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121) The farmer
Author
Publisher
Green Pastures Pub
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although disasters cause a farmer to repeatedly lose his crops, he is rewarded after hopefully continuing to work hard, pray, and help his neighbors.
122) This heavy silence
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
When a sudden event leaves her best friend's daughter in her care, Dottie comes face to face with the past she has worked 15 years to forget.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
Seven Kentucky stories set in the 1940s and featuring farmer Ptolemy Proudfoot and his schoolteacher wife, Miss Minnie. In The Solemn Boy, they invite a couple of hobos to a meal, while Nearly to the Fair comprises Proudfoot's amusing reflections on travel by car. By the author of What Are People For?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roseanna Chaldecott spent her life as a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan. But when her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, something snaps. Unsure of her future, Roseanna heads upstate on one tank of gas and with no plans to return. In the foothills of the Adirondacks, Roseanna discovers the perfect hideout in a ramshackle farm. Its seventy-six acres are rich with possibilities and full of surprises, including a mother and daughter squatting...
Author
Publisher
Luna Rising
Pub. Date
1995, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Having ignored his mother's warnings about what will happen if he doesn't bathe after working on his family's New Mexican farm, Carlos awakens one morning to find a squash growing out of his ear.
128) Light of day
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Mystic: Savannah Beaumont once loved Travis McCord, but then Travis left her to marry someone else. Now, nine years later, Travis has returned to confront Savannah's father about his suspicious political ambitions and the Beaumont family legacy. Jilted once before, Savannah is determined to keep Travis at a distance, but when he comes to her, desperate for her help, she'll have no choice but to risk her heart once more.
Renegade son: With unscrupulous...
Author
Series
In the country of others volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco. While Amine tries to cultivate his family farm's rocky terrain, Mathilde feels her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, the lack of money to raise her two children, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. But she comes to defy the country's chauvinism...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
"Growing up on his family's orchards in Appleton, Michigan, in the 1950s, Martin Dijksterhuis finds everything he needs in his extended family and in the land itself - in the reassuring routines of growing and harvesting, spraying and pruning. Although his mother wants him to get out of Appleton, which she finds impossibly provincial, and attend a great university - the University of Chicago, her alma mater - he has no desire to leave."
"In the autumn...
131) Homecoming
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Up on the North Yorkshire moors, the Hartle family is about to have a life-changing year. Ann and Joe, with more than thirty years of marriage and two sons between them, are torn between giving up and pressing on with their struggling farm. Max, their older son, is set to inherit the farm and his wife Primrose has news to share, but is he ready for these new responsibilities? Their younger son, Bartholomew, escaped to the south as soon as he could,...
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Joseph Hutchinson is a man who knows the reality of tragedy all too well. A widowed father of two, living on a farm that is about to be taken from him, Joseph embarks on an unexpected journey that will bring him face to face with his greatest fears, and ultimately with his greatest discovery: a mysterious wooden box hidden in his attic over one hundred years earlier. This box, The Prayer Chest, contains the Three Secrets of Prayer that will change...
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Strong of will and slender of ankle, 20-year-old orphan Flora Poste is blessed with every virtue save that of being able to earn her own living. Casting around for suitable relatives with whom she can make her home, Flora alights on the mysterious Starkadders and, ignoring the horrified shrieks of her friends, heads down to darkest Sussex. There she is confronted by an exceptionally odd cast of characters: grief-stricken Judith, fervently religious...
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