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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider...
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Language
English
Description
Mildred Armstrong Kalish's "Little Heathens" is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
xv, 120 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Farm life is defined by work, and the work, in turn, is defined by nature: seaon to season, dawn to dusk. Gary Paulsen knows this well, and in 'Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass' he sends his readers on an unsentimental journey to a place where simplicity and sweat are understood and appreciated. The days are long, the work uncesing, the machinery treacherous, yet Paulsen manages to find goodness and grace in the simplest chore -- Cover, page [4].
51) Ride: Season 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ride is a multigenerational family ensemble following the lives of the McMurrays, part of a rodeo dynasty going back a generation, as they struggle to keep their beloved ranch afloat. After a tragic loss, each character embarks on an empowering journey of transformation and self-discovery while also uncovering a twisted web of secrets, threatening to tear the family and their small Colorado town apart at the seams.
Author
Series
Homestead series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Series
Language
English
Description
John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath" is a left-wing parable, directed by a right-wing American director, about how a sharecropper's son, a barroom brawler, is converted into a union organizer. Tom Joad, paroled convict, returns to his family farm in Oklahoma, only to learn the Joads have been "tractored off the land" and are joining the desperate migration to California. The grand Westward movement of American settlement finds small shareholders forced...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (344 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The next generation of Alaskans plays by their own rules, rebelling against social norms and surviving Arctic climates. Michael Manzo travels nomadically in search of opportunity. Alex Javor leaves life in Virginia behind to build his dream cabin. The Rowlands instill critical lessons of survival in their children. And Brent and Ida work 24/7 on their business while navigating life as a new couple.
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English
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"Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"
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