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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Someone's been stealing from the three meanest farmers around and they know the identity of the thief--it's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Working alone, they could never catch him; but now fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces, and they have Mr. Fox and his family surrounded. What they don't know is that they're not dealing with just any fox--Mr. Fox would rather die than surrender. Only the most fantastic plan can save him now."--Back...
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Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Description
"Wesley is so busy running his family's Amish market at the holidays, he barely has time for Liesl, the young woman he's been courting for years. When she suggests her aunt Jenny could help Wesley out, he agrees to the plan. Jenny, still healing after a painful breakup, welcomes the distraction of working at the market. She soon realizes Wesley is everything she ever dreamed a man could be. But how can Jenny even think about romance with the man Liesl...
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Pub. Date
2018
Description
During Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the '80s and '90s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty can have on individuals, families, and communities. Combining memoir with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, this is an uncompromising look at class, identity, and the particular...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Description
10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets excited about a new invention - television.
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"Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But when he meets Morgan Lee, his world is turned upside-down, making him wonder if the responsibilities he has shouldered need dictate his life forever. The daughter of affluent Chicago...
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James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what...
10) Necessary lies
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North Carolina, 1960. After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and young nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her grandmother's aging, her sister's mental illness, and her own epilepsy, Ivy realizes they might need more than she can give ... When Jane Forrester takes a position as Grace County's newest social worker, she doesn't realize just how much her help...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Newly single and unemployed Kerry Tolliver needs a second chance. When she moves back home to her family's Christmas tree farm in North Carolina, she is guilt tripped into helping her brother, Murphy, sell trees in New York City. She begrudgingly agrees, but she isn't happy about sharing a trailer with her brother in the East Village for two months. Plus, it's been years, since before her parents' divorce, that she's been to the city to sell Christmas...
12) A day away
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
One summer: Celebrity photographer Bryan Mitchell spends an unforgettable summer traveling across the country on a photo shoot with photojournalist Shade Colby.
Temptation: Eden Carlbough is unprepared for the difficulties of running a camp for girls. So she's pretty lucky--for more than one reason--when she tumbles from an apple tree into the arms of a strong, capable orchard owner.
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What happens when a young sophisticated Chicagoan falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush Lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina -- trading the bustle of a cosmopolitan city for the vagaries of a small southern town?
In the Lowcountry of South Carolina, Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents are throwing a barbeque to celebrate her son's engagement. Fred is marrying Shelby Cambria, whose father, Alejandro...
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Series
Heartland homecoming volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
From his first meeting with organic farmer Christine Turner on a rain-slicked highway, Police Chief Dale Lewis is intrigued. But Oak Hill's newest resident wants nothing to do with men in general, and lawmen in particular. When Dale discovers that Christine has been wronged, his passion for justice compels him to help. As their paths begin to cross, Dale's five-year-old daughter falls hard for Christine, and he's not far behind. Still, romance is...
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Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2013, 1980
Description
Presents five of the author's most popular novels. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (abridged): e gates of Mr. Willy Wonka's fabulous chocolate factory are opening at last and only five lucky children are allowed to enter. James and the Giant Peach (abridged): A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach. Fantastic Mr. Fox (unabridged): Three farmers, each one...
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