Orem Library

Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life. The Professor's...

When a journalist investigating a string of unsolved disappearances goes missing, Abigail Lovett, the manager of The Passage Inn in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutter's Pass, decides to investigate and discovers how little she knows about her coworkers, neighbors, and even those closest to her.

Boy with dog and grandfather with beard watch holiday lights turn on in the city.

A sequence of tales chronicling the early twentieth-century lives of New Brunswick sisters Idella and Avis Hillock includes "Gone," an account of their mother's heartbreaking childbirth crisis and "Wake," in which they attend their wild father's funeral.

"Kai Miller floats through life like driftwood tossed by waves. She's never put down roots in any one place--and she doesn't plan to. But when a chaotic hurricane evacuation lands her in Daily, Texas, she begins to think twice about her wayfaring existence. And when she meets hometown-boy Kemp Eldridge, she can almost picture settling down in Daily--until she discovers he may be promised to someone else."--Publisher's description.

Paintings of objects in an urban setting present the letters of the alphabet.

"A young girl walks through the bustling city, while a pigeon flies above, both spotting hidden shapes at every turn"--

Madlenka plays soccer in her city neighborhood--with the mailbox, a dog, a parking meter, and some cats.

Pictures depict busy people in a town throughout the year.

It's up to Katy the crawler tractor to save the city of Geoppolis from the big snow.