Smiley, 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 SMISmiley, Jane.
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.
Format: text
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smiley 2014Logsdon, Gene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOGLawson, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWTrollope, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROWingate, Lisa.
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINGarlock, Dorothy.
Summary: Julir Joners knows what she is: a country girl, not beautiful but presentable, in skirts too long to be fashionable. A reponsible young woman who has been raising her brothers and sisters since her mother's death and helping her father on their hardscrabble farm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GARMcCoy, Sarah
Summary: A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables ... before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak, and unimaginable greatness. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCampbell, Bonnie Jo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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Summary: A young girl visits her aunt and uncle's farm and helps prepare for her family's annual Easter celebration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2024
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE ALSSmiley, Jane.
Summary: Dark truths and long-suppressed emotions come to the surface in 1979 when a successful Iowa farmer decides to cut one of his daughters out of his will.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2003
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Summary: An evocation of the day-to-day life of women in the Civil War era follows Alice, whose husband has left their Iowa farm for the war, as she copes with the farm and lives normally, until suddenly being accused of murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALKeene, Carolyn
Summary: When a badly-behaved goat that is gaining Internet fame ruins a "Kids with Kids" yoga class, eight-year-old Nancy Drew and her friends investigate how it got to Sweet Creams Farm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KEESteers, Billy
Summary: In Stoney Meadow Farm, Fergus the calf does not like change and misses summer's flowers and shade trees until Tractor Mac helps him to appreciate the changes autumn brings, such as colorful leaves, pumpkin festivals, and apples.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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Summary: "A game of hide and seek on the farm goes awry when Millie gets stuck in her hiding place at the top of a tree. But when the farmer and all the other animals try to help, they get stuck as well. Who will rescue Millie and her friends?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E STEProulx, Annie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PROProulx, Annie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Classics 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROCollins, A. L. (Ai Lynn)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Belle Song and her family moved to Mars because they were offered good jobs, only to find that the jobs have disappeared--her father, Yun, is unwilling to return to the worn-out Earth, so, to the horror of his city-raised daughter, he buys a farm in the "Wild West" area of Mars, and Belle does her best to adapt to a life which is filled with difficulties and danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED COLAtwood, Megan
Summary: Molly who lives in New York City, and Olive who lives on a farm in Iowa are email friends, and both think that the other would be in serious trouble if they exchanged places--so they make a bet, and while Olive is getting totally lost in Minneapolis, Molly is at a farm in upstate New York desperately trying to milk a goat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWLymon, Bria
Summary: "Young children can join Malibu and Brooklyn as they care for horses and learn to ride in one story, and then flip the book over to follow the girls as they learn about all the adorable animals on a farm"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN LYMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN LYMMacLachlan, Patricia
Summary: "When Louisa (short for Louisiana) is sent to stay with her grandparents for the summer, she's not looking forward to it. While her brother is determined to find a way to stay on Deer Island forever, Louisa would rather be off having adventures with their globetrotting ornithographer parents. She's a writer, and there's nothing on all of Deer Island to write about -- right? Louisa quickly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MACBrouwer, Sigmund
Summary: "In this partially-illustrated early chapter book, 11-year-old Charlie tries his hardest to keep his life quiet and organized amid the chaos of life on the farm with his veterinarian mother."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BROLaden, Nina
Summary: In this addition to Laden's series, colorful pictures help children guess what farm animal is peeking through the die-cut windows in this board book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2017