Summary: After the death of his grandfather, Vasil wishes the neighboring farmers to share the use of a tractor purchased by the village council. Struggling against superstition, rich landowners and nature itself, he becomes the victim of a tragic murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EARCronin, Doreen.
Summary: While Farmer Brown sleeps, his animals prepare for a talent show at the county fair.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lectorum 2007
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH CROManushkin, Fran
Summary: Katie learns what a vegetable farmer does when she visits a farm and helps sell the vegetables at a farmers market.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Cronin, Doreen
Summary: On a rainy day, everyone on the farm stays inside except the cows, who enjoy the rain, mud, and wind.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE CROMasumoto, 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 MASHarris, Nathan
Summary: "In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPFIC HARVogel, Sarah
Summary: In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343.73 VOGSummary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOFrazee, Marla
Summary: A wordless picture book in which the farmer visits the little clown and the monkey, and meets the rest of the circus family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRAChurchman, Jennifer
Summary: After an autumn storm fells the Old Pine Tree, Farmer John, helped by his friends and observed by the farm animals, uses the wood to build a special Christmas present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CHUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE CHUScore, Lucy
Summary: Carter Pierce wants to spend his days tending the family farm he inherited and that's about it. After a tour of duty and a few bullet holes, he's looking forward to some peace and quiet in his hometown. Unfortunately for the sexy, bearded farmer, hippie-dippie Blue Moon doesn't believe in peace and quiet. And his nosy neighbors sure as hell don't know how to mind their own business. Neither...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloom Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ripple Effect Productions 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRESummary: The Jordan family has farmed in Iowa for generations. Due to the crisis of the '80s and '90s, they are in danger of losing the farm. One of the daughters comes back home to document the extraordinary efforts the family makes to keep their farm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TROWillis, Jeanne
Summary: Old MacDonald loves his phone, he thinks it works a charm, Now all the animals have phones too, how will he run his farm? Sing along as Old MacDonald's farm falls into chaos! How will the animals learn to balance their screen time?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen Press USA 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILSummary: Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Fantastic 2010Copies Available at East Bay
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FANArlon, Penelope
Summary: Go on a journey down on the farm with the LEGO(R) minifigures and see fun animals and learn fun facts all about farming. You'll find great LEGO building ideas, too!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 630 ARLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN ARLSummary: A documentary on sustainable agriculture which journeys into the life of a Wall Street investment banker turned farmer as he struggles to build and run a farm that is feeding his family and the community he has lived in his whole life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BULSummary: In the spring of 1864, a desperate young farmers wife enlists in the Confederate Army posing as a man. She must battle the Union Army, the men of her unit and her own identity in the quest to find her missing husband.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Christian 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINSummary: The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN NAKMetcalf, Lindsay H.
Summary: In the late 1970s, grain prices had tanked, farm auction notices filled newspapers, and people had forgotten that food didn't grow in grocery stores. So, on February 5, 1979, thousands of tractors from all parts of the US flooded Washington, DC, in protest.--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.19 METPerry, 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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERRY, MICHAEL PERSummary: New 4K restoration by Universal Pictures! Straight shooting is a landmark in the history of the Western. It is the first feature directed by the legendary John Ford (here credited as Jack Ford) who revived the career of Harry Carey, one of his greatest stars, who gives a rough-and-tumble performance as a hired gun of cattle rustlers. "Cheyenne Harry" is a role Carey would play into the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2020
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN STRMantle, Ben
Summary: Join Old MacDonald on a day at the farm as he looks after his animals in this lively edition of the well-loved rhyme.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD OLDMatson, Rachel
Summary: The Teeny Tiny Farmer says good bye to her cow, sheep, and pig and heads to market in her teeny tiny truck. All is well until her teeny tiny truck gets a tiny bit...STUCK! What will she do? Can she get unstuck all on her own, or does she need a little bit of help from a friend or two?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic 2021