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Sama's father is hospitalized after a heart attack, and given only a month to live. A stranger at the hospital tells Sama that he can find a cure for his father, the Sugar Stone, a magical healing item, but it is located in the mysterious realm of Undertown. All Sama needs to do is crawl under his bed, close his eyes, and countdown from ten to one.
Popular Urban Fantasy Books, Goodreads; Amazon.com, Best Urban Fantasy Series, by Jace King (Seattle, WA USA) BestFantasyBooks.com, Best Urban Fantasy Books; All Things Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Picks: The 10 Best Urban Fantasy Series, Posted: November 19, 2012
The book describes her extensive garden in Ghost Town, a run-down neighborhood about a mile from downtown Oakland, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Farm City was listed by some reviewers as one of the top books of 2009, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and it was the 2014 selection of the Marin County Free Library , City Public Libraries of Marin County and Dominican ...
Competition for land and urban resources led to spatial differentiation of urban space into zones. [7] Based on these assumptions, Park and Burgess created one of the earliest city models – Concentric ring theory first introduced in The City. Chicago and New York were typical examples of this modernist model.
Urban fiction, also known as street lit or street fiction, is a literary genre set in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the socio-economic realities and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for urban fiction is usually dark, focusing on the underside of city living.
Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by American author Stephen King.It is the 58th book published by King, and it is his 48th novel. The novel focuses on a small Maine town, and tells an intricate, multi-character, alternating perspective story of how the town's inhabitants contend with the calamity of being suddenly cut off from the outside world by an impassable, invisible glass ...
Daniel Lewis James Jr. (January 14, 1911 – May 18, 1988), was an American writer, best known for his novel, Famous All Over Town, about Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles. . He published the novel under his pseudonym, Danny Santiago, and during most of his professional career, he kept his identity a secr
In the book Neuwirth draws on his experiences to argue that much can be learnt from the self-organization and adaptability of squatters worldwide. [2] He also gives a partial history of slums in such places as London, New York and Paris, suggesting that informal settlements are an integral part of urbanization and concluding on an optimistic ...