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Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding...
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils-Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry...
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 6
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Thrush Green series volume 2
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Sound Library / BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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" ...the arrival of a stranger to live in the village stirs up ripples of speculation and interest..." -- from container.
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Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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When Mr. and Mrs. Cowper are found murdered in a quiet village in England's smallest county, Rutland, and their teenage daughter disappears, Alison, a reporter for the local newspaper, decides to investigate, in a tale that both follows and reverses the conventions of the traditional English village mystery
13) Human croquet
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Picador USA
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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The narrator, Isobel, 16, is a time traveller, while her brother is afraid of abduction by aliens. They are abandoned by their parents, then seven years later the father returns with a new wife. Where is mother? The grandmother who looks after them won't answer. An English tragicomedy by the author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
14) Warning at one
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Lois Meade mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
15) The country life
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Picador USA
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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Stella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair girl, and arrives in a tiny Sussex village. What could possibly have driven her to leave her home, job, and life in London for such a rural life? Why has she severed all contact with her parents?
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Highbridge Audio
Pub. Date
p2008.
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English
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The Hunters are your typical family, with typical concerns, work, money, love, the trials of adolescence ---with one difference: they are protected by a highly atypical dog, their black Labrador, Prince. Prince views it as his sacrd duty to protect his family and to guard its integrity. He finds himself confounded by the odd behavior of the humans he loves. To save the family, Prince must betray the ancient Pact of the Labradors -- a decision that...
18) Farther afield
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Fairacre series volume 10
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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"Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village. The end of a school year often brings unmitigated rapture for schoolteachers, and so it should for Miss Read, schoolmistress in the charming English village of Fairacre. But on the very first day of the long summer holiday, she falls and breaks her arm. Just when her summer seems ruined, her old friend, Amy Garfield, comes to her aid with a diverting suggestion. They travel to Crete...
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Ecco
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Originating in the folktale and with an occasional infusion of gothic horror or fantasy, A. E. Coppard’s stories still feel fresh and surprising today. Coppard came to the short story later in life but left an indelible mark on it. Staunch in his belief that the short story was a distinctive form with little relation to the novel, he wove his tales out of the substance of life in the English countryside, with its memorable and distinctive characters."--Page...
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Thrush Green volume 8
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
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"It is spring in the village of Thrush Green. In neighboring Lulling, Charles Henstock admires the blooming garden of his new vicarage, glad that the squabbles with his parishoners in Affairs at Thrush Green are settled. And yet the good vicar wistfully recalls his former home - the ugly, old rectory of Thrush Green, which burned to the ground. Now, from the rectory's ruins, the villagers are building eight retirement homes for the older folks most...
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