New Art City

Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape. He argues that we can find solutions through the concept of biomimicry: emulating successful strategies found in nature. A better city is possible if we heed the lessons that forests and trees teach about how to store carbon, grow food, collect rainwater, and convert sunlight into energy.

Ginger had seen enough violence in her life to know she didn't want to fight. After her father beat her mother for the last time, Ginger sought refuge in the gym, never dreaming that one day it would be her salvation. Chaos always had a soft spot for the petite brunette. Even from an early age, he acted as her protector. Chaos has never failed Ginger before, and he will be damned if he does this time. Fate steps in and throws them a curve they never expected. Ginger has no option, its fight or die. Will Chaos be able to save her from the fight for her life?

Following the deaths of her parents, law student Annie Alsonado fears losing herself as well. Her insecurities undermine her relationship with buttoned-up classmate Dave Cohen, who can’t seem to compete with Annie’s idealized memories of an adventurous ex-boyfriend. Annie finds she can no longer hide from the present, however, when she joins Dave in trying to help Fernando Garcia — a young man whose own broken heart drives him to make a mistake that threatens to land him in prison. Annie and Dave race against time to save the defendant, but also struggle to set right their own lives ...

Burning Man is the premier countercultural event of modern times, growing over 25 years from a strange San Francisco beach party into an experimental city of 50,000 colorful souls in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, which burns brightly for a week before dissolving into dusty memories and changed lives. Longtime newspaper journalist Steven T. Jones embedded himself in this blossoming culture starting in 2004, a dispiriting year for American politics but the beginning of Burning Man’s renaissance, when it exploded outward in unexpected ways. The result is the most in-depth book ever written ...

Eight years ago, I was supposed to marry her. Instead, I destroyed her family and then abandoned her. Broken and hurt, she delivered me a savage blow in return. Naturally, that should have been the end of us. Except that I still want her. Even after all these years, memories of her linger in a mix of pain and desire. And now the sassy girl who once set my world on fire is suddenly in my city, curating art she has no idea that she inspired. Her body still ignites under my touch, but her eyes hold a cold, hard resolve to never re-engage with her family’s arch-enemy. To prove to Sabrina that...

Broadway is one of New York’s greatest treasures, and where there is treasure, there is a backstory. When it comes to Broadway, that backstory is fittingly juicy, dramatic, and unexpected. And no one knows these hidden histories like Teale Dvornik, who has been leading Broadway fans on tours of the theater district since 2017. With her immense knowledge and passion for the theater, Dvornik now takes listeners on her one-of-a-kind tour of Broadway.