Chapman, Linda
Summary: "Do you believe in magic? Sita and her friends do! And when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventure awaits. When Westport enters the Prettiest Small Town competition, mysterious things begin to happen at night. Can the Star Friends figure out who is behind the strange events?"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC CHAJones, Diana Wynne.
Summary: After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2010
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Summary: In a tiny village in the Swiss Alps, an angel meets an American girl named Zola who has come with her father to open a school, and together Zola and the angel rescue a group of homeless orphans, who gradually change everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CREZappia, Francesca
Summary: Two roads lead into a dark forest. They meet at Greymist Fair, the village hidden in the trees, a place kept alive by the families that never leave. The people of Greymist Fair know the woods are a dangerous and magical place, and to set foot off the road is to invite trouble. When Heike, the village's young tailor, discovers a body on the road, she goes looking for who is responsible. But her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZAPHaddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: Twelve-year-old Zola, who has a surprising connection to Jessie, discovers that she is stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help them escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HADAlexander, Tasha
Summary: "Lady Emily, husband Colin Hargreaves, and their three sons eagerly embark on a family vacation at Cairnfarn Castle, the Scottish estate of their dear friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge. But a high-spirited celebration at the beginning of their stay comes to a grisly end when the duke's gamekeeper is found murdered on the banks of the loch. Handsome Angus Sinclair had a host of enemies: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALECook, Lorna
Summary: "1943: The world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give their homes over to the British army. But on the eve of their departure, a terrible act will cause three of them to disappear forever. 2018: Melissa had hoped a break on the coast of Dorset would rekindle her stagnant relationship, but despite the idyllic scenery, it's pushing her and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2019
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Summary: "A stunning, heartwrenching new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice. When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother--terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria--and her aunt, the repercussions will send her on a desperate quest to uncover a secret her mother has been hiding for nearly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLERagnar Jonasson
Summary: "Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavaik. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skaalar seems like a small price to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGBasham, Brendan Shay
Summary: When the river swallowed Kai, Damien's little brother didn't die so much as vanish. As the unbearable loss settles deeper into his bones, Damien, a small-town line cook, walks away from everything he has ever known. Driving as far south as his old truck and his legs allow, he lands in a fishing village beyond the reach of his past where he hopes he can finally forget. But the village has grief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASSykes, Plum
Summary: In The Bottoms, tiny Cotswold villages on the English countryside, filthy rich Tata Hawkins is in a tizzy when her husband runs off with a bikini designer; her glamorous new neighbor, an American divorcee, refuses her overtures at friendship; and her two best friends are distracted by their own problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction SykesAtherton, Nancy
Summary: "In the twenty-fifth installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, when an inscrutable newcomer arrives in Finch, Lori is determined to befriend him--and in the process discovers Finch's own heart-wrenching past. It's early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: a newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows, a riverside cottage with a romantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ATHKidd, Jess
Summary: "Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an anonymous note suggesting that foul play may have led to his mother's disappearance, he sees only one option: to return to the rural Irish village where he was born and find out what really happened...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIDPerry, Anne
Summary: Mariah Ellison, Charlotte Pitt's grandmother, accepts her long-time friend Sadie's gracious invitation to spend Christmas with her and her husband, Barton, in their picturesque village. But upon arrival, Mariah discovers that Sadie has vanished without a trace, and Barton rudely rescinds the invitation. Once Mariah finds another acquaintance to stay with during the holiday season, she begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "In 1349, Oswald, the third son of the de Lacy family, was an eighteen-year-old novice monk at Kintham Abbey. Sent to collect herbs from the forest, Oswald comes across a terrified village girl. Frenzied with fear, she runs headlong into a swollen river. Oswald pulls her broken and bruised body from the water and returns her to the local village, only to discover that several other women have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYKAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: When Beatrix Potter returns to her new hometown of Sawrey after some time away, she finds the village threatened by a mysterious outsider who plans to destroy the pristine shoreline of Lake Windermere by constructing a number of villas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBGoodwin, Sarah
Summary: When eight people arrive on the beautiful but remote Buidseach Island, they are ready for the challenge of a lifetime: to live alone for one year. Eighteen months later, a woman is found in an isolated fishing village. She's desperate to explain what happened to her: how the group fractured and friends became enemies. How they did what they must to survive until the boat came to collect them....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GoodwinArden, Katherine
Summary: "The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARDTaylor, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYAlbert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAtherton, Nancy
Summary: "It's early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: a newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows, a riverside cottage with a romantic reputation. Will the cottage's newest resident prove yet again its enchanting ability to matchmake? But when Crispin Windle arrives, no one knows what to make of him: seemingly a loner, he repels every welcoming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ATHPym, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYMErdrich, Louise.
Summary: While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwa artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDKiesbye, Stefan.
Summary: A village on the Devil's Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age--in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-to-face with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012