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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love.
It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after', and lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman...
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Prairie Legacy volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Her Character Has Been Shaped and Tempered by Both Adversity and Triumph... If Virginia could have chosen to accept or discard all the changes that came her way, she gladly would have let most of them pass right by herself and her family. She loved her life--living on the farm with her beloved Jonathan and their children, not far from her parents and her grandparents. But a change that is tearing at her heart is the gradual but steady physical decline...
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Just like you, Ann Voskamp hungers to live her one life well. Forget the bucket lists that have us escaping our everyday lives for exotic experiences. "How," Ann wondered, "do we find joy in the midst of deadlines, debt, drama, and daily duties? What does the Christ-life really look like when your days are gritty, long-and sometimes even dark? How is God even here?"In One Thousand Gifts, Ann invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark on...
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Red River of the North volume Prequel
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"After the loss of her first love, is Ingeborg Strand willing to marry a stranger--however kind--for the promise of a new life in America? The prequel to the RED RIVER OF THE NORTH series"--
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
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Jodie is staying with her grandparents on their farm and sees the scarecrows "come alive!"
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Talk the talk of the country with Julia Rothman's entertaining and informative visual tour of life on the farm. Her drawings, diagrams, step-by-step sequences, and dissections reveal everything from the parts of a milking machine and the anatomy of a pig to how to plow a field and shear a sheep.--P. [4] of cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Ellie's grandmother doesn't want her around the farm, but times are tough, and her salesman father can't take her on the road. Ellie's challenge is to break through her grandmother's isolation and find kinship among strangers.
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Under Northern skies volume 1
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"In 1910, Signe, her husband, and their boys emigrate from Norway to Minnesota, dreaming of one day owning a farm of their own. But the relatives they've come to stay with are harsh and demanding. As Signe's family is worked to the bone to repay the cost of their voyage, can she learn to trust God through this trial and hold on to hope for a better future?"--
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Love Comes Softly volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Continues the pioneer adventures of Clark and Marty as they face the joys and trials of life on a homesteader's farm and the marriage of their daughter.
13) The big sneeze
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A farmer sneezes a fly off his nose and causes havoc in the barnyard.
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The Farming Joke Book brings together around 500 jokes, amusing stories and anecdotes about farmers, farm animals, and life on the farm in general. So, whether you've been farming for donkey's years or you are new to it and whether these jokes make you laugh, cry or just groan out loud, there will definitely be something in this collection that will tickle your farming funny bones.
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Married as a child bride to Nathan, a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the fields with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With fortitude and courage, she fights poverty and disaster.
Written over 70 years ago, Nectar in a Sieve is as relevant now as when it was first published. The story of Rukmani and Nathan is the story of many Indian farmers yesterday and today....
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Hope Harbor volume 1
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"Tracy Campbell never wanted to leave Hope Harbor, Oregon, or the idyllic three-generation cranberry farm where she grew up. But life--and love--altered her plans. When tragedy strikes and changes her plans yet again, she finds herself back in her hometown with a floundering farm to run and a heartbreaking secret. Romance is not on her agenda. Nor is it on Michael Hunter's. The visitor from Chicago has daunting secrets of his own. But when Tracy recruits...
19) A man's heart
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Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Not just once, but twice. Now the man Jules loves best can't stand the sight of her. Only for Pop could Jules have made such a sacrifice. And now Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling Washington State potato farm; with a sister excluded from his will; and with a heart wounded by the sacrifice she has made on behalf of her father. It looks like strengthening her relationship with...
20) Farmers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"This photo-illustrated book for early readers explains what farmers do how they work to raise crops and animals"--
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