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Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Lyndon Song, a renowned New York sculptor who gave up his art career to move to California and become a Brussels sprouts farmer, finds his new life threatened by a golf course developer who wants to buy his land, and his brother Woody, a movie producer who, unbeknownst to Lyndon, has been hired by the developer.
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English
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Her Harvard-student son just eloped with the First Daughter. CNN is parked on the road to her apple orchards. Secret Service agents have commandeered her country kitchen. The irate First Parents are threatening to have her taxes audited. The President's handsome, tough, ex-military nephew is setting up camp in her guest room. Hush McGillan's quiet Appalachian world of heirloom apples, country festivals, and carefully guarded family secrets has just...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the time comes for the third annual Fundraiser for the Society for the Preservation of Oversized Art and Edible Reproductions, the chickens, cows, and Farmer Brown create their own exhibits along with Duck making his own surprise.
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Series
Brethren of the coast volume 3
Language
English
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In 1706, war still rages in Europe, and the tobacco planters of the Virginia colony's tidewater struggle against shrinking markets and pirates lurking off the coast. But American seafarers have found a new source of wealth: the Indian Ocean and ships carrying fabulous treasure to the great Mogul of India.
Faced with ruin, former pirate Thomas Marlowe is determined to find a way to the riches of the East. Carrying his crop of tobacco in his privateer,...
9) Death notice
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Sheriff Kat Campbell vows to find the person responsible for the brutal murder of a local farmer, and when she learns the FBI believes he is the latest victim of the Betsy Ross killer, she goes to dangerous lengths to protect her town.
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From the author of McTeague : The classic novel of corporate corruption and violent rebellion in the railroad industry. On May 11, 1880, at a San Joaquin Valley ranch, a shootout between tenant farmers and a sheriff's posse left seven dead. The dispute was over land rights. The law was acting in the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad. This tragedy marked the beginning of the end for the American frontier, and it became the inspiration for Frank...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When chicken farmer Lester Hamilton is found dead in an old rock pit, Sheriff Dan Rhodes does not believe his death was accidental and sets out to prove that someone was willing to murder Hamilton in order to shut down his farm.
13) Kidding Season
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English
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In "Kidding Season", a young man named Charlie gets caught up living at a farm for a few months, an experience more important than he expected.
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English
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1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders...
16) Tobacco Road
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Language
English
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Caldwell's bestselling, controversial classic: the story of a Southern sharecropper family ground down by the devastation of the Great Depression Even before the Great Depression struck, Jeeter Lester and his family were desperately poor sharecroppers. But when hard times begin to affect the families that once helped support them, the Lesters slip completely into the abyss. Rather than hold on to each other for support, Jeeter, his wife Ada, and their...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
May Calendar has spent most of her life looking after her family. So she's not about to let anyone take her home or livelihood. Especially not arrogant property tycoon Jude Marshall! Jude is charming and sexy -- and he's determined to wine and dine May. Doesn't she deserve a little fun? After all, this romantic interlude can't last too long. Jude's the kind of guy to want a mistress, not a wife, and May can't let attraction take over -- she's got...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
March Calendar: Single and determined to stay that way ... certainly while Will Davenport's around. He may be the most eligible bachelor March has ever met, but he's also the most lethal! She'll never get involved with a man who plans on destroying her family's business! Will Davenport: Single and on a mission to buy the Calendar family's farm for redevelopment. But when he meets the feisty March, he's hooked. Perhaps he can do a deal that will bring...
19) Amish Homecoming
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Prodigal Daughter Returns Ten years ago, Amish quiltmaker Leah Beiler and her twin brother left their community and family without a word. Now she's finally come home -- with her orphaned young niece. Leah has much to explain to so many, including Ezra Stoltzfus. Before she left, she dreamed of marrying the handsome dairy farmer. But now that she's lived among the English and is raising a child who knows nothing of Amish ways, Ezra worries she'll...
Author
Series
Defenders volume 4
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
IN SEARCH OF HER PAST Emma Landers has amnesia. Problem is, she can't remember how she got it, why she's injured or why someone wants to hurt her. When she lands on the doorstep of former love Travis Wright, she can barely remember their past history. But she knows she can trust him to protect her. The handsome farmer was heartbroken when Emma left him for the big city. But there's no way he can send her away when gunshots start flying. Now Travis...
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