A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.

On his first visit to the city, an excited puppy sees tall buildings, hears loud buses, and tries to say hello to everyone he meets.

Two down-and-out British actors leave their city life for a disastrous vacation in the country with an eccentric uncle.

Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm say hello to all their neighbors in Busytown on their walk to school, including the garbage collector, the firefighters, the mailman, and the milkman.

Bored with city life and the proper behavior it requires, Mr. Tiger has a wild idea that leads him to discover his true nature.

Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother's Shenandoah Valley farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. In the attic, she finds a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that her grandmother was pregnant when she died and that the father was a local married man. When Cilla becomes the target of a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault, her...

"In this full-color illustrated nonfiction title, middle-grade readers learn the why and how of cities. Topics include infrastructure and urban planning, municipal governments, services like water and energy, and how population, demographics, and geography affect cities' development around the world. Includes a table of contents, glossary, and further resources."--

The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.

When a Scrooge-like officer with the Health and Safety Board spoils the Cotswolds holiday festivities by trumping up reasons to ban town decorations and May Dimwoody's hand-made toys, Agatha Raisin is called on to investigate the officer's subsequent murder.

Beloved #1 bestselling author Macomber returns to Cedar Cove, Washington, with this 11th novel in the series. Widower Bruce Peyton's wife Rachel is pregnant, but she's just left him and he doesn't know where she is.