A little girl has big plans for her day at the park, but when her two moms stop to talk to some chatty neighbors she is convinced that her whole day will be completely ruined.

"After six glorious weeks of hard work on his long-overdue second novel, celebrity-ghostwriter Stewart 'Hoagy' Hoag has hit a crossroads in his plot. He thinks a change of scenery will do him good--and he knows just the place. His ex-wife, the actress Merilee Nash, has offered him the use of her idyllic Connecticut farmhouse, while she's away shooting a movie in Budapest. Hoagy and his beloved basset hound Lulu settle in for a few days' rest and relaxation....

After a very public defeat, former Senator Dorothy Gibson retreats to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her, and soon the two women are drawn into a mystery when a neighbor dies under suspicious circumstances and find their investigation unfolding in a way no one could’ve ever expected.

Grumpy Bruce the bear does not like neighbors, but is forced to help when a big storm draws them all to his home.

A boy watching his elderly neighbor and his pet goldfinch on the roof of a nearby apartment building notices the caged songbird developing a relationship with a wild pigeon, and sees how unhappy both birds are when they are separated.

After a night of fun, Abby was responsible for the car crash that killed her beloved brother. It is a sin she can never forgive herself for, so she pushes away the man she loves most, knowing that he would eventually hate her for what shes done, the same way she hates herself. Twenty years later, Abbys husband, Nate, is also living with a deep sense of guilt. He was the driver who first came upon the scene of Abbys accident, the man who pulled her...

In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50 years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.

"On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realizes she is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children—especially fifteen-year-old Etty—grow increasingly anxious as the cold winter hours become days and she doesn't return. Then Etty and her friend Morgan find the body of Morgan's father—and...

Thirteen-year-olds Quinn Parker and Mike Warren uncover the awful truth about their strange neighbors and the gruesome secret of how they stay young.

Everyone knew Alicia Harrison's marriage to Ilya Stern wouldn't last. They'd grown up on a remote stretch of Quarry Street, where there were two houses, two sets of siblings, and eventually, a tangled mess of betrayal, longing, and loss. His high school girlfriend, Jennilynn was Alicia's sister; after she drowned, he married Alicia. When Ilya's brother, Nikolai, comes home for their grandmother's last days, Alica feels a rush of pure desire. She knows...