Frank Carlson Library

New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum has more than seven million copies of his finely crafted and morally complex novels in print. In True Justice, he reaches new heights with a compellingly authentic and penetrating story pulled right form today's most controversial headlines. For Butch Karp, chief assistant district attorney for New York County, the nightmare begins when a shocking act of negligence results in homicide. Goaded by...

"Preston the mouse has always dreamed of running in the New York City Marathon and even when his family says he cannot do it, Preston refuses to let go of his dream"--

A riveting history of Manhattan's most eccentric and storied apartment building and the famous tenants who called it home When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed "the Dakota" for being as far from the center of the downtown action as its namesake territory on the nation's western frontier. Despite its remote location, the quirky German...

Lyle is perfectly happy living with the Primms on East 88th St. until irritable Mr. Grumps next door changes all that.

Day's collection of anecdotes and recollections of Father and Mother, which had appeared in various periodicals.

The wife of a prominent plastic surgeon, Esther Maine was one of Raven's Wing's most respected citizens - certainly not the sort to wind up dead in a sleazy New York City hot-sheets hotel. And now a geriatric quartet of the murdered matron's neighbors - led by irascible ex-police chief Forrest Haggarty - has come to the big city seeking the truth about their unfortunate friend's brutal demise. But each fact the sleuthing seniors uncover in the murky...

From 1860-1930, an estimated 5,000+ orphans and abandoned children were gathered from New York and brought to Kansas.

An exceptionally large number of the over 750 photographs reproduced in New York are published for the first time. In this respect New York is a radical departure from books on the subject, as is its layoug, design, and luxurious format. The book is divided into eighteen sections, each devoted to a theme or locale. The thematic sections include Fellow Immigrants (showing some fo the diversity and variety); work and not work (physicians, garment...

A history of the iconic public hospital on New York City's East Side describes the changes in American medicine from 1730 to modern times as it traces the building's origins as an almshouse and pesthouse to its current status as a revered place of first-class care. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts,...