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Farm life Fiction Foundlings Fiction Iowa Fiction Mountain life Fiction Rejection (Psychology) Fiction Rural families Fiction Social change United States History 20th century Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction United States Civilization 20th century Fiction Yorkshire (England) FictionKay, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KAYBrontë, Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1982
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROBronte, Emily
Summary: A self-satisfied young man in flight from polite society stumbles upon a household in which the dogs try to bite him and the people snarl like dogs at each other and at him, and where a ghost cries outside his bedroom window demanding to be let in. Thus begins a story of violent loves and hatreds, and of a passion that extends across two generations and across death itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Books 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROWingate, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINSteinbeck, John
Summary: This second volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939, unleashing a political storm with its vision of America's dispossessed struggling for survival. It continues to exert a powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC STEINSteinbeck, John
Summary: Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P STECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STEBailey, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BAIBrontë, Emily
Summary: This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions nd has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations. New to the Fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BronteBront,͡ Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Classics 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROFoster, 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...
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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
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Foster 2021Lawson, 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.
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2007
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOMcGahan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGKeillor, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEITrollope, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROSmiley, 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 SMIDyer, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBabb, Sanora.
Summary: The poor but proud Dunne family and their friends struggle to survive on the dust-plagued prairies of the Oklahoma Panhandle, but discover bitter disappointment in the orchards and vineyards of the so-called promised land of California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BABHamner, Earl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAMRoy, Lori.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYBronte, Emily
Summary: The passionate love of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff mirrors the powerful moods of the Yorkshire moors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BROSteinbeck, John
Summary: Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STESmiley, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Interlochen
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014