After the attack, anti-vehicle bollards were installed on the Hudson River Park bike path.Īt 2:06 p.m. This was the second terrorist attack allegedly committed by a winner of the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery, following the 2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting. A flag and a document indicating allegiance to the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were found in the truck.Ī federal grand jury indicted 29-year-old Saipov, who had immigrated to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010, with eight murders in the aid of racketeering, twelve attempted murders in the aid of racketeering, destruction of a motor vehicle and providing material support for a terrorist organization. He was shot in the abdomen by a policeman and arrested. The vehicle-ramming attack killed eight people, six of whom were foreign tourists, and injured eleven others.Īfter crashing the truck into a school bus, Saipov exited, apparently wielding two guns (later found to be a paintball gun and a pellet gun). On October 31, 2017, Sayfullo Habibullaevich Saipov drove a rented pickup truck into cyclists and runners for about one mile (1.6 kilometers) of the Hudson River Park's bike path alongside West Street from Houston Street south to Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. (A username and login are required to access these items booksellers can e-mail login details.Islamist terrorism inspired by ISIL ABA’s new Backlist Buying Calculator can help booksellers evaluate the advantages of backlist offers.
The Way Home in the Night by Akiko Miyakoshi (KidsCan).
Inequality by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Stacy Innerst (Abrams) Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G.On a Magical Do-Nothing Day by Beatrice Alemagna (HarperCollins).Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown, illustrated by John Parra (NorthSouth).Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters by Michael Mahin, illustrated by Evan Turk (Atheneum).The Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2017, as announced on November 2, are: The Best Illustrated Children’s Books, now named the New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award in honor of the 65th anniversary of the awards, were selected by a panel of three judges: author and illustrator Steven Guarnaccia, an associate professor of illustration at Parsons/The New School for Design author and illustrator Marjorie Priceman, winner of two Caldecott Honors and two New York Times Best Illustrated Books Awards and Louise Lareau, the head librarian of the New York Public Library Children’s Center. Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood (Riverhead Books).Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company).Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us by Richard O.Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner).The Power by Naomi Alderman (Little, Brown & Company).Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Grand Central Publishing).Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead Books).The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2017, as announced on November 30, are: The session will take place on Tuesday, January 23, from 10:40 a.m. Over the coming weeks, ABA will work with the New York Times Book Review on initiatives to help booksellers feature and promote the 2017 Best Books list watch Bookselling This Week for details.īooksellers who are attending the 2018 Winter Institute will have the opportunity to hear more about the book review process and related topics during a session featuring New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul and ABA CEO Oren Teicher. On Thursday, November 30, the New York Times announced the 10 Best Books of 2017, as selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review.