It’s a funny thing deciding to kill someone. Really kill them. What makes an ordinary suburban housewife from a sleepy country village decide she is actually going to calmly and clearly commit murder? Love? Hate? Or just the quiet realization that it was the only solution.Shame really, that winter had started out so well ..

In a Quiet Village is a short story collection by Sabine Baring-Gould. Baring-Gould was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers", "Sing Lullaby", and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from the Basque language to English. Contents:_x000D_ Dan'l Coombe_x000D_ Timothy Slouch_x000D_ DobleDrewe_x000D_ Mary Trembath_x000D_ The Old Post-boy_x000D_ Auntie_x000D_ Brother Augustine_x000D_ Haroun the Carpenter_x000D_ Shone Evans_x000D_ Henry Frost_x000D_ Milk-maids_x000D_ The Bride's Well_x000D_ Jack Hannaford_x000D_ From Death to Life_x000D_ Cicely Crowe_x000D_ The Weathercock_x000D_ A Plum-Pudding_x000D_ A Christmas Tree_x000D_ Folk-prayers_x000D_ Crazy Jane

When her sister dies, Collie Noonan gets custody of her ten-year-old niece. Hoping for a fresh start, they move to a small village on the outskirts of Suffolk. But in Hyam all is not as it seems. The locals are verging on hostile, and all the local shop seems to stock is meat—a problem for Collie’s vegetarian niece. Emily Lassiter is also new to the village, and Collie is drawn to the mysterious schoolteacher. Unknown to Collie, Emily is an undercover reporter looking into the disappearance of her brother. He warned her something was wrong in Hyam. Something was watching him. Emily believes the answers lie in the village, and she’ll do whatever it takes to discover the truth. But something not quite human is stalking Collie and her niece. It’s coming for them all, and they’ll need to work together if any of them want to get out of Hyam alive.

In a small unaffected village outside of the city, the townsfolk of a close-knit community rarely leave and they even more rarely have any visitors. So when a young man named Adam arrives, the village is feverish in welcoming the newcomer. It’s not long before the tranquility of the halcyon settlement is disturbed with off-kilter ordeals, setting into motion a series of events affecting each dweller. With In a Small, Quiet Village, author Ian A. Hollis brings a slice of life story with intriguing magical realism elements, the first volume in the Cities & Villages saga.

Field study of living conditions in a village of Bangladesh - describes historical background to poverty, the agrarian structure and agricultural production; mentions landowner attitudes, rural youth, rural women and children; examines the role of Islamic religion, marriage, the rural area social classes (particularly peasant farmers and landless agricultural workers); covers land and production relations, agricultural marketing, violence, corruption, development aid, etc. Photographs and references.

Patrick Hartigan's tableaux of a Slovak village, where his wife Lenka was born, draw us into the simple and sensory lives of a grandpa, grandma, Linda the dog and the villagers who go about their business. Hartigan chronicles the family relationships and rituals from the viewpoint of an outsider and yet the care he brings to these observations makes them feel like cherished heirlooms. The Village is Quiet is an exquisite collection of stories where strangeness and intimacy transport us into another world. 'Patrick Hartigan writes the same way that he paints: as if the world is standing still and he is walking through it.' -- Erik Jensen, author of Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen and On Kate Jennings 'The book is a gem.' -- Caroline Overington, The Australian