Ness, Patrick

Summary: On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm... Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to. The dragon, Kazimir, has more...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NES

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NES

Fraistat, Ann

Summary: The farms of Hollow's End were blessed with miracle crops, especially the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family farm, but then the black mercury blight came, and the blight destroys everything: crops turned to silver-black sludge, animals sickened and blinded, even people; Wren believes she is responsible, and desperate to save Hollow's End she turns to her ex-boyfriend--but they find...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FRA

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...

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

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McCoy, Shirlee

Summary: "Returning to their hometown isn't something the Bradshaw brothers ever thought they'd do. But a family tragedy has reunited them in Benevolence, Washington--where second chances, reignited dreams, and real love are never far away. Texas rancher Flynn Bradshaw has his work cut out for him. His sister-in-law, Sunday, is finally home after the car crash that killed her husband and left her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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Catton, Eleanor

Summary: Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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Ozeki, 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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Brown, Carolyn

Summary: "Angela Marie has spent all of her thirty-five years on Meadow Falls, the farm that's been in her Texas family for generations. It wasn't her plan. It was an obligation. Now that her parents -- less loving kin than strangers -- have passed, the whole shebang belongs to Angela. And a legacy she never wanted is hers to uphold. She can't forsake it now. Her beloved nanny, Mandy, who was always...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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Webb, Holly

Summary: "Rosie loves visiting the barn cats that live on the farm near her grandmother's house. Her favorite is a kitten she calls Ginger because of her beautiful orange fur. At first, Ginger is shy, but slowly she learns to trust Rosie. Then the farm is sold, and workers begin tearing down the buildings to put up new ones. The other cats are taken to a rescue shelter for adoption, but Ginger hides and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2015

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Preston, Scott

Summary: "A stunning debut novel set in the rugged, rural landscape of northwest England where two sheep farmers lose their flocks and decide to reverse their fortunes by stealing sheep from a rich farm in the south-for fans of Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy. In early 2001, a lethal disease breaks out on the hill farms of northern England, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC 2024

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Stendhal

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Publisher / Publication Date: Elibron Classics 2006

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O'Donoghue, Caroline

Summary: Maeve Chambers doesn't have much going for her. Not only does she feel like the sole idiot in a family of geniuses, she managed to drive away her best friend Lily a year ago. But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school, and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in her class, she realizes she's found her gift at last. Things are looking up - until she discovers a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2021

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