Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

Business & Economics

Based on interviews conducted in major cities in the US, this study focuses on exceptional non-governmental leaders who have developed effective solutions to the complex problems of American inner cities, including education, economic development and community safety.

The New Urban Leaders

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#hardcover #nonfiction #cities #history #monicasmith #population #urban #overpopulation 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

The First 6,000 Years

"This is a must-read book for any city dweller with a voracious appetite for understanding the wonders of cities and why we're so attracted to them."--Zahi Hawass, author of Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt A sweeping history of cities through the millennia--from Mesopotamia to Manhattan--and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to dominance. Six thousand years ago, there were no cities on the planet. Today, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, and that number is growing. Weaving together archeology, history, and contemporary observations, Monica Smith explains the rise of the first urban developments and their connection to our own. She takes readers on a journey through the ancient world of Tell Brak in modern-day Syria; Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan in Mexico; her own digs in India; as well as the more well-known Pompeii, Rome, and Athens. Along the way, she presents the unique properties that made cities singularly responsible for the flowering of humankind: the development of networked infrastructure, the rise of an entrepreneurial middle class, and the culture of consumption that results in everything from take-out food to the tell-tale secrets of trash. Cities is an impassioned and learned account full of fascinating details of daily life in ancient urban centers, using archaeological perspectives to show that the aspects of cities we find most irresistible (and the most annoying) have been with us since the very beginnings of urbanism itself. She also proves the rise of cities was hardly inevitable, yet it was crucial to the eventual global dominance of our species--and that cities are here to stay.

Cities

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#hardcover #picturebook #girls #girl #diverse #children #childrensbook #kids #urban #citylife 

Oregon

A young girl loves her favorite dress, but when it gets worn, goes out of fashion, or she grows too big to fit, her mother fixes up her old favorite into something new.

I Had a Favorite Dress

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#hardcover #dice #tnbaker #urban #africanamerican #blackwomen

Maryland

Dice 

#hardcover #americanhistory #ushistory #sociology #urban #political 

Vermont

The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America

A journalist pulls a random day in history from a hat to see if he can make a worthwhile news story from what happened. The result is One Day, a deeply illuminating and affecting exploration of the quiet dramas and human interaction that make a seemingly insignificant day - December 28th, 1986 - into an important, poignant part of American history.

One Day

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New Jersey

Beware of the company you keep.

K'wan's urban fiction coming-of-age novel, Promise Broken, is set in the gritty streets of Newark, New Jersey. The story follows seventeen-year-old Promise Mohammed as she attempts to uphold friendships and new relationships--even if they lead to her demise.

After Promise's mother dies in a tragic car accident, it leaves a void in Promise's life that she is yearning to fill. This titular novel finds Promise spiraling into a life of crime and drug affiliation by the company she chooses to keep.

Also coping with abandonment and a lifelong broken commitment from her biological father, Promise ultimately has two goals: to graduate from high school and to be loved. But can she find the love that she seeks from her aunt Dell, two best friends, Mouse and Keys, or drug-dealer Asher--the man who captivates her--despite the fact that each relationship will lead to life-altering events? Only time will tell.

Promise Broken

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Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

The author dispenses rat facts and rat stories, looking into the history of rats, and describes how, with the aid of a notebook and night-vision gear, he sat nightly in a garbage-filled alley getting to know the wild city rat.

Rats

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Maine

#fiction #youngadult #ya #hardcover #scifi #romance #sciencefiction #urban #policestate 

Alabama

The Cityborn is a standalone science fiction novel from Edward Willett. The metal City towers at the center of the mountain-ringed Heartland, standing astride the deep chasm of the Canyon like a malevolent giant, ruled with an iron fist by the First Officer and his Provosts in the name of the semi-mythical Captain. Within its corroding walls lies a stratified society, where the Officers dwell in luxury on the Twelfth Tier while the poor struggle to survive on the First and Second, and outcasts scrabble and fight for whatever they can find in the Middens, the City's rubbish heap, filling the Canyon beneath its dripping underbelly. Alania, ward of an Officer, lives on Twelfth. Raised among the privileged class, Alania feels as though she is some sort of pampered prisoner, never permitted to explore the many levels of the City. And certainly not allowed to leave the confines of the City for any reason. She has everything a young woman could want except a loving family and personal freedom. Danyl, raised by a scavenger, knows no home but the Middens. His day-to-day responsibility is to stay alive. His sole ambition is to escape from this subsistence existence and gain entrance to the City--so near and yet so far out of reach--in hopes of a better life. Their two very different worlds collide when Alania, fleeing from an unexpected ambush, plunges from the heights of the City down to the Middens, and into Danyl's life. Almost immediately, both of them find themselves pursued by the First Officer's Provosts, for reasons they cannot fathom--but which they must uncover if they are to survive. The secrets they unlock, as they flee the Canyon and crisscross the Heartland from the City's farmlands to the mountains of the north and back again, will determine not only their fate, but the fate of the City...and everyone who lives there.

The Cityborn

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#hardcover #fiction #africanamerican #urban #hotjohnny #sandrajacksonopoku #opoku

The life and times of Hot Johnny are seen through the eyes of the women who loved him, including Peaches, the prostitute who names him; his college soulmate Tree; Etta, the older woman who teaches him about love; and Destiny, his young wife.

Hot Johnny (And the Women Who Loved Him)

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#hardcover #fiction #africanamerican #urban #stringer #stilldirty

The reigning queen of urban fiction ("Publishers Weekly") delivers the much-anticipated sequel to the "Essence" bestseller "Dirty Red."

Still Dirty

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Utah

The Goblin Path

#fiction #africanamericanwomen #africanamericans #hardcover #terrymcmillan #urban

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Presents a humorous novel about a woman who unexpectedly finds love but who just might be losing her mind

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

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Minnesota

Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station-and a werewolf in the closet. Sick of lame song requests, she accidentally starts 'The Midnight Hour', a late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. After desperate vampires, werewolves, and witches across the country begin calling in to share their woes, her new show is a raging success. But it's Kitty who can use some help. With one sexy werewolf-hunter and a few homicidal undead on her tail, Kitty may have bitten off more than she can chew...

Kitty and the Midnight Hour

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West Virginia

The Rev. Ruth Wilcox, head minister of a Chicago church, has just about adjusted to life on her own, years after her husband, Daniel, left her. But Daniel suddenly re-enters her life when his second wife spurns him, leaving him to care for their three sons. Ruth's got enough on her plate, what with her mother's Alzheimer's, her best friend's cancer diagnosis, her grown children's dramas. . .and a charming parishioner who's caught her eye. Also, she can't shake the feeling that something is fishy with Daniel. Still, she's long dreamed of reconciling with her first love, and his kids desperately need discipline and spiritual nurturing. In Michelle Larks' Letting Misery Go, Ruth's faith gives her the strength to face a life-altering choice.

Letting Misery Go

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New York

Set to the beat of an urban summer, this street-smart novel follows an L.A. teen as he hangs with friends and faces life transitions -- and his first romance.

Shooting the breeze with his boys. Tightening his D on the court. Doing a color check -- making sure nobody's wearing blue or red, which some Crip or Piru carrying a cut-down golf club would see as disrespect. Then back to Auntie's, hoping she isn't passed out from whiskey at the end of the day. Now that Shawn is headed for high school, he wonders if he'd be better off at the school in Mama's neighborhood, where he'd be free of Compton's hassles. But then he wouldn't be with his fellas -- cracking jokes, covering each other's backs -- or the fine Marisol, who's been making star appearances in his dreams. Dad says he needs to make his own decision, but what does Shawn want, freedom or friendship? With teasing, spot-on dialogue and an eye to the realities of inner-city life, Chameleon takes on the shifting moods of a teenager coming of age.

Chameleon

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#fiction #africanamericans #hardcover #urban #elynnharris

Aldridge James (AJ) Richardson's comfortable life with his longtime lover, famed NBA star Dray Jones, is threatened by the need to hide their relationship to maintain Dray's public image and by Dray's marriage to Judy, a beautiful and ambitious woman. 200,000 first printing.

Basketball Jones

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#paperback #fantasy #fiction #urbanfantasy #paranormal #horror #magic #supernatural #sciencefiction #urban 

Illinois

R.S. Belcher, the acclaimed author of The Six-Gun Tarot and The Shotgun Arcana launches a gritty new urban fantasy series set in today's seedy occult underworld in Nightwise. In the more shadowy corners of the world, frequented by angels and demons and everything in-between, Laytham Ballard is a legend. It's said he raised the dead at the age of ten, stole the Philosopher's Stone in Vegas back in 1999, and survived the bloodsucking kiss of the Mosquito Queen. Wise in the hidden ways of the night, he's also a cynical bastard who stopped thinking of himself as the good guy a long time ago. Now a promise to a dying friend has Ballard on the trail of an escaped Serbian war criminal with friends in both high and low places-and a sinister history of blood sacrifices. Ballard is hell-bent on making Dusan Slorzack pay for his numerous atrocities, but Slorzack seems to have literally dropped off the face of the Earth, beyond the reach of his enemies, the Illuminati, and maybe even the Devil himself. To find Slorzack, Ballard must follow a winding, treacherous path that stretches from Wall Street and Washington, D.C. to backwoods hollows and truckstops, while risking what's left of his very soul . . . .

Nightwise

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Arizona

Verity Price, trained from birth as a cryptozoologist--a monster hunter--attempts to pursue a career in professional ballroom dance, but dangerous cryptids and the Covenant's newest operative keep getting in the way of her passion. Original. 33,500 first printing.

Discount Armageddon

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From the "queen of urban fiction" (Publishers Weekly), Vickie Stringer, comes a scorching tale of love, lies, loss, and the indomitable spirit of a woman scorned.

Mischievous and manipulative, eighteen-year-old Red is an expert at deception with a provocative femininity. She employs her dirty ways -- even faking a pregnancy with her boyfriend -- to win a closet full of Gucci bags, a deluxe condominium full of baby accessories, a new car, and a book deal. But when one of Red's scams backfires and she winds up truly pregnant by her inmate ex-boyfriend, Bacon, she finds herself in more trouble than she's ever known. The drama truly unravels when Red's picture-perfect cons fall apart due to the power of -- surprisingly -- love.

Dirty Red

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BLOW tells the story of Tay, a young man living on the dangerous streets of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Although he was making a decent living selling weed, he one day discovers something far more sinister. Blow. Heroin, or Horse depending on what era you're from. After doing a little research, he finds out that he can make more money by selling blow than crack or coke. He now has the money, women, and power. But Tay soon finds that success is not all it's cracked up to be. Jealous tensions eventually build and the same cats he once rolled with now become mortal enemies and try to thwart his rise to power.

Blow

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The Game Ain’t Fair!

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#paperback #urban #africanamerican #dondiva #joeblack #squeeze 

Squeeze

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#paperback #urban #ambition #fiction #funny #selfimprovement 

A young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure: "A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent" (The New York Times).

When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novelTreasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broken from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold?
Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned.Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice--"insane, hilarious, and irreverent" (Alice Sebold).

"Highly original . . . will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator."--Library Journal

"A hoot."--Kirkus Reviews

Joyce A. Ladner

The New Urban Leaders

Monica L. Smith

Cities

Boni Ashburn; Julia Denos (Illustrator)

I Had a Favorite Dress

T.N. Baker

Dice

Gene Weingarten

One Day

K'wan

Promise Broken

Robert Sullivan

Rats

Robert Sullivan

Rats

Edward Willett

The Cityborn

Sandra Jackson Opoku

Hot Johnny (And the Women Who Loved Him)

Vickie M. Stringer

Still Dirty

Chani Lynn Feener

The Goblin Path

Terry McMillan

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Carrie Vaughn

Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Michelle Larks

Letting Misery Go

Charles R. Smith

Chameleon

E. Lynn Harris

Basketball Jones

R. S. Belcher

Nightwise

Seanan McGuire

Discount Armageddon

Vickie M. Stringer

Dirty Red

K'wan; 50 50 Cent

Blow

Leondrei Prince

Bloody Money 2

Joe Black

Squeeze

Sara Levine

Treasure Island!!!