Patrick Taylor's devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in the quaint Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Now Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young...
Pastoral fiction
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Author:Taylor, PatrickSummary: - Author:McKinley, TamaraSummary:
Surviving a vicious massacre, the Aboriginal boy, Mandawuy is the last of his tribe. He will face the ultimate choice - to join with the white man, or to rebel alongside the warriors who are waging a war against them, pitting their...
- Author:Baume, SaraSummary:
The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about a young artist's search for meaning and healing in rural Ireland. Struggling to cope with urban life-and life in general-Frankie, a...
- Author:Berry, WendellSummary:
Mat Feltner struggles to accept the loss of his son as the rest of the Port William community watches the progress of World War II.
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a triangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand acre farm.
- Author:Seethaler, Robert, Collins, CharlotteSummary:
Shortlisted for The 2016 Man Booker International PrizeAndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with...
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot's first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publication. Eliot herself called it "a country...
- Author:Taylor, PatrickSummary:
"The charm of Taylor's Irish Country tales is brought to life in John Keating's performance. His Irish lilt will transport listeners straight to Ballybucklebo...Keating's pacing and inflections are perfect as he gives a unique vocal...
- Author:Taylor, PatrickSummary:
An Irish Country Yuletide is a charming Christmas entry in Patrick Taylor's beloved internationally bestselling Irish Country series. December 1965. 'Tis the season once again in the cozy Irish village of Ballybucklebo, which means that...
- Author:Berry, WendellSummary:
Berry opens this latest installment of the Port William series with young Andy Catlett preparing to visit a place he'd been to many times before, though this would be an adventure he will take very seriously. Nine years old, Andy...
- Author:Giguère, DianeSummary:
Qui n’a pas rêvé de posséder une maison à la campagne et de vivre en harmonie avec la nature ?
C’est dans cette atmosphère de dépaysement utopique que le destin des personnages de ce roman, qui n’est pas sans cruauté, se croisent...
- Author:Marston, MissySummary:
Wildly funny and wonderfully moving, Bad Ideas is about just that — a string of bad ideas — and the absurdity of love Trudy works nights in a linen factory, avoiding romance and sharing the care of her four-year-old niece with Trudy's...
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
The horses that graze on the verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have become the obsession of a woman who sees them as the fulfillment of every wish: to win, to be honored, to be the best.
- Author:Bruneau, CarolSummary:
Uprooted, longing for love and to feel somehow situated, Willa Jackson flees life as a military wife when she meets Hugh, the lighthouse keeper on McNabs Island in Halifax Harbour. The object of her fantasies, a musician, he's the...
- Author:Shute, NevilSummary:
When American geologist, Stanton Laird, goes to outback Australia to drill for oil, he meets wealthy Mollie Regan. A triangle of conflict develops between her, Laird and a struggling sheep farmer.
- Author:Trigiani, AdrianaSummary:
Au cœur de la chaîne des Blue Mountains, en Virginie, la petite ville de Big Stone Gap abrite les personnages excentriques les plus charmants de l’État. Ave Maria Mulligan, une pharmacienne de trente-cinq ans au physique de «fille des...
- Author:Kauffman, DonnaSummary:
Pippa MacMillan is a legend on the Irish folk music scene. But when her voice requires a time-out, she's left wondering how - and where - to find happiness in the silence ... Seeking answers, Pippa leaves Ireland in favor of a small...
- Author:Steinbeck, JohnSummary:
Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as is--both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Creating characters based on his memories of real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Steinbeck interweaves the...
- Author:Porteous, R. S.Summary:
Old Ben McReady from the Australian Outback has lived a full life and now aged more than 80 he relives it from his bed. It was a warm hearted and generous life... Cattle-duffing and living off the country at first, then WWI in Europe...
- Author:White, E. B.Summary:
For decades, E.B. White's charming, bittersweet tales of friendship and adventure have enchanted audiences young and old alike. The magic of "Charlotte's web" comes to life in a delightful-and completely unabridged-...
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