Proulx, Annie.
Summary: A tale of immigrants centered on an accordion brought to America in the 1880s. After its Italian owner is murdered, the instrument passes into the hands of other ethnic groups--German, French-Canadian, Mexican, Polish, Norwegian--and the novel describes their ceremonies, dreams and hates. By the author of The Shipping News.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996
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Summary: Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness, in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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Summary: Fictional story tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and character over the past century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2002
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Contents: 1. Cidermaking: What You Need and How to Do It 3 -- 2. Making Different Cider Varieties 61 -- 3. Apples for Cider 86 -- 4. The Home Cider Orchard 120 -- 5. Beyond Cider: Vinegars, Brandy, Tasting, and Cooking 153 -- 6. Cider and the Law 202 -- Appendix Making Your Own Equipment 209.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2003
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Summary: Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008
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Summary: In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters -- barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi'kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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Summary: Proulx vividly recounts the ups and downs of building her dream house on a nature preserve in Wyoming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: "Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: GK Hall 1999
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Summary: Assigned to locate land in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma that can be purchased and converted into pig farms for his employer, Bob Dollar meets the residents of Woolybucket and comes to respect their fierce desire to retain their land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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Summary: From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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Contents: The half-skinned steer -- The mud below -- Job history -- The blood bay -- People in Hell just want a drink of water -- The bunchgrass edge of the world -- Pair a spurs -- A lonely coast --The governors of Wyoming -- 55 miles to the gas pump -- Brokeback Mountain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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Summary: Assigned to locate land in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma that can be converted into pig farms for his employer, a young man meets the residents of Woolybucket and comes to respect their fierce desire to retain their land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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Summary: An anthology of short stories, all set in Wyoming, features characters who have a profound effect on the people around them, in such tales as "The Trickle Down Effect," "The Contest," and "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004
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Summary: "Bark Skins open in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the stories of Rene's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Classics 1996
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Summary: Surprising transformations take place when a newspaperman's elderly aunt and two daughters decide to move back to their family home on the coast of Newfoundland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROSummary: A Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, meet in the summer of 1963 sheep herding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond--by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BROSummary: An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHIContents: Saboteur.--Under the pitons.--Bob Darling.--Chez Lambert.-- Transactions.--Nobody in Hollywood.--Save my child!--Eternal love.--Girl with a monkey.--St. Martin.--Fiesta, 1980.--From Willow Temple.--Killing babies.--Send me to the electric chair.--Missing women.--Air mail.--Soon.-- Shipmates down under.--Powder.--Search Bay.--Little frogs in a ditch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997