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Author
Publisher
Silver Print Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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In a beautiful companion volume to his classic Vermont People and People of the Great Plains, Peter Millers VERMONT FARM WOMEN puts faces and stories to these statistics and shows that this small rural state is setting a national trend. Within the group of forty-four Vermont farm women profiled in these pages, tremendous variety exists among the crops they grow and harvest, the animals they breed and raise, and the products they create. Yet all...
Author
Series
Unusual chickens volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. A prancing, playful bloke, Wilbur is devastated when he learns of the destiny that befalls all those of porcine persuasion. Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads "Some Pig," convincing the farmer and surrounding community that Wilbur is no ordinary animal and should be saved. In this story of friendship,...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The compelling, funny story of a high-powered professional's life-changing journey from Manhattan big cheese to Vermont goat cheesemaker
In the tradition of food memoirs like Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, Hay Fever tells the story of New York City literary agent Angela Miller and how looking for tranquility on a Vermont farm turned into an eye-opening, life-changing experience. Seeking solace in the midst of midlife strife brought...
7) Farmhouse
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A farmhouse provides the setting for a dozen children to live and grow, and when they leave, another family arrives to fill the house with love again.
Author
Series
Henry and Mudge books volume 23
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Henry and his dog Mudge tangle with a grumpy goose when they visit a farm.
Author
Series
To the rescue series volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
All week long the pigs help out around the farm in unexpected ways.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vermont Folklife Center
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores.
12) Return to sender
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Series
Language
English
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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
13) My Ántonia
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Set in rural Nebraska, Willa Cather’s My Ántonia is both the story of an enduring friendship and a brilliant portrayal of the lives of rural pioneers in the late-nineteenth century. Ántonia and her family are from Bohemia and they must endure real hardship and loss to establish a new home in America. But Ántonia is never broken by adversity, and her strength and love of life stays with her childhood friend Jim for years to come, even as...
14) Bonny's big day
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Farmer Skipton is persuaded to enter his old carthorse, Bonny, in the Darrowby Pet Show.
15) Understood Betsy
Author
Language
English
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Description
The importance of a healthy environment and sound psychology is effectively revealed through the story of how a nervous, overprotected young girl becomes a stable, self-reliant person after she is suddenly transplanted to the simple life on a Vermont farm.
18) Two if by sea
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
592 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat and former police officer Frank Mercy goes out to join his volunteer rescue unit and pulls a little boy from a submerged car, saving the child's life with only seconds to spare. In that moment, Frank's own life is transformed. Not quite knowing why, Frank sidesteps the law, when, instead of turning Ian over to the Red Cross, he takes the...
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