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Under Northern skies volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Minnesota, 1909. When Signe, her husband, Rune, and their three boys arrive from Norway to help a relative clear his land of lumber, they dream of owning their own farm and building a life in the New World. But Uncle Einar and Aunt Gird are hard, demanding people, and Signe and her family soon find themselves worked nearly to the bone in order to repay the cost of their voyage. At this rate, they will never have land or a life of their own. Signe...
62) Down on the farm
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Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A child naps like the cat, flaps like the hen, swims like the duck, and imitates the other animals on the farm.
64) O pioneers!
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English
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One of America’s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel—the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America’s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cather’s novel is a uniquely American epic. Alexandra Bergson,...
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Otis the tractor volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a puppy gets lost while playing hide and seek on the farm, Otis the friendly little tractor must face his fear of the darkness in order to help his new friend.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come. Yet...
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Henry and Mudge books volume 23
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Henry and his dog Mudge tangle with a grumpy goose when they visit a farm.
71) Wish you well
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Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to leave New York and move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, Louisa Mae Cardinal, but a climatic courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family and all those who have been touched by them. Reprint.
72) Foe: a novel
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"We don't get visitors. Not out here. We never have. In Iain Reid's second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Now that the strange war is over, sixteen-year-old Hallie and her sister struggle to maintain their family farm, waiting to see who will return from the distant battlefield, soon hiring a veteran to help them but, as ugly truths about their family emerge, Hallie is taking dangerous risks and keeping desperate secrets while monsters and armies converge on the small farm.
74) Fireworks night
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Series
Good dog volume 4
Language
English
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Description
After learning about fireworks from Nanny Sheep, farm pup Bo reassures his best canine friend Scrapper that fireworks are not evil monsters.
75) The good earth
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece following a humble farmer's journey through 1920s China returns with this beautifully repackaged edition that celebrates its nearly ninety years as an American classic. Travel to 1920s China, a time when the last emperor still ruled and the sweeping changes of the twentieth century were distant rumblings, with this timeless, evocative classic tale of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his family as they...
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Abigail O'Hurley Rockwell was a desperate woman. Journalist Dylan Crosby was going to start digging up her past for the book he was writing about her infamous late husband. It was just research to him, but to her it was a painful reality that had to be kept under lock and key for the sake of her children. Abby would do anything to keep their world safe--no matter how compelling Dylan's promises might be..."--Container.
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