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1) O pioneers!
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Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
2) Stella
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Stella used to be a bomb-sniffing dog, but after a terrible accident, she goes to live on a small family farm to recover from her fear of loud noises.
4) Some luck
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Last hundred years trilogy volume 1
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"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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Daughters of blessing volume 3
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Life in Blessing, North Dakota, becomes difficult when courageous and gentle Grace Knutson is presented with an agonizing dilema.
11) My Antonia
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A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest
This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers,...
12) This little pup
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When a boy throws a blue ball for his puppy to fetch, it bounces past two brown cows, three green frogs, and more as it makes its way around the farm.
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Cold Comfort Farm series volume 1
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When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm. A parody of D.H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels.
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Pig (Emer Stamp) volume 1
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When his life of yummy slops, a back-scratching farmer, and a duck best friend is threatened by an Evil Chicken plot involving a tractor-rocket, Pig becomes further upset when Duck shows his porcine friend the shed where pigs are prepared for dinner.
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Sam is finally old enough to help his parents harvest cranberries on their family farm? in Wisconsin, from flooding the field to prepare the vines for the picking machine to delivering the fruit to receiving station. Includes recipes for cranberry sauce and cranberry pie, author's note, and glossary.
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En palabras de George Orwell, Rebelión en la granja es la historia de una revolución que sale mal. La corrupción, el abuso de poder, la manipulación de la verdad y el culto al líder acaban con los sueños de libertad, igualdad y justicia de los habitantes de la Granja de los Animales. Hasta los ideales más nobles pueden pervertirse y degenerar en una parodia de aquello contra lo que se luchaba. Con esta sátira feroz de todos los totalitarismos,...
19) Ethan Frome
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On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondrialcal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists.
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Little Green is a proud and strong pickup truck who loves helping with chores, but when Farmer Gray buys a big new blue truck, Little Green is left to rust in a pasture until the farmer's daughter, Fern, suggests they fix him up and use him for such gentle jobs as going to the farmers' market.
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