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 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 PETHyde, 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 HYDCather, 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 CATSnelling, 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 2017Kingsolver, 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 KINLawson, 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 LAWQuindlen, 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 QUISmiley, 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
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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 2014Hyde, 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 HYDOke, Janette
Summary: Virginia is not prepared to face the decline of her grandparents' health and her adopted daughter's questions about her birth mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OKESaramago, 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 SARSnelling, Lauraine.
Summary: "After the loss of her first love, is Ingeborg Strand willing to marry a stranger--however kind--for the promise of a new life in America?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SNECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Snelling 2013Wiseman, Beth
Summary: Brad and Darlene Henderson move from Houston to the small town of Round Top, Texas, to provide a safe environment for their children. Their marriage has had its rocky periods, but when Darlene begins working outside the home, the problems intensify. When the widowed father of one of her special needs students begins to pay inappropriate attention to her, she is torn between her marriage and a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WISPeterson, 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 2020Proulx, Annie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PROSchwarz, 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCather, 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 2007Wingate, Lisa.
Summary: After Karen Sommerfield is suddenly forced to deal with the threat of cancer at the same time her company downsizes her, she returns to the rural Missouri Ozarks and her grandmother's old farm on an odyssey to find herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Accent 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINWingate, Lisa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WINColegate, Isabel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COLKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KinCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P KINHardie, Kerry
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2000