Thanks for all these great recommendations.  I didn't ask the original
question, but I'm sure going to pick up a lot of these books!

-- Liz Savery

----- Original Message -----
From: "p cunningham" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: NY books on tape


> You can get books on tape through the public library system. With
> inter-library loan you can find just about anything.
>
> All of these are available on tape :
> Pete Hamil's Forever is an excellent magic-realism (over several centuries
> time) in Manhattan.
> His Snow in August is good also.(Brooklyn)
>
> Early New York city;
> Paradise Alley : A Novel
> by Kevin Baker
> and
> Dreamland : A Novel
> by Kevin Baker
> Also the Caleb Carr historic novels, and Time and Again by Jack Finney
(this
> one is definitely good for a driveway moment ... when you arrive somewhere
> but just can't stop listening to your book on tape!)
>
> City of Light
> by Lauren Belfer
> (Niagra Falls 1901)
>
> The Flaming Corsage by William Kennedy
> and his Albany trio
> Ironweed by William Kennedy
> Legs by William Kennedy
> Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
> (actually there are about 7 books in the series)
>
> WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR: A MEMOIR
> by Doris Kearns Goodwin
> (Baseball and the 1950s)
>
> Here at the New Yorker
> by Brendan Gill
>
>
>
> Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That
> Changed the Course of World War II
> by Jennet Richards Conant
> and
> Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical
> by Anthony Bourdain
> and
> Water for Gotham: A History
> by Gerard T. Koeppel
> are good recent books, but I'm not sure if they are recorded.
>
> and finally,   Horatio's Drive by Ken Burns and D. Duncan is not about New
> York until the very end but is wonderfully entertaining story of the first
> road trip across America.
>
>
>
> >From: "Daniel H. Weiskotten" <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: "A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State
> >          history." <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: NY books on tape
> >Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:57:46 -0400
> >
> >I've been doing a lot of travel lately and am running out of interesting
> >books on tape to listen to.
> >
> >Are there any good NY state titles that have been recorded for poor souls
> >like me?
> >
> >        Dan W.
> >
> >
>
>http://users.erols.com/weiskotten/ChesterfieldCourthouseDig2003100dpi5x7.jp
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