Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1402219083
"This edition published in agreement with The O'Brien Press, Ltd." --T.p. verso.
Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803281783
Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary. Little Britches was the literary debut of Ralph Moody, who wrote about the adventures of his family in eight glorious books, all available as Bison Books.
Author : Jerry S. Eicher
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0736942440
Readers will delight in this heartfelt novel by bestselling author Jerry Eicher, a former Amishman, who writes with authenticity and compassion about the people he grew up with. When Susan Hostetler has a falling out with her boyfriend, Thomas Stoll, she leaves her Amish community and moves to Asbury Park to experiment in English life. There she learns to drive a car, takes her GED test, and falls in love with young and handsome Duane Bower. Back home, her parents are devastated and miss their daughter terribly. But what can they do? Susan has a mind of her own. Just as Susan is enjoying her new life, her plans are interrupted. She meets Teresa Long, a young, unwed, expectant mother who asks Susan to help her have her baby adopted by an Amish family. As Susan is drawn into the young woman's life, she also finds herself drawn back to her Amish roots. But can she truly leave her life behind...and Duane?
Author : Alan Fields
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781889392059
Offers advice on selecting contractors and home builders, as well as discussing mortgages, site selection, environmental concerns, consumer rights, and contracts, and identifies unethical practices.
Author :
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780811842235
"Fields of Plenty is the memoir of respected farmer, writer, and photographer Michael Ableman as he and his son travel from his own farm in British Columbia across the United States in search of innovative and passionate farmers who are making a difference in what we eat and how we experience food. From California to New York, this story captures the essence of each farmer's vision, the spirit of the land that they work, and the beauty and flavors of the foods that they lovingly produce. Ableman's odyssey takes him to a melon grower who is "militant about flavor," sheep-cheese producers who have built their own culturing caves, an urban farmer growing heirloom tomatoes for market on abandoned lots, and others who are trying to answer the complex questions of sustenance philosophically and, most important, practically." "Fields of Plenty is a hopeful memoir that reveals the larger issues of food in a modern world. Illustrated with Ableman's photographs and flavored with recipes that feature each farmer's bounty, Fields of Plenty is an intimate portrait of food and agriculture at a critical crossroads."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Carrie Burrows
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781736882603
In this unforgettable World War II novel, inspired by true events, the lives of Central Texans on homeland soil are forever altered as many sacrifice it all for America's gain. ------------ Fall 1941. Grace Kathleen Willis has it all - a loving family and community, a handsome fiancé, and a job as a schoolteacher. But when Grace discovers the government is possibly bringing a new Army camp to her beloved farming community and acting on its right to eminent domain, she finds herself torn between the man she deeply cares for and her childhood home. In the midst of some of the darkest moments in America's history, love must find a way to overcome. Spring 2016. Thirty-year-old Katie Johnson is seeking a fresh start in a new community as she moves in with her ninety-five-year-old grandma. Her first stop is a special reunion on the Fort Hood military base just outside Gatesville, Texas. The temperature isn't the only thing heating up over the summer as Katie discovers more of her family's past than she expected.
Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1847176011
The second book in the famine trilogy At seven, Peggy made a terrifying journey through famine-stricken Ireland. Now thirteen, and determined to make a new life for herself, she sets off alone across the Atlantic to America. Will she ever see her family again? An extraordinary story of courage, independence and adventure The other books in the Famine trilogy are Under the Hawthorn Tree and Fields of Home. A study guide to Under the Hawthorn tree is also available.
Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1402219067
During the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, three children are left alone and in danger of being sent to the workhouse, so they set out to find the great-aunts they remember from their mother's stories.
Author : Erin Young
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250799406
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 Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal when she discovers the victim was a childhood friend, connected to a dark past she thought she’d left behind. The investigation grows complicated as more victims are found. Drawn deeper in, Riley soon discovers implications far beyond her Midwest town.
Author : Carlene A. Thissen
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595769276
Immokalee's Fields of Hope is a story of Mexican, Haitian, and Guatemalan immigrants told by a businesswoman who regained her soul through volunteering with children. With compassion and understanding, Carlene Thissen shares the personal stories the immigrants told her, framed with the political and social histories of their countries. Beginning with family memories of her own German and Irish grandparents, she captures the struggles, hopes, and dreams of people who just want to work and make a better life. Carlene offers the opportunity to stretch out and truly visualize the plights of the people being described and their motivation for coming to America. They left horrible poverty, violence, and persecution and risked everything they had to come to Immokalee in Southwest Florida as word spread across our borders that, "There is work in Immokalee." More than just the vivid story of the immigrants, Carlene explains the frustrations and fears of the rural community that struggled to absorb them and the dedicated people who came to help. The immigrants' dreams of a better life and the Carlene's own journey back to the garden all began in Immokalee's Fields of Hope.
