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Gourley, Robbin.

Summary: From the whippoorwill's call on the first day of spring through the first snowfall, Edna and members of her family gather fruits, berries, and vegetables from the fields, garden, and orchard on their Virginia farm and turn them into wonderful meals. Includes facts about the life of Edna Lewis, a descendant of slaves who grew up to be a famous chef, and five recipes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2009

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE Gou

Summary: Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to live with his divorced father and womanizing, slacking younger brother, Jonathan. With little success, his carefree sibling and doting father try to cheer him up with women, wine, and home-cooked meals. When, in the midnight hour, Paul is forced to entertain one of his brother's desperate girlfriends, he begins to realize that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAN

Brisson, Pat

Summary: As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House, Publishers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRI

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: The farmers market is fascinating all throughout the year! Discover which fruits and vegetables you can find in winter, spring, summer, and fall.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AT

Nainy, Mamta

Summary: "Ammi weaves the most beautiful saris but never gets to wear any of them. Her two little daughters decide to do something about it--break their piggy bank! But when there isn't enough money to buy Ammi a sari, the two girls must work together to find a solution. Will they be able to buy Ammi the gift she so deserves? With a text full of heart, and bright, cheerful artwork, this story brings...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAI

Kim, Angie

Summary: "We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC KIM

Hashimi, Nadia

Summary: "When Yalda hears that her twin brother, Yusuf, will be performing with his band at a local venue, she lets her friends convince her to sneak out to see his show. But the night has something else in store: After the opening band makes some ugly jokes about 'terrorists,' Yusuf uses his time in the spotlight for an impulsive stunt responding to the hate speech. Suddenly, simmering tensions begin...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC HAS

Mills, Lauren A.

Summary: In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MIL

Gabhart, Ann H.

Summary: "Widow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home. But is this scarred and reclusive man ready for all the changes these women will bring to his life?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Score, Lucy

Summary: Carter Pierce wants to spend his days tending the family farm he inherited and that's about it. After a tour of duty and a few bullet holes, he's looking forward to some peace and quiet in his hometown. Unfortunately for the sexy, bearded farmer, hippie-dippie Blue Moon doesn't believe in peace and quiet. And his nosy neighbors sure as hell don't know how to mind their own business. Neither...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloom Books 2016

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Allegra, Mike

Summary: Kimmie decides to trap the tooth fairy to earn money to build a burglar alarm trap.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALL

Snelling, Lauraine

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep the family homestead running, even if she must do it alone. When she discovers that Isaac McTavish has feelings for her, she pushes him away to protect her heart. But how can she build the life she's always dreamed of when unexpected dangers arrive?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SNE

Summary: In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ON

Alsdurf, Phyllis

Summary: A young girl visits her aunt and uncle's farm and helps prepare for her family's annual Easter celebration.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE ALS

Allio, Kirstin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALL

Hopkinson, Deborah

Summary: A modern-day retelling of Cinderella narrated by the mouse who becomes a horse for Cinderella's stagecoach.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOP

Parappukkaran, Sandhya

Summary: When her mother's sari draws stares, a little girl asks her mother to tell her more about her culture and learns to take pride in her differences.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAR

Eady, Antwan

Summary: A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG EAD

Stuart, Scott

Summary: Inspired by the author's own little boy, 'Shadow's' main character likes princesses, fairies and things 'not for boys'... he soon learns (through the support of his dad) that everyone has a shadow that they sometimes feel they need to hide. This is an important book for a new generation of children (and adults alike) which exemplifies the concepts of unconditional love, respect and positive...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Larrikin House 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STU

Johnson, Varian

Summary: Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOH

Cox, Amanda

Summary: "Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business--one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together. When Callie Peterson...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COX

Summary: Pocahontas, the young daughter of Chief Powhatan, wonders what adventures await just around the riverbend. She is joined by her playful pals, raccoon Meeko and hummingbird Flit. A chance meeting with Captain Smith leads to a friendship that will change history, as the Native Americans and English settlers learn to live together.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POC

Khiani, Darshana

Summary: Tired of being treated like a child, a young girl sets out to prove herself capable to her multi-generational Indian-American family, but an ill-fated attempt at putting on a sari has an unexpected outcome.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KHI

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