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42) Reservoir 13
Author
Series
Reservoir novels volume 1
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A teenage girl has gone missing and everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the English moors as the police set up roadblocks and news reporters descend. Meanwhile, there is still work that must be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who...
43) Moo
Author
Formats
Description
Follows the efforts of twelve-year-old Reena, who has recently moved to rural Maine, to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man inherits a train station in rural New Jersey and moves there for a life of quiet solitude. He soon finds friendships and a sense of belonging that he never expected, and never thought he wanted.
45) The shadow house
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh start for her and her children. In an effort to escape her troubled past, she seeks refuge in a rural community. Pine Ridge is idyllic; the surrounding forests are beautiful and the locals welcoming. Mostly. But Alex finds that she may have disturbed barely hidden secrets in her new home. As a chain of bizarre events is set off, events eerily familiar to those who have lived there for years,...
46) The grocer's son
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 7
Publisher
Distributed by RB Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed: driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with...
47) Unsettled ground
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
330 pages cm
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
Publisher
Sullivan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is 1945 and a grown up Anne Shirley returns to Prince Edward Island for an extended visit. She agrees to write a play for a local theatre producer in hopes that it will keep her mind off of her only son who is serving in the Armed Forces overseas. A letter is discovered from the father who abandoned her as a child, bringing up the memories of her early childhood.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
In a small, Virginia town, sixth-grader Jessie Lou Ferguson has a crush on the hugely popular Conrad Parker Smith, and when he suddenly develops a medical problem and the teacher asks Jessie Lou to help him, they become friends, to her surprise.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Easy-to-read, cumulative text invites the reader to search the illustrations for animals, flowers, and more, from one harvest moon to ten flying geese, during a walk in the country.
Series
To the manor born volume disc 2
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hilarity abounds as Richard imposes new efficiency standards upon farm management and stirs Audrey's protest with his modernizing methods.
Author
Series
Fairy tale girl volume 3
Publisher
Vineyard Stories
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
259 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Susan Branch and her husband Joe fulfill a lifetime dream by celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary by sailing across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2 and spending two months wandering the English countryside.
54) Blackberry juice
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Series
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Description
"After moving into their new home, a keeling-over farmhouse in the country, nine-year-old Cyrus and his brother, Rudy, have trouble adjusting to all the changes. Nothing about the coastal countryside feels warm or familiar. But when Cyrus is stranded one evening by the tide, he finds help from an unlikely source."--
55) A country affair
Author
Formats
Description
In "A Little Bit Country," Stranded on the side of a country road with a broken-down car, Rorie Campbell is grateful when horse rancher Clay Franklin comes to her rescue. Stuck in the quirky small town, Rorie gets to know Clay, and she quickly starts to fall for the gruff, tough cowboy. Can a city girl make it work with a country man? Clay certainly thinks so. But their situation is…complicated. Clay and Rorie will have to sort out their feelings...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xx, 313 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Whether you want to dabble in the homesteading movement or immerse yourself completely in the do-it-yourself, back-to-basics lifestyle, Welcome to the Farm is a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to growing the very best food right in your own backyard. Shaye Elliott takes readers on a journey that teaches them how to harvest baskets full of organic produce, milk a dairy cow (and make butter), plant a homestead orchard, can jams and jellies, and...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A warmhearted, hilarious queer rom-com about what happens when a group of friends are actually brave enough to live the dream and give up their dreary city apartments to buy a house in the country together. El is in a rut. She's been hiding in the photocopier room at the same dead-end job for longer than she cares to remember, she's sharing a flat with a girl who leaves passive-aggressive smiley face notes on the fridge about milk consumption and,...
58) Apple crush
Author
Series
Peapod farm series volume 2
Formats
Description
Jen is just getting used to her life on Peapod Farm with her new stepsisters, Andy and Reese, but when the school year starts, there are even more changes in store for her.
Author
Series
Thrush Green series volume 12
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Little is known of the village's most distinguished son, Nathaniel Patten, until an unexpected letter arrives. When the correspondence shows that one hundred years have passed since the opening of Patten's mission school in Africa, coinciding with the centenary of Thrush Green's own village school, the townsfolk decide to combine the festivities for a very special occasion. As with all village events, the plans for the celebration are beset with anxieties,...
60) Grit 2023
Publisher
Ogden Publications
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
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