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1	Year at Thrush Green, the more books like this by Miss Read add to wishlist A year in the life of Miss Read's Cotswold village: an American stranger comes to town, old Mrs. Peters falls ill, Nellie must run the Fuschia Bush Restaurant in the interim, and two surprising gifts hold vital implications. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	A Christmas Grace more books like this by Anne Perry add to wishlist Now a holiday tradition, this new Christmas mystery from "New York Times"-bestselling author Perry tells the chilling story of a storm-wracked coastal village that hides a terrible secret. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.48! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Wings of fire more books like this by Charles Todd add to wishlist Inspector Ian Rutledge, still haunted by old war memories, struggles to put his troubles aside and solve the murder of a well-known Cornish poet. But when he finds himself unable to escape the ghosts of the past, Rutledge decides to take an unorthodox route and use his psychological delusions to help him catch a killer. A "New York Times" Notable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Miss Clare Remembers and Emily Davis more books like this by Miss Read, J S Goodall (Illustrator) add to wishlist In the English village of Fairacre, the retired schoolteachers Dolly Clare and Emily Davis enjoyed a remarkable friendship, as this moving volume reveals. Childhood playmates in Beech Green, they would remain close throughout their long lives, eventually sharing a cottage in their retirement. They felt grief when a village family was lost on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.56! \| first editions
5	A Thatched Roof more books like this by Beverley Nichols add to wishlist Beverley Nichols fans, armchair gardeners, and literature enthusiasts will delight in this reprint of the second book in his "Allways trilogy", with facsimile reproductions of Rex Whistler's original graceful illustrations and a new foreword by Roy C. Dicks. Nichols' humorous ruminations on life in the countryside, as always, are refreshing. The ... see all copies from $12.19! new only from $13.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Farewell to Fairacre more books like this by Miss Read add to wishlist The final chapter to the ever-popular chronicles of Fairacre. Facing poor health, the longtime headmistress of Fairacre School and narrator of the stories prepares for an early retirement. Despite her imminent departure, she finds herself caught up in the intrigues and drama of village life, including the death of Henry Mawne's wife, and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.73! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Most Beautiful Villages of England more books like this by James Bentley, Hugh Palmer (Photographer) add to wishlist Villages are the very embodiment of Englishness. Honey coloured cottages from peaceful Cornwall communities; splendid thatched roofs sweeping over eaves and windows in the villages of Hampshire; half-timbering, flint and limestone giving Suffolk hamlets their characteristic appearance; and limestone, sandstone and millstone grit giving a darker ... see all copies from $5.90! new only from $16.15! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Cranford Chronicles more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Based on three Elizabeth Gaskell novels, "The Cranford Chronicles" follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire market town, during one extraordinary year. In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $5.89! \| SVS
9	Summer at Fairacre more books like this by Miss Read add to wishlist In Miss Read's idyllic English village, Fairacre, Miss Pringle--who cleans the local schoolhouse--gets testy and quits. The village copes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Rose Cottage more books like this by Mary Stewart add to wishlist During the summer of 1947, Kate Herrick returns to her grandmother's cottage to gather some valuable family papers hidden there. But she discovers that some of the papers are missing, and begins a search that unearths family secrets, reclusive relatives, and a love Kate thought she would never know. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.97! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Valeria's Last Stand more books like this by Marc Fitten add to wishlist A comic romp celebrating late-flowering love in a Hungarian village that will appeal to readers of "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society "and "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian." Valeria is a whale in a puddle. She harrumphs her daily way through her backwater Hungarian village, finding equal fault with the new, the old, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Place where the sea remembers more books like this by Sandra Benitez add to wishlist In a Mexican seaside village, a flower-seller and her husband are finally blessed with a child, but the birth triggers a series of events which affect the lives of everyone in the village, leaving one of them dead in the sea. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Black Swan Green more books like this by David Mitchell add to wishlist From award-winning writer Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. "Black Swan Green" tracks a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Village in a Valley more books like this by Beverley Nichols, Bryan Connon (Foreword by) add to wishlist This reprint of the third book in Nichols' "Allways trilogy" contains a new foreword by Bryan Connon, Beverley Nichols' biographer. Set in the English countryside, the hilarious memoir is as much about the author's love for plants as it is about the village in which he lived. The depictions of flowers and ornamentals - "A single one of those ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $13.42! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Bad Day at Riverbend more books like this by Chris Van Allsburg add to wishlist Riverbend, a small town in the Wild West, is depicted in black outline drawings on a white background. One day a stagecoach rides into town covered with strange, greasy, colorful slime. Will the Sheriff Ned Harvey be able to protect the townsfolk from this mysterious substance? see all copies from $3.99! new only from $8.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Fairacre Festival more books like this by Miss Read add to wishlist When an October storm does severe damage to the roof of St. Patrick's church, the whole town of Fairacre works together to put on a festival and raise money for the repairs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| first editions
17 view cover	Copper Beech more books like this by Maeve Binchy add to wishlist The lives and loves of the young people in Schancarrig breed intrigue, despair and possibly even murder. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	By the Lake more books like this by John McGahern add to wishlist In a small Irish town, a transplanted London couple try to make a go of farming while dealing with the intricate social rituals of village life and the threat of the IRA that is always present. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.79! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Stones for Ibarra more books like this by Harriet Doerr add to wishlist Richard and Sara Everton, a middle-aged couple devoted to each other and, perhaps, foolhardy, move from California to a small village in Mexico to reopen an abandoned copper mine. As foreigners in an alien environment, they must learn to cope with the villagers' exaggerated respect, their own disorientation, the things they discover about each ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Daily Life in Medieval Times: A Vivid, Detailed Account of Birth, Marriage, and Death; Food, Clothing, and Housing; Love and Labor, in the Middle Ages more books like this by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies add to wishlist Explore the fascinating world of medieval life through historic pictures, period illustrations, and detail text describing everything from castle-storming techniques to villagers' hair styles. 300 illustrations. see all copies from $3.35! new only from $27.64! \| first editions
21 view cover	Coastliners more books like this by Joanne Harris add to wishlist A young artist returns to her French island home after 10 years away. Her mother has died, and her village is sliding into shabby obscurity. With the help of an Irish handyman, she tries to effect change. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	For You Are a Kenyan Child more books like this by Kelly Cunnane, Ana Juan (Illustrator) add to wishlist Simply written and set in a small, modern-day Kenyan village, this read-aloud is sprinkled with Kiswahili words and explanations of African customs as it describes the daily life of a Kenyan child. Full color. see all copies from $4.74! new only from $4.80! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove more books like this by Marcel Proust add to wishlist With his grandmother, the adolescent Marcel spends the summer in Balbec, a fashionable resort on the English Channel, and meets some of the characters who will fascinate him for much of his life: the Marquise de Villeparisis, the Baron de Charlus, Robert de St.-Loup, and the group of young girls of whom Albertine is the focus. see all copies from $4.02! new only from $4.89! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Most Beautiful Villages of Provence more books like this by Michael Jacobs, Ph.D., MD, Hugh Palmer (Photographer), - Palmer Jacobs add to wishlist A photographic celebration of the most beautiful villages of Provence, from the mountains of Luberon to the village perchees of the Alpes-Maritimes - their architecture, landscape and people. This book also contains specially compiled listings of hotels, restaurants, festivals and markets. see all copies from $14.44! new only from $21.71! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower more books like this by Marcel Proust, James Grieve (Translator) add to wishlist Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the new translations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear in the United States, "Swannas Way," along with the second volume of "In Search of Lost Time," "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower," will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. ... see all copies from $5.30! new only from $11.72! \| first editions \| SVS

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