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Once Upon a River

by Diane Setterfield
Ebook, 2018
Tags
19th Century, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, English Literature, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Magical Realism, Supernatural, Gothic, Kidnapping, Missing Children — 20 more, Distraught Parents, Drowning, Near Death, Rescue, Nurses, Photographers, Photography, Distillery, Villages, Village Life, Village Inn, Storytelling, Victorian, Thames River, England, Library Book, Libby, eBook, Read in 2019, Completed January 2019
Collections
Read, Read in 2019
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

A Sportsman's Notebook (Everyman's Library)

by Ivan Turgenev
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
19th Century, 19th Century Literature, 1850s, Fiction, Russian Literature, Short Stories, Serfs, Peasants, Nobility, Landowners, Hunting — 12 more, Villages, Rural Life, Steppes, Forests, Nature, Animals, Horses, Realism, Russia, Purchased from Amazon.ca, Acquired in 2015, To Reread
Collections
To Reread, Everyman's Library
Status
Available
Call number
891.733

The Buried Giant

by Kazuo Ishiguro
Digital audiobook, 2015
Tags
6th Century, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, English Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Fantasy, Allegories, British Folklore, Myths — 48 more, Myths and Legends, Adventure, Journey, Mist, Forgetting, Memory, Warrens, Villages, Village Life, Relationships, Love, Death, Marriage, Couples, Infidelity, Aging, Old Age, Britons, Saxons, Early Middle Ages, Middle Ages, Sir Gawain, Arthurian, Arthurian Legend, Post-Arthurian, Knights, Knight of the Round Table, Beowulf, War, Siege of Mount Badon, Monsters, Ogres, Giants, Dragons, Pixies, Sprites, England, Great Yarn, Nobel Prize, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Audiobook, Narrated by David Horovitch, Purchased from Audible.com, Acquired in 2015, British Author Challenge, Read in 2015, Completed March 2015
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Harvest

by Jim Crace
Paperback, 2013
Tags
16th Century, 17th Century, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, English Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Villages, Village Life, Farmers, Fire — 16 more, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Outsiders, Power, Inheritance Rights, Suspicion, Modernization, Primeval Forests, England, Great Yarn, Booker Prize Shortlist, Walter Scott Prize Shortlist, Library Book, Read in 2013, Completed September 2013, Acquired in 2013
Collections
Read, Read in 2013
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Midwich Cuckoos

by John Wyndham
Paperback, 2010
Tags
20th Century, 20th Century Literature, 1950s, Fiction, English Literature, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, Horror, Horrifying, Aliens — 35 more, Alien Invasion, Invasion, Cuckoos, Children, Telepathy, Mind Control, Telekinesis, Group Mind, Pregnancy, Surrogate Mothers, Postwar, Philosophy, Philosophers, Small Towns, Villages, Village Life, Midlands, England, Adapted to Film, Village of the Damned, 1001 Books, 1001 Books (2006/2008/2010 Edition), Guardian 1000, Guardian 1000 (Science Fiction & Fantasy), Hardcover, Boxed Set, Boxed Set 3-Volumes, New, Folio Society, Illustrated by Patrick Leger, Purchased from The Folio Society, Summer Sale, Acquired in 2013, Read in 2018, Completed October 2018
Collections
Read, Folio Society, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
813

Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition (Penguin Classics)

by Ivan Turgenev
Paperback, 1990
Tags
19th Century, 19th Century Literature, 1850s, Fiction, Russian Literature, Short Stories, Serfs, Peasants, Nobility, Landowners, Hunting — 16 more, Villages, Rural Life, Steppes, Forests, Nature, Animals, Horses, Realism, Russia, Used, Purchased from The Word, Acquired in 2013, Picked by sibyx, Picked for Me 2014, Read in 2014, Completed July 2014
Collections
Read, Read in 2014, Picked for Me 2014
Status
Available
Call number
891.733

The Tiger's Wife: A Novel

by Tea Obreht
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
20th Century, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, American Literature, Animals, Tigers, Elephants, Zoos, Legends, Superstition, The Jungle Book — 25 more, Rudyard Kipling, Doctors, War, Balkan Wars, WWII, Villages, Village Life, Relationships, Friends, Friendship, Family, Grandfathers, Memories, Love, Loss, Death, Mourning, Balkans, National Book Award Finalist, Orange Prize, Read in 2011, Completed May 2011, Purchased from BookDepository, Acquired in 2011, Loaned to Emily
Collection
To Reread
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

One City, Two Brothers

by Chris Smith
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
21st Century Literature, Fiction, Children's Literature, Illustration, Folklore, Family, Siblings, Brothers, Brotherly Love, Love, King Solomon — 12 more, Judaism, Farming, Villages, Jerusalem, Middle East, En français, Library Book, TIOLI, Read in 2011, Completed September 2011, Picture Book, Illustrated by Aurélia Fronty
Collections
Read, Children's & YA, Read in 2011
Status
Available
Call number
398.20933

The Tiger's Wife

by Tea Obreht
CD audiobook, 2011
Tags
20th Century, 21st Century Literature, Fiction, American Literature, Animals, Tigers, Elephants, Zoos, Legends, Superstition, The Jungle Book — 31 more, Rudyard Kipling, Doctors, War, Balkan Wars, WWII, Villages, Village Life, Relationships, Friends, Friendship, Family, Grandfathers, Memories, Love, Loss, Death, Mourning, Balkans, Great Yarn, National Book Award Finalist, Orange Prize, Audiobook, Purchased from Audible.com, Narrated by Susan Duerden, Narrated by Robin Sachs, 11/11, TIOLI, Read in 2011, Completed May 2011, Acquired in 2011, To Reread
Collections
Read, Audiobooks, Read in 2011
Status
Available
Call number
813.6
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