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- Banal nightmare : a novel / by Butler, Halle,author.;
""Margaret Anne ("Moddie") Yance had just returned to her native land in the Midwestern town of X, to mingle with the friends of her youth, to get back in touch with her roots, and to recover from a stressful decade of living in the city in a small apartment with a man she now believed to be a megalomaniac or perhaps a covert narcissist." So begins Banal Nightmare, Halle Butler's tour de force that follows Moddie as she throws herself at the mercy of her old friends who never left their hometown. Friends who all seemingly work at the local liberal arts college, who are all suddenly tipping toward middle age, going to parties, sizing each other up, obsessing over past slights, and dreaming of wild triumphs couched in elaborate revenge fantasies. When her friend Pam invites a mysterious New York artist to take up a winter residency in town, Moddie has no choice but to confront a trauma from her past and grapple with the reality of what her life has become. As the day of reckoning approaches, friends will become enemies, enemies will become mortal enemies, and the bonds forged in childhood will be tested to their extreme"--- Subjects: Satirical literature.; Novels.; Small cities; City and town life; Revenge;
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- Potatoes on rooftops : farming in the city / by Dyer, Hadley.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 78), Internet addresses (p. 79) and index.Explains different ways of farming in the city and why it is important for the planet.LSC- Subjects: Urban gardening;
- © c2012., Annick Press,
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- Paris times eight : finding myself in the City of Dreams / by Kelly, Deirdre,1960-;
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- Subjects: Kelly, Deirdre, 1960-; Journalists;
- © c2009., Greystone Books,
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- One smart skunk / by Ziefert, Harriet; Cohen, Santiago;
Rebecca the skunk lives under a suburban family's deck, eluding the traps set to ensnare her, but the smell of moth balls and the noise of rap music finally convince her that the suburbs are no place to raise her family.- Subjects: Skunks; Moving, Household; Suburban life; City and town life;
- © 2004., Blue Apple Books :
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- Sideways : the city Google couldn't buy / by O'Kane, Josh,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of everything. When former New York deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff landed in Toronto, promising a revolution in better living through technology, the locals were starstruck. In 2017 a small parcel of land on the city's woefully underdeveloped lakeshore was available for development, and with Google co-founder Larry Page and his trusted chairman Eric Schmidt leaning into Sidewalk Labs' pitch for the long-forsaken property--with Doctoroff as the urban-planning company's CEO--Sidewalk's bid crushed the competition. But as soon as the bid was won, cracks appeared in the partnership between Doctoroff's team and Waterfront Toronto, the government-sponsored organization behind the contest. There were hundreds more acres of undeveloped former port lands nearby that kept creeping into conversation with Sidewalk, and more questions were emerging than answers about how much the public would actually benefit from the Alphabet-owned company's vision for the high-tech neighbourhood--and the data it could harvest from the people living there. Alarm bells began ringing in the city's corridors of power and activism. To Torontonians accustomed to big promises with little follow-through, the fiasco that unfolded seemed at first like just another city-building sideshow. But the pained battle to reel in the power of Sidewalk Labs became a crucible moment in the worldwide battle for privacy rights and against the extension of Big Tech's digital might into the physical world around us. With extensive contacts on all sides of the debacle, O'Kane tells a story of global consequence fought over a small, forgotten parcel of mud and pavement, taking readers from California to New York to Toronto to Berlin and back again. In the tradition of extraordinary boardroom dramas like Bad Blood and Super Pumped, Sideways vividly recreates the corporate drama and epic personalities in this David-and-Goliath battle that signalled to the world that all may not be lost in the effort to contain the rapidly growing power of Big Tech"--- Subjects: Google (Firm); City planning; Data privacy; Privacy, Right of; Technology; Waterfronts; Technology;
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- The local food revolution : one billion reasons to reshape our communities / by Hume, Gord.;
LSC- Subjects: Local foods.; Food supply.; Food supply; City planning.; Cities and towns.;
- © c2010., Municipal World,
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- Flames of silver : a Ralph Compton western / by Lowry, Jackson,.; Compton, Ralph.;
Thanks to the discovery of the Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Nevada, has made many a rough-hewn millionaire. It seems like everyone is looking to strike it rich, but to Morgan Mason, the real prize is being selected as one of the volunteer firemen. Recently inducted into the fire brigade, Mason is called to put out a blaze and stays to investigate its cause. His searing discovery? The fire was no accident - it was deliberately set. Mason knows he is the only one who can take the heat and catch the crooks before the wealth of the entire town goes up in smoke.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Western fiction.; Fire departments; Arson;
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- Flight 232 : a story of disaster and survival / by Gonzales, Laurence,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Aircraft accident victims.; Aircraft accidents; Airplane crash survival.;
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- Bertie's guide to life and mothers / by McCall Smith, Alexander,1948-author.; McIntosh, Iain,illustrator.;
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- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; City and town life;
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- What's wild outside your door? : discovering nature in the city / by Wohlleben, Peter,1964-; Wuthrich, Belle,1989-;
"In this fascinating and interactive guide, kids will learn about how birds build their nests on bridges, where salamanders and toads hide, and how plants push through sidewalk cracks"--- Subjects: Urban animals; Urban ecology (Sociology);
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