Farm Families

Reducere. Two generations from one family face heartbreak and injustice in this poignant and emotional novel inspired by true events.Married to her dream man...

DescriptionIn her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War h...

Reducere. Hang on and Fly. A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival Passenger planes are crashing three and four times a month in 195...

Reducere. "The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues throug...

Reducere. The Tall Corn State's agricultural history influences countless aspects of modern life. To truly understand Iowa, you have to understand the cultur...

Les Jardins de la Grelinette is a micro-farm located in eastern Quebec, just north of the American border. Growing on just 1.5 acres, owners Jean-M...

Reducere. Saving Heroes is a riveting story of a veteran's quest to rescue military and first responder families from the captivity of post-traumatic stress....

Three dystopian novels by an award-winning author that imagine a world where humankind has suddenly and violently rejected modern technology. Somet...

Reducere. In December 2002, Meryl Harrison moved a large audience to tears at the BBC Animal Awards Ceremony, having been flown over from her native Zimbabwe...

Reducere. Merging real stories with research and on-the-ground reporting, an award-winning journalist and immigrant explores multicultural parenting and iden...

Reducere. Life has always been difficult and dangerous for those living on and around the Turtle Mountain Reservation. Everyone has a story. Everyone has a s...

Reducere. Historical novel between 1875-2003 based on the author's great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. Sarah lost her mother at age eight and was hir...

Reducere. The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to anot...

Genealogy of thirteen generations of the descendants of Maine families Nathan Lord & Judith Conley's son Nathan Lord II, John Churchill & Hannah Po...

Walter Edward Reginald Pratley, known to his family as Reg, was a Berkshire farm boy with a dream. He wanted to escape the everyday and experience ...

Reducere. He's been preparing for the season since he was a sapling. But will he be tall enough to start spreading joy?The thought of missing Christmas has l...

Reducere. Two generations face heartbreak and injustice in this poignant and emotional novel inspired by true events.Mary Roberts is a poor gutter child livi...

The five Iowa farm-raised women of The Gingham Apron use beautiful stories, photographs, and recipes to inspire readers to gather around the table ...

Reducere. Big families cultivate chaos. Mary Havens knows this all too well. One of twelve children, she grew up on a picturesque Wisconsin dairy farm. Holid...

Reducere. Who were The Originals? Experienced women pilots - the first to fly for the U.S. military 28 women who dared to challenge 1940s barriers of gender,...

Reducere. DescriptionSince the 19th century, Filipinos have immigrated to the Puget Sound region, which contains a deep inland sea once surrounded by forests...

Reducere. Central Kentucky is known for cornfields, blue-ribbon sows, industrial sites, and tractor parades. In the summer, families sip sweet tea on the por...

Silence on the Hill is a telling tale of relationships with family, friends, and faith. It speaks to the devotion and love that unites family membe...

Reducere. In the late 1800s, Clovis M. Cole purchased large tracts of land in California's San Joaquin Valley with the intent to farm wheat. Marcus Pollasky,...

Reducere. With desirable beach communities and nearby commuter-friendly towns, Monmouth County continues to attract new residents, while nostalgic memories o...

DescriptionAn intimate, sparkling collection of stories by a debut writer about girls behaving badly and families on the brink of collapse. In thes...

Reducere. Two generations face heartbreak and injustice in this poignant and emotional novel inspired by true events.Mary Roberts is a poor gutter child livi...

Description"A compelling agricultural story skillfully told; environmentalists will eat it up." - Kirkus Reviews When Bob Quinn was a kid, a strang...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west...

In 1964, Northern Dancer won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, the first two legs of the US Triple Crown, exploding the myth that Canadi...

The traditional dishes of the Italian region of Dolomites stem from traditional farm cooking and are still cooked and enjoyed today. Their history,...

Reducere. Complete in one volume The Prairie Trilogy is a thematically linked series of three novels by Willa Cather. O Pioneers Alexandra Bergson inherits t...

Reducere. Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the lon...

This book will encourage families to grow food, stimulate elders to reminisce about their farm life growing up, and see the beauty that lies in the...

Reducere. Barely more than a decade after The Great War, the seeds of discontent are rising amongst the German population. The reparations exacted by the All...

Reducere. DescriptionNative North Carolinians tend to learn the state toast (adopted by the General Assembly in 1957) in childhood. As with the state motto, ...

Reducere. Saving the landscape, rebuilding entrepreneurial rural families, and protecting nutritious food are the themes of this timeless treatise-hence the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe South Precinct of Dutchess County New York 1740-1790containing present-day Putnam County New YorkSouth Dutchess County expanded rapi...

Reducere. DescriptionI went to the corner of the barn next to the manger, got down on my knees, and prayed, "I would like to see this cow get on her feet."Th...

How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy.When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to...

Reducere. Barely more than a decade after The Great War, the seeds of discontent are rising amongst the German population. The reparations exacted by the All...

Reducere. American Agriculture tells the story of farming in American from contact between Native Americans and Europeans to the present. Agricultural histor...

Reducere. It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union...

Reducere. I am that "sharecropper boy" and Upstate South Carolina represents "home" to me. This memoir covers the Great Depression and its effect on the poor...

Reducere. Growing Up Country: A Demlow Family History is the result of fifteen years of research, travel to several states, and many hours of writing and rew...