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21) Black dog
Author
Publisher
Westlea
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In northern England, Detective Constable Ben Cooper investigates the death of fifteen-year-old Laura Vernon with the help of his new partner Diane Fry.
Author
Series
Fairacre series volume 19
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A trip to Florence with her friend Amy is a bright spot in Miss Read's retirement; Henry Mawne's complaints about his new wife and John Jenkins' persistent offers of marriage are not.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When young Nathan loses his grandfather, Berry guides readers through the process of Nathan's grief, endearing the reader to the simple humanity through which Nathan views the world. Echoing Berry's own strongly held beliefs, Nathan tells us that his grandfather's life "couldn't be divided from the days he'd spent at work in his fields." Berry has long been compared to Faulkner for his ability to erect entire communities in his fiction, and his heart...
25) August folly
Author
Series
Barsetshire novels volume 4
Publisher
Moyer Bell
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Author
Series
Louis Morgon thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Finding a dead body on the doorstep of his home in rural France, former CIA insider Louis Morgan teams up with the local gendarme and finds clues in the loves and betrayals of the past and present.
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Beatrix finds an abandoned infant, Captain Woodcock and Dimity care for the child as Beatrix and her furry and feathered friends search for its mother.
29) Windsong Manor
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The London Countryside, 1820. Eleanora Coventry comes from a life of title and privilege, but even that isn't enough to prevent her from being wed at sixteen to a controlling and dismissive husband. So when she finds herself a widow at only twenty-six, the idea of choosing her own path forward both thrills and terrifies her. She knows how to be a daughter and a wife, but she has no idea how to be Eleanora. She moves her son and daughter to her late...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Finding the body of a backpacker rumored have been abducted by a UFO puts an end to Qwilleran's summer vacation. Quill is determined to dispel rumors circulating in Moose County that extraterrestrial beings may be responsible for the disappearance of a stray backpacker. Koko, on the other hand, is spending hours on the porch in the dark, watching the sky for stars--or something!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
In deep Amazonia, a jaguar whose cubs were killed by an American hunter is spreading terror among humans, a symbolic act of revenge by nature against mankind for destroying the eco-system. The author, aChilean, worked for UNESCO in the Amazon.
33) The hole
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes trips...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Set in the Virginia pines, and overrun with failed parents, racist sex offenders, cast-off priests, and suicidal chickens, this novel challenges literary convention even as it attacks our national myth: that the rural naturally engenders good, while the urban breeds an inevitable sin"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The story of three closely-related Oxfordshire communities -- a hamlet, a village, and a town -- and the memorable cast of characters who people them. Based on Thompson's own experiences as a child and young woman, it is keenly observed and beautifully narrated, quiet and evocative.
36) Thrush Green
Author
Series
Thrush Green series volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Miss Read's charming chronicles of small-town life have achieved an almost legendary popularity worldwide by offering a welcome return to a gentler time and "wit, humor, and wisdom in equal measure" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). This volume introduces Thrush Green, the neighboring village to Fairacre: its blackthorn bushes, thatch-roofed cottages, enchanting landscape, and jumble sales. Readers will delight in a new cast of characters and also welcome...
37) Oral history
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A curse laid on the inhabitants of Hoot Owl Holler follows each succeeding generation for a century, in a tale of love, murder, obsession, and betrayal set in Appalachia."--
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As a romance blooms in an isolated Italian Alpine town, fate and free will shape the lives of many in this gorgeously written novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Eight Mountains"--
Author
Series
Shifting circle novels volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"For Karadel, being a shape-shifter has always been a reality she couldn't escape. Even though she's built a safe life as a rural veterinarian, with a close-knit network of shifter and human friends who would do anything for her--and for each other--she can't help but wish for a chance at being normal"--
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Beloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home,and The Lost Country and his groundbreaking collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, William Gay returns with one final posthumous collection of short stories, adapted from the archive found after his death in February 2012. In addition to previously unpublished short stories, Stories from the Attic includes fragments from two of the unpublished novels that were works in progress at the time...
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