Dating is hard enough. Throw in an incontinent Chihuahua, an unrequited love affair, a severe case of social anxiety disorder, a dying father and a man-eating hog and it becomes darned near impossible. Still, it takes two to tango—and...
Farm life
- Author:Inman, JohnSummary:
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Danny wants to be a farmer. He only wishes that the town bully, Zach, would leave him alone. Is there any way Danny can protect himself?
- Author:Katz, Jon.Summary:
Relates the author's relationship with a quiet, sensitive artist named Maria Wulf and his campaign to win over Maria's fiercely protective dog, Frieda, a Rottweiler-shepherd mix who resisted all efforts to tame her.
- Author:Katz, Jon.Summary:
Rose is a working dog devoted to keeping the sheep and other creatures at Bedlam Farm out of danger. But as the weather grows cold, Rose senses danger--a storm unlike any she's seen. When an epic blizzard finally strikes, Rose...
- Author:St. John, LaurenSummary:
In the 1970s St. John lived on a Rhodesian farm that should have been paradise. But the specter of war hung over the land, filling every day with peril and uncertainty.
- Author:Osborne, MaggieSummary:
Della Ward, a widow, lives alone on her dilapidated farm near a small Texa town. She is filled with guilt about a hateful letter she sent her husband just before he died fighting in the war. When lawman James Cameron arrives at her home...
- Author:Lohans, AlisonSummary:
Short-listed for the 2011 Saskatchewan Book Awards: Children’s Literature Award and Regina Book Award Who is the girl staring out of the old photograph? Every time Alyssa Dixon looks at it, even by accident, she finds herself on an Iowa...
- Author:Long, LorenSummary:
When a puppy gets lost while playing hide and seek on the farm, Otis the friendly little tractor must face his fear of the darkness in order to help his new friend.
- Author:Cather, WillaSummary:
Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not...
- Author:Cather, WillaSummary:
A deeply moving portrait of a community of early American pioneers in the Nebraska heartland and of the free-spirited girl at its heart.
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of...
- Author:BLADES, AnnSummary:
Mary's father tells her she cannot keep a wolf puppy since the only animals kept by families in the cold North are those that work or provide food.
- Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:
A Love Means... Story Geoff is in the city, living the gay life to the hilt, when his father's death convinces him to return to the family farm. Discovering a young Amish man asleep in his barn, Geoff learns that Eli is spending a year...
- Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:
A Love Means... Story Seven months ago, Len Parker lost his partner of more than twenty years, and he isn’t sure how to feel about his blossoming attraction to Chris, one of his farmhands. Hesitant and still hurt, Len remains aloof and...
- Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:
A Love Means... Story Four months ago Robert Edward “Arie” Hawkins lost his sister and the rest of her family in a plane crash. Now his parents have decided it’s time for him to marry and carry on the family name. Arie knows it’s most...
- Author:Hudson, Janis ReamsSummary:
After seven years in prison, Duncan Malone returns to Washita, Texas desperately wanting to reclaim his family's farm. But it is now owned by Franki Taylor, a young unmarried woman who is six months pregnant. In the eyes of the...
- Author:Olson, GretchenSummary:
Instead of playing tennis, seventeen-year-old Jeff is required to spend his summer working on an Oregon strawberry farm where new friendships with field hands and migrant workers, as well as the farmer's daughter, change his...
- Author:Meadows, RaeSummary:
It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. As the Bells wait for the rains to come, Annie and each member of her family are pulled in different directions, and...
- Author:Bunney, GayleSummary:
What do you do when there are goldfish in the horse's water tank, a baby magpie in the bedroom, a cow in the kitchen and a half-dozen small dogs rolling in the dirt to get rid of the smell of skunk? It's all in a day's work on Gayle...
- Author:Casey, DonisSummary:
It’s the spring of 1913, and love is in bloom for Alice Tucker. Alice’s new beau, Walter Kelley, is handsome, popular, and wealthy. Everyone in Boynton, Oklahoma, likes him. Everyone but Alice’s mother, Alafair. She sees that Walter has...
- Author:LaPorte, BrentSummary:
You sit down at the weathered harvest table to write a letter to your son. You need to explain the horrific events of the night, the circumstances that stained your hands with so much blood — the horrors that led you to take the lives...