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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Finding fault with everything in her small Hungarian village, Valeria becomes an inadvertent respected critic whose opinions are embraced by her neighbors, until Valeria's approval of a humble potter's work reveals vulnerabilities throughout the community.
202) The sword of straw
Author
Series
Sangreal trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Furniture specialist Maggie Hammond inherits a house on a New England island and becomes involved in the community. The characters include a sheriff and his abused wife, a dog trainer, a promiscuous nurse and an ecologist to whom Maggie is attracted.
Author
Series
WISE Enquiries Agency novels volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
Henry Twyst, eighteenth Duke of Chellingworth, is convinced his mother is losing her marbles. She claims to have seen a corpse on the dining-room floor, but all she has to prove it is a bloodied bobble hat. Worried enough to retain the women of the WISE Enquiries Agency -- one is Welsh, one Irish, one Scottish and one English -- Henry wants the strange matter explained away. But the truth of what happened at the Chellingworth Estate, set in the rolling...
Author
Series
Somershill Manor mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1349, Oswald, the third son of the de Lacy family, was an eighteen-year-old novice monk at Kintham Abbey. Sent to collect herbs from the forest, Oswald comes across a terrified village girl. Frenzied with fear, she runs headlong into a swollen river. Oswald pulls her broken and bruised body from the water and returns her to the local village, only to discover that several other women have disappeared. A heinous killer is at work, but because all...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace, invigorated by the rooster's bravery, ousts the tyrannical mayor and returns their city to its free and clamorous state."
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"You've already met Keiichi Maebara and his mischievous friends in the Abducted by Demons Arc. But Oyashiro-sama's curse is poised to strike anew in Hinamizawa village. When Keiichi spots tomboy Mion working at a maid café, he can hardly believe his eyes! But it's not Mion after all-- it's her identical twin sister, Shion. Keiichi's never heard of this 'twin sister' before and suspects it's just another one of Mion's pranks. But through Shion, Keiichi...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From an adventurous and discerning new voice reminiscent of Robert Macfarlane, a captivating portrait of a community eking out its living in a coastal landscape as stark and storied as it is beautiful. Before arriving in Newlyn, a Cornish fishing village at the end of the railway line, Lamorna Ash was told that no fisherman would want a girl joining an expedition. Weeks later, the only female on board a trawler called the Filadelfia, she is heading...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2012].
Language
English
Description
The baobab tree story, which I wrote (the church version) is actually based upon a true story, told by Limakatso Nare, a Lutheran pastor who is currently serving a congregation in Louisiana. When he was growing up in his native Africa, he gathered for Sunday school under the baobab tree. Here he learned the Biblical stories of Noah and the ark, Jonah and the big fish, and the parables of Jesus. His Sunday school experiences inspired my story, Under...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
At the Cotton Drifting Festival, Shion convinces Keiichi to sneak into a sacred storehouse with Miyo and Jirou. They ask him to keep it a secret, because if anyone finds out, all four of them will most likely be killed or sacrificed as part of the village's ritual
215) China room
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. Married to three brothers in a single ceremony, she and her now-sisters spend their days hard at work in the family's "china room," sequestered from contact with the men-except when their domineering mother-in-law, Mai, summons them to a darkened chamber at night. Curious and strong willed, Mehar tries to piece together what Mai doesn't want her to know....
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"After twenty years, Leo Pizzola has come back to his native village of Santo Fico, still single and still looking for a way to get rich. Sitting high above the sea in a remote part of Tuscany, the town is as poor as it was on the day Leo left. No tourist buses stop there. No guidebooks mention the Miracle and the Mystery of their blessed little church, which once held so much promise as a tourist attraction. Instead the broken fountain in the center...
217) Moon tide: A novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A novel set in a small Massachusetts fishing town chronicles the lives of three women--Eve, a beautiful artist; her eccentric grandmother, Elizabeth; and Maggie, an exotic stranger--from 1913 to the Great New England Hurricane of 1938.
218) The coven's daughter
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
On the Montacute estate in 1596 England, thirteen-year-old, fatherless Cess has always been an outcast but when her best friend becomes the latest boy to mysteriously disappear, the villagers accuse her of witchcraft--and she learns that they may be right.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Arriving simultaneously in a tiny village in Cumbria, England, Samantha Flood and Miguel Madero pursue investigations of the links between the community and their families, endeavors that reshape their senses of identity.
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Christmas, 1924. Lady Eleanor Swift has received a rather unexpected invitation to the village Christmas party in the tiny, rural hamlet of Derrydee in the west of Ireland. Eleanor is thrilled about exploring her ancestral roots at her late uncle's estate and spending the festive season in a castle. Packing Gladstone the bulldog's coziest Christmas jumper, they set off to the Emerald Isle with her butler Clifford in tow. Arriving late at night, Eleanor...