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21) Tragedy at two
Author
Series
Lois Meade mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When her daughter Josie's partner, whom Josie was thinking of leaving, is severely beaten and dies of his injuries, and the gypsies camping nearby are blamed, Lois Meade assists Inspector Cowgill in locating the guilty party.
Author
Series
Fairacre volume 18
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
While Fairacre's new commuter lifestyle causes a sharp decline in enrollment at Miss Read's school, Miss Read focuses her attention on the ill health of her old friend, Dolly Clare.
Author
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Trouble brews in the tiny country village of Fairacre when it is discovered that Farmer Millers 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...
24) Farther afield
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Miss Read, whose real name is Dora Jessie Saint, has been producing these delightful novels of English village life since 1956. On the first day of the summer holidays Miss Read plunges literally into the end of term, by falling downstairs and breaking her arm and twisting her ankle. Her old friend Amy Garfield insists on taking her on holiday to the idyllic island of Crete. The two women, so dissimilar but united in friendship, have time to assess...
25) Warning at one
Author
Series
Lois Meade mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cleaning lady and amateur sleuth Lois Meade has a personal stake in her latest investigation when her son Douglas becomes a prime suspect in the killings of a cantankerous elderly neighbor, Clem Fitch, and his noisy pet rooster.
Author
Series
[Thrush Green series] volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
GOSSIP FROM THRUSH GREEN returns readers to the delightful English village, neighbor to Fairacre, for a golden summer. But this sleepy, pristine setting conceals a flurry of activity amongst the villagers. Rumor has it that Mr. Venables is considering retirement just as the village's teacher is about to make an important decision. Molly Curdle prepares for a new baby. The kindly vicar, Charles Henstock, works on his sermon -- quite unaware of the...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
VILLAGE CENTENARY welcomes us back to Miss Read's cozy downland village just in time for the one hundredth anniversary of Fairacre School. Miss Clare, who was a pupil and later a teacher there, points out that such a centenary should be celebrated, and all of Fairacre is quick to offer suggestions -- from a tea party to a full-scale pageant. Deciding how best to stage the grand occasion, however, is only of Miss Read's problems. The ancient skylight...
Author
Series
Lois Meade mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Lois Meade has worked through all the days of the week, turning up clues and scrubbing up messes and murderers in the village of Long Farnden. A series of robberies have begun to plague Long Farnden, and Lois's own daughter, Josie, is shaken when a thief makes off with a hundred pounds from the till in her grocery shop. But before her policeman fiancé can crack the case, someone cracks Lois's husband on the head when he interrupts a burglary in progress....
Author
Series
Publisher
David R. Godine
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing "Lark Rise", "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Green", is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - is based on the author's experiences during childhood and youth. It chronicles May Day celebrations and forgotten children's games, the daily lives of farmworkers...
Author
Series
[Thrush Green series] volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Thrush Green is normally a peaceful place. But as autumn turns to winter, feelings are running high in the village. Miss Fogerty, a respected teacher at the village school for over thirty years, is troubled by the methods of the new young teacher. Dotty Harmer takes up driving, much to the concern of others, and it isn't long before she is involved in an accident and a threatening court case. And when the good...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
It begins as Miranda and David Claybourne move into a country house with a once-beautiful garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to come to the surface, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness. Then an enigmatic Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he?...
Author
Series
[Thrush Green series] volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miss Read's fans will be delighted to spend another fine spring in the charming village of Thrush Green. Joan and Edward Young are content in their honey-colored Cotswold stone house, which every-one agrees is the prettiest in the village. But the day comes when Joan's father returns to the house in which he grew up, and the Youngs' tranquility is ruffled by change. There are other small disturbances as well. That formidable woman Ella Bembridge has...
33) Weathering
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Pearl doesn't know how she's ended up in the river--the same messy, cacophonous river in the same rain-soaked valley she'd been stuck in for years. But here her spirit swirls and stays . . . Ada, Pearl's daughter, doesn't know how she's ended up back in the house she left thirteen years ago--with no heating apart from a fire she can't light, no way of getting around apart from an old car she's scared to drive, and no company apart from her own young...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2011].
Language
English
Description
When, in the late 1930s, Penelope is sent to stay with relatives in a remote ancient farmhouse in Derbyshire, she finds herself mysteriously transported to Elizabethan times where her sixteenth-century family is scheming to free the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, but, even with her twentieth-century knowledge, Penelope remains helpless in the face of danger.
35) Village diary
Author
Series
Fairacre volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The enchanting follow-up to Village School, Miss Read's beloved first novel, Village Diary once again transports us to the picturesque English village of Fairacre. Each chapter describes a month in the life of the village schools headmistress, Miss Read. As the villagers prepare for their country pageant, Fairacre welcomes many newcomers, such as the headstrong Amy, Mr. Mawne (whom the villagers would like to see the reluctant Miss Read marry),...
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