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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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a local country star at the county fair, jaded dairy farmer Stella Crown is wrongly accused of the crime in ways that compel her to search for answers before her wedding is completely ruined.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In rural Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light. "What you give in this world," an old man tells his grandson,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 445 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A critical analysis of Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic novel "Anne of Green Gables, " with background material, textual notes, chronology, and critical reviews from a number of authors.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's September 1999 and the world is on the cusp of a new millennium. In rural Maine, Gordon St. Onge, known as "The Prophet," presides over his controversial Settlement, a place rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the grid and off the land. Out in greater America, Bruce Hummer, the aging CEO of multinational corporation Duotron Lindsey, lays off workers by the thousands. Meanwhile, the newest member of the Settlement,...
73) Country hardball
Author
Publisher
Tyrus Books an imprint of F+W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After more than a decade spent in and out of juvenile detention, halfway houses, and jail, Roy Alison returns to his rural hometown determined to do better, to be better. But what he finds is a working-class community devastated by the economic downturn--a town without anything to hold onto but the past. Staying with his grandmother, Roy discovers a family history of good intentions and bad choices, of making do without much chance of doing better....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they search the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly - newlyweds, landowners, farmers, mothers, artists, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen - explore their own relationships...
Author
Series
Henry Farrell novels volume 1
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border of Pennsylvania, Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the steady encroachment of gas drilling bring new wealth and erode neighborly trust. The drug trade is pushing heroin into the territory. There are outlaws cooking meth in the woods, guys Henry grew up with. When a stranger turns up dead,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
ix, 161 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ways and means of maggot farming; or describing the fine art of poaching pheasants using nothing but raisins and sleeping pills, Roald Dahl brings his stories of everyday country folk and their strange passions wonderfully to life. Lacing each tale with dollops of humour and adding a sprinkling of the sinister, Dahl ensures that...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 305 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Mr. Wickstead has died under a tree limb. The villagers are certain that his death had to do with a treasure he dug up last spring. But why was he in the wood on a frigid night? And what of the claw marks on the limb? And what was that treasure? As per usual, the town's animals know more than the Big Folk. And only Pickles, Wickstead's fox terrier, knows exactly what happened. It's up to amateur sleuth Beatrix Potter to help the denizens of Sawrey,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
[Large print edition].
Physical Desc
361 pages (large print) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After years away serving his country, Cole Bishop finally returns home with a newborn baby in tow. As a single dad, Cole needs help. But the last thing he expects to encounter at his new job is his high school sweetheart--all grown up and more beautiful than ever. Tessa Applewhite might have broken Cole's heart years before, but she's never forgotten him. And he can wrangle her heart like no one else ever has. But Tessa rejected him when the stakes...
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