In this village, I'm an outcast: Griffin Everett, the scowling giant who prefers plants to people. Then I meet Keynes, a stranger from the city who's everything I'm not: sharp-tongued, sophisticated, beautiful. Free. For...
Farmers
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Author:Hibbert, TaliaSummary: -
Author:Harris, NathanSummary:In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad comes a story about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever. In the waning days...
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Author:Fradkin, BarbaraSummary:In this murder mystery, handyman Cedric O'Toole sets out to solve who is raiding his farm and becomes embroiled in a family tragedy.
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Simple country handyman Cedric O’Toole relies on his organic vegetable garden to supplement his meager income, so he’s upset when vegetables begin disappearing. After several futile attempts to protect the garden, he stakes it out one...
- Author:Galati, FrankSummary:
Presents a dramatization of John Steinbeck's novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the Great Depression.
- Author:Steinbeck, JohnSummary:
Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some...
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Author:Harrison, JimSummary:Literary legend Jim Harrison's collection of novellas, The Farmer's Daughter, finds him writing at the height of his powers, and in fresh and audacious new directions. The three stories in The Farmer's Daughter are as different as they...
- Author:Macdonald, Betty BardSummary:
When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need...
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Author:Gordimer, NadineSummary:Mehring, a rich industrialist, has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. Gordimer offers a fascinating study of the forces and relationships that seethed in...
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Author:Poliquin, DanielSummary:Facing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to a family as decent as the one he is leaving. It is not the first time he has been here, and it may not be the last. Mute in...
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Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge and then redemption on a farm run by an Indigenous man with wounds of...
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Author:Sherwood, KateSummary:Quando la compagnia lo manda nel sudovest dell’Ontario per persuadere una cittadina ad accettare la proposta di una cava di ghiaia, Peter Carr accetta con piacere la sfida. Tecnicamente è un avvocato, ma in pratica lui risolve i...
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Author:Kinsella, W. P.Summary:More than just another baseball story, this soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based is about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive.
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Author:Juby, SusanSummary:Prudence Burns is an overly idealistic Brooklyn girl who has inherited a derelict plot of land named Woefield Farm. Her motley crew of farm hands consists of Earl, an elderly, reclusive bluegrass legend; Seth, an agoraphobic heavy-metal...
- Author:Little, J.I.Summary:
The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trentare not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly...
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Author:FFORDE, KatieSummary:It's not as if Nel hasn't enough on her plate already: organising a farmers' market in Paradise Fields and keeping track of her teenage daughter. But when her old friend Sir Gerald dies, it seems preserving the Fields is...
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Author:Kazenbroot, NellySummary:Googol and Googolplex are back from space, ready to continue their scavenger hunt. Pippa and Troy are eager to help, but runaway bulls and disappearing rainbows make their task difficult. And dangerous!
- Author:Earl, Paul D.Summary:
One of the most turbulent periods in the history of prairie agriculture is chronicled in this book about the life and times of Alexander “Mac” Runciman, the Saskatchewan farmer who led the United Grain Growers as president from 1961 to...
- Author:Charland, Marie-ClaudeSummary:
En retrait du village de Monts-aux-Pins gît un mystérieux manoir abandonné depuis trois décennies: Côte-Blanche. Le départ expéditif de ses occupants avait jadis déclenché certaines rumeurs, dont l’une voulant qu’il soit le lieu d’...
- Author:Foulkes-Taylor, JanoSummary:
A collation of a variety of stories, yarns, poems, images and photos that reflect the historical significance of families and the thousands of people who directly and indirectly are associated with Western Australian country living...
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