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1) O pioneers!
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English
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "O Pioneers!" by Willa Cather. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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English
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From the bestselling author of "Still life with bread crumbs." This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen's novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.
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Publisher
Country Scribe Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
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185 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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A collection of essays, which originally appeared as newspaper columns, focusing on ventures away from home; from travels to places as far-flung as London, Paris, Summerhaven, Arizona, New York City, or the skies of Greenland, down to seemingly simple trips to town for a meeting or a half-gallon of milk.
8) Alida's song
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English
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A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
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English
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Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animals she raises on it with her husband, Frank. But for the deeply religious Mary, farming is an awkward living and at odds with her more cosmopolitan inclinations. Still, Mary creates a clean and orderly
...10) My Ántonia
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English
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Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the striking personal narrative of Solomon Northup in Twelve Years a Slave, this new series is a comprehensive collection...
11) Farm
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Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations.
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English
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Introduces young readers to what life is like living on a farm, from the kinds of chores farm kids do to some of the favorite things they have to eat.
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Everyman's library volume 21
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English
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Far From the Maddening Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
14) Said no one ever
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English
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"A peaceful vacation turns into a roller coaster ride of family drama. Two handsome men with competing agendas cause mix-ups and betrayal. Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get what you really want in life. Ellie Reed's self-esteem can't take any more of her family's constant criticism and attempts to control her life. But when she rents an Airbnb on a gorgeous farm in Montana, she encounters a whole new set of family drama and finds herself...
15) An untamed heart
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Red River of the north volume Prequel
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English
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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"--
16) Farmers
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"This photo-illustrated book for early readers explains what farmers do how they work to raise crops and animals"--
17) Charlotte's web
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English
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Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
18) Down on the farm
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Publisher
Country Scribe Pub
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
90 p. : 22 cm.
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English
20) Silence fell
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xvi, 69 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Silence Fell marks the American debut of an extraordinary poet from the remote north of England. The poems are set on a sheep farm in the northern mountains and tell the story - in the form of a modern shepherd's calendar - of Josephine Dickinson's marriage to a Cumbrian sheep farmer, a man more than twice her age, and their life together, until his death in 2004.
During a reading tour in England, Galway Kinnell was introduced to Josephine Dickinson's...