Best Gifts For New Yorkers - April 2024

The Big New Yorker Book of Cats

Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions.This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. Among the contributors are Margaret Atwood, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Roald Dahl, Wolcott Gibbs, Robert Graves, Emily Hahn, Ted Hughes, Jamaica Kincaid, Steven Millhauser, Haruki Murakami, Amy Ozols, Robert Pinsky, Jean Rhys, James Thurber, John Updike, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and E. B. White. Including a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679644776
• ASIN: 0679644776
• ISBN: 0679644776
• Brand: Random House
• Manufacturer: Random House

The New Yorker Book of Doctor Cartoons

Arno, Steig, Addams, Shanahan, Leo Cullum, and other distinguished cartoonists present a zany look at the medical profession, in a collection of eighty-five cartoons from the pages of The New Yorker. 40,000 first printing.

• ASIN: 0679430695
• ASIN: 0679430695
• ISBN: 0679430695
• Manufacturer: Knopf

The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons

Critically acclaimed cartoonists including Addams, Steig, Arno, Shanahan, and Leo Cullum take pot shots at the legal profession in a collection of eighty-five cartoons from the pages of The New Yorker.

• ASIN: 0679430687
• ASIN: 0679430687
• ISBN: 0679430687
• Brand: Not Available (NA)
• Manufacturer: Knopf

The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs

Only The New Yorker could fetch such an unbelievable roster of talent on the subject of man’s best friend. This copious collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. The roster of contributors includes John Cheever, Susan Orlean, Roddy Doyle, Ian Frazier, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Roald Dahl, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, Alexandra Fuller, Jerome Groopman, Jeffrey Toobin, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ogden Nash, Donald Barthelme, Jonathan Lethem, Mark Strand, Anne Sexton, and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 067964475X
• ASIN: 067964475X
• ISBN: 067964475X
• Brand: Random House
• Manufacturer: Random House

The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons

Here's the dog's life as seen through the eyes and imaginations of, among others, Charles Addams, Edward Koren, Saul Steinberg, and the dog's all-time best friend, James Thurber. 101 cartoons in all from The New Yorker over the past 65 years.

• ASIN: 0679416803
• ASIN: 0679416803
• ISBN: 0679416803
• Manufacturer: Knopf

The New Yorker Book of Doctor Cartoons

Steig, Addams, Arno, Shanahan, Thurber, Chast, and other distinguished cartoonists present a humorous look at the medical profession, in a collection of eighty-five cartoons from the pages of The New Yorker. 25,000 first printing.

• ASIN: 0679765735
• ASIN: 0679765735
• ISBN: 0679765735
• Manufacturer: Knopf

Outliers: The Story of Success

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316017930
• UPC: 352749561657
• ASIN: 0316017930
• ISBN: 0316017930
• Brand: Back Bay Books
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons

Here are the funniest and most feline cats ever assembled in 101 cartoons, the cream of the cream, from sixty-five years of the New Yorker.

• ASIN: 0394587952
• ASIN: 0394587952
• ISBN: 0394587952
• Manufacturer: Knopf

The Library Book

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 “A constant pleasure to read…Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book.” —The Washington Post “CAPTIVATING…DELIGHTFUL.” —Christian Science Monitor * “EXQUISITELY WRITTEN, CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING.” —The New York Times * “MESMERIZING…RIVETING.” —Booklist (starred review) A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries—from th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476740186
• ASIN: 1476740186
• ISBN: 9781476740188
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The New Yorker Book of All-New Cat Cartoons (New Yorker Series)

• ASIN: 0375401083
• ASIN: 0375401083
• ISBN: 9780375401084
• Manufacturer: Knopf

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, The Power Broker is a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York in the twentieth century. Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, C... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0394720245
• ASIN: 0394720245
• ISBN: 0394720245
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The New Yorker Book of Golf Cartoons

A wry look at the golfing world, from the beloved cartoonists at The New Yorker A hilarious hole-in-one for golfers and cartoon-lovers alike, The New Yorker Book of Golf Cartoons, Second Edition brings together over a hundred classic images from across the magazine's eighty-plus-year history. Edited by Robert Mankoff, acclaimed cartoonist and cartoon editor at The New Yorker, and featuring work from legendary artists including Charles Addams, Roz Chast, Whitney Darrow Jr., Edward Koren, George Price, William Steig, and many others, the book is a side-splitting tribute to the game. Brings toge... [Read More]

• ASIN: 111834202X
• ASIN: 111834202X
• ISBN: 111834202X
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Wiley

The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive

This monumental, two-volume, slip-cased collection includes nearly 10 decades worth of New Yorker cartoons selected and organized by subject with insightful commentary by Bob Mankoff and a foreword by David Remnick.The is the most ingenious collection of New Yorker cartoons published in book form, The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons is a prodigious, slip-cased, two-volume, 1,600-page A-to-Z curation of cartoons from the magazine from 1924 to the present. Mankoff--for two decades the cartoon editor of the New Yorker--organizes nearly 3,000 cartoons into more than 250 categories of recurring... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316436674
• ASIN: 0316436674
• ISBN: 0316436674
• Brand: SIMON AND SCHUSTER
• Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

The Best of the Rejection Collection: 293 Cartoons That Were Too Dumb, Too Dark, or Too Naughty for The New Yorker

It’s the best of the worst: 293 of the funniest cartoons rejected by The New Yorker but luckily for us, now in paperback and available to enjoy. The Rejection Collection brings together some of The New Yorker’s brightest talents—Roz Chast, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Jack Zeigler, David Sipress, and more—and reveals their other side. Their dark side. Their juvenile side. Their sick side. Their naughty side. Their outrageous side. And what a treat. Ventriloquist dummy cartoons. Operating room cartoons. Bring your daughter to work day cartoons (the stripper, the prison guard on death row). ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0761165789
• ASIN: 0761165789
• ISBN: 0761165789
• Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

Florida

The universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies.In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "gorgeously weird and limber" (New Yorker), "frequently funny" (San Francisco Chronicle), "brooding, inventive and often moving" (NPR Fresh Air) -- as Groff is recognized as "Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California." (Washington Post) "Groff's gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher.” – NPR’s Fresh AirIn her thrilling n... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1594634521
• ASIN: 1594634521
• ISBN: 1594634521
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs

Only "The New Yorker" could fetch such an unbelievable roster of talent on the subject of man's best friend. This copious collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art,

• UPC: 20529722
• Rating: 5.0

The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons

Cartoonists including Addams, Steig, Arno, Shanahan, and Leo Cullum take a humorous look at the legal profession in a collection of eighty-five cartoons from the pages of "The New

• UPC: 382044
• Rating: 5.0

The New Yorkers : A Novel

Schine's brilliantly funny new novel revolves around one city block in Manhattan. In her book, as in life, canine companions compel their masters to go outside of themselves, to take part in the community they

• UPC: 7897211
• Rating: 2.813

20 Under 40 : Stories from The New Yorker

In June 2010, the editors of "The New Yorker" announced their selection of "20 Under 40"--the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. Those stories are now collected for the

• UPC: 14705060
• Rating: 5.0

The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons

This timeless and irreverent tribute to the peerless power of the literary landscape features 104 drawings, each of them certified by experts to be worth a thousand words. These dead-on portraits and eye-opening ruminations on

• UPC: 29270959
• Rating: 4.333

The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons : A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive

This monumental, two-volume, slip-cased collection includes nearly 10 decades worth of New Yorker cartoons selected and organized by subject with insightful commentary by Bob Mankoff and a foreword by David Remnick. The is the most

• UPC: 727515714
• Rating: 5.0

The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons

Presents a selection of cartoons from New Yorker magazine that offer a humorous look at teachers, students, education, and

• UPC: 19797934
• Rating: 5.0

Postcards from the New Yorker : One Hundred Covers from Ten Decades

9781846144691

• UPC: 17797113
• Rating: 4.0

The Best of the Rejection Collection : 293 Cartoons That Were Too Dumb, Too Dark, or Too Naughty for The New Yorker

Diffee brings together some of "The New Yorker"'s brightest talents--Roz Chast, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Jack Zeigler, David Sipress, and others--and reveals their other side. Their dark side. Their juvenile side. Their sick side. Their

• UPC: 16569973
• Rating: 3.857

The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons

A miniature edition of the best-selling collection of dog cartoons from The New Yorker includes 101 whimsical pieces that celebrate dogs in all their canine incarnations as seen by illustrators Addams, Thurber, and more. 35,000

• UPC: 379483