Urban City

FEAT DESC

Eight-year-old TC skips school to explore the city’s overgrown, forgotten corners. Sophia, 78, watches with concern as he slips past her window, through the little park she loves. She’s writing to her granddaughter, Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world from TC - though the two children live less than a mile apart.

The novel is set in Los Angeles and follows a tenacious inner-city teen who is eventually a victim of many of the social evils that plague children in many low-income neighborhoods. In his once-happy family, he experienced love and grief, as well as violence, betrayal, and separation. His father's death, through a series of terrible events, becomes his breaking point, forcing him into homelessness and dangerous street life.

Говорят, магов больше нет. Их истребили в Великую магическую смуту под корень. Они сами уничтожили друг друга, а уцелевших добили разъяренные люди, уставшие от бесконечных войн. Человечество воспряло, без гнета одарённых чудовищ прогресс двинулся вперед семимильными шагами. Самым современным паровым экспрессом в столицу прибывает девушка из глубинки. С собой у нее один-единственный чемодан и тайна, которую она трепетно хранит.

When biologist Hanna Bjørgaas spots a fairy cup lichen in Antarctica, she is surprised to recognize it from her own backyard in Oslo. When she returns home, she embarks on a journey into urban nature, visiting city parks, cemeteries, and concrete rooftops to investigate the species that live in urban spaces. Along the way, she meets corvids, songbirds, ants, pigeons, bats, sparrows, fungi, and linden trees—and the experts who study their surprising abilities to survive, and thrive, in the city.

إذا عاد أحدُ أحبابكَ من الموت فهل ستكون سعيدًا؟

During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from curiosity. They were frequently referred to as "the Chiefs now in this city" during their visits. Colin Calloway has gathered together the accounts of these visits and created a new narrative of the country's formative years, redefining what has been understood as the "frontier." Calloway captures what Native peoples observed as they walked the streets, sat in pews, attended plays, drank in taverns, and slept in hotels.

Public City/Public Sex examines how the notion that male sexual desire required suitable outlets shaped urban policing and development. Ross traces the struggle to control sex in public and argues that it was the very effort to police the city that created new opportunities for women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men. Placing public sex at the center of urban history, Ross shows how those who used public spaces played a central role in defining the way the city was understood.

The world’s skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversial—for their high costs, shadows, and overt grandiosity. But, decade by decade, they keep getting higher and higher. What is driving this global building spree of epic proportions? In Cities in the Sky, author Jason Barr explains all: why they appeal to cities and nations, how they get financed, why they succeed economically, and how they change a city’s skyline and enable the world’s greatest metropolises to thrive in the 21st century.

"Weißt du, Charly, im Leben muss man lieben und zwar sehr. Diejenigen, die den Schmerz fürchten, glauben nicht an das Leben." Der kleine Charly verliert in den berüchtigten Pariser Vorstädten seine Mutter. Mutig macht er sich auf die Suche nach ihr und nimmt die Hörerschaft mit auf eine Reise, die von Warmherzigkeit sowie Poesie geprägt ist und eine gänzlich neue Perspektive schafft.

After years of IVF, Kirsten White is a devoted mum to Harriet - and she can’t believe the time has come to send her little girl off to school. But Harriet has now turned five, and she can’t stay Kirsten’s baby forever. It might be hard, but it’s time to entrust her daughter’s care to her new teacher...the classroom is the one place she should be safe. Miriam Robertson has been waiting for the perfect little girl to walk into her class. She’s very picky...but when Harriet walks in, Miriam knows: this is the child she’s been waiting for.

Cinderella retold: fae, vampires, shifters, and a godmother who’ll grant you any wish - if you pay the price. In a world of fae, vampires, and shifters where wishes can be bought and bargained for, Elle is human, bound to her stepmother by a slave charm. Her only hope at freedom is to wish for it. But the godmother rules the illegal wish trade, and the price she demands is steep. Is Elle willing to pay it?

Elle and Dex concoct a plan to lure in the Allegiant vampires responsible for the recent spate of human abductions, but a surprising revelation threatens to change everything. While Elle works hard to keep the ugly truth of who she really is from Dex, it turns out Dex is keeping a secret of his own.

Those dark and terrible things from your nightmares are very real. They walk among us, masquerading as your neighbor, your lover, even your friend. You see, Empire City is full of them...if you only know where to look. How do I know this? Well, for starters the name is Detective Tom Holliday. I work homicide for Special Crimes. My friends, what few I have, call me Doc. And the other reason? I’ve got magic of my own. Welcome to Empire City, where magic and technology co-exist, and humanity endures behind walls of stone and spell-forged steel.

In der Dunkelheit erwacht deine Phönixmagie. Einst opferte sich der letzte Phönix, um die Menschheit zu beschützen. Noch heute kämpfen auserwählte Menschen mit ihren Phönixkräften gegen dunkle Feinde. Als Eden eines Nachts in den Straßen San Franciscos von düsteren Gestalten angegriffen und von vier Fremden mit Waffen aus Licht gerettet wird, erfährt sie, dass sie selbst eine Phönixkriegerin ist. Doch wieso zeigt sich bei ihr keine Lichtgabe? Und was verbirgt der unnahbare Krieger Kane, dessen Blicke Eden unter die Haut gehen?

From the raucous heights of Occupy Wall Street to the comical lows of the publishing industry, from million-dollar art auctions to Bushwick drug dens, Kings County captures New York City at a moment of cultural reckoning. Grappling with the resonant issues and themes of our time - sex and violence, art and commerce, friendship and family - it is an epic coming-of-age tale about love, consequences, bravery, and fighting for one’s place in an ever-changing world.

In book 3, a construction worker inexplicably walks off a high-rise beam, plunging to his death, and a woman on hospice is murdered. Rose Brighton, a Birmingham, Alabama police detective and a witch of House of Rose, hunts for the connection and the killer, because the next person on his list is Rose herself.

Liz, an ambitious headhunter in London, is beholden to nobody and determined to keep it that way. Emily, a homebody with a countryside cottage, seems happy to be surrounded by her family and her crafts. Chrissy, a writer turned realtor, is living the American dream in sunny California. But are their lives as idyllic as they seem? When a long-forgotten school friend unexpectedly takes her own life, the three women are reunited once more, but just as they reconnect, their lives begin to shatter.

When New York City unveils a program to roast supernaturals, I wonder if I should be sweating. The bloodthirsty Arnaud thinks so, and he's insisting that our survival depends on a wizard-vampire alliance. Never mind his history of wanting me dead. Or undead. Meanwhile, the mayor wants me on his team - an offer that's only slightly less unnerving given our recent clash. So who's really behind the purge? City Hall? The werewolves? Or is it the brainchild of the fae, whose newest advisor to the mayor slipped from my bed and life four months ago?

In today's fast-paced world, where concrete jungles dominate the landscape, the idea of growing your own food may seem like a distant dream. However, sustainable urban farming is changing the game and offering a solution to the challenges faced by city dwellers. In this subchapter, we will explore the importance of sustainable urban farming and its significance for gardeners, whether they are engaged in urban gardening, balcony gardening for apartment dwellers, container gardening for limited spaces, indoor gardening for urban homes and offices, or sustainable urban farming for self-sufficiency.