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63) The village
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays intact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the elders...
64) Rachel's library
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
[31] p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Description
The people of Chelm dispatch Simon, Izzie, and Myriam to Warsaw with instructions to bring something back that will make the town look wise to outsiders, and Rachel stows away in the wagon.
Author
Series
Description
"Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After her husband asks for a divorce, Diane, a New York City attorney, heads to Woodstock with her two teens to stay with her estranged flower-child mother. In this charming village, Diane and her city kids get a new perspective on life and love.
Publisher
distributed by MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (700 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The blockbuster French drama, chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists.
68) Grey bees
Author
Formats
Description
"Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich and Pashka, a rival from his schooldays. With little food and no electricity, under constant threat of bombardment, Sergeyich's...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
viii, 470 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Arriving simultaneously in a tiny village in Cumbria, England, Samantha Flood and Miguel Madero pursue investigations of the links between the community and their families, endeavors that reshape their senses of identity.
70) Belle
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
Suzu is a shy high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters 'U,' a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer.
72) Seamonsters
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a young woman arrives in a small British seaside town, she comes between two male teenage best friends and their lives are changed forever.
73) Everlasting Lane
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"A captivating, absorbing, and suspenseful evocation of the spells of childhood In a timeless coming-of-age tale as charming and haunting as the movie Stand By Me, Andrew Lovett's Everlasting Lane tells the story of what happens when nine-year-old Peter's father dies and his mother moves them from the city to a house in the countryside, for what seem to Peter to be mysterious reasons. He's soon distracted, though, by the difficulties of being the...
74) Greymist Fair
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"The villagers of Greymist Fair know that the woods are a dangerous and magical place, and that they should never set foot off the road. But when a young tailor discovers a body, her search for the culprit reveals even more strange and dark happenings around her town"--
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Description
Exposed to fashionable society and romance--as well as clues about her mother--Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of a local apothecary, is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father's bedside to save the family legacy at a time when women are forbidden to work as apothecaries and the suspicious eyes of a scholarly physician and a competing apothecary are upon her.
77) Freedom swimmer
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals. Despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond over...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
444 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Sara esta a punto de cumplir los treinta y ya ha perdido la esperanza y la ilusi?n en un matrimonio que va a la deriva. Ha pasado demasiado tiempo ignorando su vida y sabe que no es feliz. Ya no existe la chica que perseguia sus sue?os y en su lugar hay una mujer a la que apenas logra comprender. Lo que Sara no sabe es que un suceso inesperado sacudir? su pequeno mundo por completo. Cuando Christina, su mejor amiga, le pida que viaje hasta un tranquilo...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 25 cm.
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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