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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIGanter, J. Carl.
Summary: With These Hands is a documentary project of the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, showcasing four family farms in Leelanau County, Michigan, as they deal with the threat of residential development. The families include Mary and Whitney Lyon, Leo Ocanas, Lew Seibold and Rex Dobson of Ruby Ellen Farm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 GAN1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 630 GAN
Ganter, J. Carl.
Summary: Video showcasing four family farms in Leelanau County Michigan as they deal with the threat of residential development.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MediaVia 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WITFoster, Fiona King
Summary: "In a secessionist rural state that has cut itself off completely from urban centers, where living is hardscrabble and poor but "free," Brooke Holland runs a farm with her husband, Milo, and two daughters. Their life at the fringes of modern society is tenuous - they make barely enough from each harvest to keep going - yet Brooke cherishes the loving, peaceful life they have carved out for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Foster 2021Summary: Chronicles the life of a family living in rural Virginia during the Depression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WALSummary: Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAP RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAPSummary: The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN NAKSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1994
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SONMeadows, Rae
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Ficiton Meadows 2016Brontë, Emily
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of the tragic story of Catherine and Heathcliff, the star-crossed lovers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BROKay, Terry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KAYDyer, Alli
Summary: "In this lush, shimmering and wildly imaginative debut novel, a young mother returns after twenty years to her estranged family of women in Appalachia, renowned for their ability to call upon the magic of the land to solve the community's woes-but when a local predatory teacher is found dead in the woods, it seems the women conjured something more sinister"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLELogsdon, Gene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOGKalish, Mildred Armstrong.
Summary: Mildred Armstrong Kalish's "Little Heathens" is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.7 KALLawson, 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 LAWWoodrell, Daniel.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2007
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOWatkins, LaToya
Summary: In a tight-knit, rural Black Texan community of Jerusalem, the Turner clan comes toether as the family says good-bye to their matriarch on her deathbed. The family's "reunion" unearths long-kept secrets: Julie regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean's thumb; police offier Alex grapples with a dark and twisted past; Jan yearns to go leave her children--and Jerusalem-- behind...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATBailey, Tom
Summary: Gary and Susan Hazen are natives of the Adirondacks, high school sweethearts who have raised their two sons on the satisfaction of living off the land. Gary is a highly principled and respected woodsman and hunter, but his self-righteousness brings him into conflict with his sons. Both young men have secrets that will strain the family fabric, and together father and sons weave a tangle of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BAIDoig, Ivan.
Summary: The portrait of a time and a place -Montana in the 1930's -- is depicted through the McCaskill family's personal struggles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOIGarlock, 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 Fiction, Call number: FIC GARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GARHamner, Earl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAMKeillor, Garrison
Summary: A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEISmiley, 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