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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fred is a city fox, but the city can be a scary place. It's noisy, it's smoky, and it's often dangerous. One day, Fred sees a flock of birds flying over the rooftops. Where do they go? he wonders. When a bird tells him about the place called the wild, he decides to go in search of it. Will he find the wild? And what will happen if he does?
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it's called, is anything but still. Original, profound, "The Whole Town's Talking", a novel in the tradition of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" and Flagg's own "Can't Wait to Get to Heaven", tells the story of Lordor Nordstrom, his Swedish mail-order bride, Katrina, and their neighbors and descendants as they live, love, die,...
84) How Cities Work
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
People are the life-blood of cities. Its transport links are its veins and arteries. If they're cut-off the city will die. Thousands of people work every day at making it possible for city dwellers to be where they need to be, when they need to be there. It's an endless task demanding brain and brawn. Without the army of drivers, diggers, planners, thinkers, our great cities would come to a halt.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Bob Reynolds doesn't recognize the body in the creek, but he does recognize the danger of it. He's a newcomer to town, not entirely welcome and not entirely on good footing with the sheriff. So far, he's kept his head down, mostly over the bar at the Crow's Nest. But he has other interests than drinking and spending his inheritance, including one that goes by the name Tammy Fay Smith and who may have caught the sheriff's eye as well. Bob Reynolds...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...
89) Stealing Lumby
Author
Series
Lumby novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Small town Lumby is thrown into the spotlight when one of the most important paintings of the twentieth century, The Barns of Lumby, is stolen. Town matriarch Charlotte Ross has a very personal connection to the painting-and to the artist, Dana Porter. And as a media frenzy descends on the little town, one of the actual barns disappears overnight from the rural landscape-and pieces of it begin showing up in the strangest places.--From publisher description....
92) In the city
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate pigeons as colorful, chatty denizens of the city.
93) The comet
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Nyla is forced to leave her home in the country to start life again in the city, all she can think about is everything she misses from before. So when a comet comes crashing through the city streets and starts growing into a forest, Nyla can't resist a chance to head somewhere that feels closer to what she had before ... but what starts as an escape could be just the thing to make her finally feel at home. A picture book touching on the stress...
Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to mind her own business when a murder occurs blocks from her home, Miss Julia works to discover who has stolen her identity and prepares for Hazel Marie's due date until she realizes that the wrong person is being accused.
Author
Series
Madlenka books volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Madlenka plays soccer in her city neighborhood--with the mailbox, a dog, a parking meter, and some cats. Includes facts about the game, and translations for the word "soccer" in various languages.
98) Texasville
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 2
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Set in the post-oil-boom 1980s, Texasville brings readers up to date with Duane, who's got an adoring dog, a sassy wife, a twelve-million-dollar debt, and a hot tub by the pool; Jacy, who's finished playing "Jungla" in Italian movies and who's returned to Thalia; and Sonny--Duane's teenage rival for Jacy's affection --who owns the car wash, the Kwik-Sackstore, and the video arcade. Sequel to The Last Picture Show.
99) Say hello!
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A little girl greets people in her neighborhood in many different languages.
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