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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
81 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family. This special collector's edition features red-colored interior text and illustrations!
Author
Series
Dream Harbor novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"When Jeanie's aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job. Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor's gossip at all costs. But Jeanie's arrival disrupts Logan's routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her. Will Jeanie's happy-go-lucky attitude...
Author
Language
English
Description
James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what...
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Language
English
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"Set in rural America and spanning much of the 20th century, Lila & Theron captures the spirit of the American rural experience, as it relates to their personal stories of love and sacrifice..."
Award winning author and public radio commentator, Bill Schubart, first introduced us to Lila & Theron characters in his 2008 short story collection, The Lamoille Stories. After being influenced by William Faulkner’s acceptance speech on winning the Nobel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Farmer Brown sleeps, his animals prepare for a talent show at the county fair.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But...
8) Shoeless Joe
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An Iowa farmer builds a baseball stadium in his cornfield, hoping his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, will play in it.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
What happens when a young sophisticated Chicagoan falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush Lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina -- trading the bustle of a cosmopolitan city for the vagaries of a small southern town?
11) Orphan train
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278, 16 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck and chance. This is the story of one such child. As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The annual Corn Maze Festival is coming and everyday the chickens, cows, and Duck help Farmer Brown--with a few bribes--to create a special Statue of Liberty corn maze, and every night Duck works hard recreating his own surprise.
13) Big tractor
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Farmer uses his tractor, Ol' Partner, to do all of his important farm chores, including planting, cultivating, and harvesting.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Farmer Brown wants to go camping. He packs up the animals. He packs up his brother, Bob. The chickens want to hike. The cows want to fish. The pigs want to picnic. And Duck? Duck just wants to stay in the truck. How will Farmer Brown bring everyone together?"--
16) Necessary lies
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her sister's mental illness and her own epilepsy, Ivy realizes they might need more than she can give. Jane Forrester, Grace County's newest social worker, doesn't realize just how much her help is needed. Drawn in by the Hart women, she begins to discover the dark secrets of the...
17) Tobacco road
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
ix, 184 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of a degraded, poor-white Georgia family living in a tumble-down shack on worn out land. This land had once been the prosperous tobacco plantation of Jeeter Lester's grandfather.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
85 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm cm.
Language
English
Description
Farmer Cobb likes to keep his crops as neat as possible, but when neighbors eat his produce and villagers plant potatoes in his field he decides to get away from everyone and build a tall tower.
Author
Language
English
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"The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. As the weeks...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
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