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Relates the experiences of Bathsheba Everdene as she is courted and married to three different men. Bathsheba Everdene and the three men who love her move through a beautifully realized late nineteenth-century agrarian landscape, still almost untouched by the industrial revolution, and the encroachment of modern life. Takes place in Wessex in the 1840s.
2) O pioneers!
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English
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Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Investigating the murder of a local country star at the county fair, jaded dairy farmer Stella Crown is wrongly accused of the crime in ways that compel her to search for answers before her wedding is completely ruined.
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2021.
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English
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"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 to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli-like so many of her neighbors-must make an agonizing choice: fight...
5) Agaat
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Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Focuses on the relationship between Milla, an aging white female farmer in South Africa, and Agaat, her black maidservant, in a story set near the end of apartheid.
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Stella Crown mysteries volume 2
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Stella Crown is slowly recovering from a serious motorcycle accident and the death of her farm manager when into her life comes newly hired farmhand Lucy, a widowed Mennonite woman, and her young daughter, Tess. Lucy really knows her way around a cow, but soon troubling questions about her past emerge.
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Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Set in rural England during the Second World War, the highly popular, award-winning drama returns for a third five-part series and continues to follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields in the Women's Land Army.
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"Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the family's produce farm--much less plow a heap of money into it. Her plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign into the farm's fallow furrows--but Charlotte's sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a killing frost when she finds a dead body entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it seems, was run through...with a pitchfork? Now, Charlotte is stuck with running the farm in the midst of a murder...
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Alafair Tucker mysteries volume 3
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English
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"The perfect piece of noir fiction." -New York Times Book Review
"Terse, brutal, poetic, perfectly wrought." -Publishers Weekly STARRED review
At the end of Drive, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, "the only one he ever mourned," ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him. Driven tells how that young man, done with killing, becomes the one who goes down "at 3 a.m. on a clear, cool morning in a Tijuana bar."
Seven years have passed. Driver...
10) Different paths
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Stella Crown mysteries volume 5
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Stella's friends have been targeted for vandalism and theft. Then Dr. Peterson is found murdered in her office, and Stella makes it her job to find the connection.
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Stella Crown mysteries volume 3
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English
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"An armchair travelers delight"-Publishers Weekly
One dead art collector and a gallery of suspects. This romantic weekend just turned deadly…
Translator Rick Montoya is looking forward to a quiet weekend away with his girlfriend, Betta, an art fraud investigator for the Italian Culture Ministry. Their destination: the beautiful village of Urbino, home to Renaissance masters Rafael and the lesser-known Piero della Francesca. While Betta does have...
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Stella Crown mysteries volume 4
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English
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"Clemens certainly keeps you guessing."-Kirkus Reviews
If Stella Crown loves anything as much as her farm, her Harley, and her friends, it's a good dose of rock-and-roll. So she jumps at the chance to see a Philadelphia legend in concert. But during the performance, a bomb threat empties out the club. When the panic subsides, a member of the band is missing. Later that night, the body of singer Genna is found in the club. Genna's boyfriend, the drummer...
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Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her family's three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family for land she does not own. A sudden, inexplicable event leaves the daughter of her childhood friend in her care. Pressured by her community to allow her former fiancé to raise the child, Dottie must face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget.
Spanning a decade, This Heavy Silence explores the...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"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...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: the memoir of a mother who, after ending her nineteen-year marriage, staves off a perpetually empty bank account and, with the help of her three young sons, saves her century-old farmhouse from foreclosure and reclaims her life. It's the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link's dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. But when she and her husband call it...
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of grain and Sunday dinners at the ranch house. Ankle High and Knee Deep collects together essays about lessons learned by ranch women, cowgirls, and farmers about what they've learned while standing in or stepping out of "mud, manure, and other offal" in their...
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BFS Video
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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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.
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021].
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English
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Follow the lives, loves, highs, and lows of members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II. As men fought on the battlefields, women from all walks of life worked the farms that fed the nation, doing their part to keep the home front running.
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