Bailey, Susanna
Summary: When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster-care family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she's not so alone after all. And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAICox, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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Summary: After losing her husband, Harold, and her beloved grandson, Cody, within the past year, Louisa has two choices. She can fade away on her Indiana family farm, where her companionship comes courtesy of her aging chickens and an argumentative cat. Or, she can concoct A Plan. Louisa, a retired schoolteacher who's as smart, sassy, and irreverent as ever, isn't the fading away type. The drunk driver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUGJones, Sadie
Summary: A captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families' attempt at the pastoral dream on a farm, deep in the English countryside. Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood ever. They live on a 78-acre farm in the South West of England, with sisters and brothers, other kids, chickens, goats,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONMichaels, Fern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICSmiley, Jane.
Summary: Dark truths and long-suppressed emotions come to the surface in 1979 when a successful Iowa farmer decides to cut one of his daughters out of his will.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2003
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Summary: Nelly Grace is starting over. With her two young sons, Nelly has fled to the simple stone house built by her great-grandfather in the moneyed horse country of Maryland in order to escape the grief of her husband’s death—and perhaps find a way back to her first love: photography. Easing her transition into this strange, mannered world is Emma Crofton, the grand matriarch of the foxhunting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAMcGahan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGMaynard, Joyce
Summary: Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby's older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAYCookson, Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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Summary: "When 73-year-old Emmy Hart asks her to help revitalize Hart's Hollow farm, Kristen accepts, despite her fears about becoming too attached to the family; and then there's Emmy's ruggedly handsome grandson."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Daily 2019Michaels, Fern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICMallery, Susan
Summary: Kelly Murphy's life as a tulip farmer is pretty routine - up at dawn, off to work, lather, rinse, repeat. But everything changes one sun-washed summer with two dramatic homecomings: Griffith Burnett - Tulpen Crossing's prodigal son, who's set his sights on Kelly - and Olivia, her beautiful, wayward and, as far as Kelly is concerned, unwelcome sister. Tempted by Griffith, annoyed by Olivia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MALNealon, Louise
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Debbie was raised on her family's rural dairy farm, forty minutes and a world away from Dublin. She lives with her mother, Maeve, a skittish woman who takes to her bed for days on end, claims not to know who Debbie's father is, and believes her dreams are prophecies. Rounding out their small family is Maeve's brother Billy, who lives in a caravan behind their house, drinks too...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEAOzeki, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZEShalvis, Jill
Summary: Running her farm-to-table café as well as a menagerie of rescued animals, Luna Wright, when the owner of Apple Ridge Farm passes away and his investment manager takes over control, she, with her home threatened, must dig deep to find true strength and the real meaning of love and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAKingsolver, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINSmiley, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIHyde, 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...
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019