Demographic Orientation/Urban
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City Colors
$7.99 Read moreColor has the power to inspire and delight. The playful photographs here invite youngsters on an international urban journey with color as their guide — from London’s famous red double-deckers to N
- Author: Milich, Zoran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1553379810
- Language: English
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartCity planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and–sometimes utopian–aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Abbott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 019094434X
- Language: English
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More Than You’ll Ever Know: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
$30.99 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
“Fantastic . . . A sweeping novel, unflinching and evocative in its engrossing study of love, motherhood, sex, Mexico, journalism and more.”
- Author: Gutierrez, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0063241897
- Language: English
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Sojourn
$16.95 Read moreIn this haunting and noirish novel by a leading author and critic, an Indian writer travels to Berlin and soon finds himself slipping into a fragmented, fuguelike state.
An Indian writer has come to B- Author: Chaudhuri, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 168137708X
- Language: English
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Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between
$24.00 Read moreFor as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining–or shadowy–counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city it… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Darran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 06 2017
- ISBN10: 022647030X
- Language: English
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Passing
$16.00 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TESSA THOMPSON AND RUTH NEGGA
Two women in 1920s New York discover how fluid and dangerous our perceptions of race can be in this electrifying classic of the Harlem- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0375758135
- Language: English
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The Commitments
$15.95 Read moreIn the first volume of the Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle, winner of the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, introduces The Commitments, a group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths with a … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Doyle, Roddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 165
- Publish Date: July 17 1989
- ISBN10: 0679721746
- Language: English
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Small in the City
$18.99 Read moreIt can be a little scary to be small in a big city, but this child has some good advice for a very special friend in need.
Winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award
A New York Times/New York Public Library B- Author: Smith, Sydney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0823442616
- Language: English
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Power of Landscape: Novel Narratives to Engage with the Energy Transition
$60.00 Read moreHow renewable energy technologies can transform our landscape for the better
The energy transition is in full swing: across the globe, windmills and solar panels are taking over from fossil fuels. But
- Author: Stremke, Sven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9462087164
- Language: English
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Metropolitan Stories
$23.00 Read more“Only someone who deeply loves and understands the Metropolitan Museum could deliver such madcap, funny, magical, tender, intimate fables and stories.” –Maira Kalman, artist and bestselling author of… [more below]
- Author: Coulson, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1590510585
- Language: English
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Lily’s New Home (Confetti Kids #1): (Dive Into Reading)
$10.95 Read moreIn this early chapter book in the popular Confetti Kids series, Lily and her parents move from their suburban neighborhood to New York City and Lily must adapt to her new life.
Lily and her parents mov
- Series: Confetti Kids
- Author: Yoo, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1620142589
- Language: English
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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
$19.99 Read moreAt the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval pa
- Author: Dejean, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 162040768X
- Language: English
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The Final Programme: The Cornelius Quartet 1
$9.95 Read moreJerry Cornelius is a scientist, a rock star, and an assassin. He is the hippest adventurer of them all: tripping through a pop art nightmare in which kidnappings, murder, sex and drugs are a daily occ… [more below]
- Series: Eternal Champion
- Author: Moorcock, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 178329177X
- Language: English
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How to Make a Life
$16.95 Read more“An engaging and heartfelt portrayal of intergenerational trauma and hope.”
When Ida and her daughter Bessie flee a catastrophic pogrom in Ukraine for America in 1905, they believe the
—Kirkus Reviews- Author: Kraut, Florence Reiss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1631527797
- Language: English
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Across the Deep: A Novel (Friendship, Romance, Suspense, Human Trafficking, Social Justice)
$18.95 Read moreA Survivor Story Featuring Strong Female Characters, an Undercover Cop, and the Hills of San Francisco
“After you read… ‘human trafficking’ will never be a concept for you again–but instead a person
- Author: McGuinness, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1642503916
- Language: English
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Runner
$26.00 Read more“Lapel-grabbing and provocative…Clark writes with purpose, her sense of social justice never venturing into dogma but remaining fully rooted in Raines’s actions and personality.” – The New York Time… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Mystery
- Author: Clark, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1496732014
- Language: English
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Write My Name Across the Sky
$14.95 Read moreThe USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids returns with a tale of two generations of women reconciling family secrets and past regrets.
Life’s beautiful for seventysomething influ
- Author: O’Neal, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1542021642
- Language: English
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Amongst Our Weapons
$27.00 Read moreThe ninth novel of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.
T- Series: Rivers of London
- Author: Aaronovitch, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0756414830
- Language: English
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Cairo Circles
$18.00 Add to cartOne of BuzzFeed’s New Books You’ll Love
“Cairo Circles is a novel that proves literature needn’t choose between pleasure and substance. You will tear through the pages of this delicious book, and you… [more below]- Author: Mahmoud, Doma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 195121367X
- Language: English
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Life Without Children: Stories
$18.00 Read more“[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you’re left feeling close to dazzled.” –Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Rev… [more below]
- Author: Doyle, Roddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593300580
- Language: English
