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Lois Meade mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 23 cm.
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Lois Meade mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 23 cm.
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...
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Matt comes across photos of him as a child yet they seem unfamiliar; is it really him? He can't remember the clothes or the toys, and his sister Imogen is nowhere in the pictures. Since her childhood Imogen has loved the Summer House, a charming folly in the grounds of an ancient house on Exmoor and now she and her veterinary husband have the chance of buying. But her marriage is threatened when her husband refuses to live so far from his practice....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 406, [14] p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Leaving London to move into a beautiful house in the country, Miranda and David find their marriage succumbing to long-standing conflicts until a mysterious Frenchman arrives to tend their garden, bringing with him a healing energy that is drawn from nature.
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Village mystery volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 23 cm.
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The Colonel attends a weekend RAF reunion event in the village of Buckby that includes a reunited Lancaster bomber crew, and when one of the crew turns up dead, he soon finds himself reluctantly drawn into the investigation.
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 307 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Description
In 1910 Miss Beatrix Potter is able to get away from her parents and goes to her properties in the Land Between the Lakes, Hill Top Farm and Castle Farm, where trouble is brewing in the hamlet. When Mr. Harmsworth barricades the foot path running through his property, Applebeck Farm, claiming he did it because someone lit a fire to his hayloft, and another fire ruins a place of business, Miss Potter is on the case!
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Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding...
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Thrush Green series volume 12
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Little is known of the village's most distinguished son, Nathaniel Patten, until an unexpected letter arrives. When the correspondence shows that one hundred years have passed since the opening of Patten's mission school in Africa, coinciding with the centenary of Thrush Green's own village school, the townsfolk decide to combine the festivities for a very special occasion. As with all village events, the plans for the celebration are beset with anxieties,...
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Village mystery volume 5
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 23 cm
Description
The British town of Frog End is preparing for its annual Christmas pantomime. Local busybody Marjorie Cuthbertson is on the hunt for her leading lady - and who better that beautiful new resident,ex-model Joan Dryden. Mystery is about to engulf the village, however, when a cast member collapses and dies at the Christmas party at the Manor, having consumed a rogue mince pie. Was the death and accident - or a malicious murder masked asn an allergic reaction?...
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Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
10 paperbacks.
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Forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty-first century when he falls in love with Pakistani widow Mrs. Ali, Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner.
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"Meek little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Since their first appearance over a hundred years ago in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures--in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their beloved Wild Wood--continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow up. Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame...
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Series
Fairacre series volume 17
Publisher
Paragon/Chivers North America
Pub. Date
1993, c1991
Physical Desc
268 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
172 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In this unusual murder mystery, the tranquility of Saint Mary's Abbey is shattered by the discovery of a gruesome crime in a cottage on the abbey grounds. A foreign artist and war hero seeking refuge from the world has been murdered. Marie Paige, the frail, sickly wife of the village doctor, lies beside him beaten into a coma. The police arrest Marie's husband, convinced that they are looking at a crime of passion. But Dr. Paige finds himself with...
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