Demographic Orientation/Urban
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Eloise Takes a Bawth
$19.99 Add to cartIt’s bath time for Eloise in this picture book starring everyone’s favorite precocious Plaza Hotel resident.
ELOISE
has
been
celebrated
at
the
PLAZA,
in
PARIS,
at
CHRISTMASTIME,
in
MOSCOW.
Now ELOI- Series: Eloise
- Author: Thompson, Kay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 22 2002
- ISBN10: 0689842880
- Language: English
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Alphabet City
$18.99 Read moreThe urban landscape will never look the same again. As Stephen T. Johnson demonstrates in a series of strikingly realistic pastels and watercolors, a simple sawhorse can contain the letter “A” — whil… [more below]
- Series: Picture Puffin Books
- Author: Johnson, Stephen T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0670856312
- Language: English
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The Bone Maker
$19.99 Add to cart“Durst consistently defies expectations.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
From award-winning author Sarah Beth Durst, a standalone epic fantasy set in a brand-new world of towering mountains and sp
- Author: Durst, Sarah Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0062888633
- Language: English
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Murder on Gramercy Park
$9.99 Add to cartAs a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen her share of suffering and joy, birth and death. Now, she learns that crime doesn’t discriminate, when the hig… [more below]
- Series: Gaslight Mystery #3
- Author: Thompson, Victoria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0425178862
- Language: English
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The Transmigration of Bodies
$17.95 Add to cartFrom the author of “A Silent Fury,” available Summer 2020.
A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broke… [more below]
- Author: Herrera, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 190827672X
- Language: English
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The Bite Before Christmas
$8.99 Read moreWith The Bite Before Christmas, New York Times bestsellers Lynsay Sands and Jeaniene Frost–two of the hottest names in paranormal romance–team up for the first time to bring lucky readers a holiday … [more below]
- Series: Argeneau Vampire Novella
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0062022601
- Language: English
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
$19.00 Read moreShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011
“A masterpiece.” –Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book R- Author: Glaeser, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143120549
- Language: English
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Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of Life
$19.95 Read moreWondering where to live in your later years? This strategic and thoughtful guide is aimed at anyone looking to determine the best place to call home during the second half of life.
Place plays a signif
- Author: Frederick, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1421442302
- Language: English
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The Rogue Hunter
$8.99 Add to cartSamantha Willan is a workaholic lawyer. She’s grateful for some rest and relaxation in cottage country, and after a recent breakup she wants to stay as far away from romance as possible. Then she meet
- Series: Argeneau Vampire #10
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0061474290
- Language: English
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Keats’s Neighborhood: An Ezra Jack Keats Treasury
$29.99 Add to cartEzra Jack Keats is widely acknowledged as one of the first people to feature realistic, friendly, multi-ethnic urban settings in his picture books-forever changing the landscape of children’s literatu… [more below]
- Series: Ezra Jack Keats Treasury
- Author: Keats, Ezra Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0670035866
- Language: English
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
$13.99 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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Sixteenth Street NW: Washington, DC’s Avenue of Ambitions
$34.95 Add to cartDeFerrari and Sefton have created a highly illustrated architectural “biography” of one of DC’s most important boulevards. From the front door of the White House, this north-south artery runs through
- Author: Deferrari, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1647121566
- Language: English
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Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
$30.00 Add to cartTokyo is one of the most vibrant and livable cities on the planet, a megacity that somehow remains intimate and adaptive. Com-pared to Western metropolises like New York or Paris, however, few outside… [more below]
- Author: Almazán, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1951541324
- Language: English
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Flower Garden
$19.99 Add to cartIn this warm and sunny picture book, follow the progress of a little girl and her father as they put together a wonderful birthday surprise for mom: a window box flower garden.
After the pansies, tulip
- Author: Bunting, Eve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 29 1994
- ISBN10: 152287760
- Language: English
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Strollercoaster
$17.99 Read moreA Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book
This joyous romp through the neighborhood celebrates the bond between a father and a child, illustrated by an award-winning artist team.Buckle up as a to
- Author: Ringler, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0316493228
- Language: English
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Looking Like Me
$18.99 Read moreWhen you look in a mirror, who do you see?
A boy? A girl?
A son? A daughter?
A runner? A dancer?Whoever and whatever you see―just put out your fist and give yourself an “I am” BAM!
This jumping
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 1606840010
- Language: English
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A Taste of Magic
$8.99 Read more“An enchanting adventure that will leave readers hungry for more.” – Kwame Mbalia, #1 New York Times bestselling author
NYT bestselling author J. Elle enchants with this story of a young Black witch w- Author: Elle, J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1547611987
- Language: English
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All of the Above
$8.99 Add to cartBased on a true story, All of the Above is the delightful and suspenseful story of four inner city students and their quest to build the world’s largest tetrahedron. Weaving together the different per… [more below]
- Author: Pearsall, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316115266
- Language: English
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Public School Superhero
$8.99 Read moreInner city middle school student Kenny Wright imagines himself as a superhero-but when he faces peer pressure and bullying, can he find his strength in real life?
Kenny Wright is a kid with a secret- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0316265985
- Language: English
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Dr. Coo and the Pigeon Protest
$19.99 Add to cartDr. Archibald Coo, an erudite big-city pigeon, is tired of the way people treat him and the other pigeons. They’re always being shooed and swatted, and they’re never admired the way the other birds ar… [more below]
- Author: Hampson, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1771383615
- Language: English
