villages

Billy's double life--elementary school in Piffling, Indiana, and international monster killer--intensifies as he makes his first solo creatch-op in a Chinese mountain village.

In the Irish town of Shancarrig, the young people carve their initials - and those of their loves - into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed dors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.

A collective biography, based on interviews taped by a small-town doctor, recording the lives of more than fifty resident of a Japanese village, their memories all related to the lakeside town and its rural suburbs northeast of Tokyo.

Looks at life in the small rural village of Boto, Ethiopia, through the eyes of local coffee farmers.

In an isolated mountain village, nine-year-old Maria and her grandfather rescue and raise a wolf cub, Shadow, and when Shadow eventually leaves to join his own kind, a stranger's words help Maria to accept that this is for the best.