Urban Nonfiction

A collection of Short Stories from many different Genres. Come along and read some Action, Adventure, Urban-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Romance, Crime, Adult, and Violence! Enjoy the highs and lows, good and bad, and happy and sad, and Action of each Story. From beginning to end! There’s Female Predator, Hearts on Fire, Vengeful Journey, and The Robbery! Are just the single independent Stories. BUT, as a BONUS there’s a 2 part series! The Prostitute and the The Prostitutes Revenge. There’s also a 2nd series, Player’s Get Played Too and Karma Strikes Back! Hope you enjoy this ...

My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. I still can't decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me. Then there's Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years.

In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran...

A historical non-fiction book set in various regions of ancient North and South America during the pre-Columbian era. Unearth the forgotten legacy of the Mound-Builders—an advanced civilization that flourished across North America long before European contact. This compelling narrative dives deep into the rich history of these remarkable ancient peoples, exploring their impressive earthen mounds, complex social structures, and the tragic tales of knowledge lost to time and conquest. Their story is one of ingenuity, resilience, and ultimately, a poignant reminder of what was lost in the ...

High above Bogotá rises Monserrate—a mountain climbed for centuries by the faithful, the desperate, the curious, and the afraid. This is not a book about a church. It is a book about power, belief, and the human need to look upward in moments of fear. Long before crosses crowned its summit, Monserrate was sacred. Indigenous peoples understood it as a place of mediation between worlds—not a throne of authority, but a silent presence. Spanish colonizers transformed it into something else: a platform of domination, suffering, and surveillance. Faith was no longer personal. It was visible....

A scholarly, atmospheric tour of real urban legends and modern folklore, told with care, context, and curiosity so you finally understand why brightly lit cities still keep unquiet stories. Urban Legends Around the World is a nonfiction, city by city guide that explains where famous stories began, how newspapers, radio, television, forums, and tourism amplified them, and why they endure in places you can still visit today. Nathaniel Hargrove blends cultural history, folklore studies, psychology, and place based narrative so readers who enjoy intelligent ghost stories, haunted places, and ...

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-...

For decades, a few blocks in the center of Bogotá were transformed into a nation inside a nation—one with borders, currency, government, diplomacy, and war. To the outside world it was chaos. To those who lived inside, it was order. The Republic of El Bronx reconstructs the rise and erasure of Colombia’s most infamous enclave: how a street became a system, how survival became economy, and how the city built its own hidden foreign policy by pretending not to see. Blending urban history, reportage, ethnography, and literary nonfiction, this book follows El Bronx from 19th-century ...

Herobrine: An Investigation By Craven Kane For more than a decade, Minecraft players have argued about a single question: Is Herobrine real? This book asks a different one. Why did so many players feel watched? Herobrine: An Investigation is a nonfiction examination of Minecraft’s most enduring legend, written not as creepypasta, not as horror fiction, and not as a conspiracy, but as a documented investigation into how the phenomenon began, how it spread, and why it refuses to disappear. Drawing from early forum posts, archived screenshots, livestream events, patch notes, developer ...

A city is not built only with stone. It is built with power, fear, belief—and memory. In Bogotá: A City Written in Stone, historian and storyteller Elena Caro takes readers deep into La Candelaria, the historic heart of Colombia’s capital, to uncover how a city was formed, controlled, broken, and rebuilt across centuries. This is not a guidebook. It is a narrative history—immersive, unsentimental, and vividly human. From the sacred world of the Muisca civilization to Spanish conquest, colonial surveillance, independence, civil wars, and the explosion of violence known as El Bogotazo,...

Although we live in an ocean of words, we rarely acknowledge their power to uplift or put down, to inspire or discourage, to help or hurt. But in this jewel of an audiobook, Hal Urban -- parent, award-winning teacher, and author of the classic Life's Greatest Lessons - shows us simple and...

Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the US welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.

This is my story, the true story. This ain’t no fairy tale. This is the story of my life—the truth about the streets in the late ’80s and early ’90s, when the crack era had Atlanta in a chokehold. Back then, the West End was a battlefield. Drug dealers were dropping left and right, bodies turning up in alleys, in houses, in cars. Most of those murders? Still cold cases. But here’s what they don’t tell you: most of those killings were connected. Same hitter. Same ghost in the night. And he wasn’t just some random street dude—he was a Muslim assassin. The man everybody feared....

If a fox could speak, you would not get a confession or a joke. You would get a map: the wind as road, whiskers as instruments, the hush under snow as a ledger of who lives and who is hungry. I move by ear and scent, not by right and wrong. These pages are my short reports—winter dives for voles, the geometry of an alley after midnight, the den that keeps memory warm—written to make you feel how a mind built on smell and motion understands the world. This is not nature romanticism. It is candid fieldwork from a creature that plans with hunger and hears the city the way you hear a radio ...

This collection of humorous columns for a rural parish magazine reflects life all year round in a small English village in the beautiful Cotswolds countryside where the author has lived since 1991. Easy to dip into, this light-hearted volume provides entertaining reading for anyone interested in modern rural community life and the real-life equivalent of the fictional village of Wendlebury Barrow, the parish that is the setting for Debbie Young's fiction books. It is the sequel to All Part of the Charm, a collection of nostalgic essays and parish magazine columns. Debbie Young also writes...

My City Is Under Siege is a searing look at the unraveling of American cities — where sirens are constant, fear is routine, and denial has become policy. What was once the hum of everyday life has turned into the echo of crisis. Corner stores close early. Parents keep their children inside. Elderly residents lock their doors in broad daylight. And while citizens live in fear, their leaders stand before cameras insisting everything is under control. Through gripping, ground-level storytelling, My City Is Under Siege reveals the human cost of rising crime and political complacency. From the...

Teach yourself escape and evasion tactics! Whether you're a high-profile individual, a tourist, or a random target for an opportunistic criminal, there's a chance you'll be taken. This book is packed with covert military and spy escape techniques adapted for the average person. Learn how to bolster your home security, create a covert escape and survival kit, track a missing person, disappear permanently, escape from restraints, endure captivity until you escape or are rescued, survive a car chase, evade guard dogs, and more. You never know when they will save your life.

This collection of humorous short essays combines affection for the timeless values of community life in an English village with a nostalgia for aspects that are quietly slipping away. Easy to dip into, this light-hearted volume provides entertaining reading for anyone interested in modern English rural community life, wherever they live. Written between 1991 and 2015, most of these essays first appeared in the Hawkesbury Parish News, the community newspaper for Hawkesbury Upton, the Cotswold village in which Debbie Young has lived for the last 25 years. Very active in village life, she is ...

Why is the city a battleground of hostile principalities and powers? What is the mission of the church in the city? How can the church be supported in accomplishing that mission? These are the questions that Robert Linthicum treats in his comprehensive and probing biblical theology of the city...

Bill Buford spends a wild night in the park; Jonathan Safran Foer envisions it as a tiny, transplanted piece of a mythical Sixth Borough; and Marie Winn answers definitively Holden Caulfield's question of where the ducks go when the park's ponds freeze over. There are bird sightings and fish sightings; Jackie Kennedy and James Brown sightings; and pieces by Colson Whitehead, Paul Auster, and Francine Prose. This vibrant collection presents Central Park in all its many-faceted glory, a 51-block swath of special magic.