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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, a stranger with piercing blue eyes presents a new father with a gift - a precious jewel on a delicate chain, intended forhis young daughter. Uncertain of its meaning, Pytor hides the gift away and Vasya grows up a wild, willful girl, to the chagrin of her family. But when mysterious forces threaten the happiness of their...
Author
Series
Winternight trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"--
3) Plain murder
Author
Series
Amish mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after leaving her Old Order Amish life, Rachel Mast returns to Stone Mill, Pennsylvania. Knowing she can never be Amish again, Rachel runs a B&B and tries to help her community in ways they can't help themselves. When the body of a prominent Englisher businessman is found in her Uncle Aaron's cow pasture, Aaron refuses to hire a lawyer, trusting in his innocence and faith. Rachel isn't so sure that's enough, and begins to delve into...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Discovering a cache of valuable Native American artifacts while appraising an estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it.
Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave her husband and two children to attend her dying aunt on the far west coast of Ireland over the Christmas holidays of 1895, Emily Radley confronts her own depression as well as a tragic secret that is destroying the spirit of her aunt's remote village.
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 7
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miss Beatrix Potter has returned to Near Sawrey, where her friend Grace has been receiving anonymous letters that threaten her good name and her plans to marry. Beatrix must investigate quietly so as not to arouse village gossip. There is also the matter of Beatrix's own romantic future-as she's been offered a second chance at love.
Author
Series
Irish village mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Between training the new town garda and trying to set a wedding date with her fiancé, Macdara Flannery, Siobhán O'Sullivan is feeling a bit overwhelmed. She's looking forward to visiting the new bookshop and curling up with an exciting novel - only to discover the shelves contain nothing but Literature with a capital L. The owner not only refuses to stock romances, mysteries, and science fiction, but won't even let customers enter his store unless...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this first Cottage Tale, Albert introduces Beatrix, an animal lover who has just bought a farm in England's beautiful Lake District. As Beatrix tries to win over the hearts of her fellow villagers, her animal friends set out to solve a mystery all their own.
Author
Series
Dandy Gilver volume 2
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
13) Cranford
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of life in a quiet English country town in the mid-nineteenth century follows the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters living in reduced circumstances.
14) Coastliners
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Returning to her home town, a tiny French island called Le Devin, Madeleine is saddened to realize that the island's decline reflects the deterioration of her increasingly withdrawn father.
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a tiny village in the Swiss Alps, an angel meets an American girl named Zola who has come with her father to open a school, and together Zola and the angel rescue a group of homeless orphans, who gradually change everything.
17) Enchanted glass
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding ontheir lives.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Lumby volume 4
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When the quirky, small town of Lumby gets a replacement veterinarian, the local newspaper owner is determined to expose the hidden secrets of the shy and pensive newcomer.
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