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2) The searcher
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Winternight trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern'sThe Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Yearning for more adventure in her life and longing to know the truth behind her mother's disappearance, Lillian Haswell, the daughter of the local apothecary, seizes the opportunity when a distant aunt offers to educate her as a lady in London.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store and all clues point to bistro owner Olivier being the killer. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies, exposing both treasures and rancid secrets long buried--but not forgotten.
8) Cranford
Author
Series
Publisher
A.L. Burt
Pub. Date
[1907?]
Language
English
Description
Basing her tales on the village in which she was reared, Gaskell produced a gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. The novel's narrator (a young woman who periodically visits Cranford) describes the small adventures in the lives of two middle-aged sisters in reduced circumstances who do their best to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. Using an intimate, gossipy voice that...
9) Big sky
Author
Series
Jackson Brodie mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard-issue, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1961
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Can imaginative Emily make her biggest dream come true? Spunky Emily Bartlett lives in an old farmhouse in Pitchfork, Oregon, at a time when automobiles are brand-new inventions and libraries are a luxury few small towns can afford. Her runaway imagination leads her to bleach a horse, hold a very scary sleepover, and feed the hogs an unusual treat. But can she use her lively mind to help bring a library to Pitchfork? Adventure is pretty scarce in...
11) The village
Publisher
Burbank, CA
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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 in tact 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Agatha Raisin's neighboring village of Ancombe is usually the epitome of quiet rural charm, but the arrival of a new mineral-water company—which intends to tap into the village spring—sends tempers flaring and divides the parish council into two stubborn camps. When Agatha, who happens to be the PR person for the water company, finds the council chairman murdered at the spring, tongues start wagging. Could one of the council members
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Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Alone and listening to the moaning of the Dark City dying around her, Annah wants to find her way back home, to her sister and family and their village in the Forest of Hands and Teeth.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. In the wake of her mother's death, Kalyani, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a fierce wind blows stronger and stronger through their village, two excellent basket makers try and fail to capture it, but give two young friends, Kip and Elsa, an idea that just might work.
Author
Series
Reservoir novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
“A companion piece to his Man Booker–longlisted Reservoir 13, McGregor’s latest works perfectly well as a standalone, offering an alternately sweet and suspenseful depiction of a community as it reacts, person by person, to the disappearance of a teenage girl.” —Entertainment Weekly
A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And now an interviewer...
A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And now an interviewer...
18) Delta farce
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Down on his luck after losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day, Larry decides to join his neighbor, Bill and his combat-happy buddy, Everett for a relaxing weekend of drinking and target practice. But when the three hapless guys are mistaken for Army Reservists they are loaded onto an army plane headed for Fallujay, Iraq. The threesome is mistakenly ejected in a Humvee somewhere over Mexico. Convinced they are actually in the Middle East,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Three years after Major Sir Robert Kurland and Lucy Harrington were married, the small-village peace is disrupted when an anonymous letter arrives accusing Lucy of witchcraft. Her desire to be a mother becomes the least of her worries, especially after she learns she is not the only one to have received such a malicious letter"--
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago?"--
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