Homeless City

This New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour. One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In her extraordinary...

In the year 2035, homelessness in the United States had reached catastrophic proportions. With the country overwhelmed by the crisis, the President of the United States covertly planned that a secret “Homeless City” would be built to take care of the exploding homeless situation. The city was built and the homeless began being rounded up and taken there by force. As the last phase of the city was being constructed, a secret underground room from an old abandoned military base was unearthed. The room was empty except for a shimmering mold that coated its cement walls. The mold, when ...

If you’re going to pick an abandoned building to hide in, don’t make it a Russian Mafia safehouse. A Russian mafia boss found me hiding from my abusive ex. Told me he’d protect me. Sparks flew between us and I ended up spending the night in his penthouse. Then I saw him do something I could never forgive. So I ran before he could do the same to me. I started again on the other side of the country. But the head of the Bratva never forgot me. He stalked me. Kidnapped me. Demanded I marry him. And the worst part is… I just found out I’m pregnant, and he’s the father.Obsessed Bratva...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling...

Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people, living alone and in communities, in subway tunnels, and below subway platforms. It is about how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the "topside" world they've left behind.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott “From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling...

Cole Mercer was only passing through San Francisco. When he steps in to stop a robbery inside a sprawling tent city, he expects to move on the next morning. But a quiet conversation overheard in a public library changes everything. A shipment. Eleven o’clock. Dock access. Something is moving through the city after dark. To find the truth, Mercer disappears into the camps—posing as a broken veteran living among the forgotten people of the streets. What he uncovers is far worse than he expected. And when the next shipment arrives, Mercer will be waiting. Tin City Harvest is a fast-paced ...

New York City, 1970s. Take a walk on the wild side. In Street People: Invisible New York Made Visible, spellbinding stories and iconic images combine to create a rare glimpse into a world hiding in plain sight. 1970s New York was a mecca for artists, writers, and musicians drawn to its vibrant energy and creative possibilities. It was also a place of grinding poverty and urban decay, where crime and violence were everyday realities and hope danced with despair. Prowl the nighttime streets with Margie — the drag queen who inspired more than fifty works by Andy Warhol — and Romeo, part-...

La crisis de vivienda existe y no podemos seguir ignorándola. Nuestras ciudades son cada vez más inhabitables: cada vez más caras, más distantes, más precarizadas y con menos servicios. Miles de personas están preocupadas por su imposibilidad de adquirir unavivienda en propiedad o, incluso, en arrendamiento. Sin embargo, esta problemática sigue siendo percibida como una preocupación individualizada y no como el problema estructural que realmente es.

As seen on Humans of New York, Jonathan Conyers introduces us to the mentors who changed his life as a troubled teen in this "courageous and inspiring" memoir (Stephanie Foo, author of What My Bones Know). Everybody was rooting for Jonathan Conyers after his profile on Humans of New York went...

Tom Grady is an unhoused Army veteran sleeping in his car—counting breaths, counting threats, counting the nights a city refuses to count him. When he pushes for a simple, humane solution—safe parking with rules, quiet, and dignity—City Hall answers with studies, committees, and polished sympathy. Then the rectangle breaks. Ruth, an older veteran who came to the lot for peace, is killed by violence that was always circling the edges of “policy.” Now the city can’t look away. Tom doesn’t become a hero—he becomes evidence. His grief turns into testimony: hard, precise, ...

♥ The Bakery Romance Series ♥ What would you do if you caught your fiancé cheating on you? After Kelly Richardson walks in on her cheating fiancé she makes some drastic changes in her life. At thirty years old, she moves away from home for the first time, desperate to escape her controlling father. When she volunteers for her church’s Christmas homeless ministry, she’s stunned when she discovers that Jamal Jennings, her first love, has also volunteered to feed the homeless. Jamal Jennings has returned to Baltimore to care for his sick mother. He’s determined to stay in the area ...

From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history—and future—of urban housing The Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston...

He lived—so now he helps others live. Every Delay Means a Life follows Tom Grady, a homeless veteran fighting a system that moves slower than the human body can endure. This Ending 3 edition delivers the most hard-earned version of hope: not a miracle, not a rescue—repair. Tom doesn’t get “saved.” He gets stabilized, housed, and rebuilt through veteran networks and community support, then turns outward to stand with others still trapped in the gaps. It’s a gritty, humane novel about survival, dignity, and the truth no city wants to admit: every delay carries a body inside it. ...

“Readers will come away infuriated, with a greater understanding of the systemic causes of homelessness, and with more compassion for their homeless neighbors. Essential reading for any community affected by homelessness (which is all of them).” —Booklist, Starred Review For readers of...

Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb...

Joey V is 35, five feet nothing, and shaped like a fire hydrant wearing a tuxado. A lifelong target of bullies and bad luck, he's an optimist with delusions of grandeur and a pickup line for every woman who wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot selfie stick. But when a PTSD-stricken Marine starts terrorizing a subway car, and the knockout Joey's been awkwardly flirting with, Joey does the unthinkable—he steps up. No plan. No backup. Just one undersized man, one oversized heart, an illegal handgun, and a lifetime of rejection fueling the dumbest, bravest moment of his life.

“Cruising Quiet Shadows” is a tense, deeply sensual gay urban adventure set in the after-dark streets of Chicago’s Little Village. Cole is haunted by his past and pulled forward by desire as he cruises Cermak Road, where he’s found men who flicker in and out of the city’s shadows. Raul captivates him - but only in secret. Kept hidden as a nighttime indulgence, Cole struggles to accept their relationship that Raul doesn’t allow in daylight. Night after night, Cole drifts deeper into Chicago’s hidden world of crowded streets, late-night parks, quiet alleys, and neighborhoods ...

Every Delay Means a Life is a razor-edged, deeply human novel about what happens when survival collides with bureaucracy—one night at a time. Tom Grady is living in his car, running on exhaustion and stubborn dignity, when he helps build a “safe parking” lot designed to be boring, quiet, and functional: lights off inside, light on the perimeter, bathrooms open, no-questions intake—sleep without spectacle. But the city keeps stalling, hiding behind liability language and “process,” even as real people keep paying the price. Then the lot is attacked—and the cost becomes ...

It doesn’t take long for Ray Spalding to realise that prison is nothing like an Elvis Presley movie. The warden has no intention of throwing a party and the only bands Ray encounters are gangs of hard men. When an old adversary seeks him out, Ray decides his only chance for survival is escape. Ray’s son, Jesse, is discovering that being on the run in the middle of winter is no fun. With his stamina stretched to the limits, he’s ready to surrender himself to social services. At least that way he can see his girlfriend again. Danny Boy is the man in the middle. He thinks he can break ...