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1) Tobacco road
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The story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute most of their creditors had given up on them.
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[2016]
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According to the terms of Emily's grandmother's will, single mother Emily Elliott must live on and properly tend Goosefeather Farm for the summer, or neighbor and childhood friend Abel Whitlock will inherit everything. While Emily believes this is just what Abel wishes, Abel decides to show Emily and her twins how to take care of the farm and thus get what he's always hoped for--a life with Emily and her children at his side.
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Peaches volume 1
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[2005]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
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New Americana volume 4
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From the moment Kristen Daniels arrives at Hart's Hollow, something about the place speaks to her soul. So when 73-year-old Emmy Hart asks Kristen to help return the farm to its former glory, Kristen accepts, despite her fears about getting involved with Emmy or the two kids in Emmy's care. Then there's the matter of Emmy's ruggedly handsome grandson, who stirs feelings Kristen believed were long gone. When Mitch Hart left Hart's Hollow at age eighteen,...
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Smoke Jensen's brother Luke, having been shot while trying to smuggle gold out of Richmond during the Civil War and nursed back to health by the daughter of a farmer, plans to stay on the farm with the woman with whom he has fallen in love, but, after the arrival of ruthless carpetbaggers, he must take it upon himself to hunt them down and bring the outlaws to justice.
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Peaches volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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At the start of their senior year of high school, Birdie, Murphy, and Leeda face unwelcome changes. Birdie's boyfriend Rex is in Mexico, Murphy wants to move to New York, and Leeda's mother ignores her. They find support in each other as they plan their futures.
7) Hero
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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After years of abuse from his mother and neglect from his father, ninth-grader Sean Parker is headed for trouble until he is sent to do community service at a farm owned by an old man who teaches Sean that he can take control of his own life.
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Teddi Overman found her lifes passion for furniture in a broken-down chair left on the side of the road in rural Kentucky. She learns to turn other peoples castoffs into beautifully restored antiques and eventually finds a way to open her own shop in Charleston. There, Teddi builds a life for herself as unexpected and quirky as the customers who visit her shop. Though Teddi is surrounded by remarkable friends and finds love in the most surprising...
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I survived (Graphic novels) volume 7
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2023.
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IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Could an entire city really burn to the ground? One brave boy finds out in this graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestelling I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871, with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Cassie Mitchell.
Oscar Starling never wanted to move to Chicago. The smog, the stench, the thieves around every corner -- it's so different from his old life on the farm. Will the big city ever feel like home?...
10) Under the lake
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A one-time ace reporter rents a cabin in a backwoods Georgia town, then stumbles upon and determines to solve the town mystery, which involves a seemingly affable sheriff, an autocratic town father and an incest-ridden family whose once-prosperous farm now lies under a lake. He joins forces with a plucky female reporter bent on proving that the sheriff is "dirty," and there's never a dull moment as the story surges toward its exciting climax.
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2017.
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Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecroppers daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farms inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably...
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House of Winslow volume 31
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c2004
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Jennifer Winslow was once a spoiled New York socialite - until the crash of 1929 forced her family to move to a small farm in Georgia. She is adjusting to her tough rural life when, through a series of startling events, she finds herself funning for county sheriff.
13) Liberty Biscuit
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2022.
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Thirteen-year-old Kip rescues a one-eyed white donkey and his two horse companions from an abusive owner, and, with the help of her Grandpa Joe, she works to gentle the hurt and frightened animals.
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[2020]
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From family farms to big agriculture, organic farming to hydroponics, this new volume covers what life was and is like for American farmers & ranchers across the decades. Profiles cover the span of the entire country, providing a thorough examination of the lives of all types of Americans in this business. The volume is divided into easy-to-use, decade-long chapters, so readers can quickly locate details on a particular time period. Some of the farmers...
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New Americana volume 4
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c.2019
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"When 73-year-old Emmy Hart asks her to help revitalize Hart's Hollow farm, Kristen accepts, despite her fears about becoming too attached to the family; and then there's Emmy's ruggedly handsome grandson."--Publisher. Hart's Hollow farm has seen better days, but for Emmy Hart it is a home worth fighting for. She asks Kristen Daniels to help return the farm to its former glory and Kristen accepts, despite her fears about getting involved with Emmy...
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[2015]
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Peter is among a group of children who are transported to England as part of the Kindertransport, an program initiated by England to save the children of Nazi Germany. But life in England holds its changes as well as he works at a farm in Coventry. When the Coventry farm is bombed by the Nazis as they invade England, Peter decides he must stand and fight Hitler. He returns to Germany to join the Jewish underground resistance, search for his remaining...
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In this eagerly anticipated spin off from Donna Balls beloved Ladybug Farm series, Paul Slater and Derrick Anderson set about opening the Hummingbird House B&B with their usual style and flair, only to find that they may have taken on more than they bargained for. Despite constant coaching from their friends Cici, Bridget and Lindsay, they don't seem to be able to do anything right. Before they know how it happened, they are at odds with their teenage...