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Thrush Green series volume 7
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The fourth volume available in the Thrush Green paperback series continues the fortunes of the Thrush Green families we last met in Gossip from Thrush Green.
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A sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell's collection of "country noir" novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition.
In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession,...
85) The summer house
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Matt comes across photos of him as a child yet they seem unfamiliar; is it really him? He can't remember the clothes or the toys, and his sister Imogen is nowhere in the pictures. Since her childhood Imogen has loved the Summer House, a charming folly in the grounds of an ancient house on Exmoor and now she and her veterinary husband have the chance of buying. But her marriage is threatened when her husband refuses to live so far from his practice....
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That Distant Land collects twenty-three stories, interlinked with each other and with the other published 'Port William' novels. The stories, arranged in their fictional chronology (from 1888 to almost the present day), become one sustained work, a new novel that spans the entire life and time involved. The range of this book is extraordinary: it offers rest for the weary, hope for the beleaguered, and strength for everyone else.
88) A place on earth
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The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found.
91) THE MUSIC BOX
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Bestselling Gift Book from T. Davis Bunn T. Davis Bunn has inspired and entertained thousands of readers with his charming little gift books. The Quilt and The Gift soared onto the best-seller lists. The Messenger was hailed as "a book of great wisdom...a sweet teacher of simple, priceless truths." Now Davis presents his most tender and romantic story yet, The Music Box. Chrissy, a young girl who lost her mother to illness, has a beautiful singing...
92) Close quarters
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A widow goes house-hunting in Barsetshire in this witty, moving novel by an author of "graceful stories of upper-class English life" (The New York Times).
One rainy summer, amid the social and cultural changes of postwar England, Mrs. Macfadyen wrestles with the loss of her beloved husband after just five years of happiness. Life has left her uprooted-but where can she replant herself? The hunt for a new house (preferably not too close to her mother's)...
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Thrush Green series volume 8
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"When a fire destroys its rectory, the normally peaceful Thrush Green becomes a center of controversy. Who will live in the retirement homes to be built on the vacant lot, and will everyone get along? Miss Read's cast of engaging characters and gentle humor help hash out the issues."--Fantastic Fiction website.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 19
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A Student's Companion To The Novel.
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A Grammy-winning lyricist and accomplished poet, Joe Henry turns his immense talent to the novel form in this moving debut. Spencer Davis and his wife Elizabeth have carved out a rewarding existence on the fierce plains of Wyoming, where they raise three sons alongside herds of cattle. But as their oldest son Luke comes of age and begins testing the boundaries of his independence, Spencer fears that their simple way of life may not be enough for Luke....
97) Love at all ages
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From a starry-eyed teenager to an elderly clergyman, it seems no one is immune to romance in the county of Barsetshire . . .
In the long-running and beloved series that brings Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire into the mid-twentieth century and offers "a fresh, original, witty interpretation of England's social history," the quirky inhabitants and well-bred families of the county find themselves navigating the delights and uncertainties of love (The...
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Thrush Green series volume 12
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Celebrations are being prepared to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nathaniel Patten, one of Thrush Green's most famous sons. A statue is being put up to mark the occasion and when the long-anticipate day arrives, events culminate in more than one cause for rejoicing.
100) Postcards
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Postcards is the story of Loyal Blood who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime he committed in 1944. Loyal traverses the American West for forty years, living a hundred different lives. His only contact with his past is through a series of postcards he sends home - not realising that in his absence disaster has befallen his family.