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Riddle, A. G.

Summary: Dr. Laura Reynolds had a job she loved and the respect of her peers. One day, it all went away. She saw the wrong thing, a colleague's mistake. And to escape, he framed her. Laura's only option is to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and one day get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things aren't what they seem...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC RID

Hazelwood, Ali

19 holds on 6 copies

Summary: "Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024

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Vara, Vauhini

Summary: "Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao-literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR

Derting, Kimberly

Summary: The country fair is only a month away when Vincent Van Goat eats all of Poppy's potentially prize winning cucumbers, and because there is not enough time to grow more, Poppy has to come up with a vegetable that will grow quickly (and can be protected from a greedy goat). Includes discussion questions, and tips for growing vegetables.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DER

Salazar, Aida

Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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Norman, Kimberly.

Summary: A cumulative, rhyming tale of an ordinary pig who leaps out of his boy's arms at a state fair and wallows in color after color, turning himself into a work of art.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E NOR

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC NOR

Silvey, Craig

Summary: Eleven-year-old Annie trains her dog Runt to participate in an Agility Course Grand Championship in an effort to save her family farm.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SIL

Ozeki, Ruth L.

Summary: Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZE

Gianferrari, Maria

Summary: Bread, milk, wool, fruits, and vegetables: things that fill our day to day lives. But where, and who, do they come from? Across wheat fields and city rooftop gardens, mushroom beds and maple forests, Thank a Farmer traces the food and clothing that a family uses back to the people who harvested and created them. With Maria Gianferrari's informed and poetic text and monumental artwork from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 630 GIA

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GIA

Summary: "In the not-so-distant future, a worldwide epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GENECO, a biotech company that offer organ transplants-- for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession-- and hunted by the Repo man!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR REP

Abdo, Kenny

Summary: The state fair is approaching, and Mabel makes a new friend who runs a food truck. When asked what Mabel would serve if she ran her own truck, her answer is simple: peanut butter noodles. So, she travels to China to learn the best way to make them and a history of how they came to be the best food ever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2024

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Schrempp, Skyler

Summary: "Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022

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Summary: "Centuries after a fearsome race of giants was defeated in battle and banished to a sky kingdom, a young farmhand named Jack ... unwittingly causes an enormous beanstalk to take root. In the process, his beloved Princess Isabelle is carried miles into the clouds, straight into the clutches of the bloodthirsty giants. Now, with the help of the king's military commander ... this unlikely hero...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie Jack

Summary: Follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields for Britain during WWII in the Women's Land Army.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2011

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LAN

Summary: A small-town family travels to the State Fair. The father is looking for a blue ribbon for his prize hog, Blue Boy, mom is looking for glory in her cooking, and the kids are looking for love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family State 2005

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STA

Cameron, Barbara

Summary: Summer Carson has lived near the Amish community in Paradise, Pennsylvania, all her life. Now she's following in her father's footsteps and earning her degree in agricultural science so she can continue his work helping local farmers. In her job at the county extension office, Summer moves between the Englisch and the Amish worlds. While she sometimes finds herself speaking--and even...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gilead Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Grisham, John.

Summary: Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s Southern cotton-farming community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Summary: A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALA

Ayuyang, Rina

Summary: "The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AYU

Summary: During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BIT

Summary: Set in rural England during the Second World War, the highly popular, award-winning drama returns for a third five-part series and continues to follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields in the Women's Land Army.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2012

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LAN

Summary: Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2010

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Muñoz, Manuel

Summary: ""Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022

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Novak, Brenda.

Summary: After learning that she needs a liver transplant and that her time may be limited, Callie Vanetta decides to move out to her late grandparents' farm, which hasn't worked in years. Callie fears that making the farm operational may be too much work; but things look up when a handsome, mysterious stranger offers to trade work for shelter. What initially seemed like an ideal temporary situation...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NOV

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