Liam discovers a hidden garden and with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city.

When Ms. Taffy, who lives in an apartment in the city, wins a radio contest, she is surprised to find that her prize is a live pig, but with the help of her neighbors she manages to make a home for Serena.

A black cat wanders through the streets of a city.

As a 911 dispatcher, Dana Newell takes pride in being calm in tough circumstances. In addition to her emotionally-charged career, she's faced enough emergencies in her own life. She recently escaped her abusive fiancé to move to tranquil Rock Harbor where she hopes life will be more peaceful. But the idyllic town hides more danger and secrets than it first appeared. Dana is continually drawn to her new friend Boone, who has scars inside and out....

The tensions in a tight-knit neighborhood-and a seemingly happy marriage-are exposed by an unexpected act of violence. A provocative novel about money, class, and self-discovery, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miller's Valley and Still Life with Bread Crumbs . Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life-except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their...

Rhyming text reveals the rhythms of a city street and how they sound like music.

A boy travels throughout his lively neighborhood, searching for the owner of a red cloth he has found.

As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.