Smiley, Jane.
Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMICather, Willa
Summary: Life on the divide was a struggle for the pioneering Bergson family. Alexandra, both tough as nails and tender as a budding blossom, faces and conquers the harsh realities of early settlers in Nebraska.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CATHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: Never knowing his parents, eleven-year-old Stewie Little and his brother have been raised on a farm by their older sister. Stewie steadfastly tends the chickens left by his beloved late grandmother. And every day Stewie goes door to door selling fresh eggs from his wagon, a routine with a surprise just around the corner. It's his new customer, Marilyn. She's prickly and guarded, yet comfortably...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC HYDMacLachlan, Patricia
Summary: "When Louisa (short for Louisiana) is sent to stay with her grandparents for the summer, she's not looking forward to it. While her brother is determined to find a way to stay on Deer Island forever, Louisa would rather be off having adventures with their globetrotting ornithographer parents. She's a writer, and there's nothing on all of Deer Island to write about -- right? Louisa quickly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: Shakespeare Williams heads home to his family's farm in eastern Colorado and finds his widowed, senile father living in squalor. Reconnecting with his high school buddies, Shakespeare hatches a semiserious plan to save the failing farm by robbing the bank that has been slowly sucking the farm dry.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILRay, Mary Lyn
Summary: The farm's creatures prepare for night and rest.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE GOCather, Willa
Summary: Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high spirited daughter of neighboring immigrant farmers. Antonia's lust for life in her new country endears the young woman to Jim, but not his grandparents, who want bigger and better things for their grandson.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Cather 2007Long, Loren.
Summary: When Otis the tractor becomes trapped in a burning barn, after rescuing kittens, his animal friends and local firefighters come to his aid.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE OTIHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: Roseanna Chaldecott spent her life as a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan. But when her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, something snaps. Unsure of her future, Roseanna heads upstate on one tank of gas and with no plans to return. In the foothills of the Adirondacks, Roseanna discovers the perfect hideout in a ramshackle farm. Its seventy-six acres are rich with possibilities and full...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HYDKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: This work weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the mountains and small farms of southern Appalachia. It portrays various people who find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINQuindlen, Anna
Summary: As a young girl in Miller₂s Valley, an ordinary farming town that may be facing its final days, Mimi is observing adults, selling corn, growing up and changing, and watching the world around her change, too. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen₂s novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: CD FIC QUIHarrison, Jim
Summary: This collection of novellas is Jim Harrison at his most memorable--a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity. In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old art history academic Clive--a failed artist, divorced and grappling with the vagaries of his declining years--reluctantly returns to his family's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARLong, Loren.
Summary: When Otis the tractor becomes trapped in a burning barn, after rescuing kittens, his animal friends and local firefighters come to his aid.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Long 2016Long, Loren.
Summary: When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE OTILong, Loren.
Summary: When a tornado threatens his farm, Otis the tractor must try to save the animals, including an unfriendly bull.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE OTIPatchett, Ann
Summary: A flock of lambs mishears the word "landslide" as "lambslide" and begins a campaign to have one built for them on the farm.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG PATWhite, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks)
Summary: Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2000