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Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The Lonely City is a roving cultural history of urban loneliness, centered on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass. What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately involved with another human being? How do we connect with other people,...
2) Sweat
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
112 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize "From first moments to last, this compassionate but clear-eyed play throbs with heartfelt life, with characters as complicated as any you'll encounter at the theater today, and with a nifty ticking time bomb of a plot. That the people onstage are middle-class or lower-middle-class folks - too rarely given ample time on American stages - makes the play all the more vital a contribution to contemporary...
3) Home town
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
349 p.; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A narrative account profiling the ordinary men and women who live, work, and dream on the author's street in Shanghai, inspired by his enormously popular Marketplace series of the same name"--
"An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of China's most exhilarating metropolis, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on China today. Modern Shanghai:a...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton began an ambitious project--to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. The photos he took and the accompanying interviews became the blog Humans of New York. His audience steadily grew from a few hundred followers to, at present count, over twelve million. In 2013, his book Humans of New York, based on that blog, was published and immediately catapulted to the top of the NY...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air, and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery, people can vanish without a trace and funerals are a community affair. Heather Lende posts both the obituaries and the social column for her local newspaper. If anyone knows the going-on in this close-knit town-from births to weddings to funerals, she does.
Whether contemplating...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
296 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and political action. At a crucial moment in Harlem's history, as gentrification encroaches, the author untangles the myth and meaning of Harlem's legacy. Examining the epic Harlem of official history and the personal Harlem that begins at her front door, she introduces us to a wide variety of characters, past and present. At the heart...