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Author and broadcaster Nigel Farrel escapes the frustrations of the city and sets off in an old Morris Minor in search of the perfect village. His journey takes him to Bosham in Sussex, Lacock in Wiltshire, Drewsteignton in Devon, Finchingfield in Essex, and Coneysthorpe in North Yorkshire.
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Strange things have been brewing in the village of Ashlaw in 1923: the once-prosperous drapers' shop has gone bankrupt and three separate families' lives have each, it seems, been hexed. In a bigger town, such news might happen every day, but in tiny, remote Ashlaw, even one of these curses can set the whole village off-kilter.
So what could be responsible for the stir? Margot, a local, precocious schoolgirl, has been trying to figure this out, especially...
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Far From the Maddening Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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11) Island witch
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"Being the daughter of the village Capuwa, or demon-priest, Amara is used to keeping mostly to herself. Influenced by the new religious practices brought in by the British Colonizers, the villagers who once respected her father's craft have turned on the family. Yet, they all still seem to call on him whenever supernatural disturbances arise. Now someone-or something-is viciously seizing upon men in the jungle. But instead of enlisting Amara's father's...
13) Still life
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team of investigators are called in to investigate a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal, and discover that the death was not a careless hunting accident, but something much more sinister.
17) The boy
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When an American woman takes a job as a nanny in an English village, she discovers that the couple's son is a life size doll that displays paranormal tendencies.
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"Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China's most essential and daring novelist, "with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth" (New York Times Book Review). His newest novel, The Day the Sun Died--winner of the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, one of the most prestigious honors for Chinese-language novels--is a haunting story of a town caught in a waking nightmare. In a little village nestled in the Balou...
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