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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 40-year-old writer, Fausto, separates from his wife and leaves Milan for the Fontana Fredda mountains where he takes a job at a restaurant called Babette's Feast, the namesake of its fellow city transplant owner, who runs the place after divorcing her former "mountain man" husband, Santorso, who returns occasionally to dine there. Silvia, a 27-year-old waitress Cognetti describes as having "the air of a world traveler," catches his eye and eventually...
42) L'assassin
Author
Series
Louis Morgon thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Louis Morgon thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
45) Bidding for love
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
46) Kiss me hello
Author
Series
Sweetest kisses novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Single mom Sidonie Lindstrom has her hands full with a troubled foster son, an abrupt adjustment to country living, and an unforeseen lack of funds. When her taciturn neighbor, MacKenzie Knightley, repeatedly offers practical help, Sid reminds herself she's not interested--despite his kindness, pragmatism, and quiet charm. MacKenzie sees the vulnerability beneath her pride, and he's determined to change her mind."-- back cover.
47) Purslane
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1939]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"North Carolina farm life at the turn of the century." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jinx Jacobs's motorcycle breaks down outside Holiday, Texas, the last thing she wants is to get stuck in the cheery little town, especially during the holidays. The whole place has gone Christmas crazy, but all she has to do is stay out from under the mistletoe -- and do her best to keep that unnervingly attractive cop off her back. Single dad and sheriff's deputy Cash Walker doesn't have time for romance, and yet something about the tempting...
Author
Publisher
Templar Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A retelling of Aesop's well-known fable in which a country mouse visits a town mouse and they find they prefer very different ways of life. Set in 1930s New York at Christmas.
51) Summer color!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two children notice all the beautiful colors that surround them on a rainy summer day out in the country"--
52) Wonderland
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One mother's love may be all that stands between her family, an enigmatic presence - and madness. After years of city life, Orla and Shaw Bennett are ready for the quiet of New York's Adirondack mountains - or at least, they think they are. Settling into the perfect farmhouse with their two children, they are both charmed and unsettled by the expanse of their land, the privacy of their individual bedrooms, and the isolation of life a mile from any...
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xiv, 273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger."
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A posthumous collection of short stories and fragments from novels unfinished at the time of his death. This collection shows, once again, that Gay was a master of Southern Gothic, with tales that are dark and atmospheric and written with finely crafted prose.
56) The four winds
Author
Language
English
Description
"Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
57) Unsettled ground
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
Author
Series
Little Elliot volume 4
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elliot the little elephant and his best friend, Mouse, play hide-and-seek during an autumn vacation in the countryside.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in the Virginia pines, and overrun with failed parents, racist sex offenders, cast-off priests, and suicidal chickens, this novel challenges literary convention even as it attacks our national myth: that the rural naturally engenders good, while the urban breeds an inevitable sin"--Dust jacket flap.
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