"In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois. It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that ticks their lives...
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- Author:Ray BradburySummary:
- Author:Smith, LeeSummary:
Speed, Alabama is celebrating its sesquintennial, 150 years of proud existence--and its whimsical inhabitants will surely not let the event pass without a party. Eccentric resident Miss Iona is there to chronicle the events in her...
- Author:Schein, Bernie, Owens, JanisSummary:
Novelist Walker Percy once said that the only remaining unexplored territory in Southern literature was the Jewish southerner. Famous all over Town, the first novel from Southern storyteller Bernie Schein, stakes a claim on Percy's...
- Author:Holmes, LindaSummary:
In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief...
- Author:Sanderson, BrandonSummary:
Once the godlike rulers of the capital of Arelon, the inhabitans of Elantris have been imprisoned within themselves, unable to die after the city's magic failed years ago. But when a new prince falls victim to the curse, he refuses to...
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
A woman finds two people murdered in the apartment her best friend shared with one of the victims. The list of people with duplicate keys is two pages long . . . and includes people no one knows.
- Author:Joyce, JamesSummary:
The 15 unforgettable short stories that form this collection paint the portrait of a city through the eyes of its middle class residents. Beginning with stories of the very young and moving through adulthood into the tales of the very...
- Author:De Lint, CharlesSummary:
Welcome to Newford, where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Meet Jilly, painting wonders in the city streets; Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street, gathering the fey and...
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
The Grace Valley gossip mill runs rampant when the town's single doctor becomes pregnant, the pastor becomes obsessed with poker, and the town's matriarch takes a lover, but everyone unites when danger threatens the town.
- Author:Yaccarino, DanSummary:
Doug the robot discovers that cities are much more than downloaded facts when he unplugs from the computer feed and explores one first-hand.
- Author:Dick, Philip K.Summary:
- Author:Scrivenor, HayleySummary:
In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek , a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You , a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together. When twelve-year-old Esther disappears...
- Author:Swanson, DeniseSummary:
Foul play is afoot again in Scumble River, and Skye can't help but do a bit of her own sleuthing. But the clues come fast and furious, and this may be the puzzle that stumps her for good.
- Author:Delany, Samuel R.Summary:
Bellona is a city at the center of the United States. Something has happened there … the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a...
- Author:Moore, LisaSummary:
In Degrees of Nakedness, Lisa Moore's first story collection, the joys and distresses of love course through modern-day Newfoundland like an electric current. Lisa Moore's stories are bright, emotionally engaging, tangible. She marks...
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
June Hudson grows up in Grace Valley, California as the town doctor's daughter. She eventually moves away, only to return later to carry on her father's work--placing her career above everything. But then she meets an undercover DEA...
- Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:
Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle--everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is. Hamish thinks the gentle lady is quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh think he is overly cranky. Perhaps...
- Author:Harris, CharlaineSummary:
Driving home from work, barmaid and telepath Sookie Stackhouse discovers vampire and area sheriff Eric on the side of the road missing his shirt, his shoes and his memories.
- Author:Bradbury, RaySummary:
For twelve-year-old Douglas, summer means new tennis shoes, dandelions for Grandfather's intoxicant, and the clang of a trolley on a hazy afternoon. But for Douglas, this summer will have more than just pleasant rituals that hold time...
- Author:Cash, DixieSummary:
Hey, baby, Debbie and Edwina aren't likely to thank anybody very much when a despicable sneak thief pilfers Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes--the main exhibit at a Salt Lick, Texas, festival for the King. But with everyone's favorite...