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121) The width of the sea
Author
Publisher
Cliff Street Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"The fortunes of the Albins and the Fitzes have been twined with the sea for generations, and now the tie is starting to fray. Their tiny fishing community of Rosaline chafes against the imposition of fishing quotas, the closure of the local fish processing plant, and the encroachment of an exploitative tourism industry that buys up their precious waterfront properties and repackages their traditional ways as nostalgic museum fodder."--Jacket.
122) The pyramid
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
Set in the superficially placid English village of Stillbourne, The Pyramid represents three episodes in the life of Oliver-as a schoolboy, an undergraduate, and a mature young man. A compelling tale about Oliver's increasing awareness of the deeper meanings of the relationships and events of his youth.
123) The promise of Lumby
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
At Montis Inn, the success of Pam Walker's on-location restaurant is leaving her overworked and frazzled. Meanwhile, Lumby's only veterinarian, Dr. Ellen Campbell, has decided to sell her business, and the townsfolk are in full panic mode. Who could possibly replace her? When animal doctor Tom Candor arrives in Lumby, he seems to be the answer to everyone's prayers. But some residents are not so trusting of the shy, pensive vet, especially newspaper...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mantra
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Chun Li's kindness to a talking fish is rewarded with a pearl that brings him and his mother good fortune, but tragedy ensues when greedy villagers become jealous and demand the magical pearl be turned over to them. Presented in Portuguese and English.
125) Mexican village
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1945]
Language
English
Description
Colorful short stories depict life in a Mexican village.
127) Pine
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"They are driving home from the search party when they see her ... The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men. Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their house in his pickup. In the morning, she's gone. In a community where daughters rebel, men quietly rage, and drinking...
128) Villager
Author
Publisher
Unbound
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the late sixties a Californian musician blows through Underhill where he writes a set of haunting folk songs that will earn him a group of obsessive fans and a cult following. Two decades later, a couple of teenagers disturb a body on the local golf course. In 2019, a pair of lodgers discover a one-eyed rag doll hidden in the walls of their crumbling and neglected home. Connections are forged and broken across generations, but only the landscape...
Author
Series
Forest ; 1
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community...At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast..But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull"--
130) Everlasting Lane
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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.
When Peter's father dies, his mother moves them from the city to a house in the countryside. He befriends two other outcasts at school, and together they try to weather the storm of bullying teachers and fellow students by escaping...
Author
Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"In the small town where Aria lives there are only nine houses. But each of them houses an entire universe. From Sofiane, whose grandparents never stop dancing, to Lulu, whose dad had a girl's body when he was a child, Aria introduces us to different kinds of families"--
132) Song of the sandman
Author
Publisher
Inkshares
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After a terrible mass shooting at Cicero's Circus, the evil presence responsible for the carnage is taken in by a doomsday cult lying in wait for such an opportunity. The village struggles to get back to normal in the aftermath of the shooting. The massacre was the final straw for many inhabitants, triggering a mass exodus. Families left their homes without looking back, not even to find out what could have caused such a tragedy. However, to those...
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The nine stories in The Book of Disbelieving open portals to fabulist worlds and magical objects: a village built on the back of a whale, a holy day requiring literal leaps of faith, a tower housing an entire civilization, a diary blurring the line between imagination and memory." --
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Goddard, the local schoolmistress, in gossipy letters to her sister Mrs. Pinkney in London, relates the great changes Highbury faces when Emma and Mr. Knightley remove from Hartfield after Mr. Woodhouse's death. Her primary concern is about who, exactly, will be taking up residence in the now vacant home. When she discovers that the new tenant is an eligible young bachelor, thoughts of matchmaking enter Mrs. Goddard's head - much as they did...
135) Ulverton
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
At the heart of this extraordinary novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton on the Wessex Downs of England: the fixed point in the book's 300-year cycle of history, both its backdrop and its central character. A dozen accounts, narrated by a dozen different voices, tell the story of Ulverton through the generations: a soldier in Cromwell's army returns to find his wife remarried, and promptly vanishes; an eighteenth-century farmer introduces scientific...
Author
Series
Higurashi ; 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Up until now, Keichi's been having the time of his life with his new friends in Hinamizawa. But when their good-natured pranks take a deadly turn. Keiichi grows more and more suspicious about their involvement with the so-called "Oyashiro-Sama's Curse." Turning to Ooishi-San for reassurance only confirms Keiichi's worst fears as dark secrets about Rena's past are revealed. Is it just his imagination? Or do his friends really mean to kill him?
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"In the twenty years since the Hinamizawa disaster, the small village has become a literal ghost town. Terrible rumors about the mysterious gas leak that claimed hundreds of lives have kept even the most curious at bay. But on this night, fate has led five strangers to the abandoned mountain hamlet--among them a certain Mion Sonozake. As the footsteps of the living echo through the abandoned halls of Furude shrine, the sleeping demons of Hinamizawa...
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