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The produce is local--and so is the crime--when long-simmering tensions lead to murder following a festive dinner on Cam Flaherty's farm. It'll take a sleuth who knows the lay of the land to catch this killer. But no one ever said Cam wasn't willing to get her hands dirty. . .
Autumn has descended on Westbury, Massachusetts, but the mood at the Farm-to-Table Dinner in Cam's newly built barn is unseasonably chilly. Local entrepreneur Irene Burr made...
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IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 25
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Far From the Maddening Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Her Harvard-student son just eloped with the First Daughter. CNN is parked on the road to her apple orchards. Secret Service agents have commandeered her country kitchen. The irate First Parents are threatening to have her taxes audited. The President's handsome, tough, ex-military nephew is setting up camp in her guest room. Hush McGillan's quiet Appalachian world of heirloom apples, country festivals, and carefully guarded family secrets has just...
9) O pioneers!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska country of the 1880s. John Bergson, a Swedish farmer, struggles desperately with the soil but dies unsatisfied. His daughter Alexandra resolves to vindicate his faith, and her strong character carries her weak older brothers and her mother alng to a new zest...
10) The fields
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2022.
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"A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut-crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body-a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's...
11) Sun on the wall
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Thorndike Press
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2010, c1973
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421 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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In the 1860s and 70s, men still got up with the sun - and to young Jim Glenn, his father's phrase sun on the wall meant the boy was already late. Daylight, the time when an honest, small farmer could work, was precious. So when, as a very young man, Jim started wondering west, he stacked the raffish, brawling world exploding about him against values that left the West very much wanting. And Jim Glenn into a peck of trouble
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Snow is piling up in Westbury, Massachusetts, and Cam Flaherty's organic farm has managed to survive the harsh New England winter. Unfortunately murder seems to be the crop in season Cam is finding the New Year just as hectic as the old one. And 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 dies after eating some of her produce. Cantankerous Bev...
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Wheeler Pub
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2012
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387 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Bailey's Farmers' Market is abuzz over the visit of the Central South Carolina Restaurant Association, and Becca Robins is even more excited about her parents' unexpected visit. Her family watches as Becca happily hands out samples of her jams and preserves - until association president Joan Ashworth vetoes her strawberry preserves. Then Becca heads home to find Joan's body in her kitchen and her mother with blood on her hands.
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Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
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331 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"Dairy farmer Abe Stoltzfus wants to propose to Lavinia Fisher, the beautiful young woman he's been dating, but being a traditional Amish man, he worries about how he can provide for her. Farming can be uncertain enough...And after a bad summer storm and a serious injury from a rooftop tumble, Abe wants to wait until both he and his farm are back on their feet. Lavinia is relieved when Abe survives the fall, yet it seems like it's only the start of...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2021.
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English
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"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
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Whitaker House
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[2022]
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334 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Romance novel set after the assassination of President Lincoln centering on a young woman trying to hang on to her family farm, a neighboring farmer, and a land baron who will stop at nothing to get what he wants"--
"At age twenty-one, Anna Hansen has had more than her share of hardship. Her mother died when she was eleven and her father just passed away under mysterious circumstances, leaving her to care for her ten-year-old brother, Billy Ray....
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Kelly Murphy's life as a tulip farmer is pretty routine -- up at dawn, off to work, lather, rinse, repeat. But everything changes one sun-washed summer with two dramatic homecomings: Griffith Burnett -- Tulpen Crossing's prodigal son, who's set his sights on Kelly -- and Olivia, her beautiful, wayward and, as far as Kelly is concerned, unwelcome sister. Tempted by Griffith, annoyed by Olivia, Kelly is overwhelmed by the secrets that were so easy to...
19) The four winds
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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"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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