Cobble City Ii

Cobble City Ii
Author: Todd Monger
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-01-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1796074691

The war was won but Serena escaped and the people of Cobble City scared she'll return they give leadership of the city to Mount, after accepting leadership he makes Marc and Bree leaders of the city's army and Hem, Hemp, and Doze agree to unite and all community's agree to protect all from any dangers. Now each year all get together for a meeting of the leaders and a celebration of them all uniting. So now Mount, Marc,Hem, and Jax are leaders, husbands, and fathers. Jax stayed at the old home and leads a small group of people who stayed to help him with his workshop and learn from his wisdom of building while Hem went back to the Timberlands with Coral and his daughter so they could keep learning from Titan. Now with Serena nowhere around but still in the lingers the story goes to Stone and Kudos the sons of Mount and Marc. The brothers have Bree agree to train their boys in his style of fighting so they get into adventures with Mystic, Kat, and Kara and train with Bree to fight for the final fight with Serena. Watch them grow and fall in love with jealousy and betrayal involved. Can Stone one day be the leader his father is? Will Serena's son Alpha grow up to take Cobble City from Mount his father?

Cobble City

Cobble City
Author: Todd Monger
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 198454604X

Long ago, not sure of the exact time, but near the beginning, an evil sorceress emerged and, over time, formed a large army of vicious barbarians that obeyed her every command. They would go to a civilization, take it over, make the people their slaves, destroy the city, then move to the next. At a moderate-sized village lived four young men. Two are brothers, Mount and Marc, both big warrior-type men. Then there is Jax, the inventor, and Hem, who has special abilities he doesn’t understand. Hem has visions of the barbarian army destroying their home. So on a journey to find metal for Jax to make weapons, Hem has a vision of a beautiful city nearby being attacked. They go to warn them and are laughed at, but little do they know, this city and the people will change their lives forever.

Cobble Hill

Cobble Hill
Author: Cecily von Ziegesar
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982147059

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gossip Girl series brings her sharp-eyed and irresistible wit to this “quirky novel of lovable misfits” (Publishers Weekly) chronicling a year in the lives of four families in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood as they seek purpose and community—until one unforgettable night at a raucous neighborhood party knocks them to their senses. Welcome to Cobble Hill. In this eclectic Brooklyn neighborhood, private storms brew amongst four married couples and their children. There’s ex-groupie Mandy, so underwhelmed by motherhood and her current physical state that she fakes a debilitating disease to get the attention of her skateboarding, ex-boyband member husband Stuart. There’s the unconventional new school nurse, Peaches, on whom Stuart has an unrequited crush, and her disappointing husband Greg, who wears noise-cancelling headphones—everywhere. A few blocks away, Roy, a well-known, newly transplanted British novelist, has lost the thread of his next novel and his marriage to indefatigable Wendy. Around the corner, Tupper, the nervous, introverted industrial designer with a warehouse full of prosthetic limbs struggles to pin down his elusive artist wife Elizabeth. Throw in two hormonal teenagers, a ten-year-old pyromaniac, a drug dealer pretending to be a doctor, and a lot of hidden cameras, and you’ve got a combustible mix of egos, desires, and secrets bubbling in brownstone Brooklyn. “Breezy, witty, and compulsively fun to read” (Kirkus Reviews), Cobble Hill is highly entertaining portrait of contemporary family life and the colorful characters who call Brooklyn home.

Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities

Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities
Author: Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-04-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 022601665X

Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a neighbourhood's vitality, and city planners have ever more explicitly promoted 'good schools' as a means of attracting more affluent families to urban areas, a dynamic process that the author critically examines in this book. Focusing on Philadelphia's Center City Schools Initiative, she shows how education policy makes overt attempts to prevent, or at least slow, middle-class flight to the suburbs. By asking what happens when affluent parents become 'valued customers', the book uncovers a problematic relationship between public institutions and private markets, where the former are used to leverage the latter to effect urban transformations.