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Author
Publisher
William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Mado has been adrift for too long. After ten years in Paris, she returns to the small island of Le Devin, the home that has haunted her since she left. Le Devin is shaped somewhat like a sleeping woman. At her head is the village of Les Salants, while its more prosperous rival, La Houssinière, lies at her feet. Yet even though you can walk from one to the other in an hour, they are worlds apart. And now Mado is back in Les Salants hoping to reconcile...
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
By bestselling British writer Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree is a sweeping, romantic novel about the women who stayed behind in World War II.
It is the summer of 1939, and the residents of the idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war. Beautiful but shy Judy Melton, daughter of a naval hero; her determinedly feckless friend, the social butterfly Meggie Gore-Steward; seemingly demure Mathilda Eastcott, and Rusty Sykes, the...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years.
"Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see-to the...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Description
For more than five hundred years' weary travelers have been coming to the Stranger House-an out-of-the-way inn in the tiny village of Illthwaite in Cumbria, England. Now two very different visitors have arrived here on the same dank and dreary autumn afternoon, each one driven by curiosity ... and perilous purpose.
Australian math wizard Samantha "Sam" Flood is here searching for answers to a disturbing family mystery. Miguel Madero, former novice...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2004
Description
The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives to research his life and work. Pouring over Klaus's letters to Elsa, Lily pieces together the story of their lives together and apart. And alone in her rented cottage by the sea, she begins to sense an...
9) Sandpebbles
Author
Series
Publisher
W Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A young widow in a small fishing village in North Carolina lets go of her past while embracing her future.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Nationally best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert cleverly blends fact and fiction in this cozy mystery starring iconic author Beatrix Potter. The serenity of Hill Top Farm is shattered when a local shephard is murdered. Beatrix-when she's not busy making friends with her fellow villagers-lends her insights to the investigation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Protecting her beloved students from the devastating world outside of their 1934 Berlin classroom, Thekla Köppen sacrifices some of her personal freedoms to retain her teaching position until activities within Hitler's early regime test her moral courage.
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Series
Description
"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"--
Vasilisa's gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention of Morozko-- Frost, the winter demon. But Frost's aid comes at a cost, and her people have condemned...
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With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt's sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, Emily makes the long journey to an all-but-forgotten town in the county of Connemara, on the western coast of Ireland. She soon discovers that a tragic legacy haunts the once close-knit community.
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
Kurland St. Mary mystery #5.
Three years have passed since Major Sir Robert Kurland and Lucy Harrington, the rector's daughter, became husband and wife. Having established a measure of contentment among the gentry of Kurland St. Mary, the couple lately have found an unsettling distance grown between them. But when the small-village peace is disrupted by the arrival of an anonymous letter accusing Lucy of witchcraft, her as yet unfulfilled desire...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
In The Bottoms, tiny Cotswold villages on the English countryside, filthy rich Tata Hawkins is in a tizzy when her husband runs off with a bikini designer; her glamorous new neighbor, an American divorcaee, refuses her overtures at friendship; and her twobest friends are distracted by their own problems.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Returning to the Tuscan village of his childhood, Leo Pizzola is dismayed by changes in people who were once close to him, and in the wake of a local priest's spiritual crisis, Leo and his best friend stage a series of haphazard would-be miracles.
19) Home another way
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When Sarah Graham's estranged father dies, she travels to the tiny mountain hamlet of Jonah, New York to claim her inheritance. Once there, she learns that her father's will stipulates she must stay in Jonah for six months. Desperate, Sarah settles down for what she sees as a six-month prison sentence. But as the weeks pass, she finds herslef connecting with the simple and gracious townsfolk. Can these strangers teach Sarah how to forgive and find...
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Publisher
Magpie Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"1919. In a Highland village forgotten by the world, the young people who remain after war and flu will soon head south to make something of themselves...The friends light a fire and dance. But with every twirl about the flames, strange new dancers thread between them, music streaming from the trees. The Fae have joined the dance. Suddenly Moira Jean finds herself alone, her friends spirited away..If Moira Jean cannot save her friends before Beltane,...
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