Brunner, Bernd
Summary: "Humans have always had a special appreciation for fruit that grows on trees. Could it be because orchard fruits grow closer to heaven than other plant products do as some poets have suggested? Or could it be because the places where these fruits grow are alive with light and shadow and redolent of sweet scents, offering us sanctuaries where we can retreat from the cares of daily life? Where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634 BRUPerry, Marta
Summary: "As a widow with two-year-old twins and a struggling orchard, Rebecca King's dreams of expanding her business seem near impossible. To make matters worse, a troublesome string of destructive acts around Promise Glen threatens her roadside fruit and vegetable stand, forcing Rebecca to accept the help of her condescending new neighbor, Nathan Mueller. Nathan didn't intend to offend Rebecca with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PERWiggs, Susan.
Summary: Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a one hundred-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she's never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners, discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Mira 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wiggs 2013Alsdurf, Phyllis
Summary: "The apples are ready for harvest and Halloween is here! What better way to celebrate than by donning homemade costumes and going to the local apple orchard? In this charming story, a boy and his family enjoy everything the orchard has to offer, including searching for scarecrows, getting lost in a corn maze, and going on a hayride."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2023
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE ALSArnott, Robbie
Summary: Ned West dreams of sailing across the river on a boat of his very own. To Ned, a boat means freedom - the fresh open water, squid-rich reefs, fires on private beaches - a far cry from life on Limberlost, the family farm, where his father worries and grieves for Ned's older brothers. They're away fighting in a ruthless and distant war, becoming men on the battlefield, while Ned - too young to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARAtwood, Megan
Summary: Lizzie and Sarah, neighbors and best friends, look forward to running the ice cream stand at Lizzie's family's New England orchard, but their plans go awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ATWConnolly, Sheila
Summary: While honeymooning at Monticello and enjoying Thomas Jefferson's orchards, newlyweds Meg and Seth discover that something rotten is going on at home and must cut their vacation short when the police pick Meg's father as the killer of a handyman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CONAtwood, Megan
Summary: Feeling out of sorts with his twin sister, Olive, and their friends Lizzie and Sarah, Peter is drawn to new student Kai, but soon discovers that Kai is not very nice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ATWReid, C. L.
Summary: Emma, a deaf girl, and her best friend Izzie are going to the apple orchard today in order to pick apples for cooking, but their basket of apples ends up in the mud. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE REIAtwood, Megan
Summary: "Olive doesn't believe in ghosts, but she does admit something weird is going on at the orchard"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ATWEsseltine, Bruce
Summary: Fruit farmers dont take care of animals, they take care of trees! These orchards are full of delicious treats like apples, oranges, cherries, and even pears. Early readers learn how farmers plant these trees in rows, then take care of them until the trees bear fruit. Through accessible text paired with full-color photographs, readers learn how different orchards grow different fruits and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634 ESSPang, Ursula
Summary: "Have you ever visited an orchard? Some people who live in colder areas like to pick apples in the fall. Others who live where it's warm may like to pick oranges. Some orchards have trees that grow nuts! Readers are sure to enjoy the colorful photographs and lively, manageable text inside this charming guide to orchards. They will learn about the different kinds of orchards, how their trees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634 PANScottoline, Lisa
Summary: After the resounding success of Eternal, Lisa Scottoline delivers Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. Franco dreams of owning a lemon farm, even though only noblemen own farms in the rigid class system of Palermo. He works hard and does whatever the Baron demands, including arranging the kidnapping of a little boy. Gaetano, an idealistic young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SCOElenbaas, Susanne Box
Summary: Harrowing Night - Terror and Bewilderment Elizabeth does not intend to be home alone in the rambling, orchard house, but plans change, making way for the unthinkable. Amusing Past - Humiliation and Veneration Just hours after being twice humiliated by Price, the farmer’s son, Elizabeth heeds the desperate call of three young migrants. Suffering even greater humiliation, character rescues the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westbow Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ElenbaasMills, Claudia
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sonnet grapples with the loss of her grandfather's apple orchard, disrupted by a housing development, and forms an uneasy relationship with her neighbor Zeke after they discover a family secret that has the potential to disrupt Sonnet's family or bring about healing and growth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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Summary: Rhoda Byler's gift with plants leads to the enmity of a young man in her Old Order Amish community but when she meets Samuel King, whose orchard is struggling, he suggests that they can solve each other's problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOAustin, Lynn N.
Summary: Young widow Eliza, left alone to run Wyatt Orchards and raise three children, does not know how she is going to manage, when a stranger, Gabe, appears at her doorstep and turns out to be the answer to her prayers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION AusMaxwell, Alyssa
Summary: "As England recovers from its costly involvement in the Great War, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, find the steady comforts of their lives unsettled by a local case of murder"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MAXO'Connor, Jane
Summary: Embarking on a field trip to an apple-picking farm, Nancy enjoys the fancy autumn colors she observes in the orchard and resolves to find a perfect Gala apple for her father but fears the fruit of her choice is too far out of reach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCORansom, Candice F.
Summary: "A family spends a day at an apple orchard"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN RANSnow, Virginia Brimhall
Summary: "Take a stroll through a magnificent garden and serene forest with Grammy and her grandkids and find out what there is to discover around every turn. Beautiful illustrations and adorable rhymes will guide readers as they learn to identify different kinds of flowers, fruits and berries, trees, birds, insects, and animals. Pick and snack on fruits in the garden, and then swing in a huge tree...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SNOWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Alden children visit a family friend at his apple orchard which is rumored to be haunted, but instead of a ghost they find that some of the families' valuable antiques are being stolen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARCoplin, Amanda.
Summary: At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a gentle solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots. Then two feral, pregnant girls and armed gunmen set Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect but to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Coplin 2012Dolan, Susan
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Park Service, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, Pacific West Regional Office, Cultural Resources, Park Historic Structures and Cultural Landscapes Program 2009