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Working the land
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Sandra Schackel |
Helen Tiegs didn't take to driving a tractor when she became a farmer's wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation. Lila Hill taught piano, then ultimately took… |
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Turn Here Sweet Corn
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Atina Diffley |
In her story of working the land, Atina Diffley reminds us that we live in relationships--with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities. A memoir of making these essential relationship… |
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Town in a blueberry jam
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B. B. Haywood |
"In the quaint seaside village of Cape Willington, Maine, Candy Holliday has a mostly idyllic life, tending to the Blueberry Acres farm she runs with her father, and occasionally stepping to to solve… |
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Leave tomorrow behind
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Judy Clemens |
Investigating the murder of a local country star at the county fair, jaded dairy farmer Stella Crown is wrongly accused of the crime in ways that compel her to search for answers before her wedding i… |
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Coming up roses
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Catherine Anderson |
"1890, Oregon: recently widowed, Kate Blakely is struggling to make ends meet on her small farm as she tries to heal from the scars of her late husband's cruelty. When her handsome, brawny neighbor Z… |
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A history of European women's work
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Deborah Simonton |
The paid and unpaid work of women in Europe has been and is hugely diverse - from schools to offices, factories to domestic service, dairies to hospitals and much more. The work patterns have fluctua… |
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Fifty Acres and a Poodle
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Jeanne Marie Laskas |
Jeanne Marie Laskas had dreams of life on a farm that she couldn't get out of her head. A dream of fleeing her otherwise happy urban life for fresh air and open space. A dream she would discover was … |
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Courting Miss Hattie
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Pamela Morsi |
The news spread like brush fire through the whole county when widower Ancil Drayton announced his intention to start courting Miss Hattie Colfax. She was certainly spirited and delightfully sweet nat… |
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The Cat Who Sang for the Birds
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Lilian Jackson Braun |
Spring comes to Moose County and Jim Qwilleran wonders if the yowlings of Koko and Yum Yum are more than just accompaniment to the birds singing outside his windows. Could the cats know who is at the… |
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Sheepish
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Catherine Friend |
What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it's no… |
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A tine to live, a tine to die
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Edith Maxwell |
"It's harvest time in Westbury, Massachusetts, and novice farmer Cameron Flaherty hopes to make a killing selling organic produce. But when a killer strikes on her property, her first foray into the … |
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Women Who Dig
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Trina Moyles |
Weaving together the narratives of female farmers from across three continents, Women Who Dig offers a critical look at how women are responding to and, increasingly, rising up against, the injustice… |
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Woolgrower's Companion
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Joy Rhoades |
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Ankle high and knee deep
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Gail L. Fiorini-Jenner |
"Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of gr… |
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The wild seed
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Gower,Iris Gower |
In becoming the mistress of Boyo Hopkins, Catherine O'Connor has made a dangerous enemy of his wife, Bethan, who is bent on vengeful destruction. As she fails to destroy their love, Bethan becomes mo… |
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The Farmerettes
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Gisela Tobien Sherman |
Six girls just out of high school live together during the summer of 1943 on a farm as part of the Farm Service Force, doing the work of the men who are off fighting the war in Europe. We follow the … |
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Her own place
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Dori Sanders |
"Traces the life and times of Mae Lee Barnes, a black woman from rural South Carolina ... including her challenges as a single parent on a working farm, her life after her children are grown, the rea… |
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Heaven's edge
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Romesh Gunesekera |
"In search of a dream, Marc leaves London for the land of his patrimony and family secrets - an island once said to be near the edge of heaven but now despoiled by war. There by a glittering lake he … |
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Sheepwrecked
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Jackie Moffat |
Wonderfully observed, witty and wise - a year in the life of the Funny FarmJackie Moffat returns with a new volume of autobiography that brings to life the trials and tribulations, the occasional pit… |
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Different paths
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Judy Clemens |
Stella's friends have been targeted for vandalism and theft. Then Dr. Peterson is found murdered in her office, and Stella makes it her job to find the connection. |
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