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"Joseph Corrigan and Joseph Feehan, better known as Corrie and Fee, make the finest cheese in the entire civilized world. But Corrie still pines for his long-lost granddaughter, Abbey, whisked away from the family farm as a child by her gallivanting mother." "As it happens, Abbey, now twenty-nine and trying to cook a chicken in a primitive hut on a remote South Seas island, is soon to leave her irrigation-obsessed husband after discovering that he...
86) Mary McGreevy
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[1998]
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A nun in 1950s Ireland abandons the veil to run a farm inherited from her father. Sister Mary Thomas is good looking and flirtatious, and suitors queue at her door. But she does not want a husband, only a child, and eventually she gives birth to one, scandalizing the district and getting a priest into trouble. By the author of Celibates and Other Lovers.
88) Dear family
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In 1935, Ed Beane loses his job and he, wife Dorothy, their two children, and Ed's widowed mother are forced to take refuge with Dorothy's mother on the family farm. While not ignoring problems, Bittle carefully details the way family members support each other in this time of crisis. A series of vignettes focus on family celebrations--Thanksgiving, Christmas, graduation, weddings--as the Beanes move through the Depression years to face World War...
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1959.
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In Storm in the Village, Miss Read, the schoolteacher, is still at home in the work and the place that she has come to love so deeply and to describe with such an inimitable blend of affection and clearsighted candor. The ineffable Miss Crabbe, well briefed in the jargon of the sociologist; the incomparable Mrs. Pringle, fountainhead of gossip, walking compendium of mysterious complaints; the slight indomitable figure of Miss Clare; the Vicar and...
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p2007
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In a rural Kentucky river town, 'Old Jack' Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as they arrive at the next century.
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Royal rescues volume 4
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[2020]
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When Princess Bea discovers a beautiful pony alone on the beach, she is determined to find its owner, but the pony won't stay put! Can Bea find its home before it runs into trouble?
96) Land girls
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1996.
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A novel on three "land girls," members of Britain's Women's Land Army during World War II. Serving their country, plowing and shoveling manure are Prue, a boy-hungry hairdresser; Agatha, an undergraduate eager to share Homer's poems with the farmer's son; and dreamy Stella whose beau is in the Royal Navy. By the author of Invitation to the Married Life.
97) Lime Creek
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p2012
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Working long and unforgiving hours on their blizzard-stricken Wyoming range, Spencer Davis and his sons, Luke and Whitney, oversee the life cycles of their horses until headstrong Luke falls in love and begins to assert his independence.
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2011
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The highlight of Sarah Orne Jewett's career was The Country of the Pointed Firs, a tightly crafted narrative of a summer visit to a small town on the coast of Maine. The narrator is a writer who comes to the fictional town of Dunnet Landing in search of solitude but instead finds herself drawn into the town's rhythms. She's adopted into a loose-knit group of women who tell stories about the town and the people who inhabit it.
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