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The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a complex novel that explores the themes of human suffering, love, and redemption. The characters in the novel are all deeply flawed individuals who are struggling to find happiness in a world that is often cruel and unforgiving. Dostoyevsky's exploration of the human condition is at once heartbreaking and inspiring, and the novel is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit....
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The Village Squires Tales of Mayhem and Revenge is an exciting and eye-opening story about a young and extremely talented rock and roll bands path to professional status and acclaim. Yet, its members' underlying sense of justice and retribution, resulting from several childhood and young-adult traumas, presents the band with a collective and debilitating dichotomy... in that they sometimes, very purposefully, become vigilantes, creating a shared alter-ego/lifestyle;...
23) The Village Girl
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This is a story of Sandra Nakhumicha, a girl conceived out of rape. But, she never knew that. Sandra grew up convinced that her mother accidentally got pregnant, abandoned her, and ran off to the city. Sandra is, left to care for her maternal grandmother who in turn, ensures Sandra is loved, provided for, and has access to education. To impress her grandmother, Sandra works hard. She stays at the top of her class and handles her duties at home.
Somehow,...
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This volume by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical recasting of myth and legend. Employing an eerie narrative simplicity, these always-unpredictable poems are cautionary tales of the oppressiveness of monolithic culture on the development of artistic, philosophical, and political leadership. Alternating from the personal to the public, Ball attains a wide enough vantage to observe the cowardliness of historians in their refusal to ascribe...
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Killed in battle, the ancient Athenian Prometheus, awakes inside a body that is not his, in a future world unfamiliar to him. Trapped in modern day Denver during the annual Zombie Pub Crawl, he is surrounded by humans with their strange language of moans and hisses. Joined by a growing number of living dead, the new arrival helps them form into a well organized army during the zombie uprising. Only they are not here to destroy the living, they have...
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There was a young King who ought to have been the happiest monarch in the world. He was blessed with everything a mortal could desire. His palace might have been designed by the Divine architect Himself, so perfect was it in all its parts; and it stood amidst gardens with its dependent village at its gates, like a dream of feudal beauty in a story of romance. Notwithstanding his good fortune, the King was oppressed with what he conceived to be a great...
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The worship of the 'village gods' is the most ancient form of Indian religion. Participants believed (and some still do), that the world was populated by a multitude of spirits, good and bad, who were the cause of all unusual events - especially of diseases and disasters. This volume constitutes a detailed treatise on this topic, and includes a wealth of information on history, folklore, methods of worship, customs, and more. This volume is highly...
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The twenty-two stories in this collection, set mostly in Eastern Europe during World War Two, depict a world fraught with conflict and chaos. Theodore Odrach is witness to the horrors that surround him, and as both an investigative journalist and a skilful storyteller, using humor and irony, he guides us through his remarkable narratives. His writing style is clean and spare, yet at the same time compelling and complex. There is no short supply of...
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Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, The Village of Waiting is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the name means "wait a little more") in tiny and underdeveloped Togo, George Packer reveals his own schooling at the hands of an unforgettable array of townspeople-peasants, chiefs, charlatans,...
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This is a tale about tails, a whole village of tails. Here are a few:- Lion tail (belonging to the village dentist, Mr. Dickens)- Zebra tail (belonging to the village sandwich shop owner, Mrs. Wrinklebottom)- Mouse tail (belonging to the village vicar, Reverend Nightingale)- And also a pig, gorilla, sheep, fly, penguin and hippopotamus tail for the village postman, butcher, milkman, orphanage headmistress and idiotPenny did not have a tail. You see,...
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How can we turn a school, group, or community into a "whole village" experience for teenagers in the disjointed reality of the 21st century? This book is an invitation for educators to enrich their skillset and broaden their thinking, helping them to become more supportive, authentic, and professional educators.
“The Village Way” is a unique educational methodology that is being utilized in dozens of high schools and youth villages serving youth...
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A young girl learns some hard truths about human nature in this thought-provoking, beautifully crafted novel. Tomorrow, Emma's uncle is coming to take her to his house on Long Island while her father undergoes surgery and her mother stays with him in hospital. For two whole weeks, Emma will be stuck with her father's half-sister: the strange, bossy Aunt Bea. Luckily, Emma makes a friend at the beach, Bertie, and the two girls begin building...
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Brand NEW from the bestselling author of The Village Shop For Lonely Hearts.
After escaping her parents' unhappy marriage to sleepy Cranbridge a long time ago, Belle Clarke dreams of staying at The Black Swan Inn forever.
But with the rundown Inn threatened with closure, Belle may be forced to leave, unless a buyer can be found … quickly.
So, when her oldest friend Pete Kennedy returns from working abroad with a plan to save the Inn, Belle should...
35) The Villain
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After uprooting her life in a hasty exit, Harper has found herself clear across the country determined to give herself a fresh start.But new beginnings take more than a new location when the battle she's fighting is from within.As Harper concentrates on using Sarah's to do list to fix herself, she finds that her new life comes with reminders of her past, and how easy it is to fall back to the way she was.And while her fight to become the best version...
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Little concert parties travelled the length and breadth of Britain after the 2nd World War. Many of the artistes (men and women) were just demobbed from the armed forces. These were hard times, people were desperate for work. The story, which is light-hearted and humorous in tone, can also be seen as a sequel, in some ways-though this is unintentional-to The Good Companions, a novel by the English author J. B. Priestley. His book was written in 1929...
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In The Village Clock, Arshud Mahmood takes us inside a remotely beautiful world, a rural village in India under British colonial rule. How distant the empire seems! In one story, a young government clerk forsakes his desk job for a less remunerative one that allows him to be outdoors. In another, on her wedding day, a bride's family insults the family of the groom by presenting a marriage contract that suggests a lack of faith in the groom's devotion,...
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From the bestselling author of The Village Shop For Lonely Hearts.
Scandal-hit party girl Lucy Conway needs to leave London fast, so she packs her bags and escapes to the sleepy village of Cranbridge to take care of her beloved Uncle Frank.
But the country village isn't quite as idyllic as she remembers. To make matters worse, her Uncle's pride and joy, The Cranbridge Times, is close to going out of business.
Editor-at-large Tom Addison is having...
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When war ends, terror begins.
A fist fight that reverberates down the years. A family devastated by war. A flight from despair.
John Andrews leaves industrial Newcastle for a remote village in post-war Cornwall. A village of reclusive inhabitants, where the birds don't sing. A village haunted by its past that intrudes upon the present.
He falls in love, but it is overshadowed by a series of increasingly terrifying events. He encounters members...
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The first installment of a pioneering trilogy that would include The Town Labourer (1917) and The Skilled Labourer (1919), this 1911 volume established the Hammonds as revisionist historians whose meticulous research and persuasive prose not only illuminated the past but could influence contemporary social debates. Here the authors focused on the effects of enclosure measures on the rural poor.
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