Andrew Wilson has it all: a great house, a great job as a mystery writer, and all the money he can handle. But he's missing one thing: someone to share it all with. One day while writing at a small Georgia coffee shop, he meets...
Country life
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Author:Massey, BrandonSummary: - Author:Harness, KypSummary:
Wigford is a small town in rural Southwestern Ontario, home to a cast of recurring characters: Buzz, a drunk-driving father of two; his wife, who should have married Bert Walmsley instead; Happy Henry, a devout, socially inept apostle...
- Author:HARDY, ThomasSummary:
This collection of Thomas Hardy's stories include storie stories of witchcraft, smuggling, mystery, humour and heartache.
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Author:Walker, MelissaSummary:Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War chronicles the lives and concerns of the Anderson, Brockman and Moore families of piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras through 124 letters dated 1853 to 1865. The...
- Author:Davis, M. E. M.Summary:
Under the sprawling branches of the ancient man-fig tree in the town square, the gossiby men of Thornham relax and spin colorful yarns for each other's amusements. There, reputations are established or sullied, and local rumors of...
- Author:SHANNON, RobSummary:
The advent of the town's Power House not only supplied electricity, but, wonder of wonders, ICE! Wheat farming, sheep mustering, learning to fly and coping with city ways are all recounted. Most striking of all is the theme of one...
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Author:Hamilton, VirginiaSummary:Eleven-year-old Valena lives both in the present and the past as she struggles with racism in her daily life and listens to her mother's tales of her family's proud history.
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Author:Grahame, KennethSummary:A charming mole and an impulsive toad get into trouble in the English countryside. Adventures include stealing a car, escaping from prison and running into a god.
- Author:Lasenby, JackSummary:
The Seddon Street gang are back. School is closed and Denny, Polly, Bob, Pete and Joe have been packed off to Uncle Ted's farm. There's plenty to do riding, spying and exploring. As they poke their noses where they're not...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
Albert re-imagines Beatrix Potter wearing her sleuthing cap as the village of Sawrey lies buried beneath a blanket of Christmas snow. While she and her animal friends investigate a puzzling death, Miss Potter wonders if she can...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
After his haystacks are burned, Farmer Harmsworth barricades the common path through Applebeck Orchard. Reliable witnesses say the arson was the work of a lantern-bearing specter. But has the culprit left clues Miss Potter can decipher...
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Author:HARDY, ThomasSummary:A tragedy set in the barren land of Edgon Heath. Our heroine, Eustacia, is proud, passionate, cruel, fickle, avaricious, and desperate. She burns every life she touches, never able to find the mad love and exotic world she dreams of....
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Author:Rice, H. WilliamSummary:The Lost Woods is a collection of 15 short stories, most of them set in and around the fictional small town of Sledge, SC. The events narrated in the stories begin in the 1930s and continue to the present day. The stories aren't...
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Author:BINCHY, MaeveSummary:Eight children once carved their names on the trunk of the great copper beech tree which shades the schoolhouse in Shancarrig. Now those children are grown. They have different lives but it was the school that formed them.
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Author:Couvillon, JacquesSummary:When eleven-year-old Don Schmidt wins a chicken-judging contest in his small town of Horse Island, Louisiana and goes from outcast to instant celebrity, even his neglectful mother occasionally takes notice of him and eventually he...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Koko, Yum Yum, and James Qwilleran embark on their latest mystery when gold prospectors, wildlife photographers, and pirates arrive at the Nutcracker Inn to take part in a game.
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Qwill and his cats vacation in Mooseville, but when the carpenter he hires disappears, he begins to investigate what may be a serial killer's plan to wipe out the area's woodworkers.
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Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:Autumn has arrived, and the citizens of Pickax find themselves amid a clamour of activity. In additition to the opening of its latest theatrical production, the town is celebrating the dedication of a new bookstore and park built in...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
The people of Pickax are in a state of eager anticipation. The Pirate's Chest, the long-awaited new bookstore, is finally set to open, and the Theatre Club is preparing to perform Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest...
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Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:"The good people of Moose County are in a fever of excitement. Not only is the gala groundbreaking for the new Pickax bookstore about to take place, but the town of Brrr is preparing to celebrate its bicentennial, and columnist...
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