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Secret Daughter - Shilpi Somaya Gowda
On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl. But in a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her newborn daughter's... -
Second Child - John Saul
Product DescriptionOne hundred years ago, in the beautiful village of Secret Cove, Maine, on the night of the annual August Moon Ball, a shy and lovely servant girl committed an ac... -
Scenes From Village Life - Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange
ReviewA "thought provoking collection... Filled with tension and allegory, Oz's perceptive tales explore the nuance and alienation of transitioning states."--Booklist... -
Rain Village - Carolyn Turgeon
From BooklistTessa is a very small girl in a family of giants. And, much to her family's bewilderment and ridicule, she isn't cut out for farmwork. Instead, Tessa gets a job at the... -
Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa
SUMMARY: Mornings in Jeninis a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel i... -
Messenger - Lois Lowry
From School Library JournalGrade 6 Up-Matty, who has lived in Village with the blind Seer since running away from an abusive childhood, is looking forward to receiving his true nam... -
Life in a Medieval Village - Frances Gies; Joseph Gies
From Publishers WeeklyAccording to the authors of Life in a Medieval City , the vast majority of medieval Europeans lived in villages--"permanent communities organized for agricult... -
Krispos Rising - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyBecause of rising taxes on his village and the untimely deaths of his parents and sister, young Krispos is forced to leave the family farm and seek his fortun... -
Klee Wyck - Emily Carr; Kathryn Bridge
ReviewI did not write Klee Wyck, as the reviewers said, long ago when I went to the West Coast Villages painting. I was too busy then painting from dawn till dusk. I wrote Klee Wyc... -
Hope - Lesley Pearse
SUMMARY: Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother s adultery? Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearb...