City and Town life
- Auteur:Maupin, ArmisteadSommaire:
- Auteur:Wyatt, RachelSommaire:
Veteran author Rachel Wyatt is at her very best as she exposes the fears, desires and prejudices of the human condition, with subtle sensitivity and ruthless steel.
Candace Alison Wilson is missing.
As the hours since her... - Auteur:LEACOCK, StephenSommaire:
A collection of short stories centering on Mariposa, a fictional Mid-West American turn-of-the-century town. This is a gentle journey through a past era, filled with quiet humour and insightful observations of the human condition.
- Auteur:Morrison, ToniSommaire:
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of...
- Auteur:Firth, MatthewSommaire:
Fiction Pick, Broken Pencil Magazine.
Suburban Pornography is contemporary literature, which documents Canadian urban life in a raw and naked manner. The prose is stripped--minimalist, direct, urgent, unflinching. The stories...
- Auteur:Baumbich, Charlene AnnSommaire:
In this charming tale of second chances, renewed faith, and forgiveness, a captivating heirloom triggers inexplicable changes.
- Auteur:Hegi, UrsulaSommaire:
Stones from the River is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg -- the German word for dwarf woman....
- Auteur:Sandford, JohnSommaire:
When a banker's entire family is found massacred, the only clue is the message "We're coming" scrawled in blood. Detective Lucas Davenport isn't surprised when he learns of the banker's shady past. But as the investigation deepens, he...
- Auteur:Tesh, JaneSommaire:
David Randall used to be a lively, carefree fellow with a talent for finding things. But his perfect family life was derailed when he lost his little daughter Lindsey in a car crash. Thrown out by his second wife and wanting to leave a...
- Auteur:Fraser, GailSommaire:
Just a dot on the map of the northwest, Lumby looms big in the hearts of its residents. The townsfolk consider each other family as well as friends. And though the annual cow race can bring out the competitiveness in people, when times...
- Auteur:Meacham, LeilaSommaire:
One hundred fifty years of Roses' Tolivers, Warwicks, and DuMonts. We begin in the antebellum South, where Silas Toliver, deprived of his inheritance, joins up with his best friend Jeremy Warwick to plan a wagon train expedition to the...
- Auteur:Stimpson, MichelleSommaire:
Tori Henderson's marketing career in Houston is on the fast track. But when her aunt falls ill, Tori returns to her tiny hometown to provide care--and ends up reconnecting with an old crush.
- Auteur:McWhirter, TeresaSommaire:
In prose that’s as sharp as broken glass and shot through with poetry, Teresa McWhirter unlocks the extraordinary subculture of urban adults in their twenties and early thirties. Most startling of all are the portraits of young women—...
- Auteur:Smith, SydneySommaire:
When you're small in the city, people don't see you, and loud sounds can scare you, and knowing what to do is sometimes hard. But this little kid knows what it's like and knows the neighborhood. And a little friendly advice can go a...
- Auteur:Lawson, JonArnoSommaire:
In this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by...
- Auteur:Karon, JanSommaire:
When Father Tim finds a battered nativity scene in an antique shop, something stirs within him. Recalling memories of the creche he had as a child, he embarks on a renovation project that soon becomes a journey of faith. Before he is...
- Auteur:Gilbert, VictoriaSommaire:
Autumn leaves aren't the only things falling in the historic Virginia village of Taylorsford-so are some cherished memories, and a few bodies. October in Taylorsford, Virginia, means it's leaf peeping season, with bright...
- Auteur:Nixon, Joan LowerySommaire:
Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect that there is something sinister going on.
- Auteur:Fleischman, PaulSommaire:
A vacant lot, rat-infested, and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed...
- Auteur:Friddle, MindySommaire:
When her husband dies on the eve of their impending European vacation, housewife Emma Hanley watches her dreams of world travel vanish even as she becomes more immersed in the lives of her two living children.
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