100 New Yorkers of the 1970s
100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Max Millard is available here as the complete text, split into 1156 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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100 New Yorkers of the 1970s
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- Chapter I Chapter 1
- Chapter II Chapter 2
- Chapter III Chapter 3
- Chapter IV Chapter 4
- Chapter V Chapter 5
- Chapter VI Chapter 6
- Chapter VII Chapter 7
- Chapter VIII Chapter 8
- Chapter IX Chapter 9
- Chapter X Chapter 10
- Chapter XI Chapter 11
- Chapter XII Chapter 12
- Chapter XIII Chapter 13
- Chapter XIV Chapter 14
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- Yorkers
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- Interviews
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- Conducted
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- December
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