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Seventy-year-old Owen Mackenzie does what people his age often do: he dwells on the past. For Owen, this means he obsessively recollects the places he's lived and how these locations functioned as settings for what the women in his life--his mother, two wives, and assorted lovers--gave him. He feels that these females are what provided life to his life, the material of his true existence, which, in this remembrance, he stretches like a canvas on the...
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xviii, 243 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
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"This book is a compilation of stories about the daily lives of the people of northwestern New Mexico, especially the Hispanic people. The people communicated orally, and very little is left in writing. Much of the material for these stories came from listening to people tell their stories and from old-timers who shared their memories" -- Book jacket.
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La vie s'écoule paisiblement dans le village des Merdouzills. Accompagnés par leurs amis, Julienne et Jean-Marie partent en quête de la corniflure, substance qui développe une intelligence hors du commun à quiconque la consomme. Mais c'est tout un vaste monde magique qu'ils découvriront, ainsi que la menace qui pèse sur leur village: les Anti-Jles. Ces nouveaux héros devront alors retrouver la Crognote Rieuse, seul être à pouvoir sauver...
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La vie s'écoule paisiblement dans le village des Merdouzills. Accompagnés par leurs amis, Julienne et Jean-Marie partent en quête de la corniflure, substance qui développe une intelligence hors du commun à quiconque la consomme. Mais c'est tout un vaste monde magique qu'ils découvriront, ainsi que la menace qui pèse sur leur village: les Anti-Jles. Ces nouveaux héros devront alors retrouver la Crognote Rieuse, seul être à pouvoir sauver...
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La vie s'écoule paisiblement dans le village des Merdouzills. Accompagnés par leurs amis, Julienne et Jean-Marie partent en quête de la corniflure, substance qui développe une intelligence hors du commun à quiconque la consomme. Mais c'est tout un vaste monde magique qu'ils découvriront, ainsi que la menace qui pèse sur leur village: les Anti-Jles. Ces nouveaux héros devront alors retrouver la Crognote Rieuse, seul être à pouvoir sauver...
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Explore the vestiges of the hamlets and villages that have been swallowed up by Toronto's relentless growth.
Over the course of more than two centuries, Toronto has ballooned from a muddy collection of huts on a swampy waterfront to Canada's largest and most diverse city. Amid (and sometimes underneath) this urban agglomeration are the remains of many small communities that once dotted the region now known as Toronto and the GTA. Before European...
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Pioneer settlers began arriving in Pine Creek Valley after the Revolutionary War, drawn to the pristine wilderness filled with towering white pines and hemlocks. In the 1880s, descendants of those settlers began extensive lumbering operations aided greatly by the arrival of the railroad through the valley. Additional logging railroads were rapidly constructed up the tributary runs to the great stands of trees. Pine Creek's villages flourished, with...
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A journey of a child born into a world of turmoil and violence who must assume adult responsibilities, deprived of his youth and innocence in the midst of a political battle for control of the village that is his home, hiding in cellars and moving from place to place, eventually forcing the family to abandon the village in order to survive. He travels and escapes to cities where he receives his first formal education, struggles with illiteracy, learns...
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Assembling leading experts on the subject, this account explores the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of thousands of villages and smaller settlements in England and Wales between 1340 and 1750. By revisiting the deserted villages, this breakthrough study addresses questions that have plagued archaeologists, geographers, and historians since the 1940s-including why they were deserted, why some villages survived while others were abandoned,...
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Expectation conceals the truth.
Noblewoman and cultivator Li Yao is called to a small village to investigate a mysterious illness that has drained residents of their chi. Accompanying her are her suitors Xiang An and Shen Wei, both more trouble than they're worth in Li Yao's eyes.
Perhaps not all is as it seems. In the village and her suitors.
This is a short story set in the A Thousand Li universe. Does not need to be read to follow the main series....
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