Nancy Bass Wyden
Co-Owner Strand Book Store
Nancy grew up in the world of books. Her grandfather founded the Strand in 1927 and she started working there when she was 16. Nancy savors the classics: Dickens, Twain, Wilde and Nabokov, in particular, but also loves to read memoirs and biographies.
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Check out some of Nancy's favorites that were recently discussed in a New York Post article titled In My Library. Click here to view the full article.
New York: The Novel
My mother recommended it. She doesn’t work in the business, so she has more time to read! It’s a really thick book — 860 pages — but it’s such a page turner. This ambitious sweeping epic covers 350 years of New York, from its beginning as an Indian village at the tip of Manhattan all the way to the Sept. 11 attacks, and it is absolutely captivating.
New York
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$15.30
With this New York Times bestseller, Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, native-born and immigrant - a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city's fortunes. From this intimate perspective readers see New York's humble origins as a tiny Indian fishing village, supplanted by the arrival of Dutch and British merchants - through to the attack on the…
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
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$15.95
This publication brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, two classics in which the humorist limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life - its fads, trends, crazes,morals, and fashions - without mercy. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking and waggish, Lebowitz makes for one wickedly on-target comic sensibility. (Fran Lebowitz still lives in New York City, as she does not believe that she wo…
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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
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A young entrepreneur in late-nineteenth-century New York City, Martin Dressler rises from assistant in his father's cigar store as an elusive dream and his love for two sisters comes to fruition in the Grand Cosmo, an extravagant luxury hotel. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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Children Make Terrible Pets
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When Luc, a young bear, discovers a boy lost in the woods, she asks her mother if she can have him as a pet, only to find him impossible to train. Color illus. (Ages: 4-6),
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At Home : A Short History of Private Life
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$14.50
From the author of A Walk in the Woods and A Short History of Nearly Everything, among others. Bill Bryson, living with his family in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped, discovered just how little he knew about the ordinary things of life as found in his comfortable residence. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to 'write a history of the world without leav…
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I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections
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From the author of Heartburn, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Crazy Salad, and writer/director of the feature-length film Julie & Julia. Nora's back, taking a cool, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present and future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn't (yet) forgotten. Ephron writes about falling hard for a way of life and about breaking up even harder with the men in her life as well as revealing the ala…
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Delirious New York
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$31.50
Long out of print, and eagerly awaited, this important cultural, architectural, social and history & analysis is once again available, interpreting and re-interpreting the relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes. 180 illus., 20 color. 320p.
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Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens' children's classic, delightfully illustrated by Brett Helquist, illustrator of 'Roger the Jolly Pirate' and the 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' books. (Ages: 3-7).
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