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Peterson, Tracie Saramago, Jose Schwarz, Christina. Smiley, Jane. Snelling, LauraineSmiley, 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 SMIPeterson, Tracie
Summary: When her grandfather's health begins to decline, Havyn is determined to keep her family together. But everyone has secrets--including John, the hired stranger who recently arrived on their farm. To help out Havyn starts singing at a local roadhouse--but dangerous eyes grow jealous as she and John grow closer. Will they realize the peril before it is too late?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PETSnelling, Lauraine
Summary: "In 1910, Signe, her husband, and their boys emigrate from Norway to Minnesota, dreaming of one day owning a farm of their own. But the relatives they've come to stay with are harsh and demanding. As Signe's family is worked to the bone to repay the cost of their voyage, can she learn to trust God through this trial and hold on to hope for a better future?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SNECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Snelling 2017Smiley, Jane.
Summary: Family patriarch Walter Langdon has died, and his children have fanned out across the country. The narrative moves year by year from 1953 to 1986, encompassing Cold War blinkeredness, Sixties rebellion, and escalating wealth into the Eighties.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smiley 2015Smiley, Jane.
Summary: "An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smiley 2014Saramago, Jose
Summary: Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, the novel charts the lives of the Mau Tempos as national and international events rumble on in the background-the coming of the republic in Portugual, the two World Wars, and an attempt on the dictator Salazar’s life. Yet nothing really impinges on the grim reality of the farm laborers’ lives until the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARPeterson, Tracie
Summary: When her grandfather's health begins to decline, Havyn is determined to keep her family together. But everyone has secrets--including John, the hired stranger who recently arrived on their farm. To help out Havyn starts singing at a local roadhouse--but dangerous eyes grow jealous as she and John grow closer. Will they realize the peril before it is too late?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Peterson 2020Schwarz, Christina.
Summary: Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000