city and town life

Presents stories about the heroes, villians, and other citizens who inhabit the cartoon world of Astro City, and the crimes and mysteries that accompany them.

Describes the urban hipsters that have emerged in recent years, tracing their origins, descibing their habits, and dispelling common myths.

Collection of six stories about the rage, frustration, and determination of inner-city youth written by a fifteen-year-old child of the inner-city.

A collection of poems by more than 130 different authors that reflect on how nature is present in cities.

Presents James Joyce's vignettes of everyday life in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century, and includes Joyce's correspondence with his publisher about the stories, and a selection of criticism and commentary.

Poems inspired by traditional nursery rhymes depict the grim reality of inner city life, including such topics as crime, drug abuse, unemployment, and inadequate housing.

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.

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Dr. Eric Prince, a reputed ladies' man, believes he has found a woman to settle down with when he meets nurse and single mom Sasha Michaels, but Sasha, having lived with the stigma of a failed teenage marriage and a drug addicted mother in small-town Huntersville, Virginia, is not sure it is a good idea to get involved with the charming doctor.

In the summer of 1973 at an amusement park in a small North Carolina, town college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.