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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A haunting memoir about growing up dirt-poor in the Alabama hills--and about moving on but never really being able to leave. The extraordinary gifts for evocation and insight and the stunning talent for story- telling that earned Rick Bragg a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996 are here brought to bear on the wrenching story of his own family's life. It is the story of a war-haunted, hard-drinking father and a strong-willed, loving mother who...
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English
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Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, his arguments and observations are more...
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Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of a family living in a small village in Sudan, describing their work, eating habits, school, religion, games, and interaction with relatives and friends.
11) Backlash
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English
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The ranch country of Montana is beautiful, unforgiving, and for Colton and Denver McLean, filled with a whole lot of bad memories. It's been seven years since a fire claimed their parents' lives and drove both brothers away. Now their uncle's death has brought them back to a place where loyalty and love runs deep-but so do grudges. Suspicion still swirls about what caused that tragic fire. It created a rift between Denver and the foreman's daughter,...
12) Edwardian farm
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this twelve-part documentary series of Edwardian Farm, archaeologists and historians go back in time to the early 1900's to live the lives of Edwardian farmers for a full calendar year.
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Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 761 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Green Acres is the place to be. Join Oliver and Lisa as they continue to adjust to life in Hooterville. Seeking the good, old-fashioned pleasures of country life, a Manhattan lawyer and his wife move to a farm outside Hooterville, where the eccentric citizens make the simple life complicated.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local police...
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In rural Gaotai County, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao, except for a small, abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their newly planted crops take root and flourish; similarly, an unexpected bond between them starts to blossom. As seasons pass, their dedication to each other grows stronger, but...
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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a short essay collection that, much like the author, wears many hats: it combines Kansas history, memoir, environmental history and conservation, and regional folklore. Jim's family has ranched in the Flint Hills since the 1870s and continues to do so to this day, both at Jim's Flying H Ranch and his son Josh's ranch in Chase County, the Flying W. The manuscript shares family stories and anecdotes about working ranch life alongside ruminations...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory of southern Mississippi to find the girl who may be a savior in the apocalypse.
In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where stores are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a foothold, capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope. As she preaches...
Publisher
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (754 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Green Acres is the place to be. Join Oliver and Lisa as they continue to adjust to life in Hooterville. Seeking the good, old-fashioned pleasures of country life, a Manhattan lawyer and his wife move to a farm outside Hooterville, where the eccentric citizens make the simple life complicated.
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