Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin is the Roger Hobbs Distinguished Fellow in Urban Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California, and the Executive Editor of the widely read website NewGeography.com. He is the author of several books and is an internationally recognized authority on global economic, political, social, and technological trends. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Examiner, City Journal, Politico, the New York Daily News, and Newsweek.
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The City
- By: Joel Kotkin
- Narrator: Joel Kotkin
- Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 31, 2005
- Language: English
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In this erudite and enjoyable Los Angeles Times best-seller, Joel Kotkin explores the history of cities around the globe. He argues that urban areas must be places where there is a shared feeling of sacredness, civic identity, and moral order. These... Read more
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism
- By: Joel Kotkin
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and... Read more
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In the Age of Love and Chocolate
In the Age of Love and Chocolate is the story of growing up and learning what love really is. It showcases the best of Gabrielle Zevin’s writing for young adults: the intricate characterization of Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and the big-heartedness of Elsewhere. All These Things I’ve Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky ...
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The Crossing
From the highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Returned comes a high-concept dystopian novel that imagines a world at war and two siblings who are forced on the run, challenged to do whatever it takes to protect themselves and each other.
Stay and die or run and survive.
Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five, ...
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SpongeBob Squarepants #8: SpongeBob AirPants: The Lost Episode
From a makeshift flying machine to a hapless bat costume, SpongeBob’s airborne attempts are grounded until he accidentally invents a pair of superhero-like flying pants. But SpongeBob soon realizes that being a superhero isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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Nappily Faithful
Honored by the NAACP and optioned by major Hollywood film studios, the top-selling novels of Trisha R. Thomas are favorites of readers everywhere. After the hospital high jinks of Nappily Married, Venus and her husband Jake are ready to get away from all the nonsense. So they move to Atlanta-and that’s where the drama really begins.
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Debase
A dark mafia tale of love and redemption by Rachel Van Dyken, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Eagle Elite series
With blood on my hands, I held her.With death in my soul, I took from her.With the devil in my heart, I coveted her.
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Marie Antoinette
Before the Reign of Terror, Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France. She was the penultimate kid and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I, and was born an archduchess of Austria. At the age of 14, she wed Louis-Auguste, the beneficiary evident to the French throne, and ended up being dauphine of France in May 1770. Her partner, Louis XVI, took the throne on May ...
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Don’t Go There
Vodka should come with a warning:Mixing with Karaoke will make you do stupid shit, like sing that song you wrote when you were fourteen, about the boy who broke your heart. At least he didn’t see it.Oh wait. He did.I should’ve just stayed home. The only reason I came was to stop Lily from doing something stupid, like crash her ex-boyfriend’s wedding.When I open my hotel room door to find ...
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Son of Rosemary
The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Rosemary’s Baby: a thrilling, cautionary tale of the troubling forces that war within each of us. The modern master of suspense Ira Levin returns to the horror of his 1967 ground-breaking novel Rosemary’s Baby with this darkly comic sequel set at the dawn of the millennium. Thirty-three years ago, Rosemary gave birth to the Devil’s child while ...
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Hero Killer
Era Gualtieri-public enemy #1, swashbuckler, provocateur, hero, villain, philosopher, madman-is about to have the worst Holiday Season of his life . . .For starters: Prince Raphael Koschei, the so-called Hero of Luminar, is dead. Good riddance and all, but the assassin was none other than Era’s bestie and perpetual “it’s complicated,” Liv.As the Empire mourns its problematic fave, Era ...
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You’ve Been Warned
Kristin Burns is making her way in New York City. Her photos are being considered at a major Manhattan gallery, she works by day with two wonderful children, and the man of her dreams is almost hers for keeps. But just as everything she’s ever wanted is finally within reach, her life changes forever–with one murderous nightmare.Kristin wakes up every morning from the same chilling, ...
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