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Author
Language
English
Description
Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bethsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart. --Publisher
2) O pioneers!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century. The daughter of the family inherits the land when her father dies, and the story follows her struggle to maintain it when many around her are leaving the prairie in defeat. There are two romantic narratives in the novel: that of the daughter and a family friend, and of her brother and a married woman.
3) Fatal frost
Author
Series
Dewberry Farm mystery volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lucy Resnick's nerves are as tight as a tea cozy. Her new goats, Hot Lips and Gidget, keep making a break for the town square, her truck is dying, and her boyfriend's gorgeous ex-wife is in town for the holidays. Worse, someone’s digging holes on her land... and uprooting her peach orchard and dewberry patch in the process. Lucy needs additional holiday stress like she needs a blow to the head—which she receives one night, courtesy of the mystery...
Author
Series
Henny Penny Farmette mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Former police officer Abigail Mackenzie has made a fresh start as a beekeeper and farmer in picturesque Las Flores, California—but she never suspected her new hometown would prove to be a hive of criminal activity. When Abby invites her free-spirited friend, Fiona Mary Ryan, owner of Ancient Wisdom Botanicals, to her farmette for lunch, she never imagines that Fiona’s no-show will lead to a murder investigation. Only hours after their lunch date,...
Author
Series
Local foods mystery volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Spring may be just around the corner, but a cold-blooded killer has put the big chill on the residents of Westbury, Massachusetts. It looks like organic farmer-turned-sleuth Cam Flaherty will have to set aside her seedlings for the time being as she tills the soil for clues in the mysterious death of a local poultry maven. --Amazon.com
Author
Series
Local foods mystery volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Cam is finding the New Year just as hectic as the old one. Her sometimes rocky relationship with Chef Jake Ericsson is in a deep freeze, she's struggling to provide the promised amount of food to the subscribers in her first winter CSA, and her new greenhouse might just collapse from the weight of the snow. Supplying fresh ingredients for a dinner at the local assisted living facility seems like the least of her worries--until one of the elderly residents...
Author
Series
Henny Penny Farmette mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
After an injury forced her to leave the police department, Abigail Mackenzie started a second career as a farmer. But when she attempts to deliver her trademark honey to local pastry chef Jean-Louis Bonheur and finds him dead in his shop, her old investigative instincts kick in.
Author
Publisher
Roost Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Author Jenna Woginrich is mistress of her one-woman farm and is well known for her essays on the mud and mess, the beautiful and tragic, the grime and passion that accompany homesteading. In Cold Antler Farm, her fifth book, she draws our attention to the flow and cycle not of the calendar year, but of the ancient agricultural year: holidays, celebrations, seasonal touchstones, and astronomical events that mark sacred turning points in the seasons....
Author
Publisher
Storey Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Jenna Woginrich's inspiring journey from city cubicle to rural homestead has captivated readers of her blog and previous books. Now, in One-Woman Farm, Woginrich shares the joys, sorrows, trials, epiphanies, and blessings she discovers during a year spent farming on her own land, finding deep fulfillment in the practical tasks and timeless rituals of the agricultural life.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Antonia Murphy, you might say, is an unlikely farmer. Born and bred in San Francisco, she spent much of her life as a liberal urban cliché, and her interactions with the animal kingdom rarely extended past dinner. But then she became a mother. And when her eldest son was born with a rare, mysterious genetic condition, she and her husband, Peter, decided it was time to slow down and find a supportive community. So the Murphys moved to Purua, New Zealand,...
12) Land girls
Series
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
Author
Series
Local foods mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The day after farmer Cam Flaherty holds an autumn dinner, one of her guests, disagreeable Irene Burr, is found dead in a neighbor's pigsty, and when Irene's stepson, who repaired Cam's barn, becomes a suspect, Cam decides to investigate.
Author
Series
Local foods mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"It's harvest time in Westbury, Massachusetts, and novice farmer Cameron Flaherty hopes to make a killing selling organic produce. But when a killer strikes on her property, her first foray into the world of organic farming yields a bumper crop of locally sourced murder" -- from publisher's web page.
Author
Series
Stella Crown mystery volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
17) Prairie trilogy
Author
Publisher
[unknown independent publisher]
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In one volume, all three novels comprising Willa Cather's Prairie Trilogy. Included in this volume are:O Pioneers! (originally published in 1913)The Song of the Lark (originally published in 1915)My Antonia (originally published in 1918)Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American author known for her vivid depictions of life in the American Midwest. Born in Virginia in 1873, Cather moved to Nebraska with her family at the age of nine. It was there that...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business--without ever leaving the land she loved. The youngest of her parents' combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in Southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to Hollywood, Chicago--or really anywhere with central heating. At fifteen, she...
Author
Series
Henny Penny Farmette mystery volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After finding her friend Paola injured and next to her dead husband, Abigail Mackenzie investigates the shooting to protect her friend.
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