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Farm life Fiction Foundlings Fiction Iowa Fiction Mountain life Fiction Rejection (Psychology) Fiction Rural families Fiction Social change United States History 20th century Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction United States Civilization 20th century Fiction Yorkshire (England) FictionCrummey, Michael
Summary: When a whale beaches itself on the shore of a remote coastal town, a living man is found inside. Reeking of fish, the man is christened Judah, and the townspeople try to determine whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRUKay, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KAYBronte, Emily
Summary: Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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Summary: When Kate and her husband and baby son move to her grandmother's Missouri farm in an effort to influence the grandmother to move to a nursing home, Kate is helped by the discovery of her grandmother's journal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINBrontë, Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1982
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROSteinbeck, John
Summary: Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STEBrontë, Emily
Summary: This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions nd has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations. New to the Fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BronteBront,͡ Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Classics 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROLawson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWWoodrell, Daniel.
Summary: Reaching her sixteenth year in the harsh Ozarks while caring for her poverty-stricken family, Ree Dolly learns that they will lose their house unless her bail-skipping father can be found and made to appear at an upcoming court date.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2007
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOMcGahan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGTrollope, Joanna.
Summary: The death of Caro Meredith turns the lives of her grieving husband, in-laws, brother-in-law, and stepdaughter upside down as they all struggle to cope with the loss of a woman who had been the central figure in all their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROSmiley, 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 SMIBabb, Sanora.
Summary: The poor but proud Dunne family and their friends struggle to survive on the dust-plagued prairies of the Oklahoma Panhandle, but discover bitter disappointment in the orchards and vineyards of the so-called promised land of California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2004
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAMHamner, Earl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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Summary: The portrait of a time and a place -Montana in the 1930's -- is depicted through the McCaskill family's personal struggles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1984
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Summary: The Blakely family, despite the tragedy that separated them, must band together to save their historical plantation, which has been in the family for generations and is the only thing that holds them all together, from being sold to developers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: "Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Ficiton Meadows 2016Smiley, Jane.
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the much-anticipated final volume of her magnificent, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the beloved Langdon family into our present times and beyond. A lot can happen in 100 years, as Jane Smiley has shown to dazzling effect in her astonishing, critically acclaimed Last Hundred Years Trilogy. When Golden Age, its last installment, opens in 1987, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smiley 2015Smiley, Jane.
Summary: Golden Age combines intimate drama, emotional suspense, and a full command of history, bringing to a magnificent conclusion the century-long portrait of one unforgettable family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMICrummey, Michael
Summary: The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the village, is the only one to refuse. As he watches his neighbors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015