We Own This City

Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes.

For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the city's lauded heroes, working t...

The astonishing true story of "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-...

Introduced by Liz Lochhead, in this selection we journey round Scotland in Canedolia, study its history in Picts, home in on Morgan's own city of G...

When a surprise new member of the family arrives in the fading industrial town of Royal City looking for answers, the past and present all come tog...

My first book, Lights for Life and Sirens for Suffering, was written about my life as an EMT-A serving on a fire department for twenty-three years....

Reducere. Follow along with Truly and her family on this breathtaking journey to the Celestial City. There are trials and pitfalls along the way, but the joy...

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.'s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiraciesNo metropolis has been more loved or more ha...

DescriptionIssue Thirty-One The spring issue of Kinfolk builds on our foundational interest in design to consider the discipline in its most ambiti...

Reducere. The King of the Golden City is an allegorical tale which has stood the test of time because of the beauty of its symbolism and the richness of its ...

Reducere. "Silence and solitude are precious commodities in my life. My restless self finds peace only when I rest in God." --Brennan ManningWhether we find ...

Reducere. Cities are so common today that we cannot imagine a world without them. More than half of the world's population lives in cities, and that proporti...

Does home have to be a country or a city?... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate.... We seemed always to have been home. Wang Gun...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah MlynowskiMore secrets. More scandals. More ESP. The long-awaited sequel to Don't Even Think About It We used to be av...

Although its participants are still in grade school, Pop Warner football is serious business in Miami, where local teams routinely advance to the n...

Reducere. The Birch Bark Books of Simon Pokagon is a collection of articles and legends written for and about the Potawatomi tribe by Simon Pokagon. Original...

Reducere. From blackouts in WWII to rocking out to Bill Haley and the Comets, Ocean City native Jim Jeffries recalls his "bay rat" boyhood on the Jersey Shor...

DescriptionIn the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell expands his exploration of foreignness, o...

Reducere. "We Are Really Just the Same" is a timely life lesson inspired by a four-year-old boy, that all children and adults should hear. One sunny day in N...

From crowded train stations to quiet woods, and from city centers to our own back gardens, birds remind us that nature is everywhere. As children w...

This is the story of Mike and Bernadette Byrne's amazing and uniquely personal journey. They not only witnessed music history being made but they w...

Reducere. When a black haired, three-year-old girl is found wounded in a dumpster outside the small town of Travis City, Texas, the mystery of who she is and...

Step into innovative little gardens of Eden created on small terraces and city rooftops, as well as out in the suburbs and countryside. As our life...

Reducere. The prophetic books Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah are brief but powerful. They comfort us with the assurance that, when nothing in this lif...

Reducere. Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. (Proverbs 30: 8) One of the most difficult questions facing Christians today i...

This first in-depth piece of reportage about the largest natural resource heist in Asia reveals Myanmar's world of secret-keepers and truth-tellers...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet the man against insanity. His laboratory? The sadly sinister wards of the 3, 000-bed Traverse City State Hospital. His apparatus? O...

Reducere. ``The story Portocarero weaves here is rich and fascinating, and vital to understanding an often mysterious place.``--Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana C...

Reducere. "Acknowledgement is the first step in the journey of unpacking the ways our cities are built with systems of power and erasure. True reconciliation...

Reducere. A timely life lesson inspired by a four year old boy that all kids and adults should hear. One day, the author, Rod Cornish, was walking with his s...

A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and an invitation to imagine a better-designed wor...

Reducere. With the rapid depletion of our planet's natural resources, we would all like to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. But in the midst of an econ...

Reducere. A year after we first met Hudson, the lovable mutt who moved to Paris, he's back and thirsting for adventure--this time in the glorious south of Fr...

Reducere. A Pocket sized version with easy-to-read text. It's a long and exciting journey to the celestial city - and as Christian tackles the problems and d...

Reducere. Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side where my friends and I live, and go to school, and play, and sleep - sometimes with each other.We all li...

According to early Sanskrit texts the ancients had several types of airships called vimanas. Like aircraft of today, vimanas were used to fly throu...

Reducere. As we approach the twenty-first century, many people are seeking to connect with their community's roots in order to better understand their own pa...

Groundbreaking Book Now Revised and Updated A witch's coven in Argentina became a lighthouse of prayer in less than 60 minutes. A prodigal son retu...

Reducere. DescriptionLike a kite, parents need to let out more string to allow the young adult to find their own path to responsible independence. Eventually...

Reducere. Now in paperback, this New York Times bestselling work of undercover journalism offers "a compelling and cogent argument that eating healthily ough...

DescriptionIn 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was dying from ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Japan, then keep reading... This cultural prominence was on full display during these wa...

Reducere. From his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, to his most recent, Murder City: Cuidad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields, Charles...

Reducere. A plea for the social efficacy of the neighborhood and its ecologyThe pressure is on: people move to cities in ever-growing numbers. So we build ne...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom Austin and Bangkok to Marrakesh and Sydney, Lonely Planet presents the best trips within three hours of 60 of the world's most popu...

DescriptionThe bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the C...

This Thin Veil became the author's brainchild while running from the town he lived in, Eudora, Kansas, into Lawrence, Kansas, and his turn-around p...

Kennedy: Uprooting my big city life and moving to small-town New York to start over seemed like the best idea. The plan was to pave my own way as I...

Now a New Showtime Original Series Showtime's dramatic series "Masters of Sex, " starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-lif...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pat Hagerty I will teach you how to win more bets, but first a story... I was hungover. I had spent the previous night in a...

Reducere. Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass.Growing up with five older brothers taught me how to take a hit. Lucky for me because the hits I tak...

Tell Me Their Stories: highlights twenty-six empowered women-one for each letter of the alphabet. Starting at "A, " meet famed aviator Amelia Earha...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Greco-Persian Wars, then keep reading...This cultural prominence was on full display during ...

Reducere. In 1970 Yung Yung arrives in New York City where it is rare to see a young Asian woman outside of Chinatown. Modern Dance icon Martha Graham has re...

Reducere. "We all are both heroes and villains in our own story." Niko is caught in a powerful spell that was cast from the very book he sought to protect. T...

An insightful biography of Florence's famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, ...

Reducere. A new enemies-to-lovers standalone. Byron Crowne is a charming liar and a gorgeous monster. I detest him. I can't resist him. He's awakened desires...

Reducere. We were one family among the many thousands. Mama and Daddy leaving home, coming to the city, with their hopes and their courage, their dreams and ...

Reducere. A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics, and conscience, set in parallel Londons.Newland...imagines a world where colonia...

Reducere. In 1999 Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived by choice on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, the fifteenth-largest city in the United States. They w...

Reducere. DescriptionHow can I know God's will for me, personally? It's a question that haunts us all at times--maybe when we're looking for the right job, t...

A 2019 NPR Staff PickA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in...

DescriptionA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in American ...

The Government has so far refused a Public Inquiry into the riots that shook our cities this Summer, so the Tricycle is mounting its own. This verb...

DescriptionA Roman historian chronicles Rome on the brink of collapse Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings ran...

Description"The whole world a Bauhaus?" This richly illustrated book, published to accompany a worldwide exhibition series, takes that quotation fr...

Reducere. Despite being condensed into neat identities of the Near East and Greece, these two titles cover a wide-ranging period of time, peoples, lands, and...

Reducere. What happened in Vermont when the anti-Communist fear known as the "Red Scare" swept the country? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Rick Winston explor...

DescriptionEverbody has their own squad, a group of friends who you can rely on. The sassy one, the brainiac, the hot mess, the dizzy one, the part...

Reducere. Can the heart be telling us something we can't quite hear?Landscape artist Miranda Jones thought she was on track. Yet something feels off kilter. ...