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41) 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.
44) Otis
Author
Series
Otis the tractor volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
229 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1836, Henry Lester moved his family from the Vermont hills to better land on the valley floor north of Rutland, beginning a saga six generations on a farm, which this book portrays and explores with an affectionate but critical eye. What gives the book its distinctive charm is its vivid evocation of a way of life: the beloved grandmother keeping house both as a shelter and as a temple of the spirit; the uncles sowing and harvesting, raising and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Storey
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
What's the difference between a weanling and a yearling, or a farrow and a barrow? Country and city mice alike will delight in Julia Rothman's charming illustrated guide to the curious parts and pieces of rural living. Dissecting everything from tractors and pigs to fences, hay bales, crop rotation patterns, and farm tools, Rothman gives a richly entertaining tour of the quirky details of country life. From the shapes of squash varieties to the parts...
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Edition
Random House trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 184 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the question of whether animals have souls, sharing stories about the author's border collie and other pet and farm animals he lives with to consider their spiritual characters and seemingly moral or amoral choices.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In a radical departure from her urban life, Ann Turner buys a piece of remote Vermont land and sets up a tent home in deep forest. She's trying to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston; more, she desperately wants to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division.As she writes in her journal, "There's got to be a more honest, less divided way to live." She soon learns she was mistaken...
50) Pig years
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 209 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"As a seasonal farmer in upstate New York and Vermont-living hand-to-mouth, but in love with the land and its creatures-Ellyn Gaydos understands the delicate balance between loss and gain. Choosing such work instead of moving to the city with her long-distance boyfriend, Gaydos recognizes her role in cycles bigger than herself. Yearning to be a mother, she recognizes, too, how new life is mirrored in everything that surrounds her: livestock, full...
Author
Series
Otis the tractor volume 4
Publisher
Philomel Books, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
On Christmas Eve at the farm, a horse faces complications while delivering her foal and Otis the tractor must race through snowy, treacherous woods to bring back Doc Baker before it is too late.
52) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first of Cather's renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman". When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.
Author
Series
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st Counterpoint pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
170 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a rural Kentucky river town, 'Old Jack' Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as they arrive at the next century.
54) Big red barn
Author
Publisher
HarperFestival/HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
℗♭1995
Edition
1st board bk. ed.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn on the farm.
55) The quickening
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Despite having little in common, Eddie [Enidina] and Mary need one another for survival and companionship. But as the Great Depression threatens, the delicate balance of their reliance on one another tips, pitting neighbor against neighbor, exposing the dark secrets they hide from one another, and triggering a series of disquieting events that threaten to unravel not only their friendship but their families as well."--from flap on front cover.
56) Postcards
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1992
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Postcards are the only communication between Loyal Blood and the poor, hardworking farm family he leaves behind in Vermont. The secret Loyal carries with him--the accidental killing of his girlfriend, Billy--is revealed in the first pages, and thereafter, as he prospects for uranium, traps coyotes, or digs for dinosaur bones, his messages continue to arrive home from across the U.S., long after his father has died and his brother, sister, and mother...
57) Bent Road
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
79 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The last year of World War I is an eventful one for Vermont farm boy Mason as he helps with the chores, tries to get along with his little brother, and sees an older bully go off to the war.
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.
60) Some luck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children. Beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change, the personal and the historical merge seamlessly in the Langdons' story.
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