city and town life

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While making pumpkin soup, three friends discover they have no salt and go to the city to buy some, but while Cat and Squirrel head straight to the salt store, Duck pauses at a pepper shop, then fears he will never see his friends again.

Looks at Irish Americans, the largest immigrant group in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries United States, discussing how they helped and hindered other ethnic groups, particularly in large cities.

Offers an in-depth overview of the cultural, political, economic, and spiritual structure of three of ancient Rome's most prosperous cities, Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia.

Former Miss Alabama Maggie, working as a real estate agent and questioning her happiness, is thrown into a series of surprising discoveries that opens her eyes to truths about friendship, life, and dreams.

Neighbors wonder what is going on when Patty and Walter Berglund, once an ideal couple and perfect parents, begin to unravel, with their son moving in with the Republicans next door, Walter, an environmental lawyer, taking a job in the coal industry, and Patty becoming unhinged.

When Amy's rebellious younger sister runs away to a dangerous part of the city, Amy and her boyfriend set out to find Gia before it is too late.

A unified collection of stories about life in a small town in Ohio, centering on the experiences of George Willard, a young newspaper reporter who captures the hopes, dreams, and fears of the town's residents.

A woman and her family struggle to keep their dignity as they move from the hills of Kentucky to the chilling indifference of a big midwestern city.

Portrays life in Grover's Corner, New Hampshire, in the early 1900's through the routine daily events and the major moments in the lives of George Gibbs, Emily Webb, and their families; and how their lives, although mundane, are touched by the universal forces of love, despair, apathy, nature, and death.