Looking for a new summer read? Browse our titles below to find a new autobiography, biography, memoir or a new great fiction or poetry book. Or read up on New York history or your favorite performing artist. Save 30% with code HERITAGE724 through July 31, 2024.
Summer Reads
Reality Crumbs
First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.
Nearer to Never
A poetic examination of what’s waiting just beneath everyday experience.
In the Hamptons 4Ever
More stories of the outsized and the ordinary from the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers.
The Senator from New England
Chronicles JFK’s growing confidence and ambition while a member of the US Senate.
Truckin' with Sam
A father and son travel across North America in a pick-up truck--talking, laughing, fighting, and bonding.
Breaching Jericho's Walls
An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.
Frank
The first full-length biography of America’s youngest, and perhaps most underrated, First Lady.
Once an Engineer
A funny, tragic, garlicky chronicle of growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in Central New York.
River of Words
An intimate group portrait of contemporary Hudson Valley writers.
Letters to a Best Friend
A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.
The Journal of Ann McMath
An account of an ordinary young woman coming of age in the "Burned-Over District" of Western New York during the Second Great Awakening.
Forgotten Borough
Twenty-four contemporary writers reflect on life in New York City’s biggest underdog, the “forgotten borough” of Queens.
William Cullen Bryant
A biography of one of nineteenth-century America’s foremost poets and public intellectuals.
The Stones of Strasbourg and Other Poems
A multilayered study and poetic evocation of one of the world’s greatest architectural wonders, Strasbourg Cathedral.
Take This
One man’s always humbling and sometimes humorous path to forgiveness and redemption.
Dancing with Diana
A bright young man with cerebral palsy has his destiny intertwined with Princess Diana’s.
Boy with a Halo at the Farmer's Market
Winner of the Codhill Poetry Award for 2014.
Spiridion
An abbot’s ghost searches for an intelligent monk to exhume his manuscript from a hellish crypt and learn the truth that monks lack two things: freedom of inquiry and benevolence.
An Iceberg in Paradise
Offers a healing and insightful examination of the issues involved in Alzheimer’s for family and caregivers.
The City That Never Sleeps
An eclectic collection of poems about New York City.
Creating a College That Works
Examines the life of education activist Audrey Cohen and her founding of Metropolitan College of New York.
Feminist Figure Girl
Analyzes the author’s transformation from academic to figure competitor.
Six Weeks in Saratoga
The inside story of how a three-year old filly captured the hearts of racing fans and cemented her bid to be named Horse of the Year.
Together / Apart and other poems
Poems on relationship, intimacy, and longing, the poetics of postcards, and places real and imagined.
Ingenious Machinists
Uses the stories of two inventors who took different paths to examine the early industrial revolution in New York and New England.