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A stranger's arrival in the village stirs up ripples of speculation and interest. The village finds itself paying tribute to the stranger's hero, a missionary born and bred in Thrush Green, and the stranger's presence alters the romantic prospects of Miss Dimity Dean.
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Thrush Green series volume 4
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English
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Feelings are running high in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green. The rector's plan for the neglected churchyard doesn't meet with universal approval; there is a clash of personalities at the local school; and someone has returned to the village after an absence of fifty years.
4) Thrush Green
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English
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The effects on many lives in the village of Thrush Green, in Southern England, when a carnival comes to town on May Day.
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Thrush Green series volume 11
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English
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Retired school teachers Miss Watson and Miss Fogerty make a return visit to Thrush Green to see old friends.
6) Tyler's row
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Fairacre series volume 9
Pub. Date
1973.
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English
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The Hales had hoped that the cottages at Tyler's Row would provide a haven of peace. But sandwiched as they were between the redoubtable Sergeant Burnaby and the poisonous Mrs Fowler, they soon found that Fairacre was no Utopia but an ordinary English village.
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Fairacre series volume 15
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English
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Summer arrives in Fairacre, and "Joseph Coggs finds a temporary home in the schoolhouse while his mother is in the hospital. Miss Read's friend Amy mysteriously disappears. Perhaps most difficult of all, Mrs. Pringle, the grumpy school cleaner, is unable to work because the pain in her bad leg flares up."--Cover.
8) Emily Davis
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Fairacre series volume 8
Pub. Date
1972, ©1971.
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Fairacre series volume 11
Pub. Date
1976.
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148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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A family crisis disrupts the efficiency of Miss Quinn's routine but causes her to think seriously about changing her life.
11) Farther afield
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Fairacre series volume 10
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English
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On the first day of summer holiday, Miss Read plunges literally into the end of the term when she falls and twists her ankle. An old friend insists on taking her to the idyllic island of Crete. The two women, so dissimilar but united in friendship have time to assess the values of married and single life.
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Thrush Green series volume 8
Pub. Date
1986.
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261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Shows the little village facing the consequences of a fire that destroyed the rectory, making room for a retirement community and a group of new residents.
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Thrush Green series volume 12
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English
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Plans for the centenary celebration of Nathaniel Patten's time as a missionary in Africa are merged with a celebration of Thrush Green's own village school.
19) Over the gate
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Fairacre series volume 5
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English
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Revisits the English village of Fairacre and its school mistress whose busy life revolves around her charges and the bustling activities of village life.
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Fairacre series volume 16
Pub. Date
2001.
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165 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Through the eyes of many Fairacre friends, we trace Mrs. Pringle's life and her stormy standing as the redoubtable cleaner of the town's school. However maddening she is, life at Fairacre would be poorer without her."--Publisher.
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