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 SMIGanter, J. Carl.
Summary: With These Hands is a documentary project of the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, showcasing four family farms in Leelanau County, Michigan, as they deal with the threat of residential development. The families include Mary and Whitney Lyon, Leo Ocanas, Lew Seibold and Rex Dobson of Ruby Ellen Farm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 GAN1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 630 GAN
Ganter, J. Carl.
Summary: Video showcasing four family farms in Leelanau County Michigan as they deal with the threat of residential development.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MediaVia 2003
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WITFoster, Fiona King
Summary: "In a secessionist rural state that has cut itself off completely from urban centers, where living is hardscrabble and poor but "free," Brooke Holland runs a farm with her husband, Milo, and two daughters. Their life at the fringes of modern society is tenuous - they make barely enough from each harvest to keep going - yet Brooke cherishes the loving, peaceful life they have carved out for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Foster 2021Summary: Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAPShin, Kyung-sook
Summary: "Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHISummary: The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN NAKSummary: L.A.'s funkiest college student, Crawl, is hilariously out of his element when he spends Thanksgiving at the family farm of a straitlaced college co-ed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1994
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SONMeadows, Rae
Summary: "Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Ficiton Meadows 2016Brontë, Emily
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of the tragic story of Catherine and Heathcliff, the star-crossed lovers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BROCrummey, Michael
Summary: When a whale beaches itself on the shore of a remote coastal town, a living man is found inside. Reeking of fish, the man is christened Judah, and the townspeople try to determine whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRUKay, Terry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KAYKalish, Mildred Armstrong.
Summary: Mildred Armstrong Kalish's "Little Heathens" is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.7 KALLogsdon, Gene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOGWatkins, LaToya
Summary: In a tight-knit, rural Black Texan community of Jerusalem, the Turner clan comes toether as the family says good-bye to their matriarch on her deathbed. The family's "reunion" unearths long-kept secrets: Julie regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean's thumb; police offier Alex grapples with a dark and twisted past; Jan yearns to go leave her children--and Jerusalem-- behind...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATLawson, Mary
Summary: In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families--the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWWoodrell, Daniel.
Summary: Reaching her sixteenth year in the harsh Ozarks while caring for her poverty-stricken family, Ree Dolly learns that they will lose their house unless her bail-skipping father can be found and made to appear at an upcoming court date.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2007
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOSummary: Based on a true story, Darlene longs for love, family and passion. She leaves her small rural town to find the one man that can fulfill all of her desires. One child, still single and three years later, Darlene, comes back home. She accepts a marriage proposal from a neighbor who turns her into his personal slave. Her husband's cousin comes to live with them and she finds comfort with him. A...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEBronte, Emily
Summary: A self-satisfied young man in flight from polite society stumbles upon a household in which the dogs try to bite him and the people snarl like dogs at each other and at him, and where a ghost cries outside his bedroom window demanding to be let in. Thus begins a story of violent loves and hatreds, and of a passion that extends across two generations and across death itself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Books 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROBronte, Emily
Summary: Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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Summary: The passionate love of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff mirrors the powerful moods of the Yorkshire moors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BROPerry, Michael
Summary: In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Truck: A Love Story gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009