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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"--
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town, and Father Peter struggles to save his parishioners' souls without falling himself for the local barkeep, Assumpta. Series Three is the dramatic conclusion of Peter and Assumpta's story.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Famed vampire hunter Captain Kronos, aided by his expert assistant Professor Grost, sets out to end a reign of terror in a remote English village brought on by a vampire that drains its victims of their youth.
Author
Series
Rosie Hopkin's sweet shop volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vi, 422 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
After arriving in the country to care for her injured great aunt, Rosie finds herself falling under the spell of the village and the people there, especially a mysterious, solitary man, Stephen, who's bitterly healing from an injury himself.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Description
"In the England of murder mysteries and TV detectives, no destination is deadlier than a quaint country village, and you never know you're in a murder village until it's too late. No attraction or local character is safe--whether in the pub for a pint, oron the manicured grounds of the local estate for a shooting party, bodies can turn up anywhere! Danger lurks around every cobblestone corner. If you are foolish enough to make the trip, at least be...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
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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...
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Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
480 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Tess used to be happy with her lot: she lives in the idyllic Irish coastal village, Avalon, with her teenage son, Zach and nine-year-old Kitty, and works in the local antiques shop. Her only regret in life is that everything went so horribly wrong with her first love. Then her marriage falls apart and her first love returns to Avalon. Suki, Tess's sister, fled Ireland years ago to marry politician Kyle Richardon, but when Suki discovers that a biographer...
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Series
Description
Kate Hibbert is all too eager to lend a hand to her neighbors. Although she has been a resident of the sleepy village of Lochdubh for only a year, in that time Kate has alienated one too many of its residents with her interfering—and not entirely well-intentioned—ways. When Kate’s neighbor sees her lugging a heavy suitcase to the bus stop, he hopes that the prying woman is gone for good. But two weeks later, Kate’s cousin arrives in town with...
38) Found memories
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Found memories: "Like every morning, Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Like every day, she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years; she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, and listens to the priest's sermon before sharing lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who is arriving...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvii, 135 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The classic short story--now in full color. Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" continues to thrill and unsettle readers nearly seven decades after it was first published. By turns puzzling and harrowing, it raises troubling questions about conformity, tradition, and the specter of ritualized violence that haunts even the most bucolic, peaceful village. This graphic adaptation, published in time for Jackson's centennial, allows readers to experience...
40) Bacurau
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
After the matriarch of a small Brazilian village dies, its residents notice strange events surrounding them and a group of armed mercenaries descends on the village.
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