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1) Otis
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Series
Otis the tractor volume 1
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When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
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A Japanese American farmer recounts her agricultural successes and setbacks and her enduring love of dance. Based on the true life story of Alice Sumida, who with her husband Mark, established the largest gladiola bulb farm in the country during the last half of the twentieth century.
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Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 22 cm.
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Determined to leave her unfaithful husband, Judy Van Brunt takes the money she inherited from her mother and flees, taking a job as a groom at a North Carolina horse farm, where she shares an apartment with three extraordinary women.
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Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
283 p. ; 21 cm.
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While promoting her shop at the annual fiber festival, Maggie Mesina, the head of the Black Sheep Knitting group, must unravel a tangled mystery involving llamas and murder when her friend Ellie's husband is accused of killing their crazy neighbor.
7) On the farm
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Series
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
When Clarence's parents ask him to visit the family farm, he envisions romping with the sheep, playing with the pigs, and a nice long rest, but his mom and dad have other plans.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"On the farm, workers pick vegetables, collect eggs, and make cheese. At the market the next day, the workers set up their stands and prepare for shoppers to arrive. Amy, the baker at the Busy Bee Café, has a very special meal in mind--and, of course, all the farmers show up at the café to enjoy the results of their hard work"--
10) Pale Harvest
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Jack Selvedge works a dying trade in a dead town. When the lovely Rebekah Rainsford returns on the run from her father, her dark history consumes him, and she becomes the potential for his salvation, the only thing that might dredge him up from his crisis of indifference. As betrayal and tragedy change Jack's life forever, he discovers a new if nascent hope amid the harshly beautiful western landscape that shaped him. A deeply written and deeply felt...
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Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago. When she discovers she is pregnant, she resolves to protect her child no matter the cost, and starts to meticulously plan her escape. But when another woman is brought into the fold on the farm, her plans go awry. Can she save herself, her child, and this innocent woman at the same time? Or is she doomed to spend the remainder of her life...
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Sugarcreek Amish mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Horses all across the county are disappearing, including Cheryl's Ranger and the Millers' Samson. So she and Levi join forces to find the thieves and recover their animals. In the meantime, Cheryl stumbles across an old diary of a recently deceased Sugarcreek resident, Emmaline Draper. Apparently, when the author was young, she had fallen in love with an Amish man. But because she was an Englischer, the couple never acted on their feelings. The words...
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"When a new family moves into Prune Street Farm, Alice and the other cottontails are cautious. The new owners are from the city; the family and their dog are not at all what the rabbits expect, and soon Alice is making new friends and doing things no rabbit has done before. When she overhears a plan by a developer to run the family off and bulldoze the farm, Alice comes up with a plan, helped by the farmer's son, and other animals, including a majestic...
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New Americana volume 4
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For some folks, Hart's Hollow Farm has seen better days. But for the Hart family matriarch, it's a home worth fighting for. From the moment Kristen arrives at Hart's Hollow, the place speaks to her soul. So when 73-year-old Emmy Hart asks Kristen to help return the farm to its former glory, she accepts--despite her fears about getting involved with Emmy--or the two kids in Emmy's care. Then there's there is Emmy's ruggedly handsome grandson, who...
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Series
Sugarcreek Amish mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The future is looking bright for Cheryl Cooper and her new fianc?, Levi Miller. Now that they've decided to make a life together, the biggest problem is how will they tell his family? When the town of Sugarcreek holds a pie-contest fund-raiser and many local business owners are invited to judge, Cheryl worries she may be biased because her best friend and future mother-in-law, Naomi Miller, is a contestant. Sill, with the proceeds going toward a good...
16) Heaven adjacent
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Roseanna Chaldecott spent her life as a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan. But when her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, something snaps. Unsure of her future, Roseanna heads upstate on one tank of gas and with no plans to return. In the foothills of the Adirondacks, Roseanna discovers the perfect hideout in a ramshackle farm. Its seventy-six acres are rich with possibilities and full of surprises, including a mother and daughter squatting...
17) The stone wall
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"Anna Beachy is eager to begin a new chapter in her life as a Lancaster County tour guide in the picturesque area where her Plain grandmother once stayed. Anna wishes she could talk with her about those long-ago days, but the elderly woman suffers from Alzheimer's. Beyond a vague comment about an old stone wall, much about her grandmother's time there is a mystery. As Anna settles into her new community, she finds herself unexpectedly befriended by...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2023.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
It’s been more than a decade since the world has come undone, and Sasha Severn has returned to her childhood home with one goal in mind―find the mythic research her father, the infamous Last Beekeeper, hid before he was incarcerated. There, Sasha is confronted with a group of squatters who have claimed the quiet, idyllic farm as their own. While she initially feels threatened, the group soon becomes her newfound family, offering what she hasn't...
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"In 1890, estranged brothers Tommy and Billy McBride are living far apart in Queensland, each dealing with the trauma that destroyed their family in different ways. Now 21, Billy bottles his guilt and justifies his past crimes while attempting to revive his father?s former cattle run and navigate his feelings for the young widow Katherine Sullivan. Katherine, meanwhile, cherishes her newfound independence but is struggling to establish herself as...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
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Eighteen-year-old Debbie was raised on her family's rural dairy farm, forty minutes and a world away from Dublin. She lives with her mother, Maeve, a skittish woman who takes to her bed for days on end, claims not to know who Debbie's father is, and believes her dreams are prophecies. Rounding out their small family is Maeve's brother Billy, who lives in a caravan behind their house, drinks too much, and likes to impersonate famous dead writers online....
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