Urban City

"Dizzy & Gillespie" unfolds as an emotionally rich mystery, intertwining the lives of a devoted daughter and her aging mother. Within their once-grand, now-fading New York City apartment, they face the relentless challenges of poverty, the encroaching tides of gentrification, and the relentless passage of time. Their bond, tested by life's struggles and their community's transformation, finds a glimmer of hope with the arrival of two rescue kittens, Dizzy and Gillespie. However, the actions of a new neighbor soon set off a chain of events that will alter their lives forever. This story ...

The Red King and his legion have arrived... New York City is dying—its streets teeming with demons, its skies twisted into a hellish canvas. The Four Horsemen lead the charge, leaving a trail of unimaginable destruction in their wake. Each Horseman holds a piece of the Red King’s power—and each one must fall if we have any hope of survival. With my twin brother missing, a cursed dagger that whispers secrets, and a ragtag team of survivors at my side, I begin a desperate hunt through a New York City transformed into a hellscape. Our mission: to locate the mythical Box of Oryx, said to ...

Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes listeners from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities.

En el verano de 1940 Vivian Morris llega a Manhattan con 19 años y tan solo una maleta y una máquina de coser, empujada por sus desesperados padres. Aunque su especial talento con la aguja y su dedicación a lograr el peinado perfecto no le han servido de gran cosa en la prestigiosa universidad de Vassar, la convertirán en la modista estrella del Lily Playhouse, el decadente teatro de variedades de su poco convencional tía Peg.

This collection of humorous short essays combines affection for the timeless values of community life in an English village with a nostalgia for aspects that are quietly slipping away. Easy to dip into, this light-hearted volume provides entertaining reading for anyone interested in modern English rural community life, wherever they live. Written between 1991 and 2015, most of these essays first appeared in the Hawkesbury Parish News, the community newspaper for Hawkesbury Upton, the Cotswold village in which Debbie Young has lived for the last 25 years. Very active in village life, she is ...

Viv Abbot is an average twenty-one-year-old girl. She lives in an expensive city where the rent is too high, works long hours at a thankless job, and is dating a guy she doesn’t even like in the hopes of winning her prickly mother’s approval. She also happens to be a demon hunter. Ever since her father's murder, she's been forced to hunt deviants alone, meaning everyone, including her family, sees her as an outsider . . . until the day she crosses paths with a dangerously alluring demon, Reid Graveheart. The reformed deviant tells her of a school for people just like her.

In the fall of 1871, Chicagoans knew they were due for the “big one”—a massive, uncontrollable fire that would decimate the city. It had been bone-dry for months, and a recent string of blazes had nearly outstripped the fire department’s already scant resources. Then, on October 8, a minor fire broke out in the barn of Irishwoman Kate Leary. A series of unfortunate mishaps and misunderstandings along with insufficient preparation and a high south-westerly wind combined to set the stage for an unmitigated catastrophe.

When Heaven and Hell collide... Drago “Devil” Barone: Running the Barone clan is in my blood. Being ruthless is part of my nature. I have no mercy for those who cross me. Until I meet her. Angela “Angel” Rossi. She is as light and angelic as her name makes her sound. She is the perfect person to be nanny to my two children. Kidnapping her isn’t even in the top ten of the worst things I’ve ever done, but falling in love with her might be. When my demons collide with her light, will either of us survive the fall out? Angela “Angel” Rossi: My mother always told me I was ...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Uvi Poznansky, comes a compelling novel about family secrets: Coming back to his childhood home after years of absence, Ben is unprepared for the secret, which is now revealed to him: his mother, Natasha, who used to be a brilliant pianist, is losing herself to mysterious disease, which turns the way her mind works into a riddle. His father’s new wife, Anita, looks remarkably similar to her—only much younger. “In our family, forgiveness is something you pray for, something you yearn to receive—but so seldom do you give it to others.” What emerges...

A lot оf реорlе want tо hаvе their own gаrdеn, but dоn't think they hаvе thе necessary space so thе fосuѕ оf thiѕ book is оn urbаn gardening, аnd оn how tо mаximizе a gаrdеn in tiny spaces. Evеrу person on thiѕ planet deserves access tо frеѕh, lосаl, organic fооd ѕtrаight frоm the fаrm. Thе оnlу рrоblеm iѕ over 82% of реорlе livе in a сitу! Sо how do уоu start a farm in аn urbаn еnvirоnmеnt? Thаt'ѕ whу I wrоtе this book! To ѕhоw how уоu or аnуоnе with a littlе interest in gardening саn start a garden in ...

Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these cities have in common? They are cities of modest size but outsized accomplishment, powered by a can-do spirit, valuing compromise over confrontation and progress over political victory. These are the cities leading America...and they're not waiting for Washington's help. As mayor of one of America's most improved cities, Cornett used a bold, creative, and personal approach to orchestrate his city's renaissance. Once regarded as a forgettable city in "flyover country", Oklahoma City has become one of our nation's most dynamic places - and it is not alone.

LOYAL Enemies is a gripping urban drama that dives deep into the lives of Kah, Toya, and Big Boi, navigating love, loyalty, and betrayal in the gritty streets of South Jamaica, Queens. As Kah serves time in prison for a crime he didn't commit, his relationships are tested, both inside and outside the prison walls. Toya, the woman he left behind, faces her own struggles, while Big Boi, Kah's fiercely loyal partner, keeps things afloat on the streets. But as old enemies resurface and new threats emerge, Kah must confront his past and fight for a future where loyalty comes at the ultimate ...

Vampires with a vendetta. The Queen of Voodoo. Nasty necromancers. Just another day in my life. If you need a magical mystery solved, apparently I'm your gal. As the go-to private detective for the supernatural community, I've got every shifter, fae, and ghoul knocking on my door. Now the local vampires have decided to test me by leaving a dead shifter in a public park. Ever handled a pack of shifters looking for revenge? It's not pretty. And right now, I don't have the time to settle a feud.

We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al—himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest buildings in the world—reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this worldwide boom.

Nichelle Tramble's first novel, The Dying Ground, was named a Best Book of 2001 by the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. In this follow-up work, Maceo returns home after drifting for two years. He finds his friends tangled up in a murder case, and he must act fast to save them.

When twenty-one-year-old Camila brings home her new boyfriend, John, for Christmas, she knows she's walking into a snowstorm of judgment. At forty-five, John is older, established, and everything her father ever wanted for his daughter. But there’s only one problem. He’s her dad’s best friend. While Camila is head over heels, she knows her dad won't see past their age gap and the guy code. As holiday tension mounts, Camila must decide whether love is worth standing up for when it means defying her father. Can Camila and John’s forbidden relationship survive the ultimate test, or ...

Could your family really go 72 hours without power, water, or cell service? You live in a city apartment—with kids, pets, and a tight schedule. No basement. No generator. But when everything fails, you still need a plan. This isn't a military manual. It's not alarmist. And it’s not another blog post pretending to be a guide. It’s a realistic, practical handbook by Hunter Ashford—an international crisis response expert who’s translated proven emergency planning into clear, family-friendly steps for everyday urban households. If you live in an apartment and care about your family's ...

The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a "determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk." Virginia Woolf called it "street haunting"; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany's; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s NYC.

Hot on the heels of I Love to Watch My Husband Cheat, Julia Armour is back as the cuckquean to her Husband's lover Marissa June, aka the cuckcake, meaning the dominant lover in the relationship. Julia has learned to love her role as the submissive, but when Marissa pushes the relationship too far, will Julia have the strength to tell her Husband, Mark, the most powerful man in New York City?

How did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century later as one of the globe's supercities - with unparalleled cultural, economic, and technological reach? In City at the Edge of Forever, Peter Lunenfeld constructs an urban portrait, layer by layer, from serendipitous affinities, historical anomalies, and uncanny correspondences.