Future Cities

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it". To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.

An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward “Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama...

A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage?

Philip Marlowe meets Redwall in this superior adult noir tale, where all the characters are animals, fighting for survival in the city underneath the humans. "[John] Pirhalla's narration easily differentiates a variety of animal gang leaders, henchmen, and more...He adjusts his pacing precisely...

In the vast tapestry of time, the story of humanity unfolds like an intricate web, woven with threads of ingenuity, resilience, and an insatiable quest for the unknown. From the moment the first hominids stepped out of the African savannahs, embarking on a journey that would span continents and epochs, the world has never been the same. These early wanderers, armed with nothing but rudimentary tools and a nascent sense of community, could scarcely have imagined the future that awaited their descendants—a future of towering skyscrapers, breathtaking art, and medical marvels that defy the ...

A dazzling journey into the hidden lives of synanthropes, the wild animals who’ve found ingenious ways to survive and thrive in human communities—from award-winning writer and scientist Dan Werb Synanthropes have always been an immutable part of the tapestry of our lives. They are the reason...

From the eighteenth century to the twenty–first, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community. This manifesto for the next food revolution by acclaimed environmental historian Kate Brown speaks to nature lovers, food...

WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who “has reshaped modern fantasy” (The Washington Post) “[China Miéville’s] fantasy novels, including a trilogy set in...

In a dystopian future, a high-tech city named after the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir was supposed to be a utopia where society and technology flourished outside of government control. Step into the neon streets of Noir City, a realm reminiscent of Cyberpunk 2077, West World, and Sin City, where shadows conceal secrets and technology holds sway over every aspect of life. As an enigmatic signal looms ominously, threatening to disrupt the delicate balance, the lives of its inhabitants become entwined in a web of mystery. Initially appearing disparate, each story holds a sinister ...

This program is read by Hugo Award–winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky. Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time. To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed...

America's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades - celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past, telling the rich history of the rise, fall, and reinvention of one of the world’s most resurgent cities.

"Whether this is the listener's first or fiftieth In Death story, they're guaranteed an enjoyable listening experience."-AudioFile on Abandoned in Death Homicide detective Eve Dallas must untangle a twisted family history while a hostage’s life hangs in the balance—in the new In Death novel...

In this gritty and gripping new audiobook in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas fights to save the innocent—and serve justice to the guilty—on the streets of New York. Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth...

Your mind is no longer your own. In Neon Harbor, identity is editable. Memories can be enhanced, emotions optimized, and reality rewritten through neural implants that connect every citizen to a powerful AI-driven network. When a routine upgrade turns violent, triggering a brutal, unexplainable attack, investigative journalist Aaron Malik is pulled into a story no one wants exposed. At first, it looks like a glitch. A malfunction. A tragic anomaly. But the deeper Aaron digs, the clearer the truth becomes: Someone or something, is rewriting human behavior at scale. As black-market code, ...

Turn urban pollution and climate anxiety into practical sustainability solutions during your daily city commute. Discover how ordinary neighborhoods are tackling extreme heat, flood risks, and waste management through grassroots environmentalism and smart urban planning. This hopeful...

The end of the world is just the beginning. When a catastrophic quake tears through Manhattan, toppling skyscrapers, flooding tunnels, and shattering the Eastern Seaboard, federal prosecutor Nick Dykstra claws his way through the chaos and rubble to reach his daughter Lauren, a brilliant but rebellious high school student caught in the heart of the disaster. The 9.1 earthquake that levels New York City is no natural disaster. Beneath the wreckage, something ancient has awakened. Buried for eons, a vast network of alien systems – older than recorded time and woven into the earth’s crust ...

“Fifty years later, the world we became—and what we left behind.” Fifty years after the sky opened and humanity learned the truth, the world is unrecognizable. Floating cities drift on antigravity anchors. Illnesses that once defined entire eras have vanished. The planet has healed. War has quietly retired from human vocabulary. And what we once called “paranormal” is now simply physics we were too young to understand. In this final installment of the Disclosure Day series, Dr. Lena Morales—now ninety years old but appearing forty-five thanks to post-contact regenerative ...

"Narrator Susan Ericksen's performance vibrates with energy as she portrays old and new characters in this series." —AudioFile on Desperation in Death The #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a gripping new thriller that pits homicide detective Eve Dallas against a conspiracy of...

"After narrating more than 50 audiobooks in this series, Susan Ericksen displays her comfort with the characters without lacking any vitality." –AudioFile Magazine In the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas sifts through the wreckage of the...

The homicide cop with a passion for justice returns in the captivating crime thriller series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who’d conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And...