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O Pioneers!
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Willa Cather |
"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska cou… |
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To thine own self be true
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Judy Clemens |
Halfway through Stella's sitting at Wolf Ink, her tattoo artist and his wife disappear into the back room. Stella dozes off; when she awakes, and they've not come back, she drives home. Before long, … |
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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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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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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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Cold Antler Farm
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Jenna Woginrich |
Author Jenna Woginrich is mistress of her one-woman farm and is well known for her essays on the mud and mess, the beautiful and tragic, the grime and passion that accompany homesteading. In Cold Ant… |
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Soil sisters
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Lisa Kivirist |
"Females are farming in record numbers. Covering everything from business planning to tool use to integrating family into farm operations, Soil Sisters is a comprehensive blueprint for women who drea… |
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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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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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Train Stories (Farmyard Tales)
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Heather Amery |
Quatre petits contes pleins d'humour et de tendresse à partager avec les petits. |
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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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Worth Fighting For
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Molly O'Keefe |
This is one reunion Jonah Closky wants no part of. If not for his mother's wishes, he wouldn't even be meeting his estranged father and brothers. The real surprise about being at this inn, however, i… |
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Far from the madding crowd
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Clare West |
"Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own… |
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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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