The Lost Villages

Author : Camilla Sten
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250249260
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Village written by Camilla Sten and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER FOR THE YEAR* for NPR "Come for the mounting horror and scares, but stay for a devastating examination of the nature of family secrets." - New York Times book review "[A] scary, highly entertaining debut...that pays homage to Shirley Jackson." - South Florida Sun Sentinel A Most Anticipated Book Goodreads * Publishers Weekly * Crime Reads * Popsugar * Bookish * #1 Loanstar Pick in Canada An Indie Next pick! A Library Reads Pick! The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left—a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn—have plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened. But there will be no turning back. Not long after they’ve set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice: They are not alone. They’re looking for the truth... But what if it finds them first? Come find out. "RELENTLESSLY CREEPY." —Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger (An NPR Best Horror Novel) "IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP READING." —Ragnar Jonasson, author of The Island "Readers will revel in the chills." - Booklist

Author : Alan L. Burnell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738573205
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Villages of Flagstaff Lake written by Alan L. Burnell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Permanent settlers began arriving at the village of Flagstaff around the 1820s, drawn by its advantageous location along the Dead River floodplain and the availability of waterpower at the outlet to Flagstaff Pond. In 1923, the Maine legislature passed a bill condemning a 25-mile section of the upper Dead River Valley to inundation, causing the eventual permanent flooding of the villages of Flagstaff, Dead River, and Bigelow. The bill authorized the construction of a dam at the river narrows at Long Falls and the subsequent creation of Flagstaff Lake. The properties in these towns were obtained by the process of eminent domain, and residents were forced to relocate. In the spring of 1950, Flagstaff Lake was officially created when the gates in Long Falls Dam were closed. It remains a controversial project today.

Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459746597
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toronto's Lost Villages written by Ron Brown and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 settlers arrived, Indigenous Peoples established villages on the shore of Lake Ontario. With the arrival of the English, a host of farm hamlets, tollgate stopovers, mill towns, and, later, railway and cottage communities sprang up. Vestiges of some are still preserved, while others have disappeared forever. Some are remembered, though many have been forgotten. In Toronto’s Lost Villages, all of their stories are brought back to life.

Author : Henry Buckton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714503
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Villages written by Henry Buckton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Britain there are more than 3,000 lost villages once-thriving communities that time and fortune have reduced to ivy-clad remnants and weather-worn ruins. Echoes of a former age, they evoke a natural curiosity as to who lived in them, what caused their decline. Bestselling author Henry Buckton goes in search of some of the Britain's more recent lost villages: Hallsands in Devon, swept away in a violent storm; the communities of Vatersay and Mingulay, in Scotland, victims to the changing fortunes of the local laird; and the picture-perfect village of Imber in Wiltshire, requisitioned for the nation in time of war but never given back. Combining rare photographs and the memories of those who knew the villages, the author provides a timely account of communities whose stories would otherwise soon be lost for ever.

Author : Raymond A. Wolf
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738565866
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Villages of Scituate written by Raymond A. Wolf and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915, the general assembly appointed the Providence Water Supply Board to condemn 14,800 acres of land in rural Scituate. The hardworking people of the five villages were devastated. By December 1916, notices were delivered to the villagers stating that the homes and land they had owned for generations were to be taken and destroyed. Construction was well under way by 1921, and water was being stored by November 10, 1925. On September 30, 1926, the treatment plant began operation. It now serves more than 60 percent of Rhode Islanders. The $21 million project was the largest ever undertaken in the state at the time. The dam that annihilated the villages is 3,200 feet long and 100 feet high and holds back more than 40 billion gallons of water. Today these quiet villages lie up to 87 feet beneath the cold, dark waters of the Scituate Reservoir.

Author : Stephen Fisk
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445679183
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abandoned Villages written by Stephen Fisk and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely ruined church, mysterious bumps in a field, stone walls visible on the shoreline of a reservoir in high summer. All these are signs of settlements abandoned over the years, and this book is the perfect guide to these intriguing sites.

Author : Raymond A. Wolf
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439637636
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Villages of Scituate written by Raymond A. Wolf and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915, the general assembly appointed the Providence Water Supply Board to condemn 14,800 acres of land in rural Scituate. The hardworking people of the five villages were devastated. By December 1916, notices were delivered to the villagers stating that the homes and land they had owned for generations were to be taken and destroyed. Construction was well under way by 1921, and water was being stored by November 10, 1925. On September 30, 1926, the treatment plant began operation. It now serves more than 60 percent of Rhode Islanders. The $21 million project was the largest ever undertaken in the state at the time. The dam that annihilated the villages is 3,200 feet long and 100 feet high and holds back more than 40 billion gallons of water. Today these quiet villages lie up to 87 feet beneath the cold, dark waters of the Scituate Reservoir.

Author : Maggie A. Wheeler
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781894263412
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Violent End written by Maggie A. Wheeler and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery set in the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Author : Hugh Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781902516158
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Villages written by Hugh Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maurice Warwick Beresford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Villages of England written by Maurice Warwick Beresford and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: