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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...
2) On the farm
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text and woodcut and watercolor illustrations introduce the animals found on a family farm.
3) Birnam Wood
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
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Language
English
Description
"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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Language
English
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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...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sibley the horse lives on Stony Meadow Farm and is a hard worker the whole year round. Then Tractor Mac arrives at the farm, and suddenly, everything that Sibley used to do, Tractor Mac does, too. Sibley wonders if there is any room left for him -- but when Farmer Bill and Tractor Mac get stuck in a soggy field, Sibley is the one who comes to their rescue, and Sibley and Tractor Mac learn that there's plenty for both of them to do at the farm.
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
9) Joyful
Author
Language
English
Description
"Randall Beiler had always planned to marry Elizabeth Nolt. But when he assumes the responsibility for his younger siblings, he ends their courtship. When Elizabeth accepts a job as the Beilers' housekeeper, the young Amish couple will get a second chance at love"--
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the farm, workers pick vegetables, collect eggs, and make cheese. At the market the next day, the workers set up their stands and prepare for shoppers to arrive. Amy, the baker at the Busy Bee Cafe, has a very special meal in mind--and, of course, all the farmers show up at the cafe to enjoy the results of their hard work"--
12) Blue chicken
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An enterprising chicken attempts to help an artist paint the barnyard and accidentally turns the whole picture blue.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of "Still life with bread crumbs." This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen's novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.
Author
Language
English
Description
It seems a long time since life was good for Liz Dewhurst. Her happy marriage to Gregor ended six months ago when she discovered he had been having an affair with another local woman for two years. But if that wasn't enough, Liz and Gregor's family businesses were also intertwined. Growing up on neighboring farms on the East coast of Fife, an area blessed with rich soil and beautiful, unspoiled landscapes, the marriage made it perfect sense to merge....
Author
Language
English
Description
Originally published: New York : Random House, c2000."This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--P.[4] of cover.When Junie B. learns that her kindergarten class is going on a field trip to a farm, she worries about being attacked by a rooster. "Early Chapter Books" collection--look for orange spine label.
16) 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.
18) Taking chances
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
175 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy, continuing her mother's work at the Heartland farm for rescuing and curing abused horses, knows that her co-worker Ty is very important to her both personally and professionally, but when Ben arrives on the scene, it seems like everything starts to go wrong.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Kristen Daniels arrives at Hart's Hollow farm, the place speaks to her soul. So, she agrees to help matriarch Emmy Hart return the Georgia farm to its former glory. Emmy's handsome grandson, Mitch Hart, left home at age eighteen, haunted by his violent upbringing and the loss of his sister. Now he's back and determined to see his orphaned niece and nephew, who live with Emmy, settled in a better life. He's convinced that his grandmother's plan...
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