Henry Carter Hull

The Maxwells and the Popes, best friends for years, face a multidimensional crisis when thirteen-year-old Michael Maxwell surprises his mother, Teke, in bed with Sam Pope, and runs into the street where he is struck by a truck driven by Teke's childhood boyfriend, Grady.

Looks at the individual buildings in one neighborhood and the variety of goods and people they hold, and shows a larger vision of the world as populated by many cities and countries--all united by a single wish for peace.

From the author of The White Bone, a piercing novel of passionate attachment and of the fear and freedom of letting go. Louise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only, and incorrectly, Louise knows how to work the washing machine. Soon after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street. Louise's immediate devotion...

Widow Phoebe Allen has single-handedly raised a wonderful daughter and established a successful business, and now enjoys the amorous attentions of a longtime friend. When she learns that her old boyfriend has purchased a house nearby, Phoebe must confront long-suppressed feelings for her charismatic first love, now a high-profile film director. For years, Phoebe has concealed truths from her daughter and may now be forced to divulge them. As the past...

A wordless picture book that observes the changes in a neighborhood from before a girl is born until she is an adult, as it first decays and then is renewed by the efforts of the residents.

One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.

The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.

Physicist roommates Leonard and Sheldon find their universe reorganized when a beautiful woman moves in across the hall and the two geeks realize that, while they may be brilliant when it comes to science, they are complete idiots around women.