Storm in the Village
Author | : Miss Read |
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Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Country life |
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Author | : Miss Read |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Miss Read |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780618884162 |
Miss Read, the headmistress of Fairacre School, learns of a proposed new housing development that soon has the citizens of Fairacre up in arms.
Author | : William Sargent |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781584654063 |
A compelling tale of a natural disaster and its effects on a small New England community, now back in print
Author | : Miss Read |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547527187 |
Big changes are afoot in a small English village— “If you’ve ever enjoyed a visit to Mitford, you’ll relish a visit to Fairacre” (Jan Karon, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of To Be Where You Are). Trouble brews in the tiny country village of Fairacre, when it is discovered that Farmer Miller’s Hundred Acre Field is slated for real estate development. Alarming rumors are circulating, among them the fear that the village school may close. The endearing schoolmistress Miss Read brings her inimitable blend of affection and clear-sighted candor to this report, in which a young girl finds her first love, an older woman accepts a new role in life, and the impassioned battle to save the village from being engulfed is at the forefront of every villager’s mind. “Wise, ironic, kindly, full of atmosphere and characters, rural charm, broad dialects, and the impishness of children.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Affectionate, humorous, and gently charming . . . Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, always appealing.” —The New York Times
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : Tomas Gonzalez |
Publisher | : Archipelago |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2018-12-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1939810035 |
A riveting family drama set on the lush and dangerous Colombian coast. By one of Colombia's most acclaimed contemporary novelists, The Storm is an atmospheric, gripping portrait of the tensions that devastate one family. Twins Mario and Jose do not know how to cope with the hatred they feel for their father, an arrogant man whose pride seems to taint everything he touches. Over the course of a fateful fishing trip straight into the heart of a storm, father and sons are confronted with the unspoken secrets and resentments that are destroying them.
Author | : Miss Read |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : |
Plans for a new housing estate in Fairacre result in protest meetings and a public enquiry, which provide a stormy background to the daily lives of the villagers.
Author | : Jocelyn Playfair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1940 |
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Author | : Kiran Millwood Hargrave |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-02-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316529222 |
The women in an Arctic village must survive a sinister threat after all the men are wiped out by a catastrophic storm in this "gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt. . . . Beautiful and chilling" (Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe). When the women take over, is it sorcery or power? Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the skies break into a sudden and reckless storm. All forty of the village’s men were at sea, including Maren’s father and brother, and all forty are drowned in the otherworldly disaster. For the women left behind, survival means defying the strict rules of the island. They fish, hunt, and butcher reindeer—which they never did while the men were alive. But the foundation of this new feminine frontier begins to crack with the arrival of Absalom Cornet, a man sent from Scotland to root out alleged witchcraft. Cornet brings with him the threat of danger—and a pretty, young Norwegian wife named Ursa. As Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them, with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. "The Mercies has a pull as sure as the tide. It totally swept me away to Vardø, where grief struck islanders stand tall in the shadow of religious persecution and witch burnings. It's a beautifully intimate story of friendship, love and hope. A haunting ode to self-reliant and quietly defiant women." (Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize winning author of Shuggie Bain)
Author | : Fernanda Melchor |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811228045 |
The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers Winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute's Tanslation Prize Longlisted for the National Book Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters—inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable—forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666 or Faulkner’s novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.