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42) Seven steeples
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
It is the winter following the summer they met. A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another—one embedded in ritual, and away from the friends and family from whom they’ve drifted. They arrive at their new home on a clear January day and look up to appraise the view. A mountain...
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Series
Little Elliot volume 4
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Elliot the little elephant and his best friend, Mouse, play hide-and-seek during an autumn vacation in the countryside.
Author
Publisher
Maeva Young
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
230 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xii, 305 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Description
Mr. Wickstead has died under a tree limb. The villagers are certain that his death had to do with a treasure he dug up last spring. But why was he in the wood on a frigid night? And what of the claw marks on the limb? And what was that treasure? As per usual, the town's animals know more than the Big Folk. And only Pickles, Wickstead's fox terrier, knows exactly what happened. It's up to amateur sleuth Beatrix Potter to help the denizens of Sawrey,...
46) Wonderland
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Publisher
Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
Description
One mother's love may be all that stands between her family, an enigmatic presence--and madness. After years of city life, Orla and Shaw Bennett are ready for the quiet of New York's Adirondack mountains--or at least, they think they are. Settling into the perfect farmhouse with their two children, they are both charmed and unsettled by the expanse of their land, the privacy of their individual bedrooms, and the isolation of life a mile from any neighbor....
47) Unsettled ground
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
330 pages cm
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiv, 746 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"It's September 1999 and the world is on the cusp of a new millennium. In rural Maine, Gordon St. Onge, known as "The Prophet," presides over his controversial Settlement, a place rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the grid and off the land. Out in greater America, Bruce Hummer, the aging CEO of multinational corporation Duotron Lindsey, lays off workers by the thousands. Meanwhile, the newest member of the Settlement,...
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In rural Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light. "What you give in this world," an old man tells his grandson,...
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Welcome to Wishful, California, where the air is mountain clean, the people are small-town friendly, and the wide-open spaces are perfect for a woman wanting to reinvent herself. There was a time when Dr. Emma Sinclair wanted to challenge herself, to sharpen her medical skills by plunging into the relentless pace of a New York City ER. But she was younger then. Now, she's not that much older, but at least she's wise enough to jump at the chance to...
51) A life in comedy
Author
Publisher
Highbridge
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 CDs (2 hr., 30 min.) : digital, stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On three consecutive Monday evenings in April 2002, humorist Garrison Keillor appeared on stage at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. Performing before sold-out-crowds, he read personally chosen favorite selections from his many works, both published and unpublished: stories from The New Yorker, chapters from his bestselling novels, news from Lake Wobegon, essays from Time magazine, letters, and even a few pretty good poems.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A warmhearted, hilarious queer rom-com about what happens when a group of friends are actually brave enough to live the dream and give up their dreary city apartments to buy a house in the country together. El is in a rut. She's been hiding in the photocopier room at the same dead-end job for longer than she cares to remember, she's sharing a flat with a girl who leaves passive-aggressive smiley face notes on the fridge about milk consumption and,...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly — newlyweds, farmers, mothers, indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, artists, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen — confront their...
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Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various...
57) A country affair
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In "A Little Bit Country," Stranded on the side of a country road with a broken-down car, Rorie Campbell is grateful when horse rancher Clay Franklin comes to her rescue. Stuck in the quirky small town, Rorie gets to know Clay, and she quickly starts to fall for the gruff, tough cowboy. Can a city girl make it work with a country man? Clay certainly thinks so. But their situation is…complicated. Clay and Rorie will have to sort out their feelings...
58) Penny and Pepper
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Series
Publisher
Cartwheel Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
33 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
Penny Ryder is happy to spend a summer in the country with her grandparents, but she is not sure about Pepper the pony or the neighbor twins until Pepper disappears and the twins, Tina and Tom, help find him.
Author
Series
Thrush Green series volume 5
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
It's spring again in the village, and with the change of the seasons comes change in the lives of many villagers. The Young family's tranquility is disrupted by the sudden arrival of Joan's father, while Molly and Ben Curdle consider putting an end to their wandering days in order to finally settle down. Even the reappearance of Sexton Albert Piggot -- one of Thrush Green's more malevolent sorts -- cannot dim the happiness that inevitably prevails...
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xvii, 181 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Snow has been falling on the village all winter long and all there is to do is stay inside and trade tales. This year everybody is talking about Katri Kling, an outcast who lives with her simple minded brother and Anna, an elderly children's book illustrator, who lives alone in a large empty house. Anna has something Katri wants and by the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a conflict of ideals that threatens to strip them of their most...
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