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"The only hardcover edition of Jane Smiley's most famous novel--King Lear on an Iowa farm--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. With a new introduction. This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously...
2) How kind!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Edition
1st U.S. board book ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
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When Hen gives Pig an egg, she sets off a chain of events that brings kindness to all of the animals on the farm. On board pages.
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Chesapeake diaries volume 5
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart presents a captivating contemporary romance novel in the tradition of Robyn Carr, Susan Mallery, and Barbara Freethy.
Some of Lucy Sinclair’s best days were those spent growing up in small town St. Dennis—working at the family inn and enjoying summers filled with swimming, sailing, tennis, and the company of Clay Madison, her best friend. But Lucy’s darkest day, the...
Some of Lucy Sinclair’s best days were those spent growing up in small town St. Dennis—working at the family inn and enjoying summers filled with swimming, sailing, tennis, and the company of Clay Madison, her best friend. But Lucy’s darkest day, the...
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Carolina, having escaped from a foster home and living with Mr. Ray and Miss Latah on Harmony Farm, refuses to talk about the events surrounding the deaths of her parents and younger brother, and befriends a troubled runaway who she secretly feeds and takes the blame for his pranks.
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Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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The rolling fields of Shelby County are home to some of the finest horseflesh and bluest blood in Kentucky. With its rural beauty and tranquil lifestyle, it is easy to see why the locals call it Paradise County. But beneath the serene exterior lies a dark underside, and an evil that threatens everyone who touches it. Alexandra Haywood and her younger sister, Neely, have always loved Whistledown, the family's magnificent Shelby County horse farm. After...
8) Chirp
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
631 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"Kelly Murphy's life as a tulip farmer is pretty routine--up at dawn, off to work, lather, rinse, repeat. But everything changes one sun-washed summer with two dramatic homecomings: Griffith Burnett--Tulpen Crossing's prodigal son, who's set his sights on Kelly--and Olivia, her beautiful, wayward and, as far as Kelly is concerned, unwelcome sister. Tempted by Griffith, annoyed by Olivia, Kelly is overwhelmed by the secrets that were so easy to keep...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 6
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Nancy becomes suspicious of a secret society and is drawn to investigate.
12) Farm
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the activities on a busy family farm from the spring when preparations for planting begin to the autumn when the cats grow winter coats and the cold rains begin to fall.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda, and expertly tending the orchard with her father, Frankie desires nothing more than for the rhythm of life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical fact that...
14) Blue chicken
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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An enterprising chicken attempts to help an artist paint the barnyard and accidentally turns the whole picture blue.
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Working at the Horse Farm, a facility outside of Nashville that assists patients with mental and physical recovery, Olivia (Liv) Gordon has loved her job and felt safe, but now people are dying with Liv seeing a horse and rider, wearing a soldier's garb, in the night sky.
16) Anywhere farm
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
All it takes for an anywhere farm is one farmer, plus soil and sunshine, some water, and a seed.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Working on his uncle's farm in the fall, Flat Stanley searches for answers when pumpkins start to disappear right before the county fair.
18) Birnam Wood
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide...
Author
Series
To the rescue series volume 1
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Six days a week the chickens help the Greenstalk family and their animals recover from mishaps that occur on the farm, but they need one day to rest.
20) The stone wall
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Anna is eager to begin a new chapter in her life as a Lancaster County tour guide in the picturesque area where her Plain grandmother once stayed. Anna wishes she could talk with her grandmother about those long-ago days, but the elderly woman suffers from Alzheimer's, and beyond a vague hint about an old stone wall, much about that time is a mystery. Thankfully, Martin Nolt, a handsome Mennonite, takes the young Beachy Amish woman under his wing...
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