Urban
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
$16.95 Add to cartThousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, i… [more below]
- Author: Toth, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 155652241X
- Language: English
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South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City
$37.95 Read moreThirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough–ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, th… [more below]
- Author: Jonnes, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1531501214
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
$16.95 Add to cartHow poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism
Amid increasing hardship a- Author: Stuart, Forrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 069120649X
- Language: English
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Greetings from New Nashville: How a Sleepy Southern Town Became It City
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1998, roughly 2 million visitors came to see what there was to see in Nashville. By 2018, that number had ballooned to 15.2 million.
In that span of two decades, the boundaries of Nashville did no- Author: Haruch, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0826500277
- Language: English
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City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago
$22.95 Add to cartCity of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago’s development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today’s robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose live
- Author: Spinney, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1501748963
- Language: English
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Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life
$25.99 Add to cartElijah Anderson, called “one of our best urban ethnographers” by the New York Times Book Review, introduces the concept of the “cosmopolitan canopy” the urban islands of civility amid segregated ghett… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340511
- Language: English
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that “informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is re… [more below]
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0385265565
- Language: English
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
$24.00 Add to cart“Meticulous . . . [Nagle’s] passion for the subject really comes to life.” —The New York Times
New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quick- Author: Nagle, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534276
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Lives
$24.95 Add to cartJacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of Ne… [more below]
- Author: Riis, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0486220125
- Language: English
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Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
$17.95 Add to cartA surprising and revealing look at how today’s elite view their wealth and place in society
From TV’s “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as material- Author: Sherman, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191905
- Language: English
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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise
$19.00 Add to cartAs the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scot
- Author: Rozelle, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824012
- Language: English
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A Fated Bond
$15.99 Add to cartYe screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass. Magic, dragons, elves, and vampires are my new normal. At any point, I might get attacked by an angry book, be on the shit-list for forgetting to hook u… [more below]
- Series: Chronicles of an Urban Druid #9
- Author: Tempest, Auburn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1649719140
- Language: English
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Magic Misled
$16.99 Add to cartHer husband might be dead, but her problems are far from over.
Lizzie Grace had hoped that Clayton’s death would bring some normality back into her life. But not only does her father remain intent on i
- Series: Lizzie Grace #7
- Author: Arthur, Keri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0648768678
- Language: English
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Siren’s End
$16.99 Add to cartLove triangles, a murderous father, and a fight to save the world.
It’s been months since Syrinada finished the Naiad’s Walk, the series of tests that each Siren must face to receive their Siren’s Ston
- Author: Cage, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: February 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1958295256
- Language: English
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The Turkish Connection
$26.99 Add to cart“I don’t think anyone can forget their own war-the loss, the pain-however hard they try.”
Lin Thoren, a minor Norse goddess, is both beautiful and terrifying. While her powers have diminished over time
- Series: Sleuthing with Mortals #1
- Author: Spruzen, D. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1644508974
- Language: English
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Circle of Stones: Book Four in the Hercynian Forest Series
$18.95 Add to cartBe careful what you wish for. Panda Fowler thinks her magic isn’t as exciting as the talents of those around her. For example, her wife Mitzi can fly. Ekk and Elsa, her magical guardians, have the abi
- Series: Hercynian Forest #4
- Author: Birmingham, Reba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1633040593
- Language: English
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Immortal Born: An Argeneau Novel
$8.99 Add to cartNothing compares to the physical chemistry between an immortal and his life mate–or to the spellbinding thrills in a new Argeneau novel by New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands…
A simple pr
- Series: Argeneau Novel #30
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0062855212
- Language: English
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Night Watch
$17.99 Add to cart“Like Tolkien getting mugged in a Moscow back alley by John Le Carre.” –Bleeding Cool
The explosive first installment in Serge Lukyanenko’s visionary and internationally bestselling Night Watch series
- Series: Night Watch #1
- Author: Lukyanenko, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 31 2013
- ISBN10: 0062310097
- Language: English
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After the Dragons
$19.99 Add to cartDragons were fire and terror to the Western world, but in the East they brought life-giving rain. Now, no longer hailed as gods and struggling in the overheated pollution of Beijing, only the Eastern
- Author: Zhang, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1777091748
- Language: English
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Mile High with a Vampire
$9.99 Add to cartIn the latest Argeneau novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands, an immortal and her mortal pilot are on the run from hungry vampires…and discover they’re life mates along the way.
- Series: Argeneau Novel #33
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 006295640X
- Language: English
