Masumoto, David Mas
Summary: "A family separated by racism against Japanese Americans and the discrimination of people with developmental disabilities--reunited seventy years later, returning to their roots on a farm and bound by family secrets"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Hen Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASUMOTO, DAVID MAS MASMasumoto, David Mas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.2584 MASPritchard, Forrest.
Summary: Upon discovering that months of backbreaking work and five freight cars' worth of glittering corn have reaped his family's farm a profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard, fresh out of college, resolves to take matters into his own hands. What ensues--through a series of hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters--is a crash course in sustainable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home PritchardFoster, Marilee
Summary: A fifth-generation farmer from the Hamptons observes the transformation of plant and animal life on her land through the changing seasons and in the face of residential development.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridge Works Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.9747 FOSPerry, Michael
Summary: Written in a spirit of exploration rather than declaration, Montaigne in Barn Boots is a down-to-earth (how do you pronounce that last name?) look into the ideas of a philosopher "ensconced in a castle tower overlooking his vineyard," channeled by a midwestern American writing "in a room above the garage overlooking a disused pig pen." Whether grabbing an electrified fence, fighting fires,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERRY, MICHAEL PERKimball, Kristin
Summary: Farming has many ups and downs, and the middle years were hard for the Kimballs. Mark got injured, the weather turned against them, and the farm faced financial pressures. Meanwhile, they had two small children to care for. How does one traverse the terrain of a maturing marriage and the transition from being a couple to being a family? How will the farm survive? What does a family need in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIMBALL, KRISTIN KIMMurphy, Antonia
Summary: "Antonia Murphy, you might say, is an unlikely farmer. Born and bred in San Francisco, she spent much of her life as a liberal urban cliche, and her interactions with the animal kingdom rarely extended past dinner. But then she became a mother. And when her eldest son was born with a rare, mysterious genetic condition, she and her husband, Peter, decided it was time to slow down and find a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: During Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the '80s and '90s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty can have on individuals, families, and communities. Combining memoir with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMARSH SMAFrey, Sarah
Summary: "One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business--without ever leaving the land she loved. The youngest of her parents' combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in Southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to Hollywood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FREY FREBeston, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 BESCarter, Jimmy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CARGaydos, Ellyn
Summary: "As a seasonal farmer in upstate New York and Vermont-living hand-to-mouth, but in love with the land and its creatures-Ellyn Gaydos understands the delicate balance between loss and gain. Choosing such work instead of moving to the city with her long-distance boyfriend, Gaydos recognizes her role in cycles bigger than herself. Yearning to be a mother, she recognizes, too, how new life is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAYDOS, ELLYN GAYKilmer-Purcell, Josh
Summary: "Michael Perry meets David Sedaris in this follow-up to Josh Kilmer-Purcell's beloved and bestselling debut memoir, I Am Not Myself These Days--another riotous, moving, and entirely unique story of his attempt to tackle the next phase of life with his partner on a goat farm in upstate New York"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KILMER-PURCELL, JOSH KILMurphy, Finn
Summary: Sharing his manufacturing misadventures, the best-selling author of The Long Haul takes us on a rollicking ride through the hemp growing and processing boom as he follows his Great American Dream, gradually losing his shirt but not his spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, FINN MURPerry, Michael
Summary: Details the author's experiences and conversations with his octogenarian, cannon-shooting neighbor Tom Hartwig, who, armed with an arsenal of stories and an anti-authoritarian streak a mile wide, offers guidance and inspiration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 977.5043 PERAbleman, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 ABLBuffett, Howard G
Summary: The son of legendary investor Warren Buffet relates how he set out to help nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security through his passion of farming, in forty stories of lessons learned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 BUFGrey, Charlotte.
Summary: The first installment in Charlotte Grey's trilogy about life as a cattle farmer in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dales Large Print Books 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 GREHalbert, Frederic
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.2 HALMasumoto, David Mas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2006
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word OomenSeton, Nora Janssen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.92 SETTimmermeister, Kurt.
Summary: A restaurateur details the hard work involved with starting a dairy farm and describes a feast that was two years in the making, using only vegetables he harvested and animals he raised to supply the meal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.59797 TIMBeall, Kreis
Summary: "The Great Blue Hills of God is the powerful, resilient memoir by the creative force behind legendary, award-winning farm-to-table resort, Blackberry Farm, in Tennessee. Born with "the gift of hospitality," Kreis Beall helped create one of the South's most enchanting destinations, Blackberry Farm, in Tennessee's Smoky Mountain foothills. For decades, she was a fixture in the entertaining and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Covergent Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019