Subject: City and town life -- Fiction (Keywords)

When Addis Berner Bear arrives in the city, it's so big and confusing and so loud and fast, that he forgets why he has come. Gradually, Addis gets to know the city: some things make his fur bristle, and some make his heart leap, but he still cannot remember why he is there.

When Addis Berner Bear arrives in the city, its so big and confusing and so loud and fast, that he forgets why he has come. Gradually, Addis gets to know the city: some things make his fur bristle, and some make his heart leap, but he still cannot remember why he is there.

The idyllic town of Safe Haven, Wisconsin is a blueprint for your average mid-Western U.S. town. Then during one long night, everything changes. A troop of elite and ruthless international soldiers crash land in the town and it becomes immediately apparent to some of its inhabitants that the sold...

A life affirming novel about rites of passage, friendship, and transformation. Events take Joe halfway around the world, from the ancient Forest of Arden to the brash cities of Birmingham, London, and Beirut. To make sense of his life, he must return to his roots with a new perspective on the env...

For Madge Gilbride, her Edinburgh tenement home in the shadow of the Castle is the best place in the world. But in the post-war boom she is forced to move to a bungalow on the outskirts of the city, far from the friends and neighbours who shared her life.

For Madge Gilbride, her Edinburgh tenement home in the shadow of the Castle is the best place in the world. But in the post-war boom she is forced to move to a bungalow on the outskirts of the city, far from the friends and neighbours who shared her life.

For Madge Gilbride, her Edinburgh tenement home in the shadow of the Castle is the best place in the world. But in the post-war boom she is forced to move to a bungalow on the outskirts of the city, far from the friends and neighbours who shared her life.

For Madge Gilbride, her Edinburgh tenement home in the shadow of the Castle is the best place in the world. But in the post-war boom she is forced to move to a bungalow on the outskirts of the city, far from the friends and neighbours who shared her life.

George E. Babbitt is a prosperous, unpleasant, real estate agent from Zenith, Ohio. His middle-class existence is shattered when his friend is convicted of murdering his wife. Babbitt tries to become a less materialistic person but to no avail.