city and town life

Recalls the early history of Lake Wobegon and many of its memorable characters and places first met on "A Prairie Home Companion" radio program.

A series of poems reflect the thoughts of various people--town residents young and old, teachers, and some students visiting from the city--caught up in the events surrounding the murder of a beautiful high school student who had recently moved to the small lake-side community of Hudson Landing.

Presents James Joyce's vignettes of everyday life in Dublin, Ireland at the turn of the century; and includes an introduction, a chronology, explanatory notes, and other reference tools.

Presents James Joyce's 1914 work made up of fifteen short stories about strangers of various classes who all live in Dublin; and includes historical context, interpretive notes, excerpts of criticism, a chronology of Joyce's life and work, and questions for discussion.

In the community of Holt, Colorado, Victoria Roubideaux goes to college, leaving the McPheron brothers, who took her in when she was pregnant; DJ, a boy who lives alone with his grandfather, befriends two sisters whose father left them; and the children of a disabled couple face harassment at school.

A portrait of post-Civil War America focusing on land speculation and the corruption of politicians, ruthless bombers, and a corrupt Washington.

A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.

A series of dramatic monologues, in which inhabitants of the cemetery on the hill overlooking the fictional Midwestern town of Spoon River reveal the shocking scandals and tragic secrets of their lives. Includes an introduction, an afterword, and a bibliography.

Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves plagued by a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the family's teenage girls.

Sixty-year-old Sully is down on his luck and has to deal with a landlady who wants him evicted, an estranged son who is headed down the same road as Sully, a neurotic ex-wife, unreasonable girlfriend, and the ghost of his own abusive father.