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With only a small capital investment, and without the need to own land, you can become part of this growing movement. The Urban Farmer will help you learn the crops, techniques, and business strategies you need to make a good living growing food intensively right in your own backyard. Growing food in the city means that fresh crops may travel only a few blocks from field to table, making this innovative approach the next logical step in the local...
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"Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working...
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Before her Hollywood dreams were shattered, Pearle Monalise Brown was the tenacious aspiring actress from Compton's unforgiving, scarred streets. Never broken, Pearle switches gears to a fallback plan--resorting to her beauty and acting skills to swindle money and expensive jewels. When she's hired by the Colombian cartel to steal a priceless Basquiat from the debonair kingpin and art collector, Blaque, her talents might not be enough to keep her...
6) Urban legend
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When a New England college student finds herself at the center of a series of sadistic murders seemingly inspired by urban legends, she resolves to find the truth about Pendleton's own legend--a 25-year-old story of a student massacre at the hands of an abnormal psychology professor.
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"Have you ever met a man that just grabs your attention and sweeps you off of your feet, only to find out later that he isn't worth a damn? Amoy Simpson experienced a rough life growing up and can't wait to get away from her turbulent home life. Looking for love, she stumbles on Devon, and thinks he is sent by God. She quickly learns that the thug is nothing but a two-timing liar who will go to the extreme to protect the secret he is hiding from her....
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"How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? In Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities, transportation expert Veronica O. Davis shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering. She calls for new thinking and more diverse leadership to create transportation networks that connect people to jobs, education, opportunities, and to each other....
9) Keith Urban
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"In the first and only definitive biography of country music star Keith Urban, insider Jeff Apter chronicles how a skinny, shy high school dropout with an outrageous mullet went from humble origins in Australia to conquering Nashville and global stardom plus his struggles with addiction, marriage to Nicole Kidman, turns on American Idol, and more."--Publisher.
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"Dominique Garcia, also known as Niko, has put her years of stripping in her rearview mirror. She's traded in her eight-inch stilettoes and teeny bikinis for business suits and classy red bottom heels. Almost immediately, Niko has all of her co-workers intrigued with her. She soon realizes they have crossed paths with her and her previous life--and they are determined to refresh her memory. When she left the chaos of the club, Niko thought that she'd...
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In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. As the world's foremost cycling nation, the Netherlands is the only country where the number of bikes exceeds the number of people, primarily...
12) Brooklyn
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"Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn't who murdered her; the question is who wouldn't? Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became. Brooklyn learned...
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Your guide to becoming a green-fingered vigilante - transforming your neighbourhood's neglected corners into bright pockets of plant life. Guerrilla gardening is the global movement of people planting in public places. From scattering wildflower seeds onto road verges to building community allotments on vacant lots, these peaceful acts of rebellion are where flower power meets people power. With no prior knowledge of gardening or activism needed,...
15) Burning season
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Set your schemes . . .A volunteer Virginia Beach firefighter, Alayna Curry faces death every day—and is proud to carry on her retired father's legacy. But with cash always tight and her long-time boyfriend Levi pressuring her to give up what she loves to make more money, she knows she needs more cash flow to stay afloat. . . Set your traps . . .All Alayna has to do is keep quiet about a scheme to burn down buildings for insurance-hungry “clients.”...
16) Penthouse view
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Selling weed and then running her own robbing crew that targeted drug dealers was how Shantana Phillips gained her entry into the Atlanta drug market. Their motto was, "Why buy drugs when you can steal them?" While Shantana and her crew are celebrating in South Beach after their biggest hit ever, the ambitious and power-hungry Shantana meets a Colombian importer looking for a new distributor for the Atlanta market. During a trip to Cali, Colombia,...
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It took years and fistfuls of tears for Liberty to convince herself that Zion Malik Mitchell had been a figment of her imagination. She'd suppressed every memory to lessen the burn--and because it's the proper thing to do once you've become another man's wife. Now the mother, wife, and #SoldiersofLove relationship columnist for Love & Lifestyle magazine finds herself in a heartfelt tug of war when her childhood sweetheart, Zion, resurfaces.
18) Screen Saver
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Welcome, Old Friends and New Recruits
If you know why you're here and what's going on, head on in. Grab a bean bag from Jonesy, a cookie from Stef and a glare from Taylor.
If you're new - either you were gifted this ebook, or someone threw it at you with the vague-but-insistent command to "just read it!", then here's a bit of an introduction.
This is a short story in the world of Ash & Blue, a nerdy urban fantasy series, mostly focussed on a group...
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Even vampires have boogeymen.
Talon always thought the stories about the Pale Princess were just that, stories.
At least he did until she showed up, took control of most of his people, and forced him to flee for his continued existence.
And who does the most powerful vampire in the world turn to when he needs help?
Who else?
Conryu Koda, the Reaper's Chosen, and the human charged with hunting down and eliminating the servants of the newly arrived...
20) Revenant
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Monty and Simon survived the Stormblood, but not without grave consequences. Whatever method York used to complete the ritual opened a door to something ancient, dark, and evil.
A Revenant.
Now, that Revenant is hunting them. It needs their life force to be completely free.
There's only one way to get it.
Eliminate them both.
Together, they must face this new threat before it becomes too powerful to stop and destroys them all.
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