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My Baby Is a West Coast King by Shvonne Latrice
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLaine Loren is an aspiring model, hoping to somehow make it out of South Side, Chicago, and away from her predator uncle and cheating boyfriend Tarik. When she gets the chance to move away to Los Angeles, she hops on it and doesn't look back. Laine's plans to focus only on her career and nothing else, are suddenly thrown to the wind when she meets the dangerous and unbalanced Mischief... -
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My Baby Is A West Coast King 3 by Shvonne Latrice
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWho has more secrets than the Benjamin family? That's the question everyone is wondering, since it seems at every corner, there is something new and explosive popping up. In the final installment, more revelations come to life, and unbearable truths are faced... -
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My Baby Is a West Coast King 2 by Shvonne Latrice
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLaine was shocked to learn that not only had Mischief been unfaithful, but that he'd possibly fathered a child by the last person he should have ever been in bed with. Feeling like maybe she moved way too fast with him, Laine decides to free herself and have a little fun, hoping it will alleviate the heartbreak she'd just endured... -
![Stay For Awhile by BriAnn Danae]()
Stay For Awhile by BriAnn Danae
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe wasn’t supposed to stay. In fact, had she not missed her flight, Brya Mills would have settled on the life she had in Miami, Florida. Settling… it’s what she’d been doing while dating a male acquaintance. Wasting time when what she really desired was a man who was just as invested in her as she was him. Over the months, Brya had become stagnant, but not anymore... -
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![Our Pool by Lucy Ruth Cummins]()
Our Pool by Lucy Ruth Cummins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a hot day, people come from all over the city to spend the day at the pool in this joyful picture book that’s a love song to summer, the city, community, and staying cool!Today is a pool day in the city! The sun is shining, so what are you waiting for? Friends and family. Kids and grandparents. Big bodies and small bodies... -
![Theft by Luke Brown]()
Theft by Luke Brown
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat I did to them was terrible, but you have to understand the context. This was London, 2016 . . . Bohemia is history. Paul has awoken to the fact that he will always be better known for reviewing haircuts than for his literary journalism... -
![Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker]()
Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCafad Scratha, a powerful desert lord with a persecution complex, believes everyone is lying to him. When his obsession collides with the king's efforts to rebuild the shattered realm, the orphaned street-thief Idisio and the king's emissary Alyea become pawns in their multilayered game. The secret world into which Idisio and Alyea are drawn will not only change their lives: it will change them... -
![Nutuk - The Great Speech by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]()
Nutuk - The Great Speech by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNutuk was a speech delivered by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 15 to 20 October 1927, at the second congress of Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi... -
![What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation by Matt Walsh]()
What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation by Matt Walsh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIs this even a question?What is a woman? For months, Matt Walsh devoted nearly every waking hour to answering this simple question. Honestly, it’s a question he never thought he’d have to ask.But all of a sudden, way too many people don’t seem to know the answer... -
![From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger]()
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFew gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965... -
![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
![Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery]()
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCharles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time...Categorized as:
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![Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb]()
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 • A Smithsonian Staff Favorite of 2023 • A New Yorker Best Book of 2023An eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning author of Eager... -
![The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher W. Alexander]()
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher W. Alexander
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being.He writes, “There is one timeless way of building. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been... -
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![Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos]()
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy—or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation... -
![Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck]()
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core... -
![We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins]()
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income black communities, while also offering a new framework for how we can improve the conversations occurring about them. While author D... -
![Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman]()
Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAcclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel's colonial occupation.In this journey from the deep subterranean spaces of the West Bank and Gaza to their militarized airspace, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel's mechanisms of control and the transformation of the Occupied Territories into an artifice in which all natural and built features function as the instruments of occupation... -
![Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill]()
Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA rare and fascinating portrait of the American presidency from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November .Secret Service agent Clint Hill brings history intimately and vividly to life as he reflects on his seventeen years protecting the most powerful office in the nation. Hill walked alongside Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F... -
![What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren]()
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHubWinner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book PrizeA fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all...Categorized as:
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![I, Phoolan Devi : The Autobiography of India's Bandit Queen by Phoolan Devi]()
I, Phoolan Devi : The Autobiography of India's Bandit Queen by Phoolan Devi
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPhoolan Devi was born into a poor, low-caste family in Uttar Pradesh, living in a world that gave more respect to a stray dog than to a woman. At 11, she was married off and endured beatings, rapes and persecution. She survived being kidnapped by bandits and became one of them, learning how to shoot like a man. She also found love for the first time, but her lover was brutally murdered... -
![Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives by Jarrett Walker]()
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives by Jarrett Walker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPublic transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other... -
![The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson]()
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis.From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis...Categorized as:
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![High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen]()
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJoining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most iconic public housing project...Categorized as:
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![Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow]()
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning our cities, from a pioneer in the movement for safer, more livable streetsAs New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world’s greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers... -
![When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan]()
When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe groundbreaking, never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond... -
![Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn Jr.]()
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizesStrong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States... -
![Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places by Jeff Speck]()
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places by Jeff Speck
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life... -
![Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America by Angie Schmitt, Charles T. Brown]()
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America by Angie Schmitt, Charles T. Brown
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018... -
![To Die For The People : The Writings Of Huey P. Newton by Huey P. Newton]()
To Die For The People : The Writings Of Huey P. Newton by Huey P. Newton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe writings of Huey P Newton African-American activist (1942–1989) who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966, an organization that advocated at various times black nationalism and racial equality, and engaged in several high-profile violent confrontations with police. Signed To Die for the The Writings of Huey P. Newton. First edition, later printing. Random House, 1972...Categorized as:
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