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2) Modern Life
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 84 min.)
Language
Français
Description
Photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon is renowned for his documentation of the French countryside. In Modern Life he casts an affectionate and irreverent eye on a small community of farmers as they are confronted by the problems and challenges the contemporary world brings. Treated with equal suspicion, strangers and women are gradually accepted into the fabric of the farming life so as to sustain a way of life that celebrates the traditions...
Author
Language
English
Description
Dear Mother and Father, After all those years, I was certain Jakob Hirsch had forgotten me. Then came his proposal of marriage. With more impulse than wisdom, I crossed the ocean to begin a new life with him in Shadow Creek, Idaho. Little did I dream of the changes eleven years had brought to the man I once loved-which included three small children waiting with him at the station. I will not marry a stranger who no longer loves me, but I have agreed...
4) Bent Road
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
Author
Series
Homestead series volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Homestead series volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Reaching her sixteenth year in the harsh Ozarks while caring for her poverty-stricken family, Ree Dolly learns that they will lose their house unless her bail-skipping father can be found and made to appear at an upcoming court date.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After saving Alice's mother Meg from drowning, a mysterious man named Simon is quickly ensconced in the family as Meg's husband, but Alice and her brother Boone become suspicious of his motives.
10) Patterns of love
Author
Language
English
Description
Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in her native Sweden, life there is different for young Inga Linberg. With her parents' blessing, she has taken employment in the home of Mr. Bridger, a dairy farmer, caring for his ill mother and two young orphaned nieces. He is an unhappy man, but loyal, hardworking and honorable - also quite handsome, judging by Inga's beautiful, flirtatious younger sisters. Now Inga, too, longs to be seen as beautiful...
11) Bleeding Kansas
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of the V.I. Warshawski series comes “a gripping contemporary novel…of fear and conflict in heartland America” (Publishers Weekly).
In Kansas, on land that once saw some of America’s bloodiest antislavery battles, three families have coexisted for more than one hundred fifty years: the Grelliers, the Fremantles, and the Schapens. Once allies in the fight against...
In Kansas, on land that once saw some of America’s bloodiest antislavery battles, three families have coexisted for more than one hundred fifty years: the Grelliers, the Fremantles, and the Schapens. Once allies in the fight against...
12) Some luck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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.
13) Son-in-law
Publisher
[Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video]
Pub. Date
[1994]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
L.A.'s funkiest college student, Crawl, is hilariously out of his element when he spends Thanksgiving at the family farm of a straitlaced college co-ed.
14) Early warning
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come,...
16) Next of kin
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Speak no evil
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One family accepts an invitation to the rural home of another they met on vacation, only to find their lives altered in unexpected, deeply horrifying ways.
Author
Series
Largo recorrido volume 115
Publisher
Editorial Periférica
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
171 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
This new novel by Carlos Labbé is a musical anti-biography, but is also a fable of the political movement that managed to impose justice in a country, the sentimental story of a couple of three and the fragmented genealogy of a rural family who raised a single urban child.
Author
Language
English
Description
What happens when a young sophisticated Chicagoan falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush Lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina -- trading the bustle of a cosmopolitan city for the vagaries of a small southern town?
In the Lowcountry of South Carolina, Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents are throwing a barbeque to celebrate her son's engagement. Fred is marrying Shelby Cambria, whose father, Alejandro...
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