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162) The skating pond
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An accident at the pond causes dreams to dissipate, attachments to break apart, and causes memories to be cast in shadows.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The multigenerational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria. Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, Maria is left to provide for her family alone. Every day is a struggle against starvation, the harsh alpine climate and the hostile nearby villagers who see Maria as little more than a beautiful temptress out for the men...
164) A woman's war
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the darkest days they'll find their greatest strength . . . As enemy planes continue to bombard the North West of England, the women of Great Paxford fight harder then ever to persevere. Pat thought she'd found true happiness, but as things change at home she finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about her husband. Laura's young life has been besieged by tragedy, yet a new future looms on the horizon if she can find the courage...
Author
Publisher
Tule Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"California lawyer Mina Richards spent her childhood helping her mom bake at their winter-themed cafe in the snowy village of Gosberg, Germany. When her retired parents want to sell The Icicle Cafe, Mina returns to facilitate the sale. She needs this to go right-she'll fly in, finalize the deal and fly out to rescue her once high-powered career. But faced with Scott, her childhood friend and crush who doesn't want to sell, Mina's plan quickly falls...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Volume 1: "Life couldn't be better for Keiichi Maebara. Sure, he's moved to a sleepy, little town where nothing happens and high school consists of a one-room schoolhouse -- but his new friends and fellow students are all cute girls! When he happens upon a story about a grisly local murder, however, his contentment turns to uneasiness as he finds himself drawn into a web of silent intrigue that involves his newfound friends...and threatens his very...
169) Timo the adventurer
Author
Publisher
Etch, Clarion Books, imprints of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Having read every book in his tiny village, young Timo decides it is time to leave home and become a hero. And while that is easier said than done, Timo is determined to succeed. When he rescues an enchanted beast named Broof, Timo gains a gruff and reluctant ally. But little does good-hearted Timo suspect that Broof's mysterious past will bring complications to his journey.... An engaging hero, surprising plot twists, and a host of fantastical creatures...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China's most essential and daring novelist, "with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth" (New York Times Book Review). His newest novel, The Day the Sun Died--winner of the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, one of the most prestigious honors for Chinese-language novels--is a haunting story of a town caught in a waking nightmare. In a little village nestled in the Balou...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for their own protection.
While lying on the pavement, Bohjalian's...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger. Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. The village becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the...
178) The Wednesdays
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In a village where peculiar things happen every Wednesday, one boy must save the town to save himself.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
From the terra cotta and ocher of the Ionian Islands to the brilliant blues and whites of the Aegean, the villages of Greece and its islands are incomparable. The variety of village life and buildings springs from a multitude of histories and influences, yet these towns are all, in their separate ways, quintessentially Greek. From north to south through the mainland and the Peloponnese, from west to east through the islands, there is a mixture of...
180) The Near Witch
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lexi, who lives on an enchanted moor at the edge of the village of Near, must solve the mystery when, the day after a mysterious boy appears in town, children start disappearing.