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The Gold Falcon - Katharine Kerr
Orphaned by a cholera epidemic, Neb and his young brother are sent to the desolate farm of their last living relative. But when the savage Horsekin tribes begin raiding the village... -
Shalimar the Clown_ A Novel - Salman Rushdie
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. [Signature]_Reviewed by William T. Vollmann_The focus of this novel is extremism. It tells the tale of two Kashmiri villages whose inhab... -
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... -
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... -
Death of a Sweep - M. C. Beaton
In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinera...