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2) Foe: a novel
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English
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We don't get visitors. Not out here. We never have. In Iain Reid's second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, isolated life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements...
3) Crow Lake
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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880L
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English
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Kate Morrison, orphaned at the age of seven, grows up seeing her brilliant older brother Matt's failure to further his education as a tragedy, and feeling somewhat guilty about her own accomplishments, and it is not until years later that she finally sees the damage her faulty thinking has caused.
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Tending roses volume 3
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English
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After Karen Sommerfield is suddenly forced to deal with the threat of cancer at the same time her company downsizes her, she returns to the rural Missouri Ozarks and her grandmother's old farm on an odyssey to find herself.
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"Never knowing his parents, eleven-year-old Stewie Little and his brother have been raised on a farm by their older sister. Stewie steadfastly tends the chickens left by his beloved late grandmother. And every day Stewie goes door to door selling fresh eggs from his wagon--a routine with a surprise just around the corner. It's his new customer, Marilyn. She's prickly and guarded, yet comfortably familiar--she reminds the grieving Stewie so much of...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, 25-year-old Francine Veyrenattes, discovering an inability to navigate the world as others do, travels to the sea where she begins to unravel and decide whether and how she can take hold of her own existence.
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"STILL THE NIGHT CALL is about Calem Honeycutt, a 32-year-old Missouri dairy farmer of few words. But just because he's quiet doesn't mean he's simple. In fact, Calem's internal voice eloquently leads us through his wondrous yet tortured past, his fears for the future of his beleaguered rural world, and his carefully laid plans to remedy the vicious Night Call that haunts his present. All he has to do is get through one last day on the farm, then...
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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 fiance to raise the child, dottie must face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget.
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Christie Fraser traveled south from Indianapolis on Christmas Eve 1899 with a locket to court Cate Conboy, daughter of Link Conboy the superintendent of the Poor Farm. This is the story of the courtship, what Christie learned about the inmates of the poor farm, and what role the "diggers" James and Mary Abel played in their courtship.
12) The sojourner
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English
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Story of Asahel Linden, a simple and good man who in his own fashion loved his family and his land. He was betrayed by his brother and his unnatural mother. His children could not hold up to his moral fiber. It is the story of his eventual triumph over all these defeats.
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English
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"On a dark and lovely winter night, Noah Summers sits before a roaring fire, drifting between sleep and recollection, trying to make sense of a lifetime of psychic visions and his family's tumultuous history on an Indiana farmstead. Decades have passed since Noah first fell in love with Opal, a brilliant but unstable young woman whose penchant for flames separated the couple after just forty-two idyllic days of married life. Despite the challenges...
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