Demographic Orientation/Urban
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Flowers of Mold & Other Stories
$15.95 Add to cartOn the surface, Ha Seong-nan’s stories seem pleasant enough, yet there’s something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters’ lives.
A woman meets her next-door ne- Author: Seong-Nan, Ha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1940953960
- Language: English
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Biscuit Visits the Big City
$17.99 Add to cartFor fans of Clifford and Spot, welcome everybody’s favorite little yellow puppy, Biscuit, in an I Can Read adventure
The city is a big, busy place for a little yellow puppy. From gazing at the tops of
- Series: My First I Can Read
- Author: Capucilli, Alyssa Satin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0060741643
- Language: English
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Rich and Pretty
$19.99 Add to cart“A sparkling debut.” (People)
“Smart, sharp, and beautifully made, Rumaan Alam’s portrait of two childhood best friends transitioning into their adult lives is vividly rendered, set against a tantalizi
- Author: Alam, Rumaan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0062429949
- Language: English
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Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
$19.99 Add to cartThe novelist, dramatist, and poet Carson McCullers was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction.
In nineteen stories that explore her signature themes of wounded adolescence, loneliness … [more below]
- Author: McCullers, Carson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0395925053
- Language: English
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Cane
$15.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1923, Jean Toomer’s Cane is an innovative literary work–part drama, part poetry, part fiction–powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer’s impressionistic… [more below]
- Author: Toomer, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0871402106
- Language: English
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False Value
$7.99 Read moreNow in paperback, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of Londo… [more below]
- Series: Rivers of London #8
- Author: Aaronovitch, Ben
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 075641136X
- Language: English
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Most People
$9.95 Add to cartMichael Leannah wrote Most People as an antidote to the scary words and images kids hear and see every day. Jennifer Morris’s emotive, diverting characters provide the perfect complement to Leannah’s
- Author: Leannah, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0884485552
- Language: English
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Inner City Hoodlum
$8.99 Add to cartJohnny Washington, a black teenager in Los Angeles, knows the freight yard like the back of his hand. He and his pals, Josh and Buddy, hit them often, stealing for a fence. They have to. They’re the s… [more below]
- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0870679996
- Language: English
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City Colors
$7.99 Add to cartColor 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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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
