical events that shaped his life. It is an evocative journey through the lives of a group of boys coming of age among the elevated landscape of the Bronx's largest Housing Projects during the rough decades of the 1950s and 1960s. These stories are not just a collection of narratives but a testament to the enduring legacy of community, friendship, and the human capacity for stability in the face of hardship.
	Krum's at Christmere by Laurence J. Stein List Price: $27.50 Our Price: $24.62 You Save: $2.88 (10%) Hardcover Availability: Ships immediately Kindle price: $0.99	A comic crime caper debut novel, set in the Bronx in the late 1950s, features an engaging hero and a large cast of characters with nicknames such as "Sally Bats," "Nicky Eyes," and "Shmoogie." It's the Marx Brothers meet the mob, and recommended especially for readers who grew up in the Bronx.
	The Bronx Kill by Philip Cioffari Our Price: $16.95 Paperback Availability: In stock Kindle price: $4.99	On a hot August night, five teenage friends challenge each other to swim the East River from the Bronx to Queens. In the attempt, one boy drowns and the body of the only girl among them is never found. The three survivors take a vow never again to speak about the incident. When they reunite five years later, they find themselves at the mercy of the drowned boy’s brother, an NYPD detective, who holds them responsible for his brother’s death and vows to bring them to justice by any means possible. Now, Danny Baker, one of the three survivors, must fight not only to preserve his childhood friendships but to save himself and his friends from the detective’s brand of vigilante justice.
	The Wanderers by Richard Price List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $10.62 You Save: $4.33 (29%) Paperback Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Kindle price: $9.99	Richard Price's first novel is a classic portrait of the Bronx of the early sixties. Based on the gang that lived in and around Parkside Projects (where Richard grew up), the novel evokes much of the angst and emotion that accompanied teenage life in the boroughs. As a past Bronxite, you're sure to find something in this story that will spark a personal memory.
	Bloodbrothers by Richard Price List Price: $12.00 Our Price: $3.49 You Save: $8.51 (71%) Paperback Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 days Kindle price: $10.99	This is the long-awaited paperback release of Richard Price's novel about a blue-collar family in the Bronx, and the son who is torn between his father's values and his own aspirations for a better life.
	Uncle Matty Comes Home by Jim Farrell Our Price: $19.95 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 2 days Kindle price: $9.95	Jim Farrell, born and raised in the Bronx was deeply moved by the significant discovery of his Uncle Matty's D-Day rifle from WW II. He has reached deeply into his family's history and memorabilia to recreate as much of his Uncle's life as possible. This has turned into an incredible opportunity for Jim to explore his past. His story is unique, yet those who grew up in the same era can completely relate. His journey to bring Uncle Matty's D-Day M1 Garand home started for Jim at Saint Jerome's Church in the South Bronx and took him and his wife on trips to Normandy, Nottingham, 508th PIR reunions, Pentagon, and much more. Jim's journey concluded (for the Moment) by arranging the first annual mass for Uncle Matty at Saint Jerome's on June 4, 2017.
	Sewer Balls by Steven Schindler Our Price: $11.95 Paperback Availability: Ships in 4 to 6 weeks Kindle price: $7.99	Set against the backdrop of the Bronx in the early '60s, "Sewer Balls" is a blunt, quirky, novel of how city kids with no money but lots of imagination make the most out of what they have. Was it fun? Was it scary? Was it the best time of their lives? Fuhgedabowdit."
	God Verses The Bad Boy by John Murray List Price: $17.95 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.96 (28%) Paperback Availability: In stock Kindle price: $9.99	Let this bad boy take you on a wild ride through the pages of scripture and experience the Bible in a way you've never experienced it before! Join Johnny-Boy as he looks back on his childhood as a "little bad boy from the Bronx". As he recounts all his tales of trouble-making, he leaves behind a trail of Bible verses for you to follow. Part memoir, part devotional, God Verses the Bad Boy will have you munching on tidbits from this bad boy's story along with a few crumbs of Scripture from God's table.
	Unredeemable Sins by John J. McLoughlin Our Price: $21.00 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 7 days Kindle price: $7.99	UNREDEEEMABLE SINS begins on October 16, 1976 and traces the lives of primarily Irish and Italian characters, some with prior involvement with the Mafia, from 1900 through the mid 1970's. It's a crime thriller laced with intrigue, revenge, deceit, betrayal and murder, as well as some sex, suspense and surprises. While the narrative takes us to various locations throughout the world, its primary action takes place in New York's Hell's Kitchen and the South Bronx. McLoughlin has filled its pages with a mix of fact and fiction, real and imagined people, and an astute knowledge of 20th Century history.
	Moish and the Mob and Other Short Fiction by Raanan Gerberer Our Price: $10.00 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Kindle price: $6.00	Moish and Shmooey, two not-so-nice Jewish boys, grew up in Depression-era Bronx, idolizing gangsters like Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Now it�s 1940, and a local hoodlum has taken th them under his wing, giving them a crash course in burglary, arson and gambling. Finally, he gives them a long-awaited opportunity to do a �big job.� Can they do it? Meanwhile, Hitler�s war in Europe keeps growing closer�.
	More Third Avenue El Demolition in the Bronx - Vol. 1 by Michael Fusco List Price: $29.99 Our Price: $28.61 You Save: $1.38 (5%) Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Kindle price: $9.99	This is the third of Fusco's series of books containing detailed photographs of the demolition of The Third Avenue El from 149th Street to Gun Hill Road. These books will not only appeal to train fans but to fans of autos, buses, the 1970s, Bronx and New York history. Michael Fusco is a New York City based nature, botanical and weather photographer.
	The Third Avenue El Demolition in the Bronx - 149th St to Tremont Ave (Vol 1) by Michael Fusco List Price: $29.99 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $3.00 (10%) Hardcover Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Kindle price: $9.99	The pictures in this book are part a rare one of a kind private collection of almost 1400 slides of the Third Avenue El demolition in The Bronx in the 1970s taken by the author. They are being made available to the public for the first time for the 40th anniversary of the closing of the El in April 1973. The companion volume to this book is The Third Avenue El Demolition in the Bronx � Tremont Avenue to Gun Hill Road. Both volumes will appeal not only to train fans but also to anyone interested in autos, buses, Bronx and New York history and fans of the 1970s.
	The Third Avenue El Demolition in the Bronx: Tremont Ave to Gun Hill Rd (Vol 2) by Michael Fusco List Price: $29.99 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $3.00 (10%) Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Kindle price: $9.99	The pictures in this book are part a rare one of a kind private collection of almost 1400 slides of the Third Avenue El demolition in The Bronx in the 1970s taken by the author. They are being made available to the public for the first time since the closing of the El in April 1973. This is Volume 2, covering the section of the el from Tremont Avenue to its northern terminus at Gun Hill Road. Both volumes will appeal not only to transportation fans but also to anyone interested in Bronx and New York history and fans of the 1970s.
	My Old Neighborhood Remembered: A Memoir by Avery Corman List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $18.48 You Save: $1.47 (7%) Hardcover Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Kindle price: $8.99	Here is a lyrical remembrance of neighborhood life that has vanished from the culture. Mr. Corman vividly recreates the vibrant, colorful neighborhood where he grew up � in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s. He recalls candy stores and bookmakers, egg creams and double-feature movies, street games like stickball and Johnny-on-the-pony, school days of a different era, and social mores that have disappeared. His was the generation of children of the home front during World War II, and he recounts how the war was embedded in daily life, and how children became literate through newspaper coverage of the war, and through Dick and Jane and comic books. He remembers in his neighborhood a deep sense of community and shared experience. Corman also discusses the factors that altered the Bronx, in a decline that was particularly rapid and vast, before the area began to rebuild. Featured are 16 vintage photographs.
	A Bronx Boy's Tale by Jimmy Newell Our Price: $9.99 Paperback Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Kindle price: $3.99	Providing a neighborhood context to historical events, A Bronx Boy's Tale depicts America through the eyes of one boy who grew up in a time of tremendous change and strife, but who still had time to live a grand life in his beloved Bronx. Some recollections and points of view may have more meaning to those raised Catholic and who attended parochial schools, but anyone who grew up in the Bronx should be able to enjoy many of the local details and musings that infuse Mr. Newell's story.
	Home Front by Martin Kleinman Our Price: $15.00 Paperback Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours	Home Front is a collection of short fiction by Martin Kleinman, who lives "high atop a mountain in the northwest Bronx.". Each piece is steeped in the lore of 20th century New York City street life that, while harsh if not downright dangerous, is fondly remembered by older and ex-pat NY'ers--and virtually unknown to legions of newcomers. Ex-Bronxites will come across many locales familiar to them, and even the occasional excursions north and east of the Bronx will jingle some memory bells.
	Wow! by David Perez Our Price: $13.56 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 3 days Kindle price: $0.99	Perez is a writer and journalist who was born and bred in the South Bronx. Wow! is a novella-like tale that takes place in the 1960s, and follows the author trying his best to be "cool" in a Bronx neighborhood where being smart in school isn't something to brag about. It's a coming-of-age story with a distinctly Latino perspective.
	Jew Boy by Alan Kaufman Our Price: $6.46 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 2 to 4 weeks Kindle price: $9.99	Jew Boy tells the story of a child in the Bronx growing up in the complex shadow of his mother's survival of the Holocaust in Europe. Physically abused by a woman whose horrifying experiences have left her emotionally scarred, Alan Kaufman is forced to deal with the demons haunting his mother as he struggles uncomprehendingly with his Jewish identity. He escapes from his crazy home life to the school yard, only to find one kind of savagery exchanged for another. He experiences the first pangs of adolescent sexuality, undergoes the ritual of an American bar mitzvah, and re-creates himself as a mindless football fanatic on his high-school team, joining in its sadistic rituals and drills. In one of the high points of his narrative, he hitchhikes across the United States and, on the way back, hops an eastbound freight train that brings him face-to-face with the very phantoms he had sought to escape. Kaufman's odyssey finally takes him from an Israeli kibbutz and the Israeli army to his descent into alcoholism on the streets of New York, until at last, finding in poetry the gift that is true to his being, he also finds sobriety in San Francisco. Kaufman's coming-of-age account is by turns hilarious and terrifying, written with irreverent humor and poetic introspection. Best of all, its authentically American voice, with its headlong energy, joy, and sensitivity, call to mind the best of Jack Kerouac and Henry Miller. Jew Boy touches on themes rarely explored in American writing-the pain, guilt, and confusion of American-born children of Holocaust survivors, and what it means to be a Jew in post-Holocaust America. But above all it burns with the universal humanity of a brilliantwriter embracing the gift of life with a fierce passion that will leave no reader untouched.
	McNamara's Old Bronx by John McNamara Our Price: $20.00 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours	A fun book, with a plain title. Though it sounds more like a biography, this work is a compilation of newspaper articles written over the years. There are many interesting and sometimes peculiar tidbits from almost every neighborhood of The Bronx. Catchy headlines, brief passages, and a conversational style, make it great reading. Presidents, sports, games, movies, treasures, a respected professional counterfeiter, animals, and more are all part of this book. Did you know that the Titanic "sank" in the Bronx River? This book may also serve as a source of ideas for creative writing. When you read McNamara's Old Bronx, you can finally tell those "old-timers" in your family or neighborhood, a thing or two. The Osgood File of The Bronx - and beyond. This book covers The Bronx like no other publication.
	Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough by Barbara Unger and Lloyd Ultan (Editors) Our Price: $29.90 Hardcover Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Kindle price: $32.00	Bronx Accent, edited by Unger and Ultan, is a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written by various people, some current residents, some former residents, and others who have never lived there but have some affinity to the borough. Several historical photographs are included. The book won the New York Society Library Award for best book on borough history as well as many other grants and awards.
	The Pigskin Rabbi by Willard Manus List Price: $15.00 Our Price: $11.98 You Save: $3.02 (20%) Hardcover Availability: Ships within 24 hours Kindle price: $2.99	How does a rabbi convert the entire U.S. to Judaism? The answer, of course, is by becoming a football hero, in this wild tale by Willard Manus. In the hilarious first chapter, Ziggy Cantor, a rabbinical school graduate and son of a Bronx rabbi, has fled to Holland to study Spinoza, to experiment with secular ideas, and to engage in his chief love, football, far from his father's critical orthodox eye. There he is discovered by a Giants scout, and Ziggy, a natural, becomes the Giants' quarterback who turns his team from a perennial loser to a Super Bowl winner, thereby pervading America with Jewish culture. Ziggy calls plays in Yiddish, the team wears Giants- logo yarmulkes, his grandmother serves chicken soup from the sidelines and his receiver, a cocksure swaggerer, even undergoes ritual circumcision in order to become a Jew. Still, Ziggy is dogged by murderously jealous teammates, by anti- Semites and especially by his own conscience: has he betrayed his tradition? Making love to a shiksa, playing a game on Yom Kippur and his father's death all bring up doubts. But in the end, Ziggy gets it all: the gentile lover, the Super Bowl victory, fortune and fameAand he still becomes a rabbi at the end. This is a typical sports and sex fantasy, replete with aggressive male bonding and the requisite model and cheerleader dream girls.
	The Bronx: Lost, Found and Remembered by Stephen Samtur and Martin Jackson Our Price: $36.83 Hardcover Availability: Usually ships within 2-3 weeks	A collection of photographs and narratives from the publisher of Back In the Bronx magazine.
	Crossing Highbridge by Maureen Waters List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $13.84 You Save: $1.11 (7%) Paperback Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours	"The first in her family born in the United States, Waters grew up the 'Bronx Irish' daughter of two unforgettable immigrants: her storytelling, former revolutionary father, and her fierce, IRA-supporting mother. Her life in postwar New York City was colored by Catholicism and strong cultural links to "the other side" - by Irish step dancing, the melodies of Thomas Moore, and the rituals, inflections, and harrowing memories impress ed on her. Sex was a mystery. Schoolgirls wore below-the-knee blue serge uniforms with starched white collars and cuffs. Brutal treatment at the hands of the nuns who ran her college drove Waters to transfer to a secular school."
	Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx by Michael Pearson List Price: $16.95 Our Price: $10.43 You Save: $6.52 (38%) Paperback Availability: Ships in 10 to 13 days Kindle price: $12.08	"...recreates the Bronx of the 50's and 60's...Irish-Catholic culture filled with light and shadows...the boys and girls who shared his neighborhood...few writers go home as successfully as Pearson."
	Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $11.55 You Save: $8.40 (42%) Hardcover Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Kindle price: $9.99	Like an urban Huck Finn coming of age in the Bronx in the 1930s, Billy Bathgate was the protege of Dutch Schultz, one of the most abominable gangsters of his time, but one of life's great teachers as well.
	The Bronx in the Innocent Years: 1890 - 1925 by Lloyd Ultan and Gary Hermalyn List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $20.00 You Save: $5.00 (20%) Hardcover Availability: Ships in 24 hours	Another excellent collection of photographs and essays from the Ultan-Hermalyn team. It's not likely that these books will remain available for long, so you're advised to grab them before they're gone.
	The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday, 1935 - 1965 by Lloyd Ultan and Gary Hermalyn Our Price: $19.99 Hardcover Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours	The sequel to The Beautiful Bronx and another stunning collection of photographs of the Bronx. This is another must-have, so you shold order this one while it's still available!
	A White Sport Coat and A Pink Carnation by Joseph J. Murphy List Price: $21.99 Our Price: $19.07 You Save: $2.92 (13%) Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Kindle price: $9.99	"On a lark, four St. Helena High School seniors celebrate an 18th birthday party in the school cafeteria. The only problems were that the school was closed for the night, and they brought along a keg of beer for the party. Nuns living above hear the commotion and phone the police, causing all Hell to break loose."
	Duty, Honor, Country by Joseph J. Murphy Our Price: $21.99 Paperback Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Kindle price: $9.99	From the author of "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation", this picks up after graduation from St. Helena's, as the author faced the military and lear ned quite a different set of catechisms...
	Valhalla: For Heroes Only by Joseph J. Murphy List Price: $21.99 Our Price: $20.72 You Save: $1.27 (6%) Paperback Availability: Ships within 2-3 days Kindle price: $9.99	Valhalla is the important and stirring third entry in Murphy's trilogy that began with A White Sport Coat and Pink Carnation and Duty, Honor, Country. This is required reading for anyone seeking insight and knowledge about those who paid the ultimate price to preserve our nation's freedom. In light of September 11th, this is a timely and significant remembrance of the men who left the Bronx and achieved entry into Valhalla...
	Report from Engine Co. 82 by Dennis Smith List Price: $17.99 Our Price: $14.79 You Save: $3.20 (18%) Paperback Availability: Ships within 24 hours Kindle price: $11.99	The tragic events of September 11, 2001, have given us all a newly reinforced respect and admiration for the brave and fearless firefighters who risk their lives to save others on a daily basis. Written in 1972, Report from Engine Co. 82 is probably the most famous memoir ever written by a firefighter. Dennis Smith worked in the South Bronx area of New York City, a poverty-ridden neighborhood where day-to-day existence was perilous even under "normal" circumstances. Smith tells us what life was like back then, as he worked alongside his brave - and often bawdy - fellow firefighters as they tried to save the lives of others. For anyone who's ever wondered what it takes to race into a burning building, here's the real deal.

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