Enjoy the humorous and true-to-life adventures of 87- year-old "youngster," Dorothy Wetstra, in this highly engaging sequel to Dearest Dorothy, Are We There Yet? (K1050). Reflecting the pace, the memories and the friendships...
Country life
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Author:Baumbich, Charlene AnnSummary: - Author:Baumbich, Charlene AnnSummary:
Partonville marks its centennial plus thirty--by arguing over the best way to celebrate it. Meanwhile, the acting mayor is trying to change a vital part of the town square (but it's always been that way!) and a newcomer named Katie...
- Author:Baumbich, Charlene AnnSummary:
In Partonville, a tiny southern Illinois farming town, 87-year-old Dorothy Jean Wetstrs is the self-proclaimed town matriarch. She'sa regular in the main street cafe, where she helps herself to doughnuts and gossip. And she'...
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Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:Winner of the Governor General's Award and the Mr. Christie's Book Award. In this award-winning paean to country life we find Hubbo O'Driscoll, whom we first met in Easy Avenue, now living in the lower Gatineau with his guardian aunt...
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Author:Madsen, CindiSummary:Laid off from her teaching job in the city, Jemma Monroe takes a job teaching in a tiny town and rents a house on the outskirts. A visitor soon shows up at her door - a horse. His owner, a handsome neighbor in boots and a cowboy hat,...
- Author:Blakinger, KeriSummary:
Want to know the secret to simple living? The secret is Cottagecore! Life today is hectic; we’re constantly juggling the pressures of work and family life, and if that is not enough, we are all suffering from information overload. We...
- Author:Warren, DianneSummary:
Juliet, Saskatchewan sits at the edge of the Little Snake sand hills. The heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people, and their stories bring the prairie desert and the town to vivid and enduring life....
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Author:Nowlan, Alden, Bartlett, BrianSummary:Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion, and...
- Author:Fossen, DeloresSummary:
An unexpected inheritance rekindles a red-hot romance just in time for Christmas... Janessa Parkman spent one long-ago summer in Last Ride, Texas, trying to bond with her estranged father, Abe. Turns out that was plenty of time to fall...
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Author:Watt, BruceSummary:Getting three trucks and two horses stuck in the mud on "a good road" into BC's wild, remote interior was just the start of Bruce Watt's hilarious adventures—and it was his honeymoon, too. When the newly married Watt moved there in 1948...
- Author:LYNCH, Sarah-KateSummary:
Wife, mother, backer, lover... no wonder she feels spread thin. It's not easy being the adoring mother of one, living in the middle of the English countryside with a short-sighted goat, a crusty father-in-law and a dysfunctional...
- Author:Maharidge, DaleSummary:
Will Spector, a burned-out war journalist living off-grid, teams up with Daniel Likowski, a mysterious cannabis farmer, to search for a friend missing somewhere in Northern California's rugged, mob-ruled pot belt.
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Author:Cassidy, SaraSummary:In this early chapter book and follow-up to Not For Sale, Cyrus and his brother, Rudy, adjust to life in the country after moving into their new house.
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The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a new hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic....
- Author:Barklem, JillSummary:
Step into the exquisite miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge in this beautiful new edition of the classic picture book. Bad weather is on the way and the autumn stores are still not gathered in! Quickly, all the mice of Brambly...
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Author:McEwan, IanSummary:On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister, Cecilia, strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood...
- Author:Olsson, LindaSummary:
Deeply forlorn following the devastating loss of her fiancé, young New Zealand writer Veronika resettles alone in a quaint Swedish village. Her arrival is quietly observed by Astrid, an elderly, reclusive neighbor, whose companionship...
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Author:Reynolds, JasonSummary:When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires-literally-in this piercing middle grade novel by the winner of the Coretta Scott King - Johnson Steptoe Award. Genie's summer is full of surprises. The first is...
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Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:Anne, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London), is sent to Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers' homes and orphanages. Marilla and Matthew...
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