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Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
10 books (294 pages ; 23 cm); in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
Life is not as orderly as it seems amidst the soybean fields of 1970s Minnesota. Farm girl Raki Pederson finds that out the hard way. Homeless, cast out by her family, carrying a baby and a heavy secret, she redeems her life through the kindness of strangers. There's the hapless pastor, Sam, followed by a succession of women, each with her own dark secret: Margaret, guilt-ridden from her sister's death; Carol, a feminist Robin Hood; and Mrs. Anderson,...
6522) Pop-up peekaboo! farm
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lift the flaps to find hidden pop-ups illustrating things on the farm.
6523) On beauty
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
445 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Little Simon board bk. ed.
Lexile measure
AD 450L
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Farmer Gray goes away, Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick, and White Duck decide to paint their black and white barnyard. Red Hen paints the barn red. White Duck paints the fence white. When Blue Goose and Yellow Chick mix their paints together they make green for grass and trees. By the time Farmer Gray returns the farm is filled with color.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hr., 36 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"With youngest sister Hallie getting married, the three Walsh sisters reunite at their family's beach house for the big event. It's a celebratory affair, rife with cherished traditions. But families are complicated, and these sisters are no exception. Claire, the eldest, no longer believes in love after years working as a divorce attorney, and she resorts to taking her 'work husband' as her date to convince her family otherwise. Middle sister, Amy,...
Author
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag.
Language
English
Description
"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetary, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colony: "As aged Maude Chambliss waits to be taken home by her granddaughter, she recalls her summers at Retreat, a colony in Maine: from her arrival in 1921 as a young bride, fresh from South Carolina, a misfit amid these wealthy Bostonians, to her current struggle to keep the colony and its environs out of the hands of spoilers. She thinks of her mother-in-law, the imperious Hannah, who taught Maude that it is Retreat's women whose pride and backbone...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
1st U.S. pbk. ed.
Lexile measure
AD 270L
Physical Desc
1 kit (1 book [1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; in 26 cm] bag with handles. 22 x 26 cm), + 1 game (14 pieces)
Language
English
Description
An overheated pig who doesn't swim, throws himself into a pond, throwing the farmyard into an uproar. But on this hot summer day, the pig on Neligan's farm sits by the pond feeling envious of the ducks and geese floating in the cool water. Finally, when she can endure the heat no longer--Splash!--this sweltering pig takes a dive, throwing the entire farm into an uproar.
Author
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1980, ©1978
Physical Desc
pages 515-1067 ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Anna comes to New York from Poland at the turn of the century, a beautiful and impoverished teenager. She goes to work for the Werners -- a wealthy family -- and falls in love with Paul, the son of her employers. But it is Joseph Friedman, a hardworking, poor immigrant, whom Anna marries. The continuing passion between Anna and Paul breaks through their restraint only once, but that once results in a change of fortune for the Friedmans. Together,...
6530) Out to Canaan
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 3
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
12 audio discs (approximately14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Father Tim, the Episcopal rector, and his wife are pondering the uncertainties of retirement, a new mayoral candidate is calling for aggressive development in Mitford, a shady realtor has plans for a health spa, and the Sweet Stuff Bakery may be closing.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1st Picador USA pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
8 books (278 pages ; 21 cm), 1 discussion folder ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, the moral dilemma of a woman who becomes pregnant out of wedlock. She is Anna MacEwan, 30, a divorcee carrying a child by a married lawyer. He intends to divorce and marry her, but in the meantime he would prefer if she had an abortion, saving him embarrassment.
6532) A song for the road
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
486 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's one year after the death of her husband and twin teenagers, and Miriam Tedesco has lost faith in humanity and herself. When a bouquet of flowers that her husband always sends on their anniversary shows up at her workplace, she completely unravels. With the help of her best friend, she realizes that it's time to pick up the pieces and begin to move on. Step one is not even cleaning out her family's possessions, but just taking inventory--starting...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
1st Square Fish ed.
Physical Desc
1 kit (1 book [1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; in 28 cm] bag with handles. 29 cm), + toys (4 fences, 24 animals)
Language
English
Description
All the farm animals are where they should be, clucking and mucking, mewing and cooing, except for the missing goose. It's another cacophonous morning on the farm. From pasture to hayloft, cows moo, kittens mew, hens cluck, and pigs muck. As energetic text filled with rhyming barnyard noises invite young readers to chime in. This exuberant picture book, created with distinctive handmade-paper illustrations, bursts with color, texture, and playful...
6534) The keeper's son
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
709 pages (large print) : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
Books (338, 12 pages ; 20 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned--from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren--an enigmatic artist and single mother--who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and a...
6536) Talk of the town
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
496 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They're coworkers, friends, and confidants, but Peter Marshal has always pined for a little something more with Noelle Walters. As a widow and a single mom, Noelle prefers to play it safe, and falling for Peter was never part of the plan. Then again, neither of their plans accounted for the well-meaning but meddling actions of Peter's sister, who offers him up as their town's most eligible bachelor in the local moms' Facebook group. He's none the...
6537) The Magnolia sisters
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Harper Anderson has a to-do list longer than the Colorado River and fields of tulips to tend at her family's flower farm in California. What she doesn't have is time for the arrogant tech mogul who makes her an offer to use their farm as his sister's wedding venue. No amount of money could make up for the destruction it would wreak on next season's crop. The sooner Luke Martin is on his way, the better. But Luke will do whatever it takes to make...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
8 books (301 pages ; 18 cm), 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
"On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge--only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing up under her grandfather's care in a world apart and a lifetime ago. Now an artist, Meg paints images "reflected across the mirrors of memory and water," much as the linked stories of "Vacationland" cast shimmering spells across distance...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her older sister, Edith, struggles to make what most people would call a living. So she can't help wondering what her life would have been like with even a portion of the farm money her sister kept for herself. With the proceeds from the farm, Helen builds...
6540) The Easter surprise
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First board book edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Curious bunny Fern is determined to find all the beautifully decorated eggs on the farm in a springtime mystery" --