A love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s and told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.

When Detective Dog Nell puts her nose to the task, there's no mystery she can't solve. Whether she's tracking the missing shoe of her human, Peter, or locating some lost honeycomb, all Nell has to do is sniff, sniff, sniff and she's hot on the trail. Besides solving mysteries, there's something else Nell loves--listening to children read. Every Monday, Peter takes her to school where children tell her stories. One day, Nell and Peter arrive to find...

"V novui︠u︡ knigu Olʹga Grenet︠s︡ vkli︠u︡chila rasskazy, kotorye publikovalisʹ v amerikanskikh i russkikh zhurnalakh poslednie tri goda. Fokus rasskazov perenosit chitateli︠a︡ iz San-Frant︠s︡isko v Sankt-Peterburg i obratno, no na kakom by polusharii personazhi knigi ni nakhodilisʹ, oni organicheski vpisany v okruzhai︠u︡shchie ikh realii sovremennogo mira. Sami zhe istorii: pro semeĭnye otnoshenii︠a︡ i vospitanie deteĭ,...

Short verses about animals.